Store
Lyrics
In the five minutes' worth of lost time that I had
When I was passed out on the supermarket floor
I saw you at the head of the heavenly chorus
And I heard your song ringing all through the store
In the five minutes when my broadcast got pre-empted
I saw you touch down, you were no longer dead
I was happy to see you, I had lots of questions
And I put my hand to the wound in your head
Ah, the blood
All of that blood
All of that warm blood
Flowing freely from you
In the five minutes when I was dead to the world
In a place far away from my friends and my home
I saw you with a smile on your radiant face
Amidst all of the cans and the glass and the chrome
And in those five minutes, my signal was jammed
The frequencies that I received were so pure
That I almost believed that the sight of the hole in your skull
Was a thing that my heart could endure
Ah, the blood
All of that blood
All of that warm blood
Flowing freely from you
Banter
- Oh, this is a nice little song. I think I wrote this while I was working on Coroner’s Gambit stuff and thinking a lot about dead friends, as you do. And it was on the Sub Pop single, which if you’ve got the vinyl… I think it was, actually. I’m bad at remembering what was on what, but I’m pretty sure. This is a song that I believe is called Aisle but I always want to call it Store, but I could have that backwards. It’s one of the two. Really, you can call it either one; I won’t mind because generally speaking if you’re requesting it, I won’t play it anyway. It’s because it involves a lot of hollering and it’s a terribly gory song that’s kind of disturbing to me to think about this guy having this anti-epiphany walking up and down the aisles of the Hy-Vee in Iowa, all brightly lit in the middle of the afternoon. (2006-07-17)
- It's ridiculous. This is a cue sheet for a song that I don't know if I know it so well...I just got the idea to play it back there an hour ago, so I said, yeah, I'll do it, it'll work out, I think it sounds pretty good, so I cued up the song and listened to it, write out the first couple words of each line, thinking that's enough, this tends to be an utterly futile exercise and a waste of time. I'll look over at the cue sheet and it'll say "five", and I'll go, what does that even mean? Why have you written "five", is that a time, JD? I'll say to myself, unless I remember the lyrics. We'll see what happens. [cheering] I need to play this song because it was released on a seven inch on the fine Sub Pop label out of Seattle. [more seattle cheering] It's about a guy who has a vision of a friend who's gone to the great beyond in a store. It's called Store. (2015-05-29 - The Showbox, Seattle)
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