On Juhu Beach

Released: 2001

Label: Nursecall; Yoyo

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Liner notes

(paper 1):

5 songs recorded in iowa

10/99 – 02/00

(paper 2):

訳詩 宮川一春 (jamaican cheek)

(paper 3):

また早いうちにいっしょにあいましょうと望う。

ジョン・ダーニェルより

<John's signature>

五月一日

アメリカ・アイオワ州にて

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Hotel Road

Thirty-story hotel overlooking the sea

Friends on either arms supporting me

It's hard to walk now

But I will go down somehow

I'm going down the old road

I'm going down the old road

Children kick a soccer ball around in the street

Kalpadruma trees melting in the heat

It's hard to walk here

Where the waves shine so clear

I'm going down the old road

I'm going down, down the old road

Above the swollen ocean, the burning yellow sun

Hits the hotel's Mylar windows catching everyone

It's hard to say why

I should come here to die

I'm going down the old road

I'm going down the old road

Bad Waves

Beachfront hotel

Twenty dollars a night

1972

Sun yellow and bright

Too exhausted to think or to talk

Young boys from Bangladesh

Breakdancing on the sidewalk

And the waves will tear them all to pieces

The waves will tear them all to pieces

Twinkling Waterford crystal

In the banquet hall

Childlike religious paintings

Lining the wall

I will try to gather my strength

And I will rest up all week

All I can say to them, yeah

When I open my mouth to speak, is that the waves

Will tear us all to pieces

The waves will tear us all to pieces

Transjordanian Blues

"One, two, three, four."

This church is rotten from the top down

This church is rotten from the top down

But I, I am going to clean house tonight

And it's going to go back into the earth it rose from

These walls can't keep the world at bay

No, these walls can't keep the world at bay

Our time, our time is limited and precious

And this place, this place is limitless and pernicious

Would you all just follow me

Out into the open

Leave your coats and handbags, damn it all

Can't you see the floors are smoking

Yeah, this church is not long for this world

This church is not long for this world

If you're wondering who to blame, I want to praise his name with songs and feasting

Follow me to the open field, where the truth will be revealed if you're really listening

Hosanna, hosanna

I am saved by the blood of the lamb

Yeah, one day when I was lost

He died upon that cross

And I am saved by the blood of the lamb

Burned My Tongue

Woke up this morning about a quarter to five

Said the prayer you taught me to keep myself alive

It burned my tongue

It burned my tongue

Fried some grains in butter, said a simple grace

Sat down at the table, fed my greedy face

It burned my tongue

It burned my tongue

Looked out at the ocean, I could see it so clear

Said the only name I can ever stand to hear

It burned my tongue

It burned my tongue

When I ask you to sing with me, I wish you'd sing along

Thirty years in this world, thirty years too long

It burns my tongue

It burns my tongue

You took away my friends, you took my will to live

I gave you all I got, what more have I got to give

It burns my tongue

It burns my tongue

It burns my tongue

It burns my tongue

World Cylinder

I don't like going to the doctor

I don't like looking in the mirror

I like looking out the window

Watching the waves break

Do I have to hit you over the head with it

Do I have to hit you over the head with it

I'm tired of talking to the suckers

I'm tired of talking to the wealthy

I want to talk to men and women

Who haven't got anything left

Do I have to hit you over the head with it

Do I have to hit you over the head with it

Carry me down to the water

Where I used to play when I was five

Let me go, let me go down to the water

Don't bring me back alive

Do I have to hit you over the head with it

Do I have to hit you over the head with it

On Juhu Beach, Nall, accessed May 1, 2014.

Credits

Caliclimber gets a special thanks — not only did his Flickr page provided the album art, but I pestered him incessantly about getting high-quality scans that I could get translated, which he did. Caliclimber, thank you, you are awesome.