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When the first notes of "Busted Stuff" reach my ears, I can't help but flash a silly, complicit smile that makes me look ridiculous in front of all the passengers on the bus I'm traveling on. I get off and the sun almost blinds me, kids are playing carefree on the street, and a pretty girl greets me in a very natural way. Now I am happy.
Here is the perfect "vital" soundtrack for this album's tracklist.
"Grey Street" begins, and things become a little more serious; the drums grow more insistent, and the saxophone more incisive. City life can bring joys but also sorrows, and the protagonist of this song makes it very clear to me.
With "Where Are You Going," the tones become much more subdued, and Dave lets himself be carried away, accompanied by a soft melody primarily made up of his plucked acoustic, violin embellishments, and gentle sax phrases.
"Captain" is another highlight of the album, characterized by a tender romantic blues that tells of how love is a perilous journey and the hard task we captains have in managing it.
The pace quickens a bit with "Raven," where father and son confront each other, only to return immediately after to soft tones with the splendid "Grace is Gone," perhaps the real masterpiece of the album, which from a plucked guitar weaves a sweet and engaging scenario.
The last tracks glide by with pleasure while maintaining good levels, and "Bartender" is destined to close the album in the best way.
"Busted Stuff" is a quite atypical album for DMB, but it remains for me one of the best of their career.
Tonight, I will therefore sit alone at the bar, order a drink and add: "Bartender please, could you make it strong cause I don't need to think".
My Grace is Gone.
Tracklist Lyrics and Samples
01 Busted Stuff (03:47)
Not enough, never too much
Baby look just like love
Rollin' stone gathers no moss
But leave a trail of busted stuff
Ya know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her
I'll take what she's givin' up
Ya know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her
I'll dig what she's givin' up
Movin' to kiss some sweet sugar lips
Baby looks just like love
Without a care she floats above me,
She got me down, here lookin' up
Ya know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her
I'll take what she's givin' up
Ya know she's gonna leave this broken man behind
hey hey
Ooh she's the one for me.
When she move, she moves so cool
Got me feel just like a fool
But inside is where the devil rides
Woman look just like love
Ya know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her
I'll take what she's givin' up
Ya know she's gonna leave this broken man behind
yeah yeah
She's the one, she's the one, she's the one for me.
Ya know she's gonna leave this broken man behind
yeah yeah
02 Grey Street (05:07)
Oh Look at how she listens
She says nothing of what she thinks
She just goes stumbling through her memories
Staring out onto Grey Street.
And She thinks, "Hey!"
How did I come to this?
I've dreamed myself a million times around the world
But I can't get out of this place
There's an emptiness inside her
And she'd do anything to fill it in
But all the colors mix together to grey
And it breaks her heart
Oh How she wishes it was different
She prays to God most everynight
And though shes quite sure He doesn't listen
There's a tiny hope in her He might
She says, "I Pray!"
"Oh, but my prayers fall on deaf ears
Am I supposed to take it on all myself
To get out of this place?"
Oh there's a loneliness inside her
And she'd do anything to fill it in
And though it's red blood bleeding from her now
It feels like cold blue ice in her heart
When all the colors mix together to grey
And it breaks her heart
There's a stranger speaks outside her door
Says take what you can from your dreams
Make them as real as anything
Oh it'd the work out of the courage
She says, "Please!"
"There's a crazy man that's creeping outside my door
I live on the corner of Grey Street
And the end of the world."
Oh there's and emptiness inside her
And she'd do anything to fill it in
And though it's red blood bleeding from her now
It felt like cold blue ice in her heart
Ya know She feels like kicking out all the windows
And setting fire to this life
she could change everything about her
Using colors bold and bright
But all the colors mix together to grey
And it breaks her heart
Oh it breaks her heart
...To grey...
Ohhhh
It breaks her heart
On Grey Street...
On grey street...
To Grey....
05 Captain (03:46)
Crazy as I may
Make my way through this world
It's for no one but me to say
What direction I should turn in now
I am the captain of this ship
Curious hands and fingertips
Day after day
How I long for you my love, how I long
Strange, but it seems
Like there's a mutiny brewing inside of me now
But I don't want your pity
Only the promise that you'll stay with me tonight
I am the captain of this ship
Curious hands and fingertips
But day after day
How I long for you, like crazy
Oh, I love how you do me
Oh, my love, come on let's go again
Oh, how I love everything
Oh, won't you play with me again?
We've got all night
Same old song
Won't you come stay
Oh, my love
After all?
Oh, how could I
Even try to fight
After falling into your arms
Oh mesmerized
By your smile
The way it lights up under your eyes
Oh how could I
Even try, love won't you stay with me?
Oh, I love how you do me
Oh, my love, come on let's go again
Oh, how I love everything
Oh, won't you play with me again?
We've got all night
Same old song
Won't you come backEnter away message text here.
My love
After all?
06 Raven (05:37)
what you got, what you got in your hand?
a father said to son
I got the whole world here, daddy
between my fingers and my thumb
will you take care of it, please? it's the only one
well, it will take me a lifetime, old man, to undo what you've done
oh, come now boy, what would Jesus do?
He'd shake his head like an angry mother
spoke the boy and say I did what I could do
but you take care of it, please, it's the only one you got
and it'd take ten lifetimes, boy, to undo what I've done
boy shrugged, walked away
the man stood and watched as he was leaving
boy just walked away
the man stood alone thinking
one hand is bleeding and the other holds a gun
while everything is open
everything is shut down, down, down
begin to ending is really
just a go round and round and round
and as I stand here
the ground beneath is nothing more than one point of view
what you got, what you got in your hand?
your secret's safe with me
well, I found the truth, friend
let me whisper in your ear
take good care of it, please, it's the only one there is
can I twist it, please? can I give it just a little twist?
one hand is open and the other holds the gun
everything is open
now is everything coming down, down, down?
no one is hoping even if you know
you never know it all
and the ground beneath is nothing more than my point of view
boy shrugged and walked away
the man stood and watched as he was leaving
the man just stood there twisting
08 Kit Kat Jam (03:34)
On Busted Stuff, Kit Kat Jam is an instrumental track. Here are the lyrics to the song as it appears on The Lillywhite Sessions:
Hey, golden girl, with your hair swinging down
All of this love you have going round
What will you do when the gold turns to grey?
Have you thought now
Well, what the hay, give us some
Cover yourself with the safety of lies
You'll find it's easier 'til you face dying
Oh, sweetest smile in a confident come along
All of this longing you will done
Up and out, goes to your heart
And you will make yourself higher up, little fool
And love and go down and pay to go on
We'll lie on water, and oh
On the way back I slip on the ceiling
Caught you just then, hands were in the cookie jar
How can we share when you sneak up and go?
I've no intention of losing by beard
How they design and then we go again
Oh God, them horses were racing
And, oh, bring me down
Could put Humpty Dumpty back together again
Now the wall won't hold anyone
I walk in the slide
Wait and reach your lady
This is the short one
Short way to lay in
Oh, let her leave my hand I've given up
Whoa, how is too late now
Oh, free, just...
Were you lying?
09 Digging a Ditch (04:47)
From the album "Busted Stuff"
Run to your dreaming when you're alone
Unplug the TV and turn off the phone
Get heavy on with digging your ditch
Cause I'm
Digging a ditch where madness gives
Digging a ditch where silence lives
Digging a ditch for when I'm old
Digging a ditch my story�s told
Where all these troubles weigh down on me will rise
Run to your dreaming when you're alone
Where all these worries that hold heavy on my heart will die
Will die
Will die
Run to your dreaming when you're alone
Unplug the TV and turn off your phone
Get heavy on with digging your ditch
Cause I'm
Digging a ditch where madness gives
Digging a ditch where silence lives
Digging a ditch for when I'm through
Digging this ditch I'm digging for you
Where all these disappointments that grow angry out of me will die
Where all these habits that hold heavy on my heart will die
Run to your dreaming when you're alone
Not what you should be or what you've become
Just get heavy on with digging your ditch
Cause I'm
Digging a ditch where madness gives a bit
Digging a ditch where silence lives
Where all these troubles weigh down on me will rise
Will rise
Will rise
Will rise
Run to your dreaming when you're alone
Unplug the TV and turn off your phone
Get heavy on with digging your ditch
11 Bartender (08:31)
if I go before I'm old
oh, brother of mine, please don't forget me
if I go
bartender, please
fill my glass for me
with the wine you gave Jesus that set him free
after three days in the ground
oh, and if I die
before my time
oh, sweet sister of mine, please don't regret me
if I die
bartender, please
fill my glass for me
with the wine you gave Jesus that set him free
after three days in the ground
(watch the light)
I'm on bended knees, I pray
bartender, please
when I was young I didn't think about it, now I can't get it out of my mind
I'm on bended knees, father, please
oh, if all this gold
should steal my soul away
oh, dear mother of mine, please redirect me
if this gold
bartender, you see
the wine that's drinking me
came from the vine that strung Judas
from the devil's tree
his roots deep, deep in the ground
I'm on bended knees, bartender, please
I'm on bended knees, father, please
when I was young I didn't think about it, now I just wanna run and hide
I'm on bended knees, bartender, please
bartender, please
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