(The) Harvey Danger Database

And you can’t see yourself in the mirror anymore
And you’re alone and green and cold as the sea
And if you go down, I will follow you underground
And you can’t close your eyes anymore
And you can’t dream

Just because you fucked up doesn’t mean it’s OK
To stand around pulling down the roof with your hands
Hoping nobody notices

But if you guffaw, I will fill your mouth with a sour taste

And you can’t hear yourself anymore
And you can’t sing, oh

What makes you think I won’t ridicule you?
What makes you think I’ll avoid you?
What makes you think I’ll steal your fingerprints?
What makes you think I will forget this?
What makes you think I won’t hurt you?
What makes you think I won’t cut you out?

And you just plead for a dirty time
And bleed when confessed like a seed compressed
You need me, oh

And if you guffaw, I will fill your mouth with a sour taste
And if you arrive, I will meet you there on a higher plane
And if you go down, I will follow you underground

Sean: I only wish you could hear the original version of "Underground," as performed by This Busy Monster; if only to see how radically the song was transformed by our slavish interest in Radiohead; inspired by Death Cab's inclusion of a Revolutionary Hydra song on their first album, we wanted to acknowledge Bellingham, and our friendship with TBM, with whom we played many weird shows with on the way to the middle, and to reach for a dark, expansive dynamic that we'd been trying to get at with our own songs (cf. "Defrocked"), and which was suggested by Christopher Possanza's malevolent-but-vulnerable songwriting; re-writing "Underground" felt like a more original gesture somehow, a hybridization of things we liked, and things we could do; this is beyond question the most powerful recording we ever made, and the hardest and most satisfying to play live.^10A

Evan: "Underground" is the direct result of the one successful party Harvey Danger ever threw, when we had This Busy Monster play in our basement. I remember walking down the steep wooden stairs and getting my face blown off by their song. Later, when we were doing our version, I couldn't get the sound of the banjo out of my head; having my dad play banjo on our record is one of the moments I'm proudest of in music. Marc Olsen was a hero of mine, and he played on our record too. These, these are the benefits.^10A