Story Behind The Song
Does every experience have to be viewed through a selfish lens? I don't know, but on a post-gig morning, after I had moved back in with my parents (here's to success), I walked down the stairs, half awake and still stinking of alcohol, to see my dad opening the screen door. Exhausted from spending nights at the hospital and days at work because his vacation days all dried up last week. he was letting the dog in from the rain outside. Running behind and trying to save the white carpet from muddy footprints, the first time he spoke to the dog calmly, "Sally, Lie down." The second time he was bent over, screaming loud enough to bury the dog in the carpet with the weight of his breath. "SALLY, GOD DAMNIT LIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE DDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOWWWWNNNNN!!!!!!!". That's when I knew that my parents were nearing their breaking point. The doctors were showing no signs that they would get their heads out of their asses, and my brother, in his prescription drug-induced, "holy shit, my stomach and intestines are hanging out" terror, was trying earnestly to stick his head furher up his.
After my Dad had left, and the situation had quieted down, I strolled in to the kitchen to eat some breakfast, and the sink was full of dirty dishes. My first thought was "Crap, I can't believe I have to do the dishes". My second thought was, "Screw it, someone else will do em before dinner, I'm going back to bed."
Song Description
Heavy intro, backbeat verses, soaring choruses and a dreamy bell outro.
Song Length |
3:50 |
Genre |
Rock - General, Rock - Funk |
Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
Mood |
Tense, Disconcerted |
Subject |
Brother, Sadness |
Similar Artists |
Soundgarden, Men At Work |
Language |
English |
Era |
2000 and later |
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Lyrics
DISHES
The dishes pile up in the sink
It?s the routine things that suffer
There not here she?s at the brink
If you want to find me
I won?t be right by your side
She is begging doctors
To no avail
?Oh please turn the tide?
I don?t know you
But I still love you
And you don?t know
But I?m thinking of you
And all the thinks you said
All this sadness and all I can think of is me
Stranger things have happened lately
You don?t know who to blame
But all these signs point two directions
Memories are memories
If you could just find them
The season is changing
Don?t you ever feel for me
Don?t you ever feel for me
Dishes pile up in the sink
It?s the routine things that suffer
They?re not here she?s at the brink
Don?t you ever feel for me
Don?t you ever feel