ELECTRICITY
   
Originally Released on:

FAST 'N' BULBOUS

also appears on:

  • Daydream Nation deluxe edition 2007
  • Mix Tape #8 (alt. mix)

  • Out of Time

Line-up:
Thurston - guitar? bass?
Kim - ?
Lee - guitar/vocals
Steve Shelley - drums

Lyrics   status: confirmed

Through to you to me, thunderbolts caught easily
Shout the truth peacefully
Electricity

turn it up!

High voltage man kisses night
To bring the light to those who need to hide
Their shadow deed
Go into bright find the light
And know that friends don't mind just how you grow

Midnight cowboy stains in black
Read dark roads without a map
To free - seek electricity
Seek electricity
Midnight cowboy stains in black
Read dark roads without a map
To free - seek electricity
Seek electricity

Lighthouse beacon straight ahead
Straight ahead across black seas to bring
Seeking electricity

High voltage man kisses night
To bring the light to those who need to hide
Their shadow deed
You are a shadow deed
High voltage man kisses night
To bring the light to those who need to hide
Their shadow deed
You are insanity

Seek electricity
Seek electricity
Seek electricity
Seek electricity
Electricity
Seek electricity...
start again.
Eeeeellllleeeeecctrrrrricccciiiiitttyyyyyyy.....
etc etc etc...

Track length: 2:57

First Known Performance: none
Last Known Performance:  none

NOTES:

  • Originally performed by Captain Beefheart.
  • Another excellent Lee vocal on a cover song.
  • I suspect that's Thurston on bass, but I really can't be sure.

ALTERNATE VERSIONS:

  • On Mix Tape #8 - ALT MIX - 2:47

    Alternate mix of the track, outtake from Daydream deluxe?