Cold Snap [demo]
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Credits
- Written by Harvey Danger, © But Mom I Love Music (ASCAP)/
Famous Music - Guitar by John Roderick and Mike Squires
Lyrics
He was the king of random fancy
an incorrigible flirt
He liked to try to put her on a pedestal
just so he could look up her skirt
But he’s changing
And she is nobody’s girlfriend
He doesn’t mind
Dormant desires which are better kept clandestineHe captured her imagination
a brutal vista on the map
She thought she felt her will break, but it was the weather
From a chilling wind to a full-fledged cold snap
We will be lazy with our language and comfortable with our clothes off
We will say just what we have in mind
And she’s still nobody’s girlfriend
He doesn’t mind
Dormant desires which are better kept clandestineThe way you want it is just the way it’s going to be
And if that’s the way you want it, it’s just the way it’s going to be
the only version you’ll see
me at my worst is either broken up or broken down
broken up
or broken down
Quotes
AMH: One of the best songs we’ve written, but it’s had a troubled history. An early version of it, recorded during the KJV sessions, never came together. We revisited it later, when Roderick and Squires were in the band, and made a difficult but entrancing recording of it. We came back to it yet again while recording LBL, but it didn’t quite hit the mark.10A
SCN: Sometimes “My Human Interactions” sounds like a masterpiece. This version of “Cold Snap” always does. The session that produced it and “Mainland” and the original “Diminishing Returns”—featuring touring HD members Mike Squires and John Roderick—was so disastrous it broke up the band, but they sound like promising demos today.DSS