고향인 JACKSONVILLE에서의 실황을 담은 앨범 [JACKSONVILLE CITY NIGHTS]가 나온 지도 얼마 안돼서 얼터너티브 컨츄리 팜 록커 RYAN ADAMS는 새로운 스튜디오 앨범 [29]를 발표했다. 첫 곡이자 앨범 타이틀 곡 <29>는 GRATEFUL DEAD의 명곡 <TRUCKIN>을 REWRITE해서 만든 곡으로 조용하고 블루지한 전체적인 앨범 분위기와는 다른 아주 독특한 곡이다. 2004년작 [LOVE IS HELL]과 비견되는 곡들로 구성되어있으며 <CAROLINA RAIN>, <NIGHT BIRDS>, <BLUE SKY BLUES>등으로 늦은 밤 차분한 분위기를 이어간다. .... ....
I was a poor little kid in the lungs of new York Just like a motherless son of a bitch Loaded on ephedrine looking for downers and coke Like a sun that just wouldn't set out on the horizon Singing and dancing songs to them nighttime songs I took a train and came up from Carolina I was looking for something to do Nothing I found could ever quite occupy me With nothing to gain there's always nothing to lose Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs Cry me a river till the morning comes
I should've died a hundred thousand times Teetering stoned off the side of buildings Nobody loved me and nobody even tried You cant hang on to something that wont stop moving Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs I got arrested down south for hitting a clerk I spit in his face the bastard knocked me out He leered at my lady and then he touched her face Thank God she had the money to bail me out Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs Cry me a river till the morning comes Bar room boogie just like in the movies Go on put it to me shake it till the rattles come on take me where morning don't come
I had a dog named Jet when I was a kid Until one day he wandered off and died One night I went in the yard and dug him up And he laid in the box just like a pile of bones Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs I used to get loaded and baby Id drive your car It seemed like there was always a cop Coming behind me and following close as they could Eventually they'd just trail off Loaded and cruising to them nighttime songs Cry me a river till the morning comes Bar room boogie just like in the movies Go on put it to me shake it till the rattles come on Take me where the morning don't come
I think I died a hundred thousand times Mixing liquor with mystery pills Mystery pills and heroin mixed into cocaine Face down out on the riverside Most of my friends are married and making them babies To most of them I already died And whatever it is about you I've always hated Is something about myself I just couldn't hide And I'm going going baby I'm gone So cry me a river to the other side of the morning To where the morning don't come To where the morning don't come To where the morning don't come To where the morning don't come To where the morning don't come To where the morning don't come To where the morning don't come To where the morning don't come
Last night in the street collapsed on itself In fact, it broke right in two And I fell in The strawberry vines Into a pool of strawberry wine Strawberry wine and clouds Burning in the desert, surrounded in flowers But the stems broke the armor And the morning comes Until its all just the same things again Oh god, Don't spend too much time on the other side Let the daylight in, Before you get old and you cant break out of it
My old friend, Cause its getting winter, and if you want any flowers You gotta get your seeds in And I worry about you, why? because you want me to
Can you still have any famous last words If you're nobody somebody nobody knows, I don't know Somebody go and ask Clair She's been dead twenty years just look at her hair Strawberry blonde with curls She gets hair done then she gossips With the younger waitress girls at the bar The old Irish rose Drinking strawberry wine Until it comes out her nose She spent too much time on the other side, And she forgot to let the daylight in
Before you get old you'd better break out of it My old friend, Cause its getting winter and if you want any flowers You gotta get your seeds in to the ground, And I worry about you, Why because you want me too
This fella downtown, he jumped off a bridge He was angry about a letter he received from his friend He fell in To the arms of the most beautiful girls That have ever lived in the history of the world
And with nothing left to lose he got screwed He sold his apartment before they made him move Then he jumped straight in To the san Francisco bay Now he lives on Molly's farm Picking berries all day
Don't spend too much time on the other side Let the daylight in
Marty was a kid when he learned steal boats His dad was a deejay on the radio He fell in To a life Of riverboat crime Now has the man you see in prison If you want strawberry wine Strawberry wine and smokes He sent a letter to his friend Explaining one night on coke He and Clair Jumped in to the strawberry vines And lord knows you get lost On that strawberry wine
Don't spend too much time on the other side, Let the daylight in
And imp getting old and I gotta break out of it My old friend, Cause its getting winter and if I want any flowers I gotta get those seeds in to the ground, And if you worry about me Don't bother Why? Ill be fine Imp just sitting here laughing Little old me and my Strawberry wine
Out under the stars Dodging them night cars baby Cause when you gotta move, you gotta move Whatever that it was You were thinking of lady You're certainly not thinking Of it now,
And nightbirds sing you And empty tune In an empty house In an empty room In an empty moment All the nightbirds sing We were suppose to rise above But we sink
I feel like a body stuffed into a trunk From a million years Of lying and getting drunk
The people here inside me They are loud and in the night They scream and smash the windows And they fight
And nightbirds sing you And empty tune In an empty house In an empty room With an empty feelings When it comes too soon Were supposed to rise above But we sink Into the sea
Blue sky when you gonna learn to rain? And let yourself go blue for once And let go of the weight you've been carrying In this house, no one goes to sleep for days, Its like were working on a mountainside Trying not to slide, Into the ocean,
I can take care of you But only if you want Imp strong enough to carry you Across the icy lake, across the icy lake But I cant fight your blues, Cause I know I'll lose What's left of my mind I cant win, But for you I will try My baby blue
My mountain is hidden in a pile of trees And its the one I'll have to climb, If I ever wanna see, Over the ocean Blue sky When you gonna learn to rain? And let yourself go blue for once And let go of the pain?
You can take care of me The way I'd like to feel Underneath the riverbed Across the icy lake, across the icy lake But I cant fight your blues Cause I know I'll lose What's left of my mind I cant win, But for you I will try For you My baby blue
Until her landlord showed up with two hundred dollar bills A notice of eviction on the other hand Now she don't live there no more, And everyone thinks he drowned,
I pulled into Mecklenburg on them trains Into a station that got flooded when they opened up the dam And broke their connections to the railway lines So they could blast into the quarry, And for every load of granite, We got a ton of worry
One night at the diner over eggs, Over easy she showed me the length of her legs, But that gold plated cross on her neck, it was real And you don't get that kind of money from pushing meal
I should've told him that you were the one for me, But I lied, But I lied, To most any drifter whose looking for work is too weird I met Percy and I married her in July But if only to be closer to you, Caroline
Percy and I moved down the street Until we lost two pretty girls One was seven and one was three Alderman and Caroline owned the house right up the hill Where we laid those babies down So they could still see our house
Suspicion got the best of old Alderman Haint He owned an auto parts store off the interstate But the lord took him home in July And then Rose spilled the beans on the day that he died
I should've told him that you were the one for me But I lied, But I lied Tied up to concrete at the bottom of the quarry With a tattoo on his heart that spelled out "Caroline" He was silent but his rosary Drifted into the custody Of a sheriff that was just deputized
And I was down at the banquet hall When two guys came up, pretty angry and drunk And I'm still here at the banquet hall At the banquet hall Where the gun went off, in the Carolina Rain In the Carolina Rain, in the Carolina Rain Oh, Caroline
You said meet me at a corner to twelve And I'm standing in the corner Wishing you were here in my arms, Fare thee well my old friends Fare thee well
Is it possible to love someone too much You bet The drugs are in safe And the clothes are on the couch, intertwined But none of them are yours And all of them are mine So cry Cry like a baby into an ocean of wishes But it don't ever rain On a street drenched with painted ladies Fare thee well my old friends Fare thee well
Have you ever slept it off to the bones And woken up at night my love Having dreamt you called them all Every person you could never love
It's a blow out On a birthday cake And I'm a birthday candle Floating on the lake
Where are you its getting late Its midnight at the starlite diner You said meet me at a corner to twelve And I'm standing in the corner Oh there you are
The stars they sink In the oceans of ink Long black ribbons of cars And in the taxi You ask me how I'm doing But you already know
Beyond, beyond is not through Its only a reflection of you And something at the window It motions with its fingers Calling me beyond
The sadness is mine The sadness is mine Its why you're not healing me And whatever has come for me Oh I can give you whatever you're wanting Just take it and spare me spare me Please oh tell me this is only a warningno Please have mercy let me go
If only a day to let her know Without her love I'm nothing at all The change is happening and I'm almost gone In her heart is my faith And it wins against the sadness
The train it moves through the desert The horses they will challenge its stride And into the boxcar she leaps And is my hero And penetrates the demons inside
The clouds they pass But they're moving so fast As I watch them collide Collide and collapse in her arms like a newborn child I am at one reborn
The fog in the mote As he grabs me by the throat It lifts as she comes She opens her cloak and the color of blood It is the sign of what now must come
Deny deny me my destiny I am not ready to go I am the horror that brings us to the morning Where I will have to stand up and fight
Wounded all the time And I'm inside the tomb with the t.v. on mute Elijah don't you come Oh god don't you come
I steal out the window like I'm using the door Whispering willows outside Turn into statues of you, fangs exposed Breathing fire Elijah don't you come Oh god don't you come
Locate the coffin and procure the ring I'll distract Gabriel Its your destiny after all Just go And don't you ever look back Kiss me again And don't you listen to the voices in the past They lied
When you see the lights don't you dare go in Find your way back to the house And the wind upon gate When the gate swings Back and forth That's the sign And we are never coming back Once the signal is fired
When you're in the room I am under the bed I am inside your soul I cover your mouth Hands just as ice Screaming Elijah Oh Elijah come down Come and take your award
Locate the coffin and procure the ring Ill distract Gabriel Its your destiny after all Just go And don't you never look back Kiss me again And don't you listen to the voices in the past They lied, run away from the light run away from the light Little ones.
RELEASES
2005-12-19
UMG Recordings, Inc., Universal Music (602498878484)