This song was inspired by Von Radics. We'll see you again, my friend!
lyrics
I hear its real quiet there, as silent as a tomb;
Where you lay in your bed all day just whistling whisky tunes.
What you seen what you heard in the hereafter it's all unknown.
I see you makin' beats that please and melodies that soothe.
We struggled to understand, separating fiction from the man.
That drummer you marched to, I never got to, so sad.
I admit that I laughed when I should of held you up for all to see;
Goggled down, an insulated suit like the world had never seen.
I don't believe that I ever heard anything
Like this even once before...oh no.
See you again, on the other side;
See you again, on the other side.
Good to have some friends, on the other side.
See you again, on the other side.
History happened on that Civil War snare that you saved but couldn't tune.
But you never gave up, no you never stopped thinking bout what the thing could do.
Full of sounds from a million dusty afternoons and evenings when the crowd come in to cheer.
Save yourself even though no one wants to. You got to. You got to save yourself.
But then you disappear in a puff of smoke that smelled so...
Sweet as the sunlight coming down, the only way it plays, anyway.
See you again, on the other side;
See you again, on the other side.
Good to have some friends, on the other side.
See you again, on the other side.
credits
from Trumpland,
released August 9, 2017
Music and words by John Mac and the Moraggots. Mike Spinrad on percussion.
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