Long Road

dissidentbehindthec
dissidentbehindthec Posts: 100
edited March 2007 in Words and Music...Communication
I've been listening to it repeatedly lately and was wondering if anyone could tell me anything about the song - what it's about and such, AND if anyone has the lyrics around somewhere.
Speaking as a child of the 90's....I never thought you'd habit.

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  • gvn2fly12
    gvn2fly12 Posts: 795
    If you can listen to the San Diego bootleg. I still have not downloaded this one but Eddie was telling the story about this song became when he heard that one of the teachers that had a huge impact on his life had died they were doing mirrorball with Uncle Neil. Eddie had to leave the room as he was geting emotional wnet to a room and sat there for a while, picked up a gutair then hit the first cord he said that was a bell for this teacher and he did it again. He sat there just ringing the bell after a while the rest of the guys came in and did not say anything but just joined in.

    This is my best recolection of the story. Awesome song live in San Diego glad I got to hear it.
    Arms wide open with the sea as my floor.
  • dissidentbehindthec
    dissidentbehindthec Posts: 100
    Yeah I heard it live in Detroit and it blew my mind, it's such a beautiful melancholy song.

    Thank you so much for the info, it's weird - I can totally relate to Eddie as one of my favorite teachers in highschool died of a heart attack - I felt horrible because I had skipped school that day and people actually called me at home to tell me he had dropped dead while teaching. Shortly after that, another favorite got into a car crash and was in a coma for weeks. It was a very very rough time for me. The second one lived, thank god, but he was never the same person. And neither was I, really. Those things change your perspective so much, and now I've got a whole new perspective on the song.

    Thank you.
    Speaking as a child of the 90's....I never thought you'd habit.

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    http://www.myspace.com/drstevesatan
    http://www.last.fm/user/evolutionbaby/
  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    it's a song about loss ... and is absolutely beautiful ... i can only wish upon the experience of hearing this song open a pj concert live ... it can make u cry ...

    who would think that 4 bloody chords could do that ...
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    I wished for so long...
    I cannot stay
    All the precious moments...
    Cannot stay
    Its not like wings have fallen...
    I cannot say
    Still something is missing...
    I cannot say

    Holding hands of daughters and sons
    In their phase theyre falling down
    Down, down, down

    I have wished for so long...
    How I wish for you again

    Will I walk the long road?
    I cannot stay
    Theres no need to say goodbye

    Oh, the friends and family...
    All the memories going round
    Round, round round...

    I have wished for so long...
    How I wished for you today

    And the wind keeps rollin
    And the sky keeps turning grey
    And the sun is set
    The sun will rise another day

    I have wished for so long...
    How I wish for you today

    I have wished for so long...
    How I wish for you today
    Will I walk the long road?
    We all walk the long road
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    polaris wrote:
    it's a song about loss ... and is absolutely beautiful ... i can only wish upon the experience of hearing this song open a pj concert live ... it can make u cry ...

    who would think that 4 bloody chords could do that ...


    i agree .... beautiful song

    it has 5 chords though.. the much forgotten Cadd9 ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • StupidHumanBeings
    StupidHumanBeings Posts: 85
    gvn2fly12 wrote:
    If you can listen to the San Diego bootleg. I still have not downloaded this one but Eddie was telling the story about this song became when he heard that one of the teachers that had a huge impact on his life had died they were doing mirrorball with Uncle Neil. Eddie had to leave the room as he was geting emotional wnet to a room and sat there for a while, picked up a gutair then hit the first cord he said that was a bell for this teacher and he did it again. He sat there just ringing the bell after a while the rest of the guys came in and did not say anything but just joined in.

    This is my best recolection of the story. Awesome song live in San Diego glad I got to hear it.

    I second this one! I was at San Diego and it by far rocked the show and set up an amazing first encore. Ed did replace a few lyrics:

    "And the sun is setting
    the sun will rise another day"

    was replaced by

    "I know that you're with me
    I know you're in here today"

    He mentioned his teacher again after Elderly Woman. The whole night fucking rocked!
    Confucious Says: He who buries a man's wife alive, should not expect to sit at that man's dinner table without the subject coming up.
  • sennin
    sennin Posts: 2,146
    The San Diego boot tells the whole story.

    It's GREAT! One of my favorite concert moments ever! So glad I was there!
  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    dunkman1974 wrote:
    i agree .... beautiful song

    it has 5 chords though.. the much forgotten Cadd9 ;)

    yeah ... i can't play it so i skip it ... :p
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    sennin wrote:
    The San Diego boot tells the whole story.

    It's GREAT! One of my favorite concert moments ever! So glad I was there!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuTkrI7xJlY


    I wish I had been there. :( :)
  • Androgynous Mind
    Androgynous Mind Posts: 520
    I never heard the studio version, only various live versions and they all have been amazing. It truly is a beautiful song and it is great to finally know the meaning behind it.

    What a phenomenal opener.
    Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...
  • Ellrick
    Ellrick Posts: 4
    Just shows to go ya that your frame of mind when listening to a song, especially a PJ song, really shapes your interpretation of it.

    I thought the song was about lost love. When that is all you think about, lots of songs end up that way.
  • yodavader
    yodavader Posts: 16
    If you can find it, get the version that Neil Young did with them for the 9/11 telethon show. It is very good.
    Steve
  • mdigenakis
    mdigenakis Posts: 1,337
    can anyone share an mp3 of this song? i never heard it
    "Don't let the darkness eat you up..."

    -Greg Dulli

  • stuckinline
    stuckinline Posts: 3,407
    mdigenakis wrote:
    can anyone share an mp3 of this song? i never heard it
    here it is on you tube
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZNLxT1QSlXY

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