(The) Harvey Danger Database

Cross through the border states to the wrong side, wrong side
Look away, Virginia

(him:)
You spend every day like the past is a bridge crossing 20 years
Whispers away, not so much
Let your poison tongue out of my ear

Here’s a fact you cannot rise above:
We’ll have problems
Yeah, then we’ll have bigger ones

From damage to damn control
You wanted to go alone, though
I never said no
I never said no

(her:)
Spiteful confrontations and trial separations
It’s just another present to get past
The man was very helpful but I knew he wouldn’t stay
There used to be a baby but the baby went away

Forswear what you undergo
You wanted to go alone, though
I never said no

It doesn’t make me cry to hear Dylan say
“Most likely you go your way, I’ll go mine”
I’ll go mine

Forswear what you undergo
You wanted to go alone, though
I never said no
I never said no

Sean: "Problems and Bigger Ones" is one of two songs on the LP whose lyries always felt unfinished to me; partly I blame Evan for encouraging me to go ahead and follow my misbegotten ambition to make the song into a centuries-spanning tale of bootlegging and abandonment, almost none of which theme survives in any discernible way; original chorus opener was "you follow the rolling road," which sounded too heroic or classic rock to the lads, hence the alternate existing lines, but "from damage to damn control" never quite felt right to me (though I love "forswear what you undergo"); happy about the Dylan reference, largely because it came before my Dylan deep dive a year or two later; song remains powerful to me, sometimes hard to sing because it's so emotional, the urgency of the guitar and bass in the second verse and outro are undeniable—close as HD ever got to '90s-style emo.^10A

Aaron: This was the first song of ours I heard on the radio, on KCMU, while making TONS of Jell-O for a party at the Wedgwood house. Don't ask.^10A