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If I walk down this hallway
Tonight, it's too quiet
So I pad through the dark
And call you on the phone
Push your old numbers
And let your house ring
Till I wake your ghost
Let him walk down your hallway
It's not that quiet
Slide down your receiver
Sprint across the wire
Follow my number
Slide into my hand
Its the blaze across my nightgown
It's the phone's ring
I think last night
You were driving circles around me
I can't drink this coffee
Till I put you in my closet
Let him shoot me down
Let him call me off
I take it from his whisper
Your not that tough
It's the blaze across my nightgown
It's the phone's ring
I think last night (you were in my dreams)
You were driving circles around me
Tonight, it's too quiet
So I pad through the dark
And call you on the phone
Push your old numbers
And let your house ring
Till I wake your ghost
Let him walk down your hallway
It's not that quiet
Slide down your receiver
Sprint across the wire
Follow my number
Slide into my hand
Its the blaze across my nightgown
It's the phone's ring
I think last night
You were driving circles around me
I can't drink this coffee
Till I put you in my closet
Let him shoot me down
Let him call me off
I take it from his whisper
Your not that tough
It's the blaze across my nightgown
It's the phone's ring
I think last night (you were in my dreams)
You were driving circles around me
| mistabird (frei republik allgäu) | Posted: May 16, 2013 - 23:38 ein netter song,  |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Apr 17, 2013 - 16:23 Yes, Great cover ! Danimal174 wrote: It was Greg Laswell's version, I think. |
| shellbella (so california) | Posted: Apr 17, 2013 - 16:20 This is pretty annoying..... |
| testpilot | Posted: Feb 11, 2013 - 20:56 I used to like it better back when I was into R.E.M. as well... now it comes off as a forced "by-the-numbers-americana" tune ...and I do hope I never ever hear it in sequence after Teng's "The Passage" - it can really kill the perfect mood of that song |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet) | Posted: Feb 11, 2013 - 20:51 I think I just realized that I have never really liked this song |
| smartn1 | Posted: Oct 11, 2012 - 10:08 love this song. always makes me stop whatever I'm doing and listen |
| jmkate (nearly under a stack of books) | Posted: Oct 09, 2012 - 10:14 If I try to mosaic while listening to this, I will cut my finger off by accident. This is actually a fairly high complement.. |
| calypsus_1 (East of Eden) | Posted: Jun 07, 2012 - 09:41 Flooding |
| lily34 (lexvegas) | Posted: May 04, 2012 - 10:24 love this. |
| socalhol (Seattle) | Posted: Apr 02, 2012 - 17:32 REMaster wrote: Nice tune. Reminds me of Patti Smith. Also nice vocals from Michael Stipe. Funny thing - hearing Michael Stipe in this song just made me recall the interview I watched this past Sunday on CBS about Patti Smith!! The first Valentine's Day she spent alone after her husband passed away, Michael Stipe called Patti up on the phone, introduced himself and asked if he could be her valentine. She said yes, and hung up smiling, feeling less alone. I thought that was such a sweet story! |
| sajitjacob (Christchurch NZ) | Posted: Apr 02, 2012 - 17:30 Another tape lost in the mists of time. Damn that was a good album... now where is that itunes button... |
| emh | Posted: Jan 30, 2012 - 08:51 Really good. Keep hoping to hear Sundrops, from the same cd. It's a solid 9. |
| DD rabbi_phil (beach) | Posted: Dec 31, 2011 - 15:32 50 Foot Wave is mo betta. really raw and edgey. can not believe it's the same girl |
| Frater_Kork (Uppsala, Sweden) | Posted: Dec 15, 2011 - 09:13 DaveInVA wrote: "let your house ring until I wake your goat" Yeah, that would be truly annoying. My goat takes ages to go to sleep once it has been stirred by the phone. |
| pixel-pusher | Posted: Nov 13, 2011 - 16:19 I like how in the chorus two singers are saying two different things ("You were in my dream" / "I think last night") suggesting confusion as to whether it was a dream or not. |
| fatcatjb (Sunny Sacramento) | Posted: Nov 13, 2011 - 16:16 SpamNRice wrote: I could get very lost in a bottle listening to this... add some rain and I'd be gone. this comment is right on |
| shakitten | Posted: Oct 29, 2011 - 06:52 REMaster wrote: Nice tune. Reminds me of Patti Smith. Also nice vocals from Michael Stipe.
I heard Patti, too. Made me look to see if it was! |
| lemmoth (NYC) | Posted: Oct 27, 2011 - 06:45 If Kristin was listening I imagine she would be incredibly honored to be following four of the most magnificent pieces of music ever written. |
| SpamNRice (Northern, Italy) | Posted: Oct 13, 2011 - 02:49 I could get very lost in a bottle listening to this... add some rain and I'd be gone. |
| chris_the_man | Posted: Oct 13, 2011 - 02:48 Wow! |
| TimeWaster | Posted: Oct 05, 2011 - 08:35 Snoopy2 wrote: Think it should be called driving circles Think I agree with you.  |
| DaveInVA (In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA) | Posted: Sep 11, 2011 - 14:28 "let your house ring until I wake your goat" |
| REMaster (Kiel, Germany) | Posted: Aug 11, 2011 - 05:31 Nice tune. Reminds me of Patti Smith. Also nice vocals from Michael Stipe. |
| Snoopy2 (A Snoopy Lovin' House) | Posted: Aug 03, 2011 - 12:50 Think it should be called driving circles |
| AndreasL (Calden, Germany) | Posted: Jun 23, 2011 - 07:55 I havent heard about her for a long time. Mistake! |
| Sloggydog (UK) | Posted: Apr 21, 2011 - 02:10 One of my favourite songs by one of my favourite artists - beautiful. And the first thing i learnt to play on guitar. |
| Dave_Mack (Saratoga,CA) | Posted: Mar 30, 2011 - 07:40 Danimal174 wrote: It was Greg Laswell's version, I think. That version played yesterday. Most folks longed to hear this version; Bill delivers! |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Mar 22, 2011 - 13:50 Shimmer wrote: Kristin's memoir, Rat Girl, is on my night stand these days. Providence, RI, 1985 - I was there! Oh, boy - one more book I need to buy. This song creeps me out, a lot like Fever Ray's stuff does. It evokes unnerving, black-and-white scenarios of things that are where they shouldn't be - like a tricycle in a tree during a lightning storm. I love the music, but I think it's probably one of those songs I won't be able to listen to very often because I'm too easily frightened these days. (I'm getting old and wussy.) |
| Shimmer (Bethesda, MD) | Posted: Mar 22, 2011 - 13:43 Kristin's memoir, Rat Girl, is on my night stand these days. Providence, RI, 1985 - I was there! |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Feb 17, 2011 - 05:00 This gives me goose pimples. As the late, great John Peel often said, good music should scare you, and this is really unsettling. 9 from the wonderfully spooked Nottingham jury. |
| GuiltyFeat (Ra'anana) | Posted: Feb 03, 2011 - 04:21 I've loved this track ever since I first heard it. |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Feb 03, 2011 - 04:21 Really good melody. |
| unclehud (300 feet above the planet) | Posted: Jan 26, 2011 - 13:51 " ... singing in circles, around me." |
| le_colonel | Posted: Jan 18, 2011 - 21:34 Stingray wrote: LOVE YOU, KRISTIN....! Good to see I agree with stingray on 1(!) thing. Spain from the Sunny Border Blue album is a great song, if anyone feels inclined to upload it.. |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Dec 18, 2010 - 11:56 LOVE YOU, KRISTIN....! |
| Businessgypsy (Deepest, Darkest Florida) | Posted: Dec 16, 2010 - 13:21 Wow, posters seem to love this dirge! The Holidays are a dark time, indeed. |
| Danimal174 (Upstate South Carolina) | Posted: Dec 16, 2010 - 13:20 newwavegurly wrote: I think a different version (a cover, perhaps?) of this song was used in "Grey's Anatomy" last night... It was Greg Laswell's version, I think. |
| Sloggydog (UK) | Posted: Sep 29, 2010 - 22:26 I think this morning this song is driving circles around me |
| kaybee (Lost in the Wilds of Toronto) | Posted: Aug 11, 2010 - 19:39 An intriguingly pretty piece. |
| dolfan (Kingsland, Ga./Jacksonville, Fl) | Posted: Jun 10, 2010 - 12:59 WayUpNorth wrote: Great song ... I should be sitting outside alone on a warm, moonless, breezless summer evening watching fireflies again the black night sky. Very, very well put. Maybe follow it with "Fade Into You." |
| Baby_M (a 100-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio) | Posted: Jun 10, 2010 - 12:55 Reminds me of the ending of "True Night" (Criminal Minds, Season 3, Episode 10), with Johnny McHale in his psychiatric hospital room, calling his deceased girlfriend's cell phone over and over again, just to hear the voicemail message. |
| a_genuine_find (not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway) | Posted: Jun 10, 2010 - 12:48 wiki Hersh's music is known for its chords, sonic treatments, and a vocal style ranging from softly melodic singing to impassioned screaming. Some of her signature contributions to popular music include addressing the complexities of life through impressionistic, sometimes hallucinatory lyrics about everyday feelings and varying mental states. A few of her songwriting subjects have included childbirth ("Hysterical Bending"), love ("Tar Kissers", "Lavender"), surreal vignettes ("Delicate Cutters", "Fish"), death ("Limbo"), emotional anguish ("The Letter"), loss of custody of her first son ("Candyland"), and the shedding of a relationship's anxiety ("Snake Oil"). Hersh has used images such as apples, water, diamonds, eyes, the sea, snow, ice, rain, fire, the sun, sand, and cowboys. On occasion she has used historical figures like anorexic suicide Ellen West as metaphors in depicting a state of mind. Eccentric characters encountered in her family's travels have made occasional appearances in songs such as "Ruthie's Knocking"; a 2005 live solo set list included a then-untitled song ("Under The Gun") about a "parrot lady" character she met while visiting Lake Michigan. |
| Danimal174 (Upstate South Carolina) | Posted: May 17, 2010 - 12:18 Good song. Greg Laswell does an excellent rendition of this on his "Covers" EP. You can listen to a sample via Amazon at the link below - http://www.amazon.com/Covers/dp/B002VFA6PG/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1274123874&sr=8-8 |
| WayUpNorth (Windswept Exile) | Posted: May 17, 2010 - 12:16 Great song ... I should be sitting outside alone on a warm, moonless, breezless summer evening watching fireflies again the black night sky. |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: May 17, 2010 - 12:13 YEEEEES! |
| Giselle62 (California's Cental Coast) | Posted: May 09, 2010 - 21:08 i do remember liking this whole album; it's on cassette somewhere. |
| Photo-John (Nor Cal to SLC) | Posted: Apr 15, 2010 - 18:03 Just bumped it from a 9 to a 10. Kills me. A dark room, a full bottle and a loaded gun. And I mean that in the best way. |
| SusanHiddenPoet (Texas) | Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 23:05 JaySea wrote: Haunting and enigmatic... Kristin continues to amaze and enchant  whispers, "What Jay said." For he expressed it so well.  |
| Buzzardcheater (Austin, TX) | Posted: Feb 19, 2010 - 07:41 Very Patti Smith |
| DaveInVA (In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA) | Posted: Feb 11, 2010 - 13:42 Anax wrote: I followed LongGoneDaddy's link and got the 50 Foot Wave version. Thanks. I like Michael Stipe, though you don't have to. However, in the choruses that he sings with Kristin in her solo version, she raises her voice and screams them in the 50 Ft Wave one. Or call it a hoarse gargle. I'm just saying, she seems to have wanted that sound. I still liked it enough even so that I bought it when it came out, even with Michael Stipe  |