Bootleg Detroit

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Recorded live at : St. Andrew's Hall, Detroit Michigan, March 07, 1994
                   Video tracks recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1995
Recorded by Morphine fan, Alan J. Schmit
Released : September 26, 2000
Label : Rykodisc
Manufacturer and Marketer : Rykodisc - 10495

Mark Sandman - lead vocal, 2-string slide bass
Dana Colley - baritone sax, tenor sax, triangle
Billy Conway - drums


Discography

Compact Disc - 10495 - February 1, 2000 - USA
Intro, Come Along, Dana Intro, Mary Won't You Call My Name, Banter 1, Candy, Sheila, Billy Intro, Claire, My Brain, Banter 2, A Head With Wings, Cure For Pain, You Speak My Language, Thrusday, Banter 3, You Look Like Rain, Buena | Cure For Pain (PC video track), The Saddest Song (PC video track)

Lyrics

1) Intro
Time: 0:19
Sandman

Thank you very much Detroit Michigan.
We're very happy to be here and we're are kind of blown away by how many people came out tonight, I have to tell you.
Thank you very much.


2) Come Along
Time: 4:20
Sandman

One foot in front of the other.
That's the way we do it.
Through this maze of planes of sheets of heat.
Obstacles loom like dreams in my way.
If I start believing, they go away.
Before they leave they have this to say.
Before the dreams leave, this is what they say. They say now...

Come along. Stay in touch. We're with you and you're with us.

Shadows in the rippling, surface evolves.
And steam hangs low on the body, low on the body, low on the body, low on the body.
Low on the body.

Come along. Stay in touch. We're with you and you're with us. (x2)


3) Dana Intro
Time: 0:14
Sandman

Dana Coley ladies and gentelman from Massachusetts. That's where they grow them like that.


4) Mary Won't You Call My Name
Time: 3:04
Sandman

Cross my fingers and I hope to God.
I knock on wood and pray with all I've got.
You can cross my bow with a cannonball.
See the writing on the wall. Oh

Well there's no map and there's no clue.
Of where to go and what to do.
Who to dog and who to ride who to hold.
Forever by your side.
Yeah forever by your side.

Mary won't you call my name. (x2)
Mary won't you call my. (x2)
Mary won't you call my name.

Well I fell into the hands of a rich man's daughter.
She led me like a lamb no bother.
To go and live inside a barn on her Daddy's 90 acre farm.
Well hide your daughters in the snow and watch out for the undertow.
Hold both hands against the door dig your feet into the floor.

Tell ya there's no map and there's no clue.
Where to go and what to do.
Who to dog who to ride who to hold.
Forever by your side.
Yeah forever by your side.

Mary won't you call my name. (x2)
Mary won't you call my. (x2)
Mary won't you call my name.


5) Banter 1
Time: 0:21
Sandman

Thank you very much.
Well we stoped in and said hello to "Mary" and in the next few songs we are going to go visit "Candy" we are going to visit "Shelia" we are going to visit "Clare."
And then I think we should stop into the motel of "Shame" and step into their heated pool in the back.


6) Candy
Time: 3:20
Sandman

Candy told me nothing really matters anymore.
And when I ask her what she means she says I ought to know.

Candy said she's made arrangements for me in the sand.
And Candy said she wants me with her down in Candyland.

Candy says she wonders she wonders why we try.
I couldn't think of what to say.
I had no ready reply.
But Candy says I'd like it where she is.
She says it's an opportunity that I don't want to miss.

Candy said she's made arrangements for me in the sand.
And Candy said she wants me with her down in Candyland.
Candy said she wants me with her down in Candyland.

Candy asked me if she died if I could go on.
Of course I said I couldn't and of course we knew that's wrong.
But Candy I said Candy no you can't do that to me.
Because you love me way to much for you to ever leave.

Candy said she's made arrangements for me in the sand.
Candy said she wants me with her down in Candyland. (x2)
Candy said she's made arrangements for me in the sand.
Candy said she wants me with her down in Candyland.(x4)


7) Sheila
Time: 2:52
Sandman

Shelia has a cat.
Yeah a beautiful cat.
Well she pets the cat.
Well she runs her fingers all down his back.
Puts a spell on the cat.
That beautiful cat. Uh
Puts a spell on the cat.
Makes the cat reply, Shelia Shelia.

Shelia has a cat.
Oh a beautiful cat.
Puts a spell on the cat.
That beautiful cat.
Well she takes the cat.
Well she runs her fingers all down his back.
Looks him in the eyes, makes the cat reply, Shelia Shelia.

Oh most gracious of beings.
Oh most gracious of beings my queen.
I'm yours to command.
Yours to command. (x2)
Shelia Shelia.
Woh oh... (x6)

Shelia has a cat.
A beautiful cat.
Well she takes her hands, well she runs her fingers all down his back.
Puts a spell on the cat.
That beautiful cat.
Looks him in the eyes, makes the cat reply, Shelia Shelia.

Shelia Shelia.


8) Billy Intro
Time: 0:06
Sandman

Lets go say hello to "Claire" right now Billy Conway is going to start us off.


9) Claire
Time: 3:11
Sandman

Well treat me wrong honey I don't care.
You never liked me much anyway.
And I still remember everything you said.
Ah, every time I hear your name, Claire.

Oh Claire.

You told me meet you about half past eight.
You said you'd kill me if I was late.
And I still... you drove me up and down the street.
You used me up like gasoline, Claire.

Oh Claire. (x2)

You know it's funny, when you went away, I thought I'd miss you a lot.
The funny thing is, I don't miss you at all.
Not ha!

Well treat me wrong honey I don't care.
You never liked me much anyway.
I still remember seeing you sleep all twisted up inside the sheets, Claire.

Oh Claire. (x2)
Claire.


10) My Brain
Time: 1:41
Sandman

My brain was out of tune.
My whole brain was out of tune.
I don't know how to tune a brain do you?

So I took it into a brain shop. I took it into a brain shop and they took one look at it and they said,
...well we're going to have to rebuild the whole head.
I said, well, do what you got to do.

When I got my brain back. It didn't work right. (x2)
I haven't had a good idea since I got it fixed.

Thank you very much.
You really are a sophisticated audience.
Thank you very much.


11) Banter 2
Time: 0:12
Sandman

All right lets play some, uh... something else.
Like this one.


12) A Head With Wings
Time: 3:32
Sandman

I got a head with wings. (x3)
And I can see so far away I can see so clear.
You would not believe the view up here.

I got a head with wings.

Now I'm floating around up here way above the clouds.
So high above the ground.
And the only thing that holds my head to the ground.
Is this one little skinny string.

I got a head with wings. (x2)
Oh...
A head with wings.
Yeah, A head with wings.

Testify Dana!

I got a head with wings. (x3)
And I can see so far away I can see far away.
I can see the shadows fall across your face.

I got a head with wings.
A head with wings.
I got a head with.
Oh...
A head with wings.
Yeah, A head with wings.
Yeah (x2)


13) Cure For Pain
Time: 3:11
Sandman

Where is the ritual.
And tell me where where is the taste.
Where is the sacrifice.
And tell me where oh where is the faith.

Someday there'll be a cure for pain.
That's the day I throw my drugs away.
When they find a cure for pain.

I propose a toast to my self control.
You see it crawling helpless on the floor.
Where is the cave.
Where the wise woman went.
And tell me where, where.
Where's all that money that I spent.

Someday there'll be a cure for pain.
That's the day I throw my drugs away.
When they find a cure for pain.
I throw my drugs away, ah, when they find a cure for pain.


14) You Speak My Language
Time: 3:35
Sandman

All around the world everywhere I go.
No one understands me no one knows.
What I'm trying to say.
Everywhere I go no one understands me.
They look at me when I talk to them.
And they scratch their head.
They go what's he trying to say.

But you, you speak my language.
Yeah you, you speak my language.

All around the world everywhere I go.
No one understands me no one knows.
What I'm trying to say.
Even in my home town.
My friends make me write it down.
They look at me when I talk to them.
And they scratch their heads.
Shrug their shoulders.
They go what's he trying to say?
What's he talking about?

But you, you speak my language.
Yeah you, you speak my language.

Kabrula kaysay Brula Amal amala senda Kumahn Brendhaa (x2)
Kabrula kaysay Brula Amal amala senda (x2)
Kumahn Brendhaa
Brendhaa

You, you speak my language.
Yeah, you speak my language.

Oh you oh you oh you you speak my language.
Yeah, you speak my language.


15) Thursday
Time: 3:02
Sandman

We used to meet every Thursday Thursday.
Thursday in the afternoon.
For a couple of beers and a game of pool.
We used to go to a motel a motel.
A motel across the street.
And the name of the motel was the Wagon Wheel.

One day she said come on come on she said.
Why don't you come back to my house.
She said my husband he's out of town.
You know he's gone till the end of the month.
Well I was just so nervous so nervous.
You know I couldn't really quite relax.
Cause I was never quite sure when her husband was coming back.
No!

Well sure enough one of the neighbors yea one of the neighbors.
One of the neighbors that saw my car.
And they told her yea she told me she told me.
They think they know who you are.
And her husband he's a violent man a very violent and jealous man.
And now I got to leave this town I got to go while I still can, ahh.

We should have kept it every Thursday Thursday.
Thursday in the afternoon.
For a couple of beers and a game of pool.
We should have kept it every Thursday Thursday.
Thursday in the afternoon.
For a couple of beers and a game of pool.

She was pretty good too.


16) Banter 3
Time: 0:14
Sandman

Ah yes lets go just a little bit lower.
Especially for all you people. Goes like this...


17) You Look Like Rain
Time: 3:31
Sandman

Your mind and your experience call to me.
You have lived and your intelligence is sexy.
I want to know what you got to say. (x3)
I can tell you taste like the sky cause you look like rain.

You look like rain. (x8)

You think like a whip on a horse's back.
Stretched out to the limit you make it crack.
Send that horse round and round the track.
I want to know what you got to say. (x3)
I can tell you taste like the sky cause you look like rain.

You look like rain. (x8)
Yeah you look like rain.


18) Buena
Time: 3:28
Sandman

I hear a voice in the back of the room.
I hear a voice cry out you want something good.
Well come on a little closer by the front of the stage.
Yeah come on a little closer I got something to say.
Come on a little closer let me see your face.
Yeah come on a little closer I got something to say.
Come on...

Well, you see I met a devil named Buena Buena.
And since I met the devil I ain't been the same. Oh no
And I feel all right now I have to tell ya.
I think it's time for me to finally introduce you to the...
Buena buena buena buena good good good.

It's coming to me yeah it's coming to me.
Now I, I, I think I know what it is you need.
Yeah I know some people they want to make you change.
And I, I know how to make'm go away.

You see I met a devil named Buena Buena.
And since I met the devil I ain't been the same. Oh no
And I feel all right I have to tell ya.
I think it's time for me to finally introduce you to the...
Buena buena buena buena good good good
Oh!

Thank you very much everybody and good night.


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