"Human Resources," except acoustic, Seattle-style
🌲🐟⛵️ Track #8 from LOBES REDUCED
Our absorption into the piney NorthWestern milieu is now complete. We are in, and of, the region. You may try to peel us away, but you will fail. You may attempt to prize us loose, but will do so in vain. Put us into a wheelbarrow and begin carting us East, and we’ll tip the cart over. Tie us to the back of your horse and start cantering south — we’ll speak secret words in your mount’s attentive ear, and he will crane back toward Puget Sound.
Okay, okay, okay, yes — we’ll be at the San Francisco show Wednesday. And we’ll love it. (Shit, We Are Scientists was FORMED in Berkeley, just a stone’s throw (and about 55 degrees on the Cultural Compass) from SF.) But Seattle is a special place, and we’re luxuriating. We’re also late, very late, sending this post, and doors at Madame Lou’s are in 19 minutes. And I want to be at the merch table when people walk in and see THIS baby:
Yes, “Nobody Move” has joined the ranks of songs enshrined as lyric sheets. I’m playing coy here because it’s Keith Murray’s masterpiece, frankly, and I want the reveal for show-goers to be a gut-shot.
Incidentally, that obfuscating hand belongs to Brett Newski — guitar name “Newski” — who has taken over the main support slot on this tour. More about him very soon, but let’s keep the spirit of this post “teasing,” because now it’s 13 minutes till doors.
You came here expecting a song (probably (maybe)), so let’s get to it. This track — totally drumless — might have been written for Seattle, Washington. Why? Well, I could stammer out an explanation, but am unlikely to arrive at something so eloquent and concise as this:
The song's commentary on personal and perhaps societal costs might resonate with Seattle's tech-driven economy, where discussions about human capital and the impact of rapid growth on people's lives are prevalent.
Absorb that. Absorb that while you absorb this:
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I absolutely love this! My second favourite song from the album, this one has such a great bass line and that still comes through in this version. It’s going to need lots more listening but I’m going to say already that I particularly love the bridge.
That final photo is very lovely. I’ve never been to Seattle but as the home of “Grey’s Anatomy” it’s somewhere I’ve always been interested to visit. (It was also the location of the first series of “The Real World” that I remember watching back in the day.)
Rather jealous of the new lyric sheet but I love how you keep adding to the collection. Maybe one day there will be an entire set of WAS lyrics to collect... We can but hope.
I’ve already got a lot of love for this song so thought there wasn’t much you could do to add to it. I was quite wrong with that thought because that is just brilliant.
Please say it won’t be too long before the lyric sheet will be available in the UK.