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Lyrics22 miles of hard road 33 years of tough luck 44 skulls buried in the ground Crawling down through the muck Oh yeah Johnny don't like the teacher Johnny don't like the school One day Johnny is goinna to do somethin' Show 'em he's nobody's fool Oh yeah Sisters Brothers make better lovers Family Affairs down under the covers Trailer parks the broken hearts Won't let you leave until you're bleeding Sally don't like her daddy Sally don't like her friends Sally and Johnny watchin' TV Waitin' for it to end Oh yeah Sisters Brothers make better lovers Family Affairs down under the covers trailer parks the broken hearts won't let you leave until you rock! 22 miles of hard road 33 years of tough luck 44 skulls buried in the ground Crawling down through the muck Oh yeah Related Interview ExtractsE: 'Souljacker Part 1' is about the ugliness of the soulless life (http://galaxy.bykr.org/archive_interviews_ channelfly021001.htm) E: It (the Souljacker album) actually started with the track 'Souljacker Pt1'. While we were rehearsing for the Electro-shock Blues tour it just came as a jam. We're not big jammers, but that kind of happened. Then I met John Parish (best known for his work with PJ Harvey and Sparklehorse) and we talked about doing some more stuff in that vein. He started sending me stuff through the mail that he was doing on his 8-track, I'd add stuff and it would keep going back and forth. (http://galaxy.bykr.org/archive_interviews_ souljacker.htm) Q: Souljacker definitely seems to rock more, maybe the moment that sums up the album best is when you yell "Rock!" in Souljacker pt. 1. E: I hope so. I thought that would be the quintessential moment for me. That rock is a pretty scary rock. I kind of scared myself when I heard it back. I think it came from somewhere else, I think I was channeling the devil. (http://www.hearsay.cc/features/interviews/ 05-07-03-02/Eels.html) Q: So working with Wim Wenders on the video for Souljacker pt. 1 must have been pretty exciting for you? E: Yeah, it's great to work with somebody that... the thing that I admire most about him is that he keeps doing exactly what he wants to do which is almost impossible in the film business. (http://www.hearsay.cc/features/interviews/ 05-07-03-02/Eels.html) Favourite PartsEverything builds up to the moment when E screams "rock!" and all hell breaks loose. Fantastic!. Sisters Brothers make better lovers Family Affairs down under the covers Trailer parks the broken hearts Won't let you leave until you rock! TriviaFirst (and only) single off the Souljacker album. The music video is set in a Women's prison and is directed by Wim Wenders, a huge fan of the eels. E gave Wim Wenders his song entitled "Bad News" for the film "End of Violence". Was written during rehearsals for the Eels 1998 Electro-Shock Blues Show Tour. Reached number 30 in the UK Chart and was in the charts for 2 weeks. |
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