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Passaic, 1975

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Passaic, 1975
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Album

In League with Dragons

Released

April 26, 2019

Length

3:54

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Passaic, 1975 is the third song on In League with Dragons. It was also released as a single, "Welcome to Passaic".

Lyrics[]

Write something down in illegible script
As we're approaching the landing strip
New Gibson SG, inlaid with pearl
Tonight Passaic, tomorrow the world

In a Holiday Inn by a nameless river
Renew the assault on my lungs and my liver
And while I'm waiting for the company man
Slip on my kimono that I bought in Japan

Tell the crowd, tell the world
I want everyone to get high
Tell the press, tell the cameras
I want everyone to get high

And the tech crew in Memphis has a present for me
A screen that scrolls lyrics 
Like the ones they have on TV
The deluxe model
One of only four thousand made
Black out that night in front of ten thousand paid

And in the back lounge in between the stops
Contingency plans in case the new one flops
Sometimes I wake up coughing up blood 
Tonight Indianapolis, tomorrow the flood

Tell the person next to you
I want everyone to get high
Tell your boss, tell your mother
I want everyone to get high 
Get high

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]

  • "This is a song about a guy who is on tour with a rock band, but a much bigger band than the Mountain Goats." -- 2015-05-29 - The Showbox - Seattle, WA
  • "But Ozzy, so, he discovers that he can go around the world getting as drunk and wasted as he wants, taking off his shirt and telling people to get high, as he wants to do, and this is actually the best living he can possibly make.... So he, he, he tours the world, and you can hear on seventies bootlegs of Black Sabbath that Ozzy will, you know, like in between songs.... But when Ozzy hits that point, he says, 'Get high!' I have one from seventy-eight where he says 'Smoke it!' I love it so much, and I especially love it because as he's doing this, his life is unraveling. He is circling the drain. He's richer than any of us could ever imagine, and it's all going into his nose and, uh, and, and his fortune is evaporating, and he's losing his way. And every single night as he's losing his way, he's telling everybody to join him. This song is based on a concert in New Jersey in 1975. It's called 'Passaic, 1975'." -- 2019-05-15 - Thalia Hall - Chicago, IL

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