Been trying to piece together the lyrics to Love Tractor's greatest ever song, "I Broke My Saw," partly from liner lyrics (kindly provided by Robb L., along with a clean MP3 to replace my tinny, recorded-off-the-radio-in-mono-then-transferred-from-tape-to-mp3 versions), partly from pure guesswork. That John Seawright (R.I.P.) must have been an enigmatic character. If you know the song ... little help, por favor?
(Bandwidth & connectivity dinosaurism -- NOT the RIAA -- prevent me from providing the MP3, but you can get it on the CD Themes from Venus.)
The story so far: | The trouble spots: |
Tell Jill & Tina to come to my house | Tell Valentina? Bill & Tina? I would like it to be: "Tell the wood dealer." It is probably not. I will probably hear it that way, regardless. |
I broke my saw and I can't come out I lost it all when I broke that deadly saw And nobody round here even knows what I'm talking about
You're going to need a saw |
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Yeah I'm going to need a box | A box? You're gonna need a box? Really? |
After you learn it out | After you lend it out? After you burn it out? |
Well I lost it all when I broke that deadly saw And it don't mean a thing just to have it off my mind |
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When you sing in feedback | When you say it'll be back? I'll be back? |
To replace | Liner lyrics say something about "red tape," but that doesn't sound like what he's singing. |
Only to find out A sideshowing nightclub After any old midnight |
Goes like, "Um ... um ... hmmm ... hrmmmm ... huh?" |
Since full of hate I simply can't stand to be any other way But way out Cast out from the in crowd oh You get so lonely |
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You're going to need a saw to get something to burn | |
Unless you use your [?] house | Not "bachelor," but almost sounds like that. |
Or your pickle churn | (There really is such a thing as a pickle churn. I looked it up.) |
Well I lost it all when I broke that deadly saw And I don't like the way you tell me to stand back and wait my turn
Well I lost it all when I broke that deadly saw |
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When you say: Now I'll be back late To your place Only to find out A side-showing nightclub After any old midnight |
Somehow this has to have something to do with a broken saw. Or it doesn't. |
Since full of hate I simply can't stand to be any other way But way out Cast out from the downtown oh Well you get so lonely |
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You get lonely motel six Or you must be invisible, man |
Totally lost here |
It would be so cruel To have to live without a deadly tool |
Perhaps the greatest couplet in the history of recorded song |