Vergiftung : Lyrics
Orbit
Copyright 1988 -
2024
lyrics & music by Whittemore
Features A Real Drummer!:
Chris Brick, Battery Studio recording tech - for $20!
You will find his name (and
Martin's)
on the back of the Will Smith (The Fresh Prince) single of
Boom! Boom! Shake The Room.
Bass samples constructed from a vocal introduction taken
from live set by folk artist Carrie Newcomer
(her latest album album is on Rounder Records - buy it!)
This was probably my very first song with a traditional verse,
chorus, verse, chorus, verse arrangement, and it happened
completely by accident; at the time I didn't really pay attention
what differentiated a verse from a chorus.
But my adopted boy genius was egging me on, so I kept with it until
the words finally presented themselves. Along the Vergiftung time-line,
this is about when the mad-in-intensity
Sharp/Whittemore line-up became the
mad-about-melody Whittemore/Branam line-up.
Basically, this is where we stopped being chaos, whether that
be good or whether that be bad.
There are 5 melodies fighting it out during the chorus.
Oh yeah, lyrics.... as Pat Fish
would say: "Whaddya want, a diagram?"
Her hair went from blonde to brown,
My eyes from brown to green.
In a downpour I was taken,
By the bluest eyes I'd ever seen.
I know that wanting love is simply not enough,
But living lost in her eyes is where I'm caught.
Coz we went spinning,
I was taken,
Drawn by her gravity
Well I never thought
After all the love and talks
That I'd never
That I'd never
That I'd never see her again
What had happened happens over and over:
This selfish notion to share love with another
Always ends in carpet-eating misery
Its a mystery.
Why she said that I could not talk,
I say she did not care.
Well I never thought
After all the PAIN and talks
That I'd never
That I'd never
That I'd never see her again
Won't you tell her that I need her love tonight
Won't you tell me where my love has gone tonight
Won't you tell her that I need her love tonight
I only ever tried to please her
Now she's under anesthesia
Still..
