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| starmekitten |
Posted - 01/29/2006 : 14:15:02
Lyrics
Dark End Of The Street
At the dark end of the street
That's where we'll always meet
Hiding in shadows where we don't belong
Living in darkness to hide alone
You and me
At the dark end of the street
You and me
I know ??? a ??? time is gonna take its toll
We have to pay for the love that we stole
It's a sin and we know it's wrong
Oh, but our love keeps coming on strong
Steal away to the dark end of the street
They're gonna find us, they're gonna find us
They're gonna find us, oh, someday
You and me
At the dark end of the street
You and me
When the daylight all goes around
And by chance we are both downtown
If we should meet, oh, just walk on by
Oh, my darling, please don't you cry
Tonight we will meet
At the dark end of the street
Quotes
as ever thanks to Llamadance and Night Times on 12/06/2005
This was the one song on the album that didn't need a chart; all the guys knew it so well that they could play it in their sleep. Reggie Young's guitar solo is so laid back, just like his personality. He looks like this really lean lion, with his mane hanging down. He was almost lying down in his chair as he played, and it sounds like that. I've never had a guy as smooth as Reggie Young on one of my records. It's like you almost hold your breath during his solos, like, 'Oh, my God! I can't believe what I'm hearing.'" The whole night before we cut this, though, I spent the night in the bathroom of my hotel, quietly practicing the vocal. I think I got that fragility in my voice from having listened a lot to Freddie Fender.
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I've checked and we have no resolution on the lyrics for the last three songs for the honeycomb threads (the other two being SSMVGD and Song of the Shrimp). Starting here, I didn't want to google for lyrics I wanted to ask the forum masses.
This is taken directly from the lyrics thread (see first link). and the usual database requirements, trivia and quotes are as always, much appreciated as well as general how do you rate it conversation. It's not like fb fans to not have an opinion...
But if anyone does know the actual lyrics that would be great also.
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 02/05/2006 : 11:52:19
I'm assuming this is a yes...
I've added the lyrics to the database and if anyone decides there is a mistake there post it here or let one of us know. |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 02/01/2006 : 03:35:22
Well this makes more sense! so we now have:
At the dark end of the street
That's where we'll always meet
Hiding in shadows where we don't belong
Living in darkness to hide our wrongs
You and me
At the dark end of the street
You and me
I know time's gonna take its toll
We have to pay for the love that we stole
It's a sin and we know that it's wrong
Oh, but our love keeps coming on strong
Steal away to the dark end of the street
They're gonna find us, they're gonna find us
They're gonna find us, oh, someday
You and me
At the dark end of the street
You and me
And when the daylight hour rolls round
And by chance we are both downtown
If we should meet, oh, just walk on by
Oh, my darling, please don't you cry
Tonight we will meet
At the dark end of the street
everyone happy? |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 02/01/2006 : 03:04:34
Yeah, definitely daylight hours. At least in the Percy Sledge version, which is my personal favourite.
 I have joined the Cult Of Frank/And I have dearly paid |
| Scarla O |
Posted - 02/01/2006 : 01:26:55
quote:
Originally posted by kfs
How about..."and when the daylight hour rolls round..."
That's the one!
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Scarla O'
Thursday 16th March 2006
The Pleasure Unit
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On stage: 10pm |
| kfs |
Posted - 01/31/2006 : 14:04:28
How about..."and when the daylight hour rolls round..." |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 01/31/2006 : 13:47:09
I cheated, popular google answer "and when the daylight all goes round"
it makes no sense. |
| fbc |
Posted - 01/31/2006 : 13:40:59
sounds to me like "...daylight arrows round".
(pssst! not really, sounds more like "a'wohs" but that makes even less sense to me) |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 01/31/2006 : 13:11:46
and thanks for the quotes guys, you know I love you for it. |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 01/31/2006 : 13:06:42
ok, taking this into account and blasting it through the wee-pod I get:
At the dark end of the street
That's where we'll always meet
Hiding in shadows where we don't belong
Living in darkness to hide our wrongs
You and me
At the dark end of the street
You and me
I know time's gonna take its toll*
We have to pay for the love that we stole
It's a sin and we know that it's wrong **
Oh, but our love keeps coming on strong
Steal away to the dark end of the street
They're gonna find us, they're gonna find us
They're gonna find us, oh, someday
You and me
At the dark end of the street
You and me
And when the daylight ????? round ***
And by chance we are both downtown
If we should meet, oh, just walk on by
Oh, my darling, please don't you cry
Tonight we will meet
At the dark end of the street
* I don't hear a 'that' at all, I don't hear anything between know and time to be honest
** I hear a that here though so added it.
*** tricky, it starts with and, and when the daylight... and does end in round but I'm buggered if I know the middle bit.
I'll play it again |
| Jontiven |
Posted - 01/31/2006 : 12:49:49
I believe it's "Living in darkness to hide our wrongs."
and
"I know that time's gonna take its toll."
that Daylight line isn't quite right either.
bye,
Jon Tiven |
| fbc |
Posted - 01/31/2006 : 12:48:40
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7330687/frank_blacks_new_soul
quote:
On the album you cover "Dark End of the Street."
It seems like a good fit -- were you thinking about that for a while?
I had talked about it with the producer. Then, coincidentally, it turns out that the engineer whose studio we were at wrote the song! Dan Penn. I didn't know the soul version -- I knew the country-rock white-guy version, which was Gram Parsons'. And when the producer said, "OK, do you want to do it?" I was too intimidated. So Dan said, "Aw, come on! I'll just sing it with these guys, and you can sing it later." And he sang this wonderful, really soulful, heavy version of the song. And I thought, "Whoa. How do I follow that?" We left it for the next day, and I practiced all night in my hotel room and came up with the delivery, the character, based on how they'd played it.
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| jediroller |
Posted - 01/31/2006 : 10:48:36
Not the Courtney Love duet again!
One site has the lyrics as "I know that time is gonna take its toll".
Wikipedia entry for song co-author Dan Penn:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Penn
From an Uncut interview posted here by misleadtheworld:
"And was Dan Penn just floating around in the background or what?
Yeah, just chewing his toothpick. And I knew he liked a particular song if he sang background vocals on it. He sang on ‘Dark End of the Street’ and it was just so smooth, man. He put down the lead vocal first, and I was like, “How can I sing it now?” But then he said, “I’m gonna go take a nap”, meaning I was free to sing it without him in the room and not feel weird about it. When Tiven said, “So, Charles, you wanna do ‘Dark End of the Street’”, I was like, “Oooh, I dunno, man”. And then those guys were suddenly out there doing it, and of course they all wanted me to do it. Someone like Dan Penn is no dummy. He figures, “I dunno who this kid is, but hey, I wanna get half the publishing on the song”. I’m being crass, of course. When he mixed it he goes, “Okay, Charles, I putcha voice nice’n’loud like one o’ them black guys”. I think he thought I was singing it like Aaron Neville or something, but really my reference wasn’t that, it was Gram Parsons and a whole other thing. It was also from listening to Freddy Fender records, which is a similarly high kind of fragile voice, light on its feet."
http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14494
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| Kirk |
Posted - 01/31/2006 : 09:18:48
A Bunch of bad covers of the song.
http://www.moonwashedrose.com/aural/CourtneyRyanAdams-DarkEnd.mp3 or look for it on http://www.moonwashedrose.com/aural/holeaudio.html
(Courtney Love and Ryan Adams)
http://thirdplanet.tv/JMD_music/Dark_End_Of_The_Street.mp3
http://www.barjohn.com/Public_downloads/Rock_City_Angels_Dark_End_Of_The_Street.mp3
http://chrw.usc.uwo.ca/mp3/1995/The%20Old%20Chicago%20Blues%20Band%20-%20Third%20Anniversary/The%20Old%20Chicago%20Blues%20Band%20-%20Dark%20End%20Of%20The%20Street.mp3
http://www.synuk.com/eva/clips1/ebh-des.rm
http://www.gospelsingers.at/Sounds/track_2.mp3
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| Kirk |
Posted - 01/31/2006 : 09:07:17
Amazing jeffamerica.org still has the Honeycomb mp3s online |
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