Last Stop: This Town

Electro-Shock Blues, Track 10

Electro-Shock Blues Show, Track 9

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Lyrics

You're dead but the world keeps spinning
Take a spin through the world you left
It's getting dark a little too early
Are you missing the dearly bereft?

Take a flight and you could be
here tomorrow
Take a flight, well, you could get
here tonight

I'm gonna fly on down for the last stop
to this town
"What?"
I'm gonna fly on down and fly away
"Well, alright"

"Get down..."

Takin' a spin through the neighbourhood
The neighbours scream
Whatchya talkin' bout?
'Cause they don't know how to
let you in
And I can't let you out

What if I was not your only friend
in this world
Can you take me where you're going
if you're never coming back

I'm gonna fly on down for the last stop
to this town
I'm gonna fly on down and
fly away on my way

"Get down..."

Why don't we take a ride away up high
through the neighbourhood
Up over the billboards and the factories
and smoke

I'm gonna fly on down for the last stop
to this town
Yeah
I'm gonna fly on down and
fly away on my way
Fly away
"Get down..."

Related Interview Extracts

Q: There's a feeling of small town in this song, but there's also parts of it that have the atmosphere of a big city. Where are we?

E: Anywhere you want to be and that's the good thing about this song. I think it's inspired by a painting I made a few years ago which is featuring on the cover of the album. But is cut in two parts. The top of it is on the front of the album and the lower part is on the back. It's a family with their dog talking a walk through the sky. They fly across the city with factories, smoke and billboards. But it's mainly inspired by a couple of days after my sister died. My landlord, who lives next to me, came over and said: "I don't want to scare you, but i saw the ghost of a young woman walk into your house yesterday". In the beginning I was scared as hell, but then i started to think about it and it felt good. Like she came to say goodbye. That is what the song is build on. And then the landlord died.

http://galaxy.bykr.org/archive_interviews_gaffa1098.htm

Favourite parts

I love the idea behind the song of a ghost coming back and flying round the neighbourhood.

I like how the singer wants the ghost to stay and then asks to go back with them if they're "never coming back". It's a childlike verse, very sad.

What if I was not your only friend
in this world
Can you take me where you're going
if you're never coming back

Trivia

The music video for the song features a singing carrot. It's legendary amongst Eels fans.

The eels won a brit award for this video. Butch (the eels drummer) put the award to good use by using it as a drum stand.

Finished 14th in the 3speed Best Eels Song poll 2000 and 3rd in the 3speed Best Eels Song poll 2002.

Reached number 23 in the UK Chart and was in the charts for 3 weeks.