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Sparklehorse – It's a Wonderful Life
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The lead track off the album of the same name, “It’s a Wonderful Life” was, acording to an interview with Linkous, a “fuck you” to critics who focused only on the darkness and
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Sparklehorse – Sunshine
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Vic Chesnutt was scheduled to appear on the album but couldn’t make it to the sessions, so Mark Linkous inserted Chesnutt’s phone message apology into the song.
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Sparklehorse – Pig
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The lead track on Good Morning Spider, “Pig” speaks directly to Linkous' experience following his infamous overdose in 1996.
He said about “Pig”, “I was mad that I can’t have my
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Sparklehorse (Ft. Nina Persson) – Gold Day
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[Verse 1] / Good morning, my child / Stay with me a while / You not got any place to be / Won't you sit a spell with me? / You've got diamonds for eyes / It's time for you to rise
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Sparklehorse – Saturday
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[Verse 1] / You are a car / You are a hospital / I'd walk to hell and back / To see you smile / [Refrain] / On Saturday / [Verse 2] / You are a star / You are a sea of air / I play
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Sparklehorse (Ft. Nina Persson) – Apple Bed
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Of horses wet with melted ice / They would not heed my advice / And burdened limbs of its weight / To break and rot a whispered fate / Please doctor, please / A remedy in a bloody
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Sparklehorse – Comfort Me
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[Verse 1] / With rocks in my dress / And smoke in my hair / I walked into a lake / To get some sleep down in there / [Chorus] / Won't you come to comfort me? / Won't you come to
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Sparklehorse – Hello Lord
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[Verse 1] / I don't want to hurt nobody / I don't want to kill no one / I just wanna see my baby / Whose face is like the sun / I'm so far from Carolina / But I still can see her
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Sparklehorse – Sea of Teeth
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[Verse 1] / Can you feel the wind / Of venus on your skin? / Can you taste the crush / Of a sunset's dying blush? / [Chorus 1] / Stars will always hang / In summer's bleeding fang
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Sparklehorse – Someday I Will Treat You Good
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The fourteenth track on Sparklehorse’s debut album, “Someday I Will Treat You Good” is the closest Linkous ever got to a radio hit, as the song got some play on alternative rock/
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Sparklehorse – Rainmaker
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[Intro] / Well, shit, yeah! / [Verse 1] / All you've got to do is / Look in the sky and wish / You might see his face in the clouds or / Relaxing in a spirit ditch / [Pre-Chorus 1
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Sparklehorse – It Will Never Stop
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[Verse 1] / It will never stop / The crows with their arrows and their little bows / It will never stop / The rabbits with their carrots and their piccolos / [Chorus] / Oh, please
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Sparklehorse (Ft. Thom Yorke) – Wish You Were Here
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Sparklehorse’s version of Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” was first released in 1997 on Come Again, a compilation, part of EMI’s 100th anniversary Essential series, in which EMI
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Sparklehorse – Kind Ghosts
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[Verse 1] / I hung my wolves up high in the pine trees / Like cannonball sails, they wouldn't stay hung / And somewhere somebody's scarecrow is crying / How could I've not noticed
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Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse (Ft. The Flaming Lips) – Revenge
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[Verse 1] / Pain / I guess it's a matter of sensation / But somehow, you have a way of avoiding it all / In my mind, I have shot you and stabbed you through your heart / I just
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Sparklehorse – Weird Sisters
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Like the start of “Homecoming Queen” (the previous track on this album), this title is another reference to Shakespeare in the title, this time from Macbeth:
The weird sisters
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Sparklehorse – Heart of Darkness
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[Verse 1] / She laid her head on my chest / As the sun burned down the west / There's one thing we still got / This one last dance in this parking lot / [Chorus] / Oh yeah, I, I
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Sparklehorse – Falling Down
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / Before a record of the sunset / After the fires before the celeste / Had keyed and rung her chimey two-step / A from the mountain
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Sparklehorse – Spirit Ditch
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[Verse 1] / I want my records back / And that motorcycle gas tank that I spray painted black / The owls have been talking to me / But I'm sworn to secrecy / [Chorus] / I woke up in
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Sparklehorse – More Yellow Birds
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Much of this song alludes to a fatal mining accident, probably due to Carbon Monoxide poisoning. Mark Linkous (aka Sparklehorse) came from a family of coal miners.
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Sparklehorse – King of Nails
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[Verse 1] / The toothless kiss of skeletons / And summer hail / I'm the king of nails / I drink my liquor from the palm / Of a child who spoke in tongues / And smelled like sun / [
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Sparklehorse (Ft. The Flaming Lips) – Go
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So you think you've found the one / And she knows just how you feel / And you say that she's for real / And she's fun / Well that's all well and good / That's just the way it
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Sparklehorse – Hundreds of Sparrows
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Every hair on your head is counted / You are worth hundreds of sparrows / The tree you planted has become fecund / With kamikaze hummingbirds / Wings of hundreds of beats per
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Sparklehorse – Cow
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[Verse 1] / Saint of barges / Queen of nails / Sparkling drumsets / And murders of crows / [Verse 2] / Metal teeth of / Carousels / Lighting cigars on / Electric chairs / [Verse 3
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Sparklehorse – Morning Hollow
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Ninth track of Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain, fourth and final album by Sparklehorse.
The song was previously found as the hidden bonus track on his third
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Sparklehorse – Sad and Beautiful World
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The fifteenth and penultimate track on Vivadixie takes its title and signal refrain from a line uttered by Roberto Benigni in Jim Jarmusch’s 1986 film Down By Law, a film also
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Sparklehorse (Ft. Tom Waits) – Dog Door
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Well she's as mean as a needle / Don't get too close to the heater / She's like a mean shop keeper / Who got an extra gun / She about 6'4" and she's a wrecking ball / Now go ahead
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Sparklehorse – Chaos Of The Universe
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[Verse 1] / Chaos of the universe / Here you are in the very first verse / Light sweet on my black-haired nurse / [Chorus] / Never your father, nor your mother / Sing among young'
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Sparklehorse – Little Fat Baby
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Did you save your wisdom teeth? / Did you burn your Christmas tree? / But he got dragged by a donkey / Through the dirt and the myrtle / But he was once a little fat baby / Did you
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Sparklehorse – Stay
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Stay today / Stay for the day / Oh, it's gonna get brighter / Stay for the day / Stay for the day / Oh, it's gonna get brighter / Stay, stay / Stay for the day
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Sparklehorse – Evening Star Supercharger
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[Verse 1] / Well I kicked and I screamed from zero to four / And I still don't know what for, maybe gored from matadorin / Or dreaming on the rails of angels dead drunk in the snow
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Sparklehorse – Mountains
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Once I was a big old bear / Reigning blows on sparkly snares / In the woods after the snow / The white noise witch her hammer's cold / Rest beneath the pine and rose / In our suits
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Sparklehorse – Hey Joe
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“Hey Joe,” the ninth track on Sparklehorse’s Good Morning Spider is a cover of Daniel Johnston. It is the twelfth track on Johnston’s inimitable Hi, How Are You? (1983).
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Sparklehorse – Listening To The Higsons
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[Verse 1] / Lucifer in Frognal, woah-oh / Listening to The Higsons, woah-oh / One night in November, woah-oh / And I thought I heard them singing, woah-oh / I gotta let this hen
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Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse (Ft. Nina Persson) – Daddy's Gone
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[Verse 1] / Daddy's gone / Daddy's gonnna go to work today / To make a little money / You gotta get paid / [Verse 2] / Bake a cake / Bake a cake and set it on a plate / Up high
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Sparklehorse – Sick of Goodbyes
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The fifth track on Good Morning Spider, “Sick of Goodbyes” was co-written by Mark Linkous and David Lowery–the latter of Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker fame. Linkous was a roadie
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Sparklehorse – Maria's Little Elbows
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[Verse 1] / Well I'll bet my Maria's got an elbow full of lonely / Now here's a little prayer so that she might get some sleep / Don't let her face be skinned by the sun today
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Sparklehorse – Devil's New
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I pulled my heart, I pulled my heart out / I pulled my heart out / On a mountain high / I left it in the sun / But it would not die, but it would not / But it would not die / Are
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Sparklehorse – I Fucked It Up
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[Verse 1] / Well, I coulda been a business man / But I am a somnambulist / Well, I coulda discovered some cures / [Chorus] / But I fucked it up real good / Yes, I fucked it up real
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Sparklehorse – Gasoline Horseys
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[Verse 1] / The flowers of evil / You left at my door / Set 'em in a broken glass / And tasted my own blood / [Chorus 1] / Yes, your hair looks beautiful today / Gasoline horses
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Sparklehorse – Cruel Sun
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It's crawling / Still all in / Befallen / Cruel sun / In summer / Oh slumber / My number / Is up / There's peaches / In reaches / With leeches / At heart / I'm thinkin' / And
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Sparklehorse – Saint Mary
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Following the critical success of Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (1995), Linkous entered a loose patronage under Radiohead, who encouraged him to travel on their European tour
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Sparklehorse – Homecoming Queen
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[Verse 1] / A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse / Rattling on magnetic fields / Yes I did use up the last box of sparklers / Before they went bad, got wet or decayed / [Chorus
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