Here Comes That Weird Chill
Methamphetamine Blues, Extras & Oddities
copyright 2003 Beggar's Banquet

 

Methamphetamine Blues
(Lanegan)

(Hit it)
Wake up
Wake up
Children don't ya hear me comin'
Get up
Get up
Because I got to have the honey
And I don't want to leave this heaven so soon
Rollin' children keep on rollin'
Rollin' children keep on rollin'
Keep the light turned low and the back door open
My love rain down like sugar so sweet
(got what you want, so come and get it)
Yes children I will
John lawman rides
With his uniform clean, shine on his shoes
My radio plays
Methamphetamine blues
until I lose
I'm rollin' just to keep on rollin'
Wake up
Children
Get right soul church, keep a lock on the kitchen
Do this for your daddy
(I'll do it daddy)
Keep your eyes wide open and my shotgun loaded
Cause I don't want to leave this heaven so soon
Rollin' just to keep on rollin'
Rollin' just to keep on rollin'
Rollin' just to keep on rollin'
My love rain down like sugar so sweet
(got what you want, so come and get it)
Yes baby
John lawmen rides
With his uniform clean, shine on his shoes
My radio plays
Methamphetamine blues
until I lose
I'm rollin just to keep on rollin'
Rollin just to keep on rollin'
Rollin just to keep on rollin'
I don't want to leave this heaven so soon
Rollin just to keep on rollin'
Rollin just to keep on rollin'
Rollin just to keep on rollin'
Rollin just to keep on rollin'
I don't want to leave this heaven so soon

On The Steps of the Cathedral
(Goss, Lanegan)

I'm so sorry
I know exactly what you mean

(got the whole world in his hands,
got the whole wide world)

I'm tired of being devilish, sick of being wicked,
Habitual and untrue
Another starting over
Although it is an ending
I send regards to you

(in the evening, gently falling ,sweetly calling)

Standing on the steps, steps of the cathedral
Watching summer fade
Trying to get to somewhere
Trying to get just anywhere
And I know it ain't my day

Clear Spot
(Van Vliet)

Had to run so far to find a clear spot
Sun's all hottin' in the rotten hot
Swamp's all rotten and stinkin', buh
Vegetation's hot
Sleepin' in the bayou in an old rotten cot

Can't find my kind of folks havin' fun
Have to run, run, run, run
Run to find a clear spot

Cave shattered down on the sun baked ground
Mosquitoes 'n moccasins, steppin' all around
'fraid I'm gonna get hit

Sun's all hottin' and a rotten hot
Vegetation's hot
Sleepin' in the bayou on an old rotten cot

Can't find my kind of folks havin' fun
I gotta run, run, run, run
Run to find a clear spot

Cave shattered down on the sun baked ground
Mosquitoes 'n moccasins, steppin' all around
And I'm gonna get hit
'fraid I'm gonna get hit
I run so far to find a clear spot
Afraid I'm gonna get hit

Message to Mine
(Lanegan)

Chorus:
Oh, it's good
Baby
To make me forget
Oh, so good
Baby
So good to make me forget
Forget myself again
I walk down the steps to the river
With my outfit, full set to deliver
And the minute it's done
There's nothing but time
On a pay telephone, I send a message to mine

Chorus

Upstairs, slower on my feet
Got to get to the corner and I know it's getting late
At the cold polar ice
End of the line
If I don't wake up send a message to mine

Chorus

Seventeen steps down to the river
With my outfit, full set to deliver
And the floodlights shine
Blinding my eye
On a pay telephone, send a message to mine
Back down, early in the morning
Same building, different story
The room here is free and it's easy to find
Her quicksilver veins
Send a message to mine

Chorus

Lexington Slow Down
(Lanegan, Richards)

won't break my heart
I won't hope to die
If before Lexington I could slow down
They say a chariot's waiting when you get cut loose
Let the place start swinging
When it's me on the noose
Mother do you think that your children cry
Because they want to shake your chain?
I walked miles today
One for every year of my life
In this stinking fucking rain
Just to slow down
So I could slow down
So I could slow down
Work for me luck
Just one last time
Spare me a chance
I've wasted mine
Shine on me light
Don't you know I would
Reach for you there
If only I could
If I could slow down
If I could slow down
If I could slow down
Just slow down
I don't mind being stoned
They say Jesus was
And I like being alone
And I can take living low
forgive my being cruel if ever I was
and say a word for me too
when I'm under the gun
it wouldn't break my heart
if I could slow down
let the place start swinging
if there's a chariot waiting
it wouldn't break my heart
if I could slow down
let the place start swinging
if there's a chariot waiting

it wouldn't break my heart

Skeletal History
(Homme, Lanegan, Oliveri)

Oh, an artery is not a vein
No history can tell
My skeleton won't tell
Why some
Like moths, draw
To the surgeon's drill
And bloodshot hits to marrow

The snakes eaten through her clothes and
Her charms have won me over
DaGama breached this lofty reach
Balboa left his bones upon the beach
Left there to bleach

A rose breaks in my fingers
Pulling nickels through the stem too much has took it's toll
Smoke crawls low along the ceilings
And all is quiet
But I keep listening
(they come to kill me)

oh
she just left, you missed her
go on home the sex theater is closed
cracked mouth, too dry to drink
at least the sand is cold
you wish the sea would drown the freeway

instead, girls stare in dead-eyed wonder
they can't walk for fallen soldiers
used by cops
and fucked inside abandoned boarding houses
go on fast
before the beast catches the bastard
dragging a chain down, down, down

who'll say it
no one else is here, come on
nothing to believe is to be blessed, come on
who's laying low, you said
weathervanes, no bones to be
good or bad
the death of me
just make it quietly

oh
who knows my sister
can't anyone admit the fact that they infected her
she said the sun was gonna burn and blister
my blood
godspeed
god
love her
farewell honey
yeah

no mourning son'll move her
no hellbent amen or hallelujah
prayers are for the dead left over
the breached never to reach that sandy beach
poor baby girl's gone under
to each their own grave buried in
underneath abandoned boarding houses
sidewalks and streets
sidewalks and streets

though my skeleton won't tell
some can see
why moths draw to surgeons drills
and blood shots
hit the marrow

Wish You Well
(Lanegan)

He wrote her name with a needle gun
In black and blue
Your eyes are stone, she said
Beautiful and dead
And I wish you well

I took a turn on this carousel
How long ago
Now I never can tell
I never stopped to wonder
Maybe a morning
Maybe a thousand years
I only walk high wires
I tend an eden of magnolias dying

Although I'm coarse and primitive
I wish love, Lord
I wish love could live
Forever
What I once saw burning bright as hell
Now here comes that weird chill
I don't stop to wonder

I threaded her name through the needle's eye
As it frayed
Tied the ends and stitched it up
and hung my head down and wept
But I wish you well
Who'll pray for the killer's sake
I used to be so wide awake

Like certain mornings that last a thousand hours

Although I'm coarse and primitive
I wish love, lord
I wish love could live
Forever
I'm burning bright as hell
Here comes that weird chill
But I wish you well
Your eyes are stone, she said
Truly beautiful and dead
I wish you well
I only ride on this carousel
I never really stop to wonder

Sleep With Me
(Lanegan)

With heavy head and harbour mined
The red sun claws at my bloodshot eyes
The faithful have scattered
They're running away
Along for the ride went all of my shame
Now I need someone

oh
sleep with me, sleep with me
dark night coming
won't you sleep with me

these feral girls will suit me more
than gloss from drugstore magazines
your werewolf teeth flicker and gleam
you're someone who saw
the same way I see
at the turn of a century
skip thin dimes on sheets of ice
I've got my eyes on you
You've got your eyes on me

The angels have scattered
Swearing to god
The albatross dives on the firing squad
And I need someone
Sleep with me, sleep with me
Dark night falling
Come on, sleep with me

Heavy head and asphalt lined
Gift horse pissed in my bloodshot eye
The dead dream on the neon stairs
The ambulance crawls, the siren I hear
And it finds me anywhere
The faithful have scattered
Running away
Along for the ride went all of my shame
And I need someone
You're looking at me
I've got my eyes on you
The world is falling away
And it's a dark night

Version
(Lanegan)
instrumental