Appears on: Soup, Letters From a Porcupine, Galaxie 10" Promo
Produced by: Andy Wallace and Blind Melon
Shannon:
vocals, acoustic guitar
Brad:
bass
Christopher:
guitar
Rogers:
guitar
Glen:
drums
Miles
Tackett: cello
Stephen
Moses: trombone
Notes:
Shannon
based this song on seeing a young woman jump from a building to her death
in Detroit. "We were all sitting there arguing about a monitor mix
and that happened - it made me realize how much the monitor mix has nothing
to do with the big picture. "You learn so much about yourself through tragic
scenarios.... I think it just made me realize things that you take for
granted."
A demo version of this song was recorded at Bullet Studios, Nederhorst Den Berg, Holland in November 1993.
Lyrics:
Big
stretch and not much sleep
I
got a couple of palm trees on each side of my cheek
And
it's a bright blue Saturday
And
the rummage sellin' the rubbish to me
But
if I could buy the sky, that's hanging
over
this bed of mine
If
I could climb these vines
and
maybe see what you're seeing
If
you
were standing on the corner staring straight
into
the eyes of Jesus Christ
One
porch, one dog, one cockroach only one way to be
I
got sewage fruit and it's growing out back from roots
I
don't know if they belong to me
But
if I could buy the sky that's hanging
over
this bed of mine
And
if I could climb these vines
and
maybe see what you're seeing
Sitting
at the edge of this building,
Twenty
stories below, twenty stories below
Twenty
stories below
I
can't tell you, how many ways that I've sat
and
viewed my life today, but I can tell you
I
don't think that I can find an easier way
So
if I see you walking hand in hand in hand
with
a three armed man, you know I'll understand
But
you should have been in my shoes yesterday
You
should have been in my shoes yesterday
(Background
of last verse)
Oh,I
can pull the crappy things we did together
In
my day so I posed myself some questions
Maybe
this week's gonna get me into shape
Hey,
I got my head buried 'neath the pillow,
I
got my head beneath my pillow so low