Eyelids - The Accidental Falls
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KEXP
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🗓️ 20 March 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Eyelids - "The Accidental Falls" from the 2020 album The Accidental Falls on Jealous Butcher Records
When Larry Beckett offers up his lyrics to you, it's hard to say "no." Beckett was a long-time collaborator with legendary singer/songwriter Tim Buckley, and even wrote the lyrics to the now-iconic and heavily-covered 1969 single "Song to the Siren." He's also the father of the kid who's best friends with Chris Slusarenko's son, putting this creative connection into place. Slusarenko is a member of Portland supergroup Eyelids, which features members of The Decemberists, Guided by Voices, Elliott Smith, Quasi, and Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.
Eyelids' latest album, The Accidental Falls, is a 13-song collection utilizing Beckett's lyrics, produced by fellow Portland resident, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck. For the title track, Beckett drew from the works of 18th and 19th century German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for "probably the most rocking translation of Goethe's work to date."
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| 0:00.0 | I'm here. I wish I was the limit swing |
| 0:17.0 | a flimsy pushes. |
| 0:21.0 | A flimsy bushes in the backyard. |
| 0:27.0 | An orange is a sign of the green branches, the air rushes in the palm trees, and if I knew where |
| 0:40.0 | I fly down there down there |
| 0:45.0 | down there with you. |
| 0:48.0 | Oh my honey, |
| 0:51.0 | Oh my honey |
| 0:52.0 | down there with you. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh my honey. Oh my honey. I'm I wish I was on the book of the book of the spare house. |
| 1:23.0 | Well, the lights lavish. |
| 1:29.0 | And old movie stars look down and wonder, |
| 1:33.0 | Oh baby, what's happened to you? |
| 1:36.0 | And if I knew where, |
| 1:41.0 | I'd fly down there |
| 1:48.0 | down there with you I'm with me. |
| 1:49.0 | Oh Big Daddy, oh Big Daddy |
| 1:52.0 | down there with you. |
| 1:55.0 | I'm there. |
| 1:56.0 | I'll be Daddy. I'm going to It's way beyond that rainy mountain. |
| 2:15.0 | We'll pick up drums, turn into mist, |
| 2:22.0 | and wild can screw in the alka cut by the spray of the accidental falls. |
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