call me charley
Release Date: 9/96
Album: KEEP YOURSELF AMUSED
Writer: ADAM MARSLAND
Lyrics:
Call me Charley
ask me for the time
It might as well be his name
I'm trying to forget mine
Oh Well, sex sells
Anchors to drowning men
Clear my eyes
Make the senses wise
Kill the will to be
Call me Charley
Pox my eyes
Make the senses wise
Let emptiness set me free
Call me Charley
I heard her murder
Everything I love
They're all figments of imagination I guess
When push comes to glove
Don't care
Don't share
Your feelings with yourself
Adam sez:
A quiet showpiece intended to take a break from the frenetic pace of the album and show off Rob's and my vocal harmonies, "Call Me Charley" is a serious misfire on the first album. The night I cut the vocal Rob was boycotting the sessions (he was threatening to quit the group during the recording of the first album and was not around for major sections of the vocal overdubs), and the situation within the band had depressed me to such a degree that I way, way, overemoted the vocal. Oops. The lyrics are similarly vague...who's Charley? Why that name? Why spell it that way? Damned if I know. It's about depression and that's probably as far as I should go with it. Still, the harmony block at the end is pretty sweet, I must admit.