I had a very clear recollection of where I first heard and purchased the album featuring yesterday’s SOTD (Los Lobos’ Kiko) but today is a whole different story.
Thisway’s self-titled album is one of those that may well have been conceived on my CD shelf by two other CDs. I have no recollection of how I got it or why. It’s actually a damn good album, in that 90’s alterna-band way, but where did it come from?
Thisway is a New York band that put out this one album in 1999. Wikipedia includes the rather amusing tidbit that the band “was dropped from the Reprise label soon after the September 11th attacks” as if those two events were somehow connected. I wonder if one of the band members wrote that.
Today’s song, ‘Crawl,’ was the album’s one hit. Apparently it was featured on Dawson’s Creek or something, based on the YouTube comments. Often I’ll look up a song I like on YouTube and see a bunch of comments about how it was featured on Scrubs or House or The OC. I guess that’s how bands get noticed these days.
God bless me.
Staring at the alter,
Down on my knees.
And I can’t wait to crawl out of my shell.
Father can you help me,
With the choice I’ve made.
Cause you ain’t gonna break me,
For living life this way.
And I can’t wait to crawl,
I can’t wait at all.
I can’t wait to crawl.
I can’t wait anymore.
Cause if I wait too long,
How am I gonna reach my destination?
I can’t pretend that I’m okay,
When I’m stuck here, it’s all so clear to me.
Good-bye Mother Nature,
Say a prayer for me.
I’ve never seen an angel,
But I’m dying to believe.
And I can’t wait to crawl,
I can’t wait at all.
I can’t wait to crawl,
I can’t wait anymore,
I can’t wait anymore,
I can’t wait anymore.
Meet Me In Montauk 
Possible you picked it up in an auction at work? Seems like the sort of purchase you might make.
I love when I discover a song through a television show or movie, then go through the work (not as hard now that we have such easy Internet access) of trying to figure out where it comes from and whether you should purchase the whole album.
At one point, I was suggesting I might guest host a whole theme week featuring songs I discovered that way. The two that made the biggest impression – Robbie Robertson’s “Broken Arrow” (in an episode of thirtysomething) and Joseph Arthur’s “Into the Sun” (in the alternate – and much better! – ending of The Bourne Identity).
Today’s song doesn’t immediately grab me the way you expect a song that garners that sort of attention from a single appearance on a television show to do. In fact, I remember hearing my beloved “Feels Like Home” performed NOT by Randy Newman but by some chick named Chantal Kreviazuk in a YouTube clip of Dawson’s Creek. When I instantly fell in love with the song, I did some searching, only to discover it had been written by Randy Newman, who hadn’t yet released his own version of the song.
So… yeah, I love to discover songs that way 🙂
By the way, I can’t believe you don’t see the connection between this song and the terrorist attacks! It’s no wonder they were dropped from their label.
I agree with Amy, I’m incredulous that you don’t see how offensive this song is in light of 9/11.”Good-bye Mother Nature, Say a prayer for me. I’ve never seen an angel, But I’m dying to believe?” I’m surprised these guys aren’t rotting in Guantanamo.
Anyway, good song, as far as terrorist anthems go.
It seems to me after doing some research on the lyrics, that these lyrics are different from the lyrics I just read. There is no mention of “Mother Nature or an “altar”. Do you think they changed the lyrics from the original?
Clearly an attempt to cover up their involvement in 9/11!
spoken like a true attorney 🙂