Have to Explode
Lyrics
Tile floor of the bathroom
Scrubbed clean and bright
Checkerboard white and grey
Towels from the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Kingston Jamaica
I can still see the rust colored stains today
The stage is set
Someone's going to do something someone else will regret
I speak in smoke signals and you answer in code
The fuse will have to run out sometime
Something here will eventually have to explode
Have to explode
You and me lying on the tile floor
Trying to keep cool
Restless all night
Sweating out the poison
As the temperature climbs
Staring up up at the hundred-watt light that burns above
Name one thing about us two anyone could love
We roll out the red carpet
When rotten luck comes down the road
Five four three two one
Watch for the flash
Something here will eventually have to explode
Have to explode
Banter
- JD: Thank you so much. I know that I have waxed poetic about this before, but you grow up on the West Coast and New York is this distant land where they judge you. You grow up in the perpetual shadow of New York. All the bands come to New YOrk before they come to LA, they come there a month before. By the time we get them they're tired. We like them tired, because that's how we are, but at the same time, you live constantly in the shadow of this place and to come here and to be welcomed as you have welcomed us. Thank you so much. This is on an album we recorded in upstate New York called Tallahassee, and it is called Have To Explode. If you push me this is probably my favorite song on the record. If you listen very closely to the recording, you can hear Peter Hughes, he's right there to my left, come in to the room with a sandwich while I am tracking the vocal and guitar. And a door creaks, and then he does this [presumably makes a face] and walks right back out.
Peter: You wanted a sandwich. [JD and Peter laugh]
JD: Yeah man! (2019-04-30 Brooklyn Steel)
Live Performances
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