Harlem Roulette - the Mountain Goats video free download
Lyrics:
Unknown engines underneath the city.
Steam pushing up in billows through the grates.
Frankie Lymon's tracking "Sea Breeze" in a studio in Harlem.
It's 1968.
Just a pair of tunes to hammer out.
Everybody's off the clock by ten.
The loneliest people in the whole wide world
are the ones you're never going to see again.
Feel so free when I hit the avenue.
Nothing like a New York summer night.
Every dream's a good dream,
even awful dreams are good dreams,
if you're doing it right.
Remember soaring higher than the clouds.
Get pretty sentimental now and then.
The loneliest people in the whole wide world
are the ones you're never going to see again.
And four hours north of Portland,
the radio flips on.
And some no one from the future
remembers that you're gone.
Armies massing in the dusky distance,
ghosted in the ribbon microphone.
Leave a little mark on something maybe,
take the secret circuit home.
Nothing's in the shadows but the shadow hands,
Reaching out to sad young frightened men.
The loneliest people in the whole wide world
are the one you're never going to see again.
Yeah, the loneliest people in the whole wide world
are the ones you're never going to see again.
Comments
8 years ago
Arthur Compton
Although I'm sure you've all already read John's comments on this song, yes, it's about Frankie Lymon, who got famous at age 13 from Frankie & the Teenagers, "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" c. 1955. He was doing pretty good at first, but ended up getting addicted to heroin at age 15, unsucessfully breaking up his band and trying to go solo at age 17, losing his juvenile soprano voice at age 18, and eventually getting drafted by the army at age 21. It was all downhill from there.By the time he got back in the studio some 5 years later in 1968, he was a twenty-something one-hit-wonder heroin addict with a name that nobody remembered and a voice that nobody recognized or wanted to hear. When finally given the chance to make a few bucks recording a couple of cover tracks, covers of "Sea Breeze" and "I'm So Sorry", both written by other people, he reportedly used the money to overdose on heroin, and that was the end of him.9 years ago
antmanbee100
Also in cool reference to Frankie Lymon, check out "Boxing and Pop Music" by EBTG.Related Videos
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