4.5
Swell
Too many days without thinking
Beggars Banquet Records, 1997
David Freel — chant & guitare
Monte Vallier — basse
Sean Kirkpatrick — batterie
1. Throw the wine realaudio 4:56
2. What I always wanted realaudio 5:00
3. Make mine you realaudio 3:36
4. Fuck even flow realaudio 3:54
5. At Lennie's realaudio 5:26
6. When you come over realaudio 3:43
7. (I know) The trip realaudio 4:34
8. Going up (To Portland) ? realaudio 3:50
9. Bridgette, you love me realaudio tabs 3:15
10. Sunshine everyday realaudio tabs 4:54
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Décidément, ce quatrième album brillant prouve que jamais groupe n'aura aussi bien mis en musique toutes les nuances de gris.
A. Bernier — Rock&Folk, avril 1997
Swell aime prendre son temps et ses chansons se promènent au rythme des battements du cœur. Ces dix morceaux sereins et émouvants voient le son acoustique des californiens atteindre leur maturité.
Rock Sound, mars 1997
... Genial, orthodox American guitar music with a very cool tune and an even cooler demeanour. Oh, and sometimes it sounds a bit like Pavement. But then again, given the correct tonnage of quaaludes, wouldn't we all ?
NME, march 1997

Throw the wine realaudio
No need to mention what trips through the blinds
I never question the circles the lines
All hands on thirteen all heartbeats at nine
Do me the favor of leaving my mind
You should have thrown the wine...

Some kind of joke
I needed to know
I wasted the time
I never let go
It turned in my hands
Went straight for the wall
I wanted to leave
Cause all the freaks were gone

magnets
saviors
damn sure
realize
i won't
blame her
your turn
stay wrong
stay high

I got a madness that stumbles and climbs
Three hundred good days and sixty-six crimes
To late for progress I'm so far behind
Do me the favor of washing my mind
You should have thrown the wine...


What I always wanted realaudio
Now I'm failing to come down
... What I always wanted.

I always went in the lake and now I sit the shore
I notice the time, the place, the booze, the heat, the score...
I sleep when the sun goes down, might rise on it's return
I think about everything and nothing's what I learn
I wanted to pray alone I name you in this prayer
I wanted this day alone I blame you in this prayer
The gift that I'm choosing is a gift for changing light
Who cares if this day proceeds through wrongness or through right
Whatever was in the lake will wash up on the shore
I found all the days I lost and never lose no more
I sleep... o.k., there's time for this.


Make mine you realaudio
Who will miss you,
When you're over
Who will miss you,
By the by
Ever lasting
Saving up for
Not suggesting
You decide

Never less I
Won't fucking back down
Our final lesson
This final comedown
It was my best friend
You cannot touch
My choice.
For once,
I want to make you mine...

Let's pretend to
Say whatever
Say whatever's
On our mind
Having less of
What we came for
Having more of
What we like

I don't suffer
To make it downtown
Your crummy offer
A total comedown
You were my best friend
You can not touch
My choice.
For once,
I want to make you mine...

My imogene's all in love
I saw her staggering off
There's nothing left to decide
We cross our fingers and fly
I buy the finest advice
I'm happy most of the time

Short on trust
Or maybe dollars
Short of what will
Mark the time
I remember
All the offers
I remember
What a lie

We're gonna make it work
We're gonna make it fine


Fuck even flow realaudio
You see that man,
You fucked up your car
You fucked up your mind
Feel it go
A slip in style
Everything's wrong
The letter's unsigned
And we don't go. Why?
You know
You're
Going
To try
Don't try.

This is the best line,
Don't wait for some gladness to close your eyes.

You see that man,
Your stuff never blinds
If everything rhymes
Fuck even flow
A slip in style
Everything's wrong
The letter's unsigned
And we don't go. Why?

You see that man,
You fucked up your car
You fucked up your mind
Feel it go
A slip in style
Everything's wrong
The letter's unsigned
And we don't go. Why?


At Lennie's realaudio
God loves you
And I hate that
I'm wishing spend tomorrow
... And we're aimless and not chosen,
And we're laughing

Don't mention why
Don't feed that clock
I own the words,
You only borrow
... And we're aimless and not chosen,
And we're laughing

God shoved you and
Your mission's right
Whatever, stone or faded plastic
... And we're aimless and not chosen,
And we're laughing

Don't ever tell
Don't bring that up
I've got to find a way to lose it
Are you going to be seen again?

Good time to be broke
Good time to be lean
Got time to be crude
Got time to be the cream

I sit on the floor buzzed
I slipped through the sofas
Here come the starts
Don't let me peak out
Everyone's leaked out
Leave me your name
I head for the bathroom
Everything's green/blue
Sit on the drain
Assume all the way gone
Head on the fake lawn
Dripping till dry

I come down back at Lennie's...


When you come over realaudio
I got a maid; assistance nice
I gotta pay for what I like
A scar, a fact
A former get out
I got to sell them shoes
And
I gotta make them pairs
And
I gotta sell them shirts and ties...
Let me get out
When you come over
When you come down
When you come over
If you calm down

I'll say start, I'll say go
I'll say please ever show - What is right.

You got a laugh with chills and lines
You gotta face of bones and signs
A scar, a fact
A former get out
It's on the rails and she says fine
I gotta make them voices mine
You gotta be some other kind...
Turn the sound down

When you come over
If you come down
If you come over
When you calm down

Gotta start with a plan
To be scars in the sky
Ain't that right?
When you come over...


(I know) The Trip realaudio
No sign of luck, no yes, had a fucked up time
Mostly feeling something nervous
And something less than right

Just sort of wade into the sky
Just sort of feed into the ground
Just sort of lying in the sound
Just sort of failing to get by

And it's all that you got

Low and certain tones are buzzing in your head
Gaught thirty different reasons only three were said

Foolish and jealous to start
We'll probably take it too far
No time to service your car
As dumb, as dumb as we are
I see this surely ending up well shy of the mark,
For thirty days in Tucson
It's coming right and that's wrong
It would be safer to run
As dumb as dumb as they come
I see this surely ending up well shy of the mark

No friends of mine, no thrills, had a fucked up time
Only feeling something nervous
And something less then right

I surely suffered two times
I never thought in disguise
I know the trip that you are
As dumb as dumb as a star
I see this surely ending up well shy of the mark
This early ending blows the stars to the sky, so would I...


Going Up (To Portland) ? realaudio
Move to Portland it's fine
All rain no shine, all rain no...
June july and the rest
I'll be my guest, I'll be my...
Bought some flowers and crap
I take them back, I take them...
Move to portland it's fine
All rain no crime, all rain no...

First on the list of good signs
Everyone's missed and who knows why
No evolution no time
Everything less
And we know
Even our finest slack morning
Back wound down and dreamed,
Going up is easy

Got your letter I think
Love hate and drink, love hate and...
Stupid questions and news
Won't have to choose, won't have to...
Changed my name, changed it back
One road one jack, one road one...
Move to Portland it's fine
All rain no shine, all rain no lie...

I hope for peace, I hope your well
I know it's painless as hell
All those bills
And the cars and those groovy sad bars
Can you wait if I'm late
If I'm traveling straight
Any warning back, storming back
Famous black day we can start
... Going up is easy


Bridgette, you love me realaudio tabs
I decide I need a police dog
My fuckin' apartments' ruined
Every time we go outside to walk
Pissing is what you are doing

Somewhat down but sure to get by
We're living on my paper route, it's alright
You're shitting on the neighbors lawn, it's alright
'Cause I'm living on the menace in their eyes

And I want to take you down and find out
What is on your mind
And I want to take you down and find out
What no choice is like
If you never stop smiling
I'll need some place I can hide

Oh my darling never speaks of time
Barks at her favorite noise
In the blackholes glowing like her eyes
Everything's always fine

Somewhat down but sure to get by
We're living on my paper route, it's alright
You're shitting on the neighbors lawn, it's alright
'Cause I'm living on the menace in their eyes

And I want to take you down and find out
What is on your mind
And I want to take you down and find out
What no voice is like
If you never stop smiling
I'll need some place I can hide


Sunshine everyday realaudio tabs
Everyday sunshine...

Inside the crash,
I hear the tires kiss the street and sing my name.
My seat is lifting, brings me closer to the sky.
The windshield shatters and the glass is all set free.
All of these changes are accepted though they're cruel.
And it's always fine or better...


mars 1997
Beggars Banquet
(BBL 187CD)
BBL 187CD