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Here's the problem with every cover of this song I've ever heard.....the person covering it always puts way too much emphasis on the lyrics and not nearly enough on the music and rhythm. Phil as stated many times that this song was born from a painful time in his life (a divorce) and has no direct meaning. It's just "painful words" made up on the spot. The lyrics, though haunting in some respect, aren't what carry this piece. It's the menacing "sound" of the keyboard and the "relentlessness" of the drum machine (Phil's own description) that overshadowed the actual lyrics. The explosion toward the end with the famous fill was, as Phil described it, "loosing your cool" out of anger! You could remove the lyrics from the original and listen to it in a dark room with headphones on and feel the "tension". Not a single remake of this song can do that.?

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Mr.Lehrer is a retired American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater. He is best known for the pithy, humorous songs he recorded in the 1950s and 1960s.

"High Ball Stepper"

Lazaretto Album Track

Jack White

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I lost ten points just for being in the right place
At exactly the wrong time
I looked right at the facts there, but I may as well have
Been completely blind
So, if you see me walking all alone
Don't look back, I'm just on my way back home
There's a train leaves here this morning, and
I don't know, what I might be on
She signed me to a contract, baby said it would
All be so life long
I looked around then for a reason
When there wasn't something more to blame it on
But, if time makes a difference while we're gone
Tell me now, and I won't be hanging on
There's a train leaves here this morning
And I don't know, what I might be on
Ooo, ooo, ooo. . Etc. ..
Thirteen-twenty North Columbus was the address
That I wrote down on my sleeve
I don't know just what she wanted
Might have been that it was getting time to leave
And I watched as the smoker passed it on
And I laughed when the joker said, lead on
'Cause there's a train leaves here this morning
And I don't know, what I might be on
And there's train leaves here this morning
And I don't know, what I might be on

℗ 1972 Asylum Records

Remastering Engineer: Bernie Grundman
Banjo: Bernie Leadon
Lead Guitar: Bernie Leadon
Lead Vocals: Bernie Leadon
Backing Vocals: Bernie Leadon
Drums: Don Henley
Backing Vocals: Don Henley
Guitar: Glenn Frey
Acoustic Guitar: Glenn Frey
Slide Guitar: Glenn Frey
Engineer, Producer: Glyn Johns
Bass Guitar: Randy Meisner
Backing Vocals: Randy Meisner
Writer: Bernie Leadon
Writer: Gene Clark