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Hazy | 1492 | Einstien on the Beach | Barely Out of Tuesday | She don't want nobody near | Hazy I got an email from Lisa asking me for the lyrics to "Hazy", which, as you may or may not have heard, is the previously unreleased song written by Gemma Hayes and myself which appears on the live album "*New Amsterdam-Live at Heineken Music Hall". Unfortunately, the truth is I honestly have no idea what they are. I never wrote them down. Gemma and I created the song a week earlier drunk out of our minds around 5am at a piano in a bar. By the time we played the Amsterdam shows, she had left the tour. I had lost my mind, and I couldn't stop thinking about her (Elvis had also presumably left the building). I was just sitting at the piano in the Heineken Hall getting ready to play "A Long December" and I started trying to remember the music to "Hazy" and making up the rest as I went along. It's all stream of consciousness. I wrote it and sang it off the top of my head. It's just me trying to express exactly how I felt at that moment. I couldn't play it now if I tried. I saw Gemma in New York about a year ago and I played it for her. We tried to work out the chords but neither of us could figure out how to play it. 1492 Back to the Top We just came from new orleans, we spent about 4 days in New Orleans. Which at times has been like a home away from home for me, but a rather exhausting one. I expect to have a hang over for the next week. A truly deboched place. If you ever get a chance to go to Italy, and you end up in some dark underground club in Milan with the disco lights flashing all around you, and people riving on the floor, liquor flying everywhere, and smoke so think it hurts your eyes. Then you'll understand this song, Which is about, finding whats real for your self, whether thats in friends you may or may not have, or laying drunk face down on the floor of some club in Milan, or walking in the middle of the street past train stations and transvestite prostitutes parading in front of you, So this is a song about American history and italian discovery, and tranny- whores, and in the wake of the last 4 days, it seems like a perfectly good subject, and its called 1492. She don't want nobody near Back to the Top It's just about people who are uncomfortable in the company of other people and also tired of being alone and they are trying to juggle those two opposing feelings. They are trying to figure out how to live that way. Einstien on the beach Back to the Top That we never play live. That was a demo from the first week the band was together. Literally the first week we were together. We recorded four songs: "Round Here", "Rain King", "Einstien.." and one other. It was never ever considered for the first record to be honest with you. It was a demo, charley's playing a little synthesiser organ pad on it. It was just a song that was to me more clever that meaningful. Its not a bad song, its just a clever song. I never really considered it for a record and had I known what it would turn in to, I would of never given it to DGC for the rarities album. I thought it would just be hidden there and no one would hear it. As it turned out.. right as I shut down august and said we weren't going to put anything else out, the rarities album came out and radio just... and it went to no. 1.. and it was a song I never wanted hear again. I had to hear that on the radio EVERY day.... and it drove me up the wall. Kids request it, it's not a song I ever.... I mean, I like it. You know dave and I wrote it. I was just kinda learning how to write a pop song that day, and I was just humming the most humble guitar line I could come up with and made David play it. It's.. soooo... it's such candy (!?), that it drives you up the wall. It drives me up the wall after one listen.... but ahh... Note: Einstien has since been re-released on the crows "best of" cd. Barely out of Tuesday Back to the Top "music for "barely..." was partially written by someone i cannot stand. nothing of her, other than my scorn, will be on any future albums. also no old songs. that was then, this is now." (Courtney Cox) Shim Sham 03: I had this really horrible ex girlfriend at one point and I taught her how to play piano and one day I came home and she's playing this music, and I feel ashamed even saying this but it was very good. So I took it and I finished it and wrote words to it.. But shes such a fucking bitch, and even though I love the song I could never record it cause I just never want to see her fucking name on a record at all. >>David gibbs: but I dont care about seeing her name on a record of mine. So none of us really remember how it goes but gibbs remembered it off the top of his head and he put it on his record.