Soul Coughing - Screenwriter's Blues Lyrics
Exits to freeways twisted like knots on the fingers
Jewels cleaving skin between breasts
Your Cadillac breathes four hundred horses over blue lines
You are going to Reseda to make love to a model from Ohio whose real name you don't know
And the radio is on
And the radio man is speaking
And the radio man says women were a curse
So men built Paramount Studios
And men built Columbia Studios
And men built Los Angeles
It is 5 A.M., and you are listening to Los Angeles
It is 5 A.M., and you are listening to Los Angeles
And the radio man says, "Rock 'n' roll lives"
And the radio man says, "It is a beautiful night out there in Los Angeles"
You live in Los Angeles, and you are going to Reseda
We are all in some way or another going to Reseda someday to die
And the radio man laughs because the radio man fucks a model, too
Gone savage for teenagers with automatic weapons and boundless love
Gone savage for teenagers who are aesthetically pleasing, in other words, fly
Los Angeles beckons the teenagers to come to her on buses
Los Angeles loves love
It is 5 A.M., and you are listening to Los Angeles
It is 5 A.M., and you are listening to Los Angeles
I am going to Los Angeles to build a screenplay about lovers who murder each other
I am going to Los Angeles to see my own name on a screen, five feet long and luminous
As the radio man says, "It is 5 A.M., and the sun has charred the other side of the world and come back to us
And painted the smoke over our heads an imperial violet"
It is 5 A.M., and you are listening to Los Angeles
It is 5 A.M., and you are listening to Los Angeles
You are listening
You are listening
You are listening
You are listening
You are listening
You are listening
You are listening
You are listening
You are listening
You are listening
You are listening
You are listening
You are listening
To Los Angeles
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Rand Lyrics
Soul Coughing Screenwriter's Blues Comments
This song is fucking hilarious
It is 4 a.m..
And I am listeniiing
To Soul Coughing.
Goosebumps, even after 25 years !!!
Hank Moody: the song
I was living my with my girlfriend at the time who was an aspiring screenwriter. For laughs I typed "screenwriter" on iTunes and this came up randomly, downloaded it and we listened to it together. I'm glad we did for it is still one of my favorite songs to this day.
0:00-0:27 I like the beginning.
nothing a little drum and double bass won't help ... :D
You are going to Resitta
No, I'm not!
this song is so damn amazing
John Dougherty sounded better with this band so far ...his solo work just doesn't have the same appeal. ..
Good shit mang!
I saw them preform in the late 90's in Minneapolis, they opened with this song...perfection
Love yah mike
Addicted to him soul is amazing
Every single word of this song is my life right now. God Bless you Doughty. Not figuratively. I just realized my life is a soul coughing song;
Poetry at its finest.
This is amazing!
Head banger!
I LIKE THE MUSIC BUT FUCK ME THOSE VOCALS ARE ANNOYING AS FUCK
JOJO EPIK GONE POPPIN DAT FLOATIE OATIE COVENT GARDENS HAND SOY TIP TO MARTIN HELVETICA TRANSPOSE WHICHEVER WAY THE WIND BLOWS KISSES FROM LULU TO DOUGHTY
*news at eleven • film at eleven*
This was one of my dad's favorite songs well now he is dead but I like this song even though this is my first time listening to This🙁
One of the best albums ever. This was my first Soul Coughing song.
Naturally, I was intrigued.
First time I heard this song I didn't really pay attention. Second time was in my car, going to Santa Monica to make love to a model from Illinois who's real name I still don't know.
This is Beat poetry, one of the best descriptions of Los Angeles in rhyme. The best prose about Los Angeles is http://www.bldgblog.com/2007/10/greater-los-angeles , which you should read if you ever consider coming here. Los Angeles loves... Love.
heard this at 2:50am...not in Los Angeles tho...in bed,on radio WXPN...I was lisssssssssssssssening.👍💗🍻
Another world. In and of itself. Like Manhattan.
Whenever I'm up at 5 am (any point during the hour) for whatever reason I make it a rule that I have to listen to this song.
Joshua Lewis Me too. That’s why I’m here right now.
When i first heard this song in the 90s i thought "this is the future of music" -- and i still think it is the future of music.
The vocalist sounds sorta like Busdriver
I remember
So fresh, so lyrical, so meditative . . .
Some of the best songwriting in the last 20 years. Gods I love this album.
This band seriously needs to come back!!!
he fucks a model too
This song is
Exits to freeways
Wisted like knots on
The fingers
Jewels cleaving
Skin between
Breasts.
Your Cadillac breathes
Four hundred horses
Over blue lines
You are going
To Reseda
To make love
To a model
From Ohio
Whose real name
You don't
Know
You spin
Like the cadillac was
Overturning down a
Cliff on television
And the radio is on
And the radioman is speaking
And the radioman says
Women were a curse
So men built Paramount
Studios
And men built Columbia
Studios
And men built
Los Angeles
It is 5 am
And you are listening
To Los Angeles
And the radioman says
It is a beautiful night out there!
And the radioman says
Rock and Roll lives!
And the radioman says
It is a beautiful night out there
In Los Angeles
You live
In Los Angeles
And you are going to
Reseda; we are all
In some way or
Another going to
Reseda someday
To die
And the radioman
Laughs because
The radioman fucks
A model too
Gone savage
For teenagers with
Automatic weapons and
Boundless love
Gone savage for
Teenagers who are
Aesthetically pleasing
In other words
Fly
Los Angeles beckons
The teenagers
To come to her
On buses;
Los Angeles loves
Love
It is 5 am
And you are listening
To Los Angeles
I am going to
Los Angeles
To built a screenplay about
Lovers who
Murder each
Other
I am going to
Los Angeles
To see my own
Name on a
Screen, five feet
Long and luminous
As the radioman says
It is 5 am
And the sun has charred
The other side of
The world and come
Back to us
And painted the smoke
Over our heads
An imperial violet
It is 5 am
And you are listening
To Los Angeles.
You are listening.
You are listening.
You are listening.
You are listening.
The marvelous douchebag song
This band is like the pinnacle of good taste.
You are going to Reseda. The inevitable heat-death of the universe means that we are all going to Reseda someday...to die. And though this song never says it, the Radioman lives in Reseda, and the Radioman will be there someday, when he dies. You live in Reseda...
This is a fucking glorious lullaby. "Lisssss-ning....Lissssss--uuh----NING"
seriously need more of them, fukin rhythm section from hell, psycho manic vocals, compliments of mike doughy.... roll in it an PURRR
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.this swing goes down .. and a m a driving .... 69 .. ford ....... fuck you .. .michi.realax.. lowest.budget...
"gone savage, with teenagers with automatic weapons and boundless love..."
LOVE IT!
We met up with Soul Coughing in the early 2000's to talk about using MP3's to promote their band (on a website!) the animation that aired on Cartoon Network, and working with Mike Doughty on lyrics. Check it: https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=Tmls96tpwdM
And the radioman...
Tyler Tucker isn't listening
this song give me odd feelings of nostalgia.
it was easier to value music, wasn't it?
Right? It's almost like this was on the radio during every single one of those strange sleepless LA nights..
I freaking love soul coughing
metoo! this song especially!
it's 5 am where I live xD
God this freaking song, that background music omg ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
1994 - Driving to school listening to this song on Album 88. This track, and album, is still a banger.
19 people were models from Ohio
Now there are 22 cunts of the cocksuck crew! ;) :D
Gawd I've been looking for this song for a decade. Love it.
these guys were on mdma no doubt
well known heroin addicts-saw Mike Douhgty in Minneapolis after he released his bio-The Book of Drugs-he had 2 yrs clean at the time and was not happy
+Christine Campbell really?this song musta been a speedball then ahaha
+Christine Campbell also thats a sham but i guess Straight aint always great!
how have I never heard of these guys? this is fucking great
SINCE NOBODY CAN APPRECIATE ART LIKE A BEAT - READ & DIG CATS.
AKA, go fuck yerself... babie!!!
Exits to freeways twisted like knots on the fingers
Jewels cleaving skin between breasts
Your Cadillac breathes four hundred horses over blue lines
You are going to Reseda to make love to a model from Ohio
Whose real name you don't knowYou spin like the Cadillac was overturning down a cliff on television
And the radio is on and the radioman is speaking
And the radioman says women were a curse
So men built Paramount studios
And men built Columbia studios and men built Los AngelesIt is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles
It is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los AngelesAnd the radioman says it is a beautiful night out there
And the radioman says rock and roll lives
And the radioman says it is a beautiful night out there in Los Angeles
You live in Los Angeles and you are going to Reseda
We are all in some way or another going to Reseda someday to dieAnd the radioman laughs because the radioman fucks a model too
Gone savage for teenagers with automatic weapons and boundless love
Gone savage for teenagers who are aesthetically pleasing
In other words fly, Los Angeles beckons
The teenagers to come to her on buses, Los Angeles loves loveIt is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles
It is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los AngelesI am going to Los Angeles to build a screenplay about
Lovers who murder each other
I am going to Los Angeles to see my own name on a screen
Five feet long and luminousAs the radioman says it is 5 a.m. and the sun has charred
The other side of the world and comeback to us
And painted the smoke over our heads an imperial violetIt is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles
It is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles
It is 5 a.m. and you are listening to Los Angeles
And you are listening to Los AngelesYou are listening
You are listening
You are listeningTo Los Angeles
Great band at the time. I started listening to them in the early 90's. Heard them at Simons Rock College, was working in an Art gallery. They came in, we smoked some green, cool.
Was it 5am? Were you listening...
That green
Simons Rock College? do you mean Bard?
I Love This So Much...!
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and you are going on youtube to bash a writer. you don't know. lol
and the radio man is; speaking....
Love Chuck Palanuik's writing and Doughtry just sang it perfectly
+J P What do you mean? Are there actual Chuck quotes in the lyrics?
This should be PWG's official theme song.
the sun has charred the other side of the world, and come back to us, and painted the smoke over our heads an imperial violet
one of my favorite poetic images of all time
I love it. I've seen many LA sunrises and that verse laid it out perfectly.
I learned from this song empyreal is actually a shade of purple (violet) http://www.colourlovers.com/color/431C5F/Empyreal
Profound in a jaded kind of way.. perfect for L.A.
"Gone savage for teenagers with automatic weapons and boundless love..." Haunting and scary.
Jack Kerouac would enjoy this.
Good for you. I enjoy his work but reading taste is, after all, quite subjective.
+Hailey Krakana "good for you"
don't shoot the messenger.... check Doughty's interview from some Canadian music program in 1995, its on YouTube.
Oh wow, I'm sorry, I completely misread your comment. I thought you were saying you didn't like him. Hmm that is interesting, I will have to look that up. Soul Coughing's lyrics just reminded me of the stream-of-concisousness writing style of notable modernists and later of some of the beat writers, so that is a little surprising to me. Interesting though, nonetheless!
FUCK YOU... Meddling trolls
True that!
This song is proof that poetry will never die—it merely transforms into something new.
hells yas Queens
aesthetically pleasing...in other words flllyyyyyyyy
Flyyyyyyyyyyyy
The Republican War on Women has been waged for many decades my friends.
squinkque cool meme
squinkque
be more than a party, be more than a gender, be more than a war. be more than a friend.
Harvey Weinstein was one of Hillary's biggest donors. Bill loved the ladies too.
People thumbed down because the lyrics went over their heads. Not everybody can respect nor understand beautiful poetry.
and the radio man laughs, because the radio man fucks a model too....
or their a model from Ohio.
ddremoboy or they just have a different taste in music. if everyone thought the same songs were great, then discussions about music would be very uninteresting
I love him!
" And the radio man says: women were a curse, so men built Paramount Studios, and men built Colombia Studios, and men built....Los Angeles." So latent chauvinist, yet so cool.
Oh I don't think it is implied as a good thing either. I always took it to mean that the reality of a relationship between and man and a woman is always a difficult one, so when the studio system was built it became a boy's club that projected an unrealistic and even chauvinist image of women. I don't think its a good thing, but it sounds cool when he sings it. This could also be that I had my heart shredded by a woman in New York, and I ended up moving to LA, so that latent frustration speaks to me, even though I know its wrong.
@LunaticFade picking up what your are laying down.... ;)
Is the Weather Man aware of feminists?
That's a pretty vacant, simplistic analysis based on a single phrase in the mouth of a fictional character. #LookingForThingsThatAreNotThere
Brianna Bryster is that not what writing is? Is it not both a challenge to figure out what the writer was putting forth while at the same time finding ways you relate to it? The meaning of lyrics can change for the listener over time, it can be one of the things that makes a piece timeless. As far as vacant on one line...I mean, what do you think it means? The single line or the whole song.
Soul Coughing- Screenwriter's Blues
Thanks for posting,
Toby Arguello
Love this one!
its 6:00pm in minneapolis practice your trip plan and do your pre-trip inspections in-cab and out of it
I'm so surprised, I think i head this on the radio awhile back.
i could have sworn there used to be an official music video of this, but i can't find it anymore.
Jewels cleaving the skin between....
b r e a s t sss
"It is 5 am /
And you are listening /
To Los Angeles"
sidDkid87
I read this just as he said this in the song.
Love, Bob.
(-:
your cadillac breathes 400 horses over blue lines...
I always wondered... Does that mean it's parked in a handicap spot?
@KitchenASMR I didn't realize that but yeah maybe. A powerful 400 HP "cool guy" car sitting in a handicap spot, going to bang a model. Yikes
i am going to reseda one day to die. but i could do worse. i could die in chicao or even worse... i could die in a horrible suburb of chicago
Fuck yeah!
studiozzzzzzz
To me, that is beautiful
It took a ridiculous commercial to remind me how much I love this band
The entire album is brilliant.
For the evil of Mother Theresa, who's death we cherish...
Lord of the Landmines
20 years ago, Mike Doughty buried a treasure chest for me to find. I found it 5yrs ago. Thank you, sir. Thank you.
Los Angeles loves... love
Arguably my all time favorite soul coughing track ever
We give thanks to God
We give thanks to God
We give thanks to God
We give thanks to God
It also has the word "fuck."
balla.
I feel like i might be arrested for not being high right now.
soul deung
whos real name you dont know
For ages, I searched for this song in vain, hearing it occasionally at 3am on the radio whilst driving through hot summer nights. Then I searched the words "painted the smoke above our heads an imperial violet" and I was able to hear this on demand. Now it's time to explore the whole album of genius!
As always, Soul Coughing is awesome.
I knew them, and they were definitely not Satanists.
How have I not heard of these guys before today!? Why? What have I done in my past life to deserve 27 Soul Coughing-less years!? What's coming out of my speakers is me in music form.