Ant Farm

Electro-Shock Blues, Track 13

Oh What a Beautiful Morning, Track 7

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Lyrics

Hate a lot of things
But I love a few things
And you are one of them

Hard to believe
After all these years
But you are one of them

Walk down the streets
I'm thinking: everybody move along
I've got a sad-hearted needing
To belong

Nevertheless
It's all the mess you made
But I can't let it go

Walk down the streets
I'm thinking: look at all the ants in a farm
I've got a sad-hearted feeling
To harm

Hate a lot of things
But I love a few things
And you are one of them

Related Interview Extracts

E: This song is summerising me, i think. A person who often is chynical but is struggling to be nice and always tries to get to the positive side of things, and that's important. I'm not interested in making a record build on anger and rage and nothing else. I want to show that there's another choice, maybe a more difficult choice, which is to try to get to the positive side of things.

Favourite parts

I love the first verse. I like how the love for even a single thing kinda cancels out the hatred of so many things.

Hate a lot of things
But I love a few things
And you are one of them

I think the first chorus really captures a feeling in all of us: "a sad-hearted needing to belong".

Walk down the streets
I'm thinking: everybody move along
I've got a sad-hearted needing
To belong

Trivia

Features Lisa Germano on Violin. At the very end of the song you can hear her say "well...". It's very quite so you have to turn the volume right up.

Written in France.

Finished 16th in the 3speed Best Eels Song poll 2002.