Slanted and Enchanted

Pavement

1992 Released

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Summer Babe (Winter version)

03 : 16

Trigger Cut / Wounded‐Kite at :17

03 : 16

No Life Singed Her

02 : 09

In the Mouth a Desert

03 : 52

Conduit for Sale!

02 : 52

Zurich Is Stained

01 : 41

Chesley’s Little Wrists

01 : 16

Loretta’s Scars

02 : 55

Here

03 : 56

Two States

01 : 47

Perfume‐V

02 : 09

Fame Throwa

03 : 22

Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era

03 : 21

Our Singer

03 : 09

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Track Lyrics

Conduit for Sale! Lyrics

[Chorus]

I'm tryin', I'm tryin'

I'm tryin' and I'll try

I'm tryin', I'm tryin'

I'm tryin' and I'll try

[Verse 1]

Imagine if you will, a Herr Proctor, alias and nobleman

Son of son of sky, and of scion

Part of his rich inheritance parceled and generous divorce

Sentence forthwith being

Certain blocks of land and living quarters

Deemed by all gentlemen and wives thereof

To be "Grossly humane and frankly, quite undirty"

[Chorus]

I'm tryin', I'm tryin'

I'm tryin' and I'll try

I'm tryin', I'm tryin'

I'm tryin' and I'll try

[Verse 2]

Herr Proctor, in his enviable good taste

Tries quick escape gambit via local periodicals

But no takers - the land, unenvied

Stationed in the conduit between two cells

A veritable no-man's-land, array of the flophouse

Cardboard materials and carbon-monoxide wallpaper

All his brig-deck Torino boys ask is irrelevant

[Chorus]

I'm tryin', I'm tryin'

I'm tryin' and I'll try

I'm tryin', I'm tryin'

I'm tryin' and I'll try

[Verse 3]

(No one's gonna save me, no one's gonna make me rearrange)

Unable to bear the scandal, Ray, philanthropist

Rents low-down scab house in conduit

Herr Proctor offers said land for a song

But no one wants to sing (No one's gonna save me, no one's gonna make me rearrange)

In an attempt to retain social privileges, yet mask it as goodwill

He says to the conduit members

"Take this rotten old tree and make it bear fruit"

Cheers erupted throughout the clean settlement

An Italian male was heard to say

"Between here and there is better than either here or there"

[Chorus]

I'm tryin', I'm tryin'

I'm tryin' and I'll try

I'm tryin', I'm tryin'

I'm tryin' and I'll try

[Outro]

I'm tryin', I'm tryin'

I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin'

Zurich Is Stained Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I can't sing it strong enough

'Cause that kind of strength I just don't have

If you watch the light change

Don't hold them hanging

[Chorus]

You think it's easy, but you're wrong

I am not one-half of the problem

Zürich is stained, and it's not my fault

Just hold me back or let me run

Sha la la, la la la la, la la la la, la

[Verse 2]

So what does it mean, a mistake or two

If it's the kind of mistakes no one can trace

To the fountain where we sold it

And held them hanging?

[Chorus]

You think it's easy, but you're wrong

I am not one-half of the problem

Zürich is stained, and it's not my fault

Just hold me back or let me run

You think it's easy, but you're wrong

I am not one-half of the problem

Zürich is stained, and it's not my fault

Just hold me back or let me run

Sha la la, la la la la, la la la la, la

Here Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I was dressed for success

But success it never comes

And I'm the only one who laughs

At your jokes when they are so bad

And your jokes are always bad

But they're not as bad as this

[Pre-Chorus]

Come join us in a prayer

We'll be waiting, waiting where

Everything's ending here

[Chorus 1]

And all the sterile striking it defends an empty dock you cast away

And rain upon your forehead where the mist's for hire if it's

Just too clear

Let's spend our last quarter stamps randomly

Go down to the outlet once again

[Verse 2]

Painted portraits of minions and slaves

Crotch-mavens and one-night plays

Are they the only ones who laugh

At the jokes when they are so bad?

And the jokes they're always bad

But they're not as bad as this

[Pre-Chorus]

Come join us in a prayer

We'll be waiting, waiting where

Everything's ending here

[Chorus 2]

And all the Spanish candles they sold away have gone to this

And a run-on piece of mountain travels, shivers, runs, down the freeway

I guess she spent her last quarter randomly

We guess a guess is the best I'll do, I'll do

[Outro]

Last time, last time is the best time I spent

Fame Throwa Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Fame thrower pass out the gold

The diamond watch, the last reward

All the things we had before you sold us out and took it all

Head-borne cries from zenith sluts

Astral rites from dead-end ruts

And these ends are sick-end wars

These ends were sick and wars

[Chorus]

He's one of our nation's spies

He's one of our first recruits

I click with her leather thighs

One of our first recruits

[Verse 2]

How can you know?

In the distance lies a grower

Née rude-off, king fame thrower

Son of groupie, bed-worn sexon

Spent his cash convincing us that the desert was a star-scape

Took our lives for a satellite so we could cry

"Naked, naked foul"

[Chorus]

He's one of our nation's spies

He's one of our first recruits

I click with her leather thighs

One of our first recruits

[Instrumental Outro]

Our Singer Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I've been waiting

Anticipating

Sun comes up

The skies won't sink my soul

I've dreamt of this

But it never comes

The rising

The nature's dry

Faux

[Verse 2]

I've been dreaming

Traced out but dreaming

The sun comes up

The blisters burn my soul

I'm dreamin'

Of something now

Of the rising

The nature's dry

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Track Lyrics

Conduit for Sale! Lyrics

Zurich Is Stained Lyrics

Here Lyrics

Fame Throwa Lyrics

Our Singer Lyrics