The opening track on Stamps and Coins is Shiny Spinning Wheel. One tries to create a focus point for a song because it is specifically a focal point that inspires that initial thought. I don’t think that ever goes away; even when the lyrics slip off to the side. Check out how close that first word ‘time’ is to a track by Mercury Rev. I may have been listenign to some of their stuff but I can’t say for certain. One thing is for certain. Elliott Smith died while I was recording it and I added a final verse about him and the events that had unfolded.
SHINY SPINNING WHEEL
Time…
Creates an overpass a swimming lake
That I can’t take with me
And I…
React unconsciously to
Things inside your past that I can’t see
I can’t see…
And the feeling of a second is unreal
But a moment named and given I can feel
For a life is but a shiny spinning wheel
And for you my love my heart it will appeal
Inside of me
It burns inside of me
It grows inside of me
The days
A magic misty haze
Of thing past gone
And things that are to be
The wheels
You know they turn they cast for you and burn
For you and me
You and me
SUBLIMINAL:
Time for you
To wait no more
It’s on now
Unlike before
I’m moving
I’m off the floor
How can I hold you to
The things you said
When we were new
Oh baby don’t
Throw the remote at me
The news
Delivered by
The trusty guys at triple J has made me blue
Apparently so
Oh Elliott has gone and cancelled all his tours
And all his days
He’s on his way
And the feeling of this second
Is divine
By my own hand
I am leaving I am mine
Oh sweet Adeline
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