STREET SPIRIT [fade out]
rows of houses all bearing down on me ~ I can feel their blue hands
touching me ~ all these things in all positions ~ all these things are
one to swallow whole ~ and fade out again and fade out ~ this machine
will not communicate ~ these thoughts and the strain I am under ~ be a
world child form a circle before we all go under ~ and fade out again
and fade out again ~ cracked eggs dead birds ~ screaming as they fight
for life ~ I can feel death ~ can see its beady eyes ~ all these things
into frution ~ all these things are one to swallow whole ~ and fade out
again and fade out again ~ immerse your soul in love ~ IMMERSE YOUR
SOUL IN LOVE ~
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Available on: The Bends (US CD), The Bends (UK CD), The Bends (Japan CD),
Street Spirit [fade out] (UK CD1), Street Spirit [fade out] (UK CD2),
Street Spirit [fade out] (Australia CD1), Street Spirit [fade out]
(Holland CD1), Street Spirit [fade out] (UK 7"), Street Spirit [fade out]
(2 Meter Session Holland CD), Radio One Evening Session, World of Noise
Other Versions: acoustic at the Eve's Club - available on: Fake Plastic
Trees (UK CD2). 2 meter session - available on: Street Spirit [fade out]
(2 Meter Session Holland CD).
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- Thom: "'Street Spirit' is our purest song, but I didn't write it....
It wrote itself. We were just its messengers... Its biological catylysts.
It's core is a complete mystery to me... and (pause) you know, I wouldn't
ever try to write something that hopeless... All of our saddest songs
have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve... 'Street Spirit'
has no resolve... It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end. It
represents all tragic emotion that is so hurtful that the sound of that
melody is its only definition. We all have a way of dealing with that
song... It's called detachment... Especially me.. I detach my emotional
radar from that song, or I couldn't play it... I'd crack. I'd break down
on stage.. that's why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or
visual images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning... I
used images set to the music that I thought would convey the emotional
entirety of the lyric and music working together... That's what's meant
by 'all these things are one to swallow whole'.. I meant the emotional
entirety, because I didn't have it in me to articulate the emotion...
(pause) I'd crack.... Our fans are braver than I to let that song
penetrate them, or maybe they don't realize what they're listening to..
They don't realize that 'Street Spirit' is about staring the fucking
devil right in the eyes... and knowing, no matter what the hell you do,
he'll get the last laugh...and it's real...and true. The devil really
will get the last laugh in all cases without exception, and if I let
myself think about that to long, I'd crack. I can't believe we have
fans that can deal emotionally with that song... That's why I'm
convinced that they don't know what it's about. It's why we play it
towards the end of our sets. It drains me, and it shakes me, and hurts
like hell everytime I play it, looking out at thousands of people
cheering and smiling, oblivious to the tragedy of it's meaning, like
when you're going to have your dog put down and it's wagging it's tail
on the way there. That's what they all look like, and it breaks my heart.
I wish that song hadn't picked us as its catalysts, and so I don't claim
it. It asks too much. (very long pause). I didn't write that song."
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