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    "San Ysidro"genre: Indie
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    Hugely melodic, loping album closerj
    CD: ...nada en fuego   Label: Rented Mule
    Credits: Drew Crumbaugh, Ian Sethre - music; Isaac Adamson - lyrics

    Story Behind the Song
    It all started with that bass line, inspired by one too many New Order listenings (Peter Hook rules). Throw on a bass chorus pedal, add jangly guitars, several lyric rewrites, and somehow you end up with a New Order/janglypop song about beaches, ex-lovers and nostalgia. It always had an album-closer feel, and until the last minute was simply known as "Closing". Ian wrote the music for the chorus because Drew, who wrote the rest of the music, couldn't find anything to match the beauty of the rest of it.

    Lyrics
    I'm down at the beach, shovels, bottles and buckets
    Knees sinking slow
    Building in the sand a home for ex-lovers
    In San Ysidro

    Throw ourselves right into the ocean
    Cough up on the shore
    Spitting out salt and stacking dead soldiers
    Waves would come and you would go

    Watch everything we make
    Wash out with the tide
    As the water swallows the sun
    Day drowns into night
    We could stay here forever
    Yeah, but not tonight
    Not tonight

    Sit at the bar, smokes, peanuts and pool cues
    People that I don't know
    Greeted again by all those old voices
    Nowhere else to go

    A memory well growing deeper and darker
    Pulling me from below
    Pour myself right into the bottom
    Make myself at home

    Everything we said
    Echoes amplified
    Thoughts again refused
    Stale neon light
    You were mine forever
    Yeah, but not tonight
    Not tonight

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