I've been in Sunday Valley geek/fanboy mode for the last few days it seems. Last night Dirty brought me a couple of CD's that Gerald the bass player gave him this weekend. One of them features a song I've heard the band play several times. I've only ever been able to pick up a few of the lyrics each time, so last night I finally sat down, listened to the whole thing and figured the rest of them out. I'm still not sure what the song's called but I love it. There's something about one song containing a romantic view of life in Eastern Kentucky, anti-war sentiments, Hunter S. Thompson references, and the BBC that just pushes nearly every button I have. Here are the lyrics transcribed as best I can determine:

Another sunny afternoon in my bedroom so here's another song
It's addressed to the country that I'm livin' in, the only place I belong
Well if you'd be so kind I'd like to speak my mind and get a few things off my chest
about some clarity that came to me recently on a little trip that I took out west


Well my papaw and a lot of men like him had to fight a little harder just to get ahead
Growing up in a coal camp down in Perry county tradin', scrimpin' for soup beans and corn bread
Well his whole generation worked it's whole ass off and in the end had something to show
Time to call the fat lady and tell her start singing
Time to call hell and tell 'em it's gonna snow

I got the BBC in my ear all night
Don't see no end in sight.
Keep waiting for that bright light but the damn thing don't turn on

Well ol' Hunter T. from Kentucky made '67 his swan song
But when your heroes die you don't sit and cry you take all they left to heart and move on
Well he said he was old and in pain I'm told so one day he made up his mind it was time
But when the dude who wrote the Vegas book calls it quits well man you know that ain't a good sign

I got the BBC in my ear all night
Don't see no end in sight
Keep waiting for that bright light but the damn thing don't turn on

I got a cousin Brad a little baby he had, two weeks later on his way to Iraq
For a little tour of two years or more, thank God every day he came back
Well he became a man doing the best he can but his life aint ever gonna be the same
And if we stay stupid like the Romans did well it's gonna be us they blame

I got the BBC in my ear all night
Don't see no end in sight
Keep waiting for that bright light but the damn thing don't turn on

I got the BBC in my ear all night
Don't see no end in sight
Keep waiting for that bright light but the damn thing don't turn on

I think Sara should be jealous of Sunday Valley and demand that you never listen to another one of their songs or go to one of their shows again! You need help.

However, those lyrics are pretty effin' awesome.  


Seriously, if you think I'm bad you should hear what Dirty said last night when he dropped the CD's off.

I would repeat it, but I'm bound by doctor/patient confidentiality as Dirty's primary care physician.  


Did Dirty say "I love Sunday Valley so much that I want to take them behind the middle school and get them pregnant!"? I've heard him say that before about Guitar Hero.  


I don't wanna say too much but it was considerably worse than that.  


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