Against Pollution
Lyrics
When I worked down at the liquor store
Guy with a shotgun came raging through the place
Muscled his way behind the counter
I shot him in the face
This morning I went down to the Catholic church [Our Lady of Assumption - 2017-06-01]
'Cause something just came over me
Forty-five minutes in the pews
Praying the rosary
When the last days come
We shall see visions
More vivid than sunsets
Brighter than stars
We will recognize each other
And see ourselves for the first time
The way we really are
Decorative grating on my window
Gets a little rustier every year
I don't know how the metal gets rusty
When it never rains here
A year or so ago I worked at a liquor store
And a guy came in
Tried to kill me, so I shot him in the face
I would do it again
I would do it again
When the last days come
We shall see visions
More vivid than sunsets
Brighter than stars
We will recognize each other
And see ourselves for the first time
The way, the way we really are
Banter
- I don't plan the middle part of the set because there is one band alive that doesn't have any posers in it and it's the Mountain Goats. But I did run this song through one time in the dressing room to make sure I knew the lyrics. I normally don't play it because it's in a different tuning and it's hard to do the little bass run in the E string without the different tuning. But I don't like to re-tune on stage because it's tedious. Even though I'm a Grateful Dead fan. If there was one band that loved to tune, it was the Grateful Dead. (2017-06-01 The Fillmore)
- I have to say - and I'm not meaning to call out or shame anybody by this. But like, I don't suppose it's shocking to anybody to know that when I get high, I listen to like, New Age music. But when you play at the Fillmore, you learn what songs make at least one person in the audience go, ah, I gotta get high to that one. And that it's the one where the guy shoots a guy in the face and then suffers from spiritual guilt about it, man, that's some advanced, some PhD level getting high. Oh, I see we have some serious philosophical questions to contemplate. Better spark one up. (2017-06-01 The Fillmore)
Live Performances
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