아시아계라는 사실을 떠나 슬로코어/드림팝 포크씬에서 가장 중요한 밴드로 군림하고 있는 IDA의 96년작. 간단하고 단촐하지만 정적이고 가끔씩 나름대로는 파워풀한 리듬라인을 보여주지만 결국은 감성적인 결말로 마무리 짓고 있는 본 음반은 슬로코어의 팬이라면 반드시 짚고 넘어가야 하는 이들의 대표작중 하나이기도 하다. 이들의 대표곡인 "Back Burner"와 "Treasure Chest"를 수록하고 있다. .... ....
Take some time out to remember What you kept and gave away When you came into my life Did you stop To think twice Little things pile up and turn into bigger things And i want you to notice (this) And i want you to try
Don't cut me off Don't cut it out Don't give away What you can live without
Don't let it sit Just spit it out Don't hide yourself Where no one can find you
Don't hesitate Just let me know Don't keep it all to yourself I'll try to understand you
Don't hesitate Just let me know Don't keep it all to yourself I'll try to understand I'll try to understand
This doesn't have to end, But it should. We used to help each other out, Now it doesn't feel good. So go back to your room And hide with your cellophane.
All twisted up in two Like Caliban you've seen it all Without language to use.
The phonecalls stopped, The letters, too. Maybe we passed on the street, Pretended we never knew. It might be worth the effort But we don't have the time
Or the will to intrude. Sooner or later you have to choose Between one set of lies and another. It's nothing new. But like it or not, There's part of me in you.
I don't know if I'll ever see you again And there's one thing I'll never understand. It's like the words that we said Rolled over to play dead And we kissed them goodbye And never questioned why.
Did time takes it toll, Did it cost too much? Did it cost all the sweetness That, was the best time you ever had. It slipped so swift from the palm of your hand, The time's when you stood tall. Crawling with a backwards glance so strong, That you can't believe it at all.
You thought that you lost such a solid love; The best friend you ever had. But the world is upside down, Too many moments you could not keep, The places that saw you speak, You don't know how to see this through.
What did you miss? In the telling of all this And how could you guess That it would ever be like this?
A sullen spent seven years Scraping love from the dust that covers your fingerprints I sit around and watch the splintering Of a trust that I never seemed to have a hand in Well maybe it's true I'm barely there So easily mistaken for your favorite chair Like a perfect and graceful fading Well I thank you For giving me nothing 'cause who could be a witness Who could have the patience You like to sit there in it Privileged and indifferent You never come around to see my side So i don't get to tell you that I'm doing fine Monday comes, and Monday goes You're my faithful, stand-by no show 'cause who could tell the story Sit down and read it to me Who'd reveal their memories Be the first to say Yeah I do see you when you're looking down Pages scattered on the ground You're the one who tore them out You're the one who tore them out Yeah I do see you Right through And it feels too soon to leave you Leave you
Summer snapped in half and half flippin' coffee creamers Twenty times, that's a good sign, like a four-leaf clover Downtown was filled with the sounds of the full and the part time losers And when we stepped up to the bar, you asked for a cigarette and the years just melted away right then And I saw all the ways that we've changed and the decisions that we made And I wasn't hurt or afraid Some skin holds night in Some gifts go unrequited I dreamed I was holding my breath Go down again till I'm breathing in water and breaking like the day, getting in your way
Pulling back the rain is wet We're still inside it all And what's yours in the morning By the night it all could be gone You sound so good to me And I have to say I'm glad it wasn't me Who had to walk away Memory is heavy when you have to write The pictures that are scattered They swell up in your eyes And how much becomes yours What can you throw away All this it matters on moving day Sweeping out from under the bed Afraid of what you'll find Looking out windows for the last time See past that face in front of you And lift your head Leave the saddest room
After the first time we kissed I drove for an hour in the wrong direction Frozen in the winter wind Where nothing could ever begin I saw you You were shining like a brand new sun Shining starlight For me For you and me, my love Pass a junkyard on the left Time to catch my breath Almost to the out-of-state line Oh, it'll be better This time, this time