![The Most Important Thing - The Hold Steady](https://cdn.muztext.com/i/3284755345303925347.jpg)
Date of issue: 03.05.2005
Record label: Frenchkiss
Song language: English
The Most Important Thing |
Yeah, and when the band played Sally Cinnamon |
It felt like 1991 again |
Didn’t get into them too early in |
But I still got into them |
Right now that seems like it’s the most important thing |
That’s the thing about Gideon |
And that’s just a little bit about so many things |
He knows too much about certain things |
He knows some guys who know some Latin Kings |
Right now that seems like it’s pretty much the only thing |
We’re baby birds with broken wings and we sing |
Yeah, we sing unity songs but the scene’s still splintered |
We’re stretched thin and we’re stressed at the seams |
And we dream |
Yeah we dream like screen, but we’re still out of focus |
Sure, we know it’s just showbiz |
It still seems to surprise us |
When they hook us by the mouth and pull us up |
And then they try to fry us |
That’s the thing about Charlemagne |
He got all washed up in the amber waves of grain |
Roughed up in the bars and the bluffs |
Tangled up in the double dutch |
You know he drank too much, he never really ate enough |
It was so, so sad, with Charly in a sick bed |
He looked like hell and smelled like chemicals |
Maxin' out on medicine and feelin' all invincible |
ICU in Regions Hospital |
It felt so cool with Holly at the bus stop |
Yeah, we could feel it comin' through our arteries |
We’re runnin' low on energy and nodding off in reverie |
Faded blues in Memphis, Tennessee |
The Mississippi River always holds it all together |
Yeah, we sing unity songs but the scene’s still splintered |
We’re stretched thin and we’re stressed at the seams and we dream |
Yeah we dream like screen, but we’re still out of focus |
Sure, we know it’s just showbiz |
It still seems to surprise us |
When they hook us by the mouth and pull us up |
And then they try to fry us |
Done a pretty good job of fryin' ourselves, I think |
As she goes blastin' static — Music from the Big Pink |
Stumbled into the foyer and pulled the bookshelf over |
Yeah, we were drowning in the literature |
Bram Stoker hit your head |
Ginsburg hit your dick |
A big black Bible hit your head |
And that’s how we got born again |
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Blackout Sam | 2019 |
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