![]() Acid Tongue (2008) [ larger cover art ] |
Livin' in the meadow
The mighty, mighty meadow
With too many people
Suckin' all the water
And my daddy was a farmer
He was a racecar driver
He is a four leaf clover
He is the next messiah
Now he's living in the woods
The dark and dank woods
With a cocktail waitress
Who thinks she's an artist
Take it down to the river
Split it right up the middle
Now it's gonna be trouble
For a pregnant lamb and a con man
Now he's sick in the clink
With his head in the sink
And the tumor gonna make a
Man outta him
Now, my daddy was a chancer
He was a bad-check bouncer
But he beat that cancer
He's a survivor
He's the next messiah
He's the next messiah
He's the next messiah
He's the next messiah
Covering it up
Squeezing it out
Watching it bleed
You're watching it all
Taking it back
She's down on her knees
When did she come to detest you?
Giving it back
Backing you up
Nothing's for free
You're giving it back
For locking you up
Those terrible deeds
When will they come to arrest you?
When did she come to detest you?
When will they come to arrest you?
When did she come to detest you?
I'm gonna give my love to you on a day you gotta bring it back
I'm gonna give my love to you on a day you gotta bring it back
(I want to tell you I love you) I'm gonna give my love to you
(I want to tell you I love you) on a day you gotta bring it back
(I want to tell you I love you) I'm gonna give my love to you
(I want to tell you I love you) on a day you gotta bring it back
I want to tell you I love you
I want to tell you I love you
(I'm gonna go out walking baby) I want to tell you I love you
(Better be here when I get back) I want to tell you I love you
(I'm gonna go out walking baby) I want to tell you I love you
(Better be here when I get back) I want to tell you I love you
I'm gonna give my love to you on a day you gotta bring it back
I'm gonna give my love to you on a day you gotta bring it back
I want to tell you I love you
I want to tell you I love you
He's the next messiah
He's the next messiah
He's the next messiah
He's the next messiah
| blackdogsailing (Portland, Maine) | Posted: Apr 24, 2013 - 18:39 If that's a moose, I'd hate to see a rrrat. fredriley wrote: I could never quite figure out how mooses (is that the right plural?) are used for hair treatment. I'll get me antlers... ![]() |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Apr 24, 2013 - 18:36 I really must have this in my ears when doing a 180 on a quarter pipe. |
| Frater_Kork (Uppsala, Sweden) | Posted: Mar 24, 2013 - 07:05 This is great! I mean Michelle Shocked great! |
| coloradojohn (A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver) | Posted: Jan 20, 2013 - 12:55 Love it! Everyone I have ever played this for, especially while driving on the way to see a music show, falls in love with her voice, and digs the split-personality of the whole thing...Thanks, RP for turning us all onto it! |
| gandalfbmg (Thankfully now a little more than 3 mi from Paradise (Missouri)) | Posted: Oct 18, 2012 - 11:11 scraig wrote: You gotta see this song performed live. Jenny is amazing. If she comes around, I'm there... |
| scraig (Santa Barbara, CA) | Posted: Oct 18, 2012 - 11:09 You gotta see this song performed live. Jenny is amazing. |
| lkovathana (Chicago, Illinois) | Posted: Sep 16, 2012 - 21:50 HAHA - this song is great! |
| jen3005545 (Fort Worth, TX) | Posted: Aug 16, 2012 - 10:19 Great album!! Jenny is my favorite! Thank you RP! ![]() |
| lily34 (lexvegas) | Posted: Aug 16, 2012 - 10:16 anumidium wrote: I don't know what's wrong with you guys, I love it.. love all the shifts and changes. i know. i can't believe it's only rated 6.4. |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Aug 16, 2012 - 10:13 As a John Cleese character put it dismissively in The Life of Brian: "Messiahs? Seen one, seen 'em all." :o) |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Jun 14, 2012 - 08:59 smackiepipe wrote: I'm getting a George Thorogood vibe from the rhythm guitar. Did George Thorogood ever play rhythm guitar? There is a similar guitar sound, though. |
| anumidium | Posted: Jun 14, 2012 - 08:54 I don't know what's wrong with you guys, I love it.. love all the shifts and changes. |
| tdola2 | Posted: Feb 08, 2012 - 11:34 Oh my GAWD this is just so damn good... |
| smackiepipe (Western North Carolina) | Posted: Feb 08, 2012 - 11:29 I'm getting a George Thorogood vibe from the rhythm guitar. |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Aug 15, 2011 - 02:37 I could never quite figure out how mooses (is that the right plural?) are used for hair treatment. I'll get me antlers... ![]() |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Aug 15, 2011 - 02:36 apololi wrote: No melody to speak of. Nor singing. |
| Sasha2001 (I can see Zabars from my window) | Posted: Jul 14, 2011 - 17:43 This song is a hoot and I plan on playing at my next bible study group. |
| gandalfbmg (3 mi from Paradise (Missouri)) | Posted: May 12, 2011 - 10:57 Jenny Lewis singing about Moose is HAWT. OK, Jenny singing about anything is pretty hawt... |
| paulmack (the hissing swamps) | Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 09:59 Never heard it before - I quite like it. I am not so crazy about the "Next Messiah" chorus part - doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the song to me. Found myself wondering if that was what the commenter was thinking if with the "shoot that moose" comment. That was the reason I downgraded it from a '7' to a '6'. Maybe I need to hear it a few more times and it will make more sense. |
| apololi | Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 09:57 No melody to speak of. |
| chefatomic (Chattanooga) | Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 09:52 I just saw her in Asheville awesome |
| aelfheld | Posted: Jul 14, 2009 - 18:43 Would someone just shoot that f!#$ing moose already. Maybe then she'll stop singing about it. |
| peter_james_bond (Lunenburg, NS) | Posted: May 29, 2009 - 18:08 Kokoloco53 wrote: This has been a very weird day for RP, I must say, just never got into this whole "give me some more tylenol for my headache" music. Don't worry Morphine is probably on it's way soon. |
| Kokoloco53 (Safford, AZ) | Posted: May 29, 2009 - 17:12 This has been a very weird day for RP, I must say, just never got into this whole "give me some more tylenol for my headache" music. |
| ProgFusion | Posted: May 26, 2009 - 04:31 Dave_Mack wrote: I really liked the first 5 minutes, but then it wore out its welcome. It struck me the opposite way. I thought it was just okay at the start, but then it kept switching gears and suprising me, so my rating kept increasing. |
| Dave_Mack (Three bus, THE bus!) | Posted: May 22, 2009 - 14:35 I really liked the first 5 minutes, but then it wore out its welcome. |
| aelfheld | Posted: May 22, 2009 - 14:26 Oh well. Another 10 minute break from RP. |
| rdo (DC) | Posted: Apr 24, 2009 - 12:22 Why is she singing moossiah? |
| Mandible | Posted: Apr 24, 2009 - 12:18 SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! I was just thinking to myself, "Self, you should request Next Messiah because you're in the mood for some Jenny Lewis." |
| billynyc | Posted: Apr 10, 2009 - 15:33 Dalebarely wrote: Oh, double irony. I am in fact very anti grammar-Nazi ... so I thought it would be funny to copy and paste a song comment by one poster about someone else's (perfectly understandable English) song comment, back on to one of their subsequent song comment posts to show the hypocrisy of their aforementioned comment prior to that and, oh well, the intention is lost , and probably not worth the trouble to even have attempted it in the first place when I sit and think about it but, alas, it's too late to rescind, and so if now and evermore I shall be branded the english/grammar nazi jerk, it is of my own doing ... did I misplace any commas? key phrase: "...not worth the trouble..." :-D |
| aelfheld | Posted: Apr 10, 2009 - 15:25 10 as in 'at least 10 minutes listening to anything else up to and including a dentist's drill and/or fingernails on a chalkboard'? |
| fran_tarkenton | Posted: Apr 10, 2009 - 15:22 Don't mind this song, but its getting way overplayed. |
| zipper | Posted: Apr 03, 2009 - 10:47 9? What was I thinking? It's a 10. |
| holborne (New York) | Posted: Apr 03, 2009 - 10:45 Oh, good — time for my afternoon ten-minute mute as we have to hear this stupid song. Again. |
| mandolin (...drifting...) | Posted: Apr 03, 2009 - 10:44 ...this keeps getting better and better the more i hear it... |
| 25demayo (dreaming of an asado) | Posted: Apr 03, 2009 - 10:43 jagdriver wrote: I agree. The first 20 seconds or so sound so promising, but after that it's the mute button............. |
| rachlan (nyc) | Posted: Apr 03, 2009 - 10:39 tickets went on sale at noon, they sold out immediately. |
| Dalebarely | Posted: Mar 27, 2009 - 12:37 annie_fannie wrote: *sigh* english/grammar nazis on internet messageboards...don't you know you just end up making yourselves look like jerks? Oh, double irony. I am in fact very anti grammar-Nazi ... so I thought it would be funny to copy and paste a song comment by one poster about someone else's (perfectly understandable English) song comment, back on to one of their subsequent song comment posts to show the hypocrisy of their aforementioned comment prior to that and, oh well, the intention is lost , and probably not worth the trouble to even have attempted it in the first place when I sit and think about it but, alas, it's too late to rescind, and so if now and evermore I shall be branded the english/grammar nazi jerk, it is of my own doing ... did I misplace any commas? |
| FrankMc | Posted: Mar 27, 2009 - 12:28 What a great song. Seems well better than any old 6.5, as the consensus has it. RP made me a Jenny disciple and I thank you for that. (Purchased the disc with the Watson Twins via RP link the other day, so me and Jenny and the Twins have helped support the cause of quality ad free radio. Great disc.) |
| LongGoneDaddy | Posted: Mar 27, 2009 - 12:16 Divine Bovine? who/what is a Moosiah? |
| starcloud (Coordinate Update: 35.3592 - 120.8482 you're close enough) | Posted: Mar 27, 2009 - 12:15 I wasn't ready to announce this yet! . . . but I do like this! |
| Mandible | Posted: Mar 27, 2009 - 12:12 ![]() I will forever remember her as the girl from Troop Beverly Hills. |
| nevar23 (Georgia) | Posted: Mar 19, 2009 - 12:26 Ok, I give up. I can see that resistance is futile. *wanders off to purchase track* |
| zipper | Posted: Mar 19, 2009 - 11:43 love it mo' betterah every time I hear it. |
| martindi (MAINZ, GERMANY) | Posted: Mar 19, 2009 - 11:41 annie_fannie wrote:*sigh* english/grammar nazis on internet messageboards...don't you know you just end up making yourselves look like jerks? |
| floydoftherocks (Frisco) | Posted: Mar 19, 2009 - 11:40 yeeeeee-ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| gForce (Bangor ME) | Posted: Mar 19, 2009 - 11:40 First time I heard this I loved it - fresh and full of energy, strong vocals, and interesting segmentation (reminding me of A Day in the Life in a way). With each repeat listen, I reaffirm my first impressions. It has led me to explore her other solo stuff, as well as Rilo Kiley. Thanks RP! |
| annie_fannie (Idaho) | Posted: Mar 19, 2009 - 11:39 Dalebarely wrote: manzanitafire wrote: This song friggin ROCKS! Acid Tongue is so my next musical purchase. Could this possibly be considered English? *sigh* english/grammar nazis on internet messageboards...don't you know you just end up making yourselves look like jerks? |
| martindi (MAINZ, GERMANY) | Posted: Mar 19, 2009 - 11:38 scraig wrote:This is some crazy shi%& right there! |
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