GOLDENSEAL
(Goldman, Martin, and Seta)

imagery for goldenseal
i
i don't know how evil this could be this side of me
there's no thinking when i'm on the rise
this octopus is gonna spit in your eye
so guilty yet alive
now that i'm on my way to steal you
i
i wonder if your beautiful scales will protect you
from the knife that cuts the heart in two pieces
i
i can't stay away when you give it away
cut from your shell bending through my spine
hey watch your back the net is wrapped around you
tonight
say good night forget your head
like dream whose sweetness fades
i
i swear there's nothing wrong with you
i
i'm just so confused
and rolled up inside so
rolled up inside

In addition to appearing on The Forbidden E.P., GOLDENSEAL was released with SHOULDER BACK on the Buzz Records Spring of '98 Sampler. GOLDENSEAL, although in some respects just a "little pop song," has an "undercurrent there of a weirdly mutating repetitious thing, where the two guitars become one and split apart over and over until you lose sight of what each individual guitar is playing and just listen to the overall sound created by the two," said Dan. He acted as a sort of producer for the song, and among the tricks in the song is the "battery slide" that Dan discovered while Jeff was on the phone. A battery is used to play the guitar, giving a sound similar to that of a slide, and, of course, giving rise to the name, "battery slide." The song features This Way Out-era touring bassist Jeff Goldman, who recorded the bass while in California on a break from New York.

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Buzz Records Spring of '98 Sampler
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