T.B.D.
by Live

Album: Throwing Copper (1994)
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  • in the moment I was losing my head

    and I was

    reachin' forward I was already there

    readin' too much and losin' my head

    this information caused a cut in the line

    now I'm remembering good and thinking so much it's so nice.

    the print is smaller than the ants in the grass

    I'll have to put it away now

    in the morning there are things to be read

    words to be said and food to be fed but I

    won't be there. I'll be clutchin' on a

    megaphone pointed at my head, would you be

    there, would you kindly, scream this word for word so loud and clear

    I can't remember it all, it needs to be clear, I tell you, if

    the feeling drops out of your voice, would you

    kindly pick it up

    this is how, I'll go out tonight

    dressed in blue, by the book tonight

    this is how, I'll go out tonight

    but I don't need a book.

    we're talkin' anchors, talkin' ships, we're

    talkin' seas, we're talkin' everything you need

    you should be workin' now, not only askin'

    how and the whereabouts of where you'll

    be. I don't suspect you will be thinking

    when the brain is dead and the mind

    has taken over, this is a skill, this

    is not a game, where have you been,

    are you with us? can you hear us? got

    the megaphone pointed at you


    Writer/s: CHAD ALAN GRACEY, CHAD DAVID TAYLOR, EDWARD JOEL KOWALCZYK, PATRICK DAHLHEIMER
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Darin from Philadelphia, PaIn high school, Ed Kowalczyk worked at the Bookland. The 2 Bookland stores were mostly it for bookstores in York. They had a lot of magazines, romance, science fiction, and porn. The "other religion" section was very small. Ed used to mention Krishnamurti a lot in interviews. For some reason, Bookland had numerous Krishnamurti books. In the late 80s, they also would have had the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
  • Nick from Melbournewhat a way to go...
  • Dave from LondonAs an interesting other thought, not knowing the Tibetan Book of the Dead story years ago when I first heard it, I always read into 'this is how I go out tonight, dressed in blue by the book tonight' that it was like a young Christian man going out for the night, but all the things he wants to do/is going to do are contradictory to the teachings of his faith. Hence he's swamped in feelings of guilt and shame, while at the same time going out in seek of his pleasure. Maybe it's not meant at all, but would still be interesting.
  • Cory from Lancaster, PaSecret Smadhi sold very well. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard top 200, and it sold well over 2 Million albums.

    The song is about Aldous Huxley who had "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" which is a Tibetan Budhism book on not just death but rebirth and life, read to him while he was fed LSD into his arm. Ed Kowalczyk has said he wanted to die like that, not prematurely but if he has a chance to set it up and rig it, it'd be like that.
  • Chris from Altoona, PaThis song was about a man that wished to be read passages from "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" while being intraveneously fed LSD as he slowly passes away.
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