For Jere II
Another installment for Jeremiah. These are some songs that i can no longer listen to without thinking of him. And i'm not complaining about that. I'm glad he's still with me, & i'm glad to know that he'll always be with me.

That's The Way
Words by: Robert Plant
Performed by: Led Zeppelin on the album Led Zeppelin III (1970)

I don't know how I'm gonna tell you
I can't play with you no more 
I don't know how I'm gonna do what mama told me
My friend, the boy next door
I can't believe what people saying
You're gonna let your hair hang down
I'm satisfied to sit here working all day long
You're in the darker side of town

And when I'm out I see you walking
Why don't your eyes see me
Could it be you've found another game to play
What did mama say to me

That's the way
Oh, that's the way it ought to be 
Yeah, yeah, mama say that's the way it ought to stay

And yesterday I saw you standing by the river
And weren't those tears that filled your eyes
And all the fish that lay in dirty water dying
Had they got you hypnotized

And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers
But all that lives is born to die
And so I say to you that nothing really matters
And all you do is stand and cry

I don't know what to say about it
When all you ears have turned away
But now's the time to look and look again at what you see
Is that the way it ought to stay

That's the way
That's the way it ought to be 
Oh don't you know now
Mama said that's the way it's gonna stay, yeah

After Jere's funeral a bunch of friends of his hung out at Keith's apartment, drinking and telling stories. Towards the end of the night/morning, this song came on. Keith knew. I knew. A few of the others that were still around knew. We still know.

Marquee Moon {excerpt}
Words by: Tom Verlaine
Performed by: Television on the album Marquee Moon (1977)

I spoke to a man down at the tracks
And I asked him how he don't go mad.
He said, "Look here junior, don't you be so happy.
And for Heaven's sake, don't you be so sad."

I had been listening to this album a lot before Jeremiah died, and afterwards this line started to jump out at me. It's something i wish i could have told Jeremiah and made him understand.


Come On Up To The House {excerpt}
Words by: Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
Performed by: Tom Waits on the album Mule Variations (1999)

Come down off the cross
We can use the wood
Come on up to the house

I had selected this line to put on Jeremiah's bio page on the TERRY's KID site a long time ago. I'm not even sure why, i guess i just figured he would like it as much as i do.

I Don't Wanna Grow Up
Words by: Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
Performed by: Tom Waits on the album Bone Machine (1992)

When I'm lyin' in my bed at night
I don't wanna grow up
Nothin' ever seems to turn out right
I don't wanna grow up
How do you move in a world of fog
That's always changing things
Makes me wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay
I don't wanna grow up
I don't ever wanna be that way
I don't wanna grow up

Seems like folks turn into things
That they'd never want
The only thing to live for 
Is today
I'm gonna put a hole in my TV set
I don't wanna grow up
Open up the medicine chest
And I don't wanna grow up
I don't wanna have to shout it out
I don't want my hair to fall out
I don't wanna be filled with doubt
I don't wanna be a good boy scout
I don't wanna have to learn to count
I don't wanna have the biggest amount
I don't wanna grow up

Well when I see my parents fight
I don't wanna grow up
They all go out and drinking all night
And I don't wanna grow up
I'd rather stay here in my room
Nothin' out there but sad and gloom
I don't wanna live in a big old Tomb
On Grand Street

When I see the 5 o'clock news
I don't wanna grow up
Comb their hair and shine their shoes
I don't wanna grow up
Stay around in my old hometown
I don't wanna put no money down
I don't wanna get me a big old loan
Work them fingers to the bone
I don't wanna float a broom
Fall in love and get married then boom
How the hell did I get here so soon
I don't wanna grow up

This is a song that we covered in TERRY's KID many a night, with Jeremiah helping me out quite a bit on vocals. I remember when Jeremiah first gave me the tape of this song to learn, i hated it. I thought, "What the fuck is this shit?" The more i listened to it, though, the more i liked it. And as much as i always hated to admit it to Jere, i started to really dig Tom Waits. I think there were probably only one or two times where i actually got through this song without fucking up the lyrics (much to Jere's ire), but i loved singing it - mostly just because i liked when Jeremiah sang.

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