Why don’t we pretend? / It’s all we have between us / The barricades and reasons / They mean nothing to me, now
With These Hands is the third album by the American roots rock musician Alejandro Escovedo, released in 1996.
Lyrics: Pissed Off 2 A.M. (Alejandro Escovedo)
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Sometimes I come home
I don’t expect too much
The lights are off now
It’s only two
How I wish my breath
It didn’t hurt so much
Then you’d be up babe
It’s only two
Why don’t you sleep?
You look as though you need it
The barricades and reasons
They mean nothing to me
Now they mean nothing to me
Well all my friends they laughed
They laughed at all my jokes
I got one more story
It’s only two
How I wish my tough
Could erase the past
They you’d be up babe
It’s only two
Why don’t you drink
You look as though you need one
The barricades and reasons
They mean nothing to me
No, they mean nothing to me
If these were different times
Then you’d be up
And we’d trade stories
It’s only two
Why don’t we pretend?
It’s all we have between us
The barricades and reasons
They mean nothing to me, now
Why don’t you sleep?
You look as though we need it
The barricades and reasons
They mean nothing to me
Now they mean nothing to me
Classic Album Review: Alejandro Escovedo | With These Hands Reissue
HE YEAR: 1996.
THE STORY: Texas troubadour Alejandro Escovedo is one of those guys whose work tends to slip through the cracks. Mainly because he refuses to lower his standards.
For a decade now, he has been honing a particularly ambitious and artful strain of roots music that incorporates a wealth of ingredients and influences — the gritty punk rock of his youth, the passionate melodies of his heritage, the propulsive percussion of his family (he’s Sheila E’s uncle), the elegant strings and orchestrations of his left-brain and the yearning lyrics of his right.
The mesquite-voiced singer-guitarist’s third solo album With These Hands, like most of his work, integrates them all seamlessly and beautifully into a dark, moody and moving masterpiece. Albums like this are the reason reissues were invented.
THE GOODIES: The obsessed Put You Down, the pathetic Pissed Off 2 A.M., the gritty Sometimes and the Stonesy Guilty are some of the best songs you’ve never heard.
THE EXTRAS: A full CD of live recordings from the same year. Pity it doesn’t include Escovedo’s trademark set-ending cover of The Stooges’ I Wanna Be Your Dog.
