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Rating: What I love about American Music Club and particularly about this album is that it becomes more beautiful with each listen. Or rather, every month, every year that passes, I feel more and more like listening to it again, and each time I appreciate it more. The greatness of American Music Club lies in being much deeper than they seem at first listen. California, for example, is a very melodic album, but certainly not pop; it's an accessible album, but definitely not for everyone; it's an album at times moving, shrouded in an aura of sadness but never decadent and instead full of hope.
Mark Eitzel, a shy but brave personality, always seems on the verge of bursting into tears and interprets his lyrics, always very poetic and pessimistic, with such emotional involvement that it often brought him to tears during concerts. Their records, and particularly this one which is my favorite, ooze poetry from every corner. And so, one can find themselves in front of simple stories, of girls suffering from the malaise of life, who cannot be comforted, killed by the oppressive dream of happiness. The emptiness that sooner or later everyone faces is one of the main themes, that emptiness that grips you and not even getting drunk seems to solve anything, that leaves you alone even when in company. And loneliness often recurs in Mark's lyrics, who does not fail to remind however that "When you wake up in the morning/You won’t remember that anyone was here/And that life is so rewarding/And I guess that you’re the grand prize my dear"
C'mon beautiful we'll go sit on the front lawn
She's all dressed up and waiting for a bus
Well you don't want me to touch you
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01
Firefly
(02:52)
We'll watch the fireflies as the sun goes down
They don't live too long, just a flash and then they're gone
We'll laugh at them and watch the sun go down
You're so pretty baby
You're the prettiest thing I know
You're so pretty baby
Where did you go
Tell my why you don't sleep anymore
Tell me what you sit up all night waiting for
Are you waiting for loneliness to paralyze
Are you waiting for Sister Midnight to unleash the tide
You're so pretty baby
You're the prettiest thing I know
You're so pretty baby
Where did you go
Finish the prayer that started as a kiss
The overwhelming dream of happiness
I'll give you all of my good luck
For the overwhelming dream that's killing us
You're so pretty baby
You're the prettiest thing I know
You're so pretty baby
Where did you go
C'mon we'll go sit on the front lawn
I'll hold you in my arms and we're gone
Here and gone, firefly
02
Somewhere
(03:05)
in the hot sunshine
She just wants to kill some time
But it looks like time's gonna kill her first
So she goes to the cocktail lounge to lounge and says
"I'm gonna have a real good time."
As she sinks into the capitalist chair
I don't think that she really cares
If somewhere there's people living
She finally gets on the bus
and sinks next to a very nice lady
Who just got out of the hospital
She had a major operation
The doctor left a knife in her throat
And now it picks up radio waves
You can turn the dial 'til it comes up in your hand
Maybe you'll pick up a populated land
Somewhere there's people living
C'mon let's go out and really drunk tonight
You can be Miss Bottomless pit of 1983
And I can be Mr. Out Like a Light
C'mon we got a lot to lose
So maybe we can lose it all tonight
And then when they shoot us down
We won't be around
We'll be somewhere where there's people living
04
Lonely
(02:45)
You just want me to shut up
You don't want me to think what I'm thinking
Or the devil in my throat to come up
And you get so nervous that everything's a joke
If I have to be this lonely
I may as well be alone
So I go back to my room
To my room by the freeway
I fall onto my bed like snow
Like the cold I never woke you
And the killing followed me home
Hey what's song you whistling
If I have to be this lonely
I may as well be alone
When you wake up in the morning
You won't remember that anyone was here
And that life is so rewarding
And I guess that you're the grand prize my dear
When you wake up in the morning
You won't remember that anyone was here
If I have to be this lonely
I may as well be alone
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