Really Great Videos: “At the Bottom of Everything”

We must talk in every telephone, Get eaten off the web
We must rip out all the epilogues in the books that we have read
And in the face of every criminal strapped firmly to a chair
We must stare, we must stare, we must stare

We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell
Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell
And in the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn’t dream
We must sing, we must sing, we must sing

It’ll go like this:

While my mother waters plants
My father loads his guns
He says death will give us back to God
Just like this setting sun is returned to this lonesome ocean

And then they splashed into the deep blue sea
It was a wonderful splash

We must blend into the choir, Sing as static with the whole
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul
And in this endless race for property and privilege to be won
We must run, we must run, we must run

We must hang up in the belfry, Where the bats and moonlight laugh
We must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past
And in the caverns of tomorrow, With just our flashlights and our love
We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge

And then we’ll get down there, way down to the very bottom of everything
And then we’ll see it, oh we’ll see it, we’ll see it, we’ll see it

Oh my morning’s coming back
The whole world’s waking up
All the city buses swimming past
I’m happy just because
I found out I am really no one

Discount – Live @ Chaos Record Store, Tampa, FL 4/10/98

Still one of my favorite bands. This is following the “Half Fiction” album. This is a killer set. And almost all complete Discount shows have been removed from youtube.

  1. Half Fiction
  2. Clap and Cough
  3. Tomorrow Will Be
  4. Trouble In The Sky
  5. Am I Missing Something
  6. City Bleach
  7. A Pict Song (Billy Bragg cover)
  8. On The Tracks
  9. K.V. T-Shirt
  10. Toxic Home
  11. Pocket Bomb