Brand New Car  –  listen[mp3]

Here’s a song for the super-sized Brand New Car Songfight.

Some notes:
- There are 6 guitars playing at the end, all of them stereo tracked. Call it a tip-o’-the-hat to Johnny Marr.
- The bass guitar tone is a product of Carol Kaye’s felt muting trick.
- The slide guitar solo runs backwards under the second verse.
- This song is on Waking Up In August, remixed and properly mastered.

LYRICS
Let’s go home.
You know, I think with every drink
she’s more like me.
There’s wrong and right,
but we don’t need to say it.

  I was nothing but a passenger back then
  She liked it in her brand new car.
  All loaded up, I swear we never got far

We kissed the night goodbye,
But she and I
should be restrained.
We rode like kids.
We hung out of the windows

  I was nothing but a passenger back then
  She liked it in her brand new car.
  All loaded up, I swear we never got far

She liked it in her brand new car
And now we go,
The truth came out, she knows:
I couldn’t drive


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5 Responses to “Brand New Car”

  1. Boltoph on May 4th, 2005 at 12:33 pm :

    Don’t forget to program your cell phone with ringtones from "Hatful of Hollow".
    <a href="http://www.morrisseyrington…">Hatful of Hollow ringtones</a>

  2. Boltoph on May 4th, 2005 at 12:35 pm :

    oops guess I didn’t need the html…was an experiment, you might say.

    "Oh, the rain falls hard on a humdrum town
    This town has dragged you down
    Oh, no, and everybody’s got to live their life
    And God knows I’ve got to live mine"

  3. des on May 4th, 2005 at 2:51 pm :

    OK, those ringtones are funny! I had no idea that whole sub-culture existed.

    Here’s one:

    BrandNewCar:d=8,o=5,b=120:e,e,e,d,d,b4,e,4d,4b4,4b4,2g4,4e,e,d,d,b4,4e,4d,2b4

  4. SaxManRunning on May 16th, 2005 at 5:34 pm :

    thi song needs an explanation.

  5. des on May 16th, 2005 at 6:16 pm :

    Heh, I guess it does! I’ll add it soon.