P.S. You Rock My World

Electro-Shock Blues, Track 16

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Lyrics

I was at a funeral the day I realised
I wanted to spend my life with you
Sitting down on the steps at the old post office
The flag was flying at half mast
And I was thinkin' 'bout how
Everyone was dying
And maybe it is time to live

I don't know where we're going
I don't know what we'll do

Walked into the thrif-tee
Saw the man with the hollow eyes
He didn't give me all my change
But it didn't bother me this time
'cause I know I only got this moment
And it's good

I went to the gas station
Old woman honked her horn
Waiting for me to fix her car
I don't know where we're going
I don't know what we'll do

Laying in bed tonight I was thinking
And listening to all the dogs
And the sirens and the shots
And how the careful man tries to dodge the bullets
While a happy man takes a walk
And maybe it's time to live

Related Interview Extracts

E: But this time i wanted to choose the difficult option and don't back out of it all, but feel things as they are. If you feel the good, you also have to feel the bad, then you really are alive.

Q: It's seems that the last songs are connected. That they are about getting out of the dark and finding the meaning of it all.

E: Yes, and on P.S. You Rock My World it's like a shell shock but there's enough light at the end of the tunnel even if you don't know if you're giong to make it, then you have learned that you have the control over "right now". You can die in a few minutes and what happened before don't mean anything anymore. So if you chose to you can enjoy "right now". That has given me strength. Life keeps throwing things at me and in some way i keep getting through it. I'm surpised how miserable i have felt and still overcoming it. I've got a lot of strength in it, so there is something positive about it.

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

Favourite Parts

I love how after facing the full realities of a world where so many have died, this song is so positive. Despite everything the world has thrown at him, this is still a positive man who dreams and loves.

I was at a funeral the day I realised
I wanted to spend my life with you
Sitting down on the steps at the old post office
The flag was flying at half mast
And I was thinkin' 'bout how
Everyone was dying
And maybe it is time to live

I love the acceptance of the unknown that lays before them. They do not know what is ahead of them and they do not pretend to do so.

I don't know where we're going
I don't know what we'll do

When faced with all the pain and loss one option would have been to go into your shell and withdraw yourself from the world. However, here he take a different option. Instead of spending his life cowering from bullets, he decides to "take a walk". "Maybe it's time to live". A great message with which to end a beautiful album. This song makes Electro-Shock Blues into the masterpiece album that it is. Despite all the tragedy depicted in the previous songs, it is hopeful and positive.

Laying in bed tonight I was thinking
And listening to all the dogs
And the sirens and the shots
And how the careful man tries to dodge the bullets
While a happy man takes a walk
And maybe it's time to live

Trivia

Was recorded entirely in E's Echo Park garage.

Finished 8th in the 3speed Best Eels Song poll 2000 and 11th in the 3speed Best Eels Song poll 2002.