Track 2 - Plymouth Rock by John Vanderslice

We’re posting the second track from this album before the first one because it’s the first song on the album that we heard. The car we were listening to this $1CD in on the way home is on crack (don’t ask.) Also, this song is a much better introduction to the work of Mr. Vanderslice than the first one.

Carlyn: Sweet name, by the way.

Lily: Really? “Vanderslice” sounds like the name Charles Dickens would give to a serial murderer character.

Carlyn: Yeah that’s why I like it.

Lily: …let’s just share some of the lyrics.

tuwaitha on a moonless night
blacked out except for the street fires

Lily: What the hell is “tuwaitha” and also what is a “street fire”? Also, fyi for all you guys designing CD lyric booklets: all lower-case is not cruise control for edgy or sensitive or really anything cool.

when we jumped off the deck
white bullets tore right through my neck

Carlyn: What the hell is a white bullet?

Lily: I think it’s a commentary on race - listen to the lines before it, they’re about Indians.

Carlyn: The idea of a “white bullet” reminds me of those pills you stick up your butt.

Lily: A suppository?

Carlyn: Yeah.

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