Damien Jurado – Intoxicated Hands

TUESDAY BLUES

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The hangover pt 4

Damien Jurado – Intoxicated Hands (2003)

I pretty much like everything Damien Jurado has done, but since he’s been working with producer/artist Richard Swift, they are like batman & robin (and i’m not talking about that Joel Schumacher rubbish).  However this was from his recently reissued 2003 album ‘Where shall you take me’ and is Jurado at his rawest. Every time I hear this I feel like it’s 4am and I’m drunk. The kind of drunk where you’ve somehow made yourself a chilli and then (without burning the house down) have fallen asleep on the radiator (yes, i’ve done both) then woken up with your arm blistered because the heating has kicked in. (I still have the scar).

There is bitterness in his voice. The “Just get out” bit wrecks me.

She took advantage of intoxicated hands

And he pretended to be asleep

And underneath the blankets their legs weaved like a chain

And come tomorrow morning how will you explain

Was it that whiskey talking or is it your heart

That you made you say I love you to me 

As you held me in your arms

And you’ll have the explanation for that 

What has come about

I loved you seven long years 

And now that you’ve found me out

Just get out

I was just like the others I wanted to be more

Shame it took that whiskey baby 

To bring me to your door

You’ll have the explanations for that 

What has come about

When I loved you seven long years my boy 

And now that you’ve found me out

Just get out

Damien (with beard) & Richard Swift

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