Brandy Alexander
Brandy Alexander Lyrics
Far across the sea and land for her
The deep within my blood is sand
Until I drink what makes me mad for her, oh
[Chorus]
She's my Brandy Alexander
Always gets me into trouble
But that's another matter
My Brandy Alexander
But do I thirst for all the worst again?
Is it my addiction to this curse within?
Silently I must confess this sin
Tastes better after juice and gin, oh
[Chorus X2]
And deep within my blood is sand
Until I drink what makes me mad for her, oh yeah
[Chorus X2]
She's my Brandy Alexander, oh yeah
That's another matter
It goes down easy, it goes down easy
It goes down easy, it goes down easy
About
John Lennon and Harry Nilsson were downing brandy Alexanders at the Troubadour club in Los Angeles in 1974, resulting in behavior that led to their forcible ejection from the club.
When Leslie Feist saw Sexsmith drinking one of the cocktails at a party in Ottawa, she asked what it was. Sexsmith told her the story of the Lennon-Nilsson debacle.
“Three days later, I received an e-mail from her with this lyric in it,” Sexsmith tells the Montreal Gazette.
He took it to the piano, and a quick session later, “Brandy Alexander” had music.
“I’m a Luddite,” Sexsmith says. “I don’t have anything to record on, so I never had a tape of it to give her.
“About a year later, when I was in Los Angeles recording ‘Time Being,’ I saw that Leslie was playing across town. So I took a cab, and I played it for her in her dressing room. She recorded it onto a Dictaphone.”
Feist’s hushed, sultry version came out last year on her platinum-selling “The Reminder.” Sexsmith recorded a more upbeat interpretation on his latest album, the excellent “Exit Strategy of the Soul.”
“I had no intention of recording it,” Sexsmith says. “It wasn’t until after I heard her version, which I loved, that I got to thinking that, in my head, I heard it as more of a party song.”
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