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Swell
41
American Recordings Inc, 1994
David Freel — chant & guitare
Monte Vallier — basse
Sean Kirkpatrick — batterie
1. In the door, up the stairs realaudio 2:02
2. Is that important ? realaudio 3:06
3. Song seven realaudio 4:45
4. Kinda stoned realaudio 3:45
5. Don't give realaudio 4:27
6. Smile my friend realaudio 3:31
7. Forget about Jesus realaudio 4:16
8. Here it is realaudio 4:02
9. You're so right realaudio 4:54
10. Fine day coming realaudio 4:56
11. (It's time to) Move on realaudio 4:04
12. Down the stairs, out the door realaudio 3:33
13. Lyrics realaudio 6:35
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41 creuse son terrier dans cette attente qu'on a de ce mutisme. Lointain, à la façon de ces photos floues qu'on se plait à scruter, il devient vite obsédant, vous attache à ses lacunes. Ce rien vaut mieux que tous les « Tu l'auras ».
C. Despaux — Prémonition, mai 1994
On a évoqué des Pixies indolents, un Nirvana déprimé et on avait à moitié tort : pas de cette formidable dynamique dans les chansons hypnotisées et lancinantes de Swell, juste un blues tellement crampon qu'il interdit tout mouvement, toute montée d'adrénaline. « Je n'ai pas l'impression d'être triste, c'est ma ville qui l'est », nous confiait le chanteur David Freel. Quel cafard a piqué San Francisco ?
J.-D. Beauvallet — Les Inrockuptibles n°50, 27 mars 1996
While never predictably “experimental,” Swell are riveting in their refusal of all ingratiating pop conventions. Filled with mise-en-scène sounds (footsteps, ringing phones), 41 resembles an aural black-and-white movie of San Francisco's hard-luck Tenderloin district. Bassist Monte Vallier and drummer Sean Kirkpatrick join Freel on these lean life studies, fashioning an ambient folk music capable of sparking disturbing epiphanies.
Rolling Stones

In the door, up the stairs realaudio
Instrumental.

Is that important ? realaudio
Don't have a thing to share
Won't even comb my hair
But in our room so nice,
This screwed up life and I
... Sit down

Is that important ?

I blow the good-bye test
And note that all my friends,
Will use this time for sleep.
They know that talk is cheap.
But I know the words you say,
Cost more than we could pay.

Why leave on today ?

Un-sure ?
These passing days
Won't try
To leave
(The sidewalks gone)
There is a chance in hell it seems.
A chance besides the facts we've seen
Where she say's
"Why,
... Why leave on today"

Got a chance if all agree
And she says
" Trust.
Yeah there is trust.
... In what we say."


Song seven realaudio
So far I'd say
Tonight just takes too long.
You've got the time to be so strange.
I take their side,
And blame the day for luck.
You never know how things might change.

I said that's all,
I mean there came this time,
To realize what I should do.
And all the years the water brings me by,
To see the start and see that's you...


Kinda stoned realaudio
Time and pills,
Let's waste a year.
The phone is tuned,
The way is clear.
There's some less sure
Of hate and love,
And some can say
Where everyone
... Fits in

Try and see,
The words feel dry.
The morning breathes,
The evening dies.
It's not like all
Can walk on through.
It's more just luck
That makes you choose,
... A side.
Everybody's kinda' stoned.
More distance...
... Come on.


Don't give realaudio
All my intuition fails me.
You want my answer ?
It's time to worry.

'Cause I don't give a fuck,
About slowly changing luck.

Sure I'd love to
Win you over.
Eyes in heaven,
My balls in clover...

I might sleep for less time,
But I'd stay in this life.

The less I give up,
The more I hurry.
A full confession
Confirms your story...

And I love this town.
I love this town.


Smile my friend realaudio
Been awake so long,
I hear them start.

Please be sure my friends
I still won't try.

It's been on both our minds,
They said you called...
every lie must be put to good use

Find a way come south,
The road is smooth.
the less I change the more that you'll have to

Then she would talk me down.

I love my problems deep,
And here you are.
maybe the sunrise will come too

Dead before my eyes,
And all them stars...
a stupid smile almost all the way through

Then she would talk me down.


Forget about Jesus realaudio
Where she stands.
Where she sits.
Water, life, and grace
... In their hands.
Who you gonna listen to
If it's only just a smile?

Thank god for sin to show the way.

Where she lies.
Where she waits.
There's an act of grace
... In there eyes.
Who you going to listen to
If it's only just a smile?

Thank god for sin to show the way.

stay a little lonely this time
stay a little longer this time


Here it is realaudio
Let's say flotation suits me fine.
Don't need that ending till it's time.
And even when the choice is mine,
I want your stale-bread scent.

Won't face that same old sleep tonight,
I need to swing out till it's tight.
And what I'm choosing is the right,
To fight like all my friends.

I'm never going east
Until they give the missing reasons.
Get to play another waster,
Come to turn these offers down.

If you say we're wrong,
Then I guess we're wrong.

Here it is and it's waiting for the...


You're so right realaudio
You're so right,
Tie off,
Our savior to be sure.

You're so right.
Whatever's said,
Don't take to long.

And everytime we rate your star,
It looks so dim, it seems so far.
"That just depends on where you are."
I'm getting off but you go on...

It's okay,
We are the same,
I fooled you too.

You're so right.
This is a sign of
What you aren't.

And everytime the rates are low,
"I'm not the same - though you should know"
Could I pretend it does not show ?

Yes,
I'm getting tired but you go on.

Kind of had this fear,
But you were always here in time
When we should go...


Fine day coming realaudio
Fine days is coming.

Everybody's leaving
'Cause they're taught to decide
And every summer tries.

Fine days is coming.

bet you don't know when the start comes bet you don't know...

Everybody's leaving,
Says your strong in your head.
Everybody wants to share the power.
You know,
It's how you shoot the day.


(It's time to) Move on realaudio
Under the brave, wise talk.
Under the crap we've bought.
Under the love that's not.
Under the weight of god,

Everything moves on...


Down the stairs, out the door realaudio
Instrumental.

Lyrics realaudio
Instrumental.

avril 1994
american/pSycho-sPecific
(45530 / BEGL 158CD / ARBLP 6)
45530