Chris LeRoy: Guitars/Bass/Keyboards/Vocals;
Mike Wilkerson: Guitar/Vocals; and
Matt Kjorvestad: Drums/Percussion
+++ Saint Goldsberry:Bass (Tracks 2,10,12)
Influences
SOUNDTRACK BY DEATH OF ME::::
CHRIS AND THE DEATHRAYS Acoustic
DEATH OF ME PROMO FOR LIFE'S SO HARD MAKE IT SOFTER
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Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Train song
I love a good train song; Last Train by Death of Me is one of my favorites. It's from the AWESOME album, Life's So Hard, Make it Softer. Check out this live performance:_
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Death of Me Live at the Campout:PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE and THE TREES from that Video Empresario... iamacracker
DON'T WHISPER The end of all is crashing I'm buried beneath this load Beneath this load I wanna buy a gun and shoot the neighbor Trouble is, no one's home If I could catch my breath, I'd breathe If I had traveling clothes, I'd leave Man, I'd leave I need that shrink, pull the plug Maybe someday, he will come Please don't whisper Or else I'll just die Scream until the windows crack And I'll love you again I set my sights too high I stumbled and I fell, asking why Running in my sleep, my eyes won't blink Turn the last few corners, wave goodbye I take a bus back home I sit in County Jail by the phone " Think the call's for you, mister." Couldn't hear a word you said, "Please don't whisper". Please don't whisper Or else I'll just die Scream until the windows crack And I'll love you again
Hand me down and hand me down and hand me down my fate Once I believed in the ever after Don't believe so much today It's a finer line I crossed this time It's humid out this way And there's a red sun sinking in the river And it's the evening of the day
Photograph of my little dear one Lost in the fading light Sending out her love to me tonight
I'm following a river, baby Following a river to the sea I'm following a river, baby Following a river to the sea
Hand me down and hand me down and hand me down my mind I used to find my way around here But now I'm moving blind One lonely child when he was young They never tried to find him Now there's a red sun sinking in the river And he walks by the waterline
Photograph of my little dear one Cold by the firelight Sending out her love to me tonight
I'm following a river, baby Following a river to the sea I'm following a river, baby Following a river to the sea
Hand me down and hand me down and hand me down my name As I go farther down this water These rocks just look the same There's a blackness in the undertow Put me in a darker frame And there's a red sun sinking in the river Never going to rise again
Photograph of my little dear one Cold in the moonlight Sending out her love to me tonight
I'm following a river, baby Following a river to the sea I'm following a river, baby Following a river…
(SOLO VERSE)
Photograph of my little dear one Cold by the moonlight Sending out her love to me tonight
I'm following a river, baby Following a river to the sea I'm following a river, baby Following a river… Watch me
I guess this is how my life will go now I talk to machines that won't answer somehow The wonders and worries that come to me now Guess I just had a close call
No use in me rising I'm left out for dead The funniest shadows afloat in my head I rest here a moment or head off to bed Guess I just had a close call
So goodnight my old friends and lovers I'll see you in dreams after all Kinda hung around Almost touched ground I guess you could say a close call
I rung up my friend cause I finished a song It's better than most songs and not half as long I said come on over but don't take too long Guess I just had a close call
I pulled down the drapes cause I'm tired of the light I think the sun's setting I welcome the night A star doesn't know when its dropped from the sky Thinks it just had a close call
CHORUS
The cell phone will never stop ringing away The sound just gets farther and farther away A knock at my door but my door fades away I guess I just had a close call
I wonder who writes all the messages down For all the lost calls that wind their way round Like veins through the thin air, like wires to the ground Will somebody take a close call?
I am thirsty, give me water (Please, Please, Please)
Life's so hard, make it softer (Please, Please, Please)
I am weary, need sweet rest (Please, Please, Please)
Can I lay down on your mattress? (Please, Please, Please)
I am naked, give me clothing (Please, Please, Please)
I need shelter, rain is pouring (Please, Please, Please)
I am lonely, long forgotten (Please, Please, Please)
Can I lay down? (Please, Please, Please)
I am hungry, I am starving (Please, Please, Please)
I'm a man with no country (Please, Please, Please)
I have traveled with the best (Please, Please, Please)
Can I sit down for a second? (Please, Please, Please)
I need love, can you help me? (Please, Please, Please)
Lost my doubt through the journey (Please, Please, Please)
Ive been to hell and back (Please, Please, Please)
Can I rest now? (Please, Please, Please)
Started in January 2005, Death of Me completed "Life's So Hard Make It Softer" in August 2006. Chris LeRoy is from California, Mike Wilkerson from Texas, and Matt Kjorvestad from Mississippi.
DEATH OF ME: LIFE'S SO HARD MAKE IT SOFTER
Bulletin from Jason:
"Don't Whisper" by Death Of Me
Every now and then a song will jump out and absolutley move you. Well, it's happened to me again recently. "Don't Whisper" by Death Of Me, from their debut album "Life Is Hard, Make It Softer" is my late night Hwy 68 driving home from work soundtrack. I often keep repeating it until I make it home (a 27 mile commute). It's currently posted on the Death Of Me Myspace page (as well as some other gems). If you like what you hear let them know and by all means add them. I'd like to bring them up to Monterey for a gig.
Take Care,
Jason
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Comment from acffhmorst:
I have not had a single favorite song in a while, but the studio version of LAST TRAIN really is treating me right lately. I like it as much as I liked Elton John's SOMEONE SAVED MY LIFE TONIGHT when I was in first grade!!
Runner ups at this time are CLOSE CALL and LET IT DROWN reprise.- MORST
DEATH OF ME: LIFE'S SO HARD MAKE IT SOFTER
From Garod:
Life's So Hard(Make it Softer) - Death of Me
I am biased, but I know that between Let it Drown and Following a River... this disc belongs in my favorites of the year. What's even more interesting is that in addition to the haunting piano laden version of Let it Drown, you get a knee-slapping jam to the same track later on that illustrates a duality in life that sums up perfectly the album.
Thanks for the request! Any friend of Cracker's is a friend of mine. Loved what I heard as well! By the way, your band name reminds me of a Mary My Hope song. Remember those guys? Probably not. Love to you! Meg
