Spin Doctors - Shinbone Alley Lyrics
Moonlight through the chicken wire, humming windowpane,
Lukewarm water gasping down a rusty drain
Big town's in need of mending, street lights make tooth some seams
Denim shadows shuffle in between the beams.
Mind your manner and easy on the ethnic jokes
It's a dumbbell curve, your trying to tally,
All the way down to shin bone alley
Streets are metacarpal and flesh of asphalt calm
Buildings rise like fingers from a concrete palm
Yellow lit apartment trickle through the drapes
Windows frame each history hidden even from the fire escapes
Sullen winter sparrow lends wing to expanse of grey
Six-thirty-two in the morning on Thanksgiving day
And the crack addicts stare at the snowflakes zigzagging down to greet jones
Different strokes for different folks so.....
Seven-thirty-two on the same day, your bare feet on the parquet
And the light so papery white shining past the microwave
Knuckles to eyeballs and elbows on the table
Spend the day gazing from the window gable....
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Spin Doctors Shinbone Alley Comments
Classic! Loved it since the early 90's.
The radio fucked these guys. The refrain I heard constantly in the '90's was that all their music sounded the same. The radio did them no favors by making that claim sound legit. I didn't listen to an entire album of theirs 'till 3 or 4 years ago, and was astounded to find gems like this song when I did. They're creative, unique, and lay down grooves so fat you can trip over 'em. Great band that I'm happy I finally discovered.
Greetings, Hard to Exist! Sleeper of a song!
I just listened to Tin Pan Alley and then remembered spin docs doing blues in more later album and coincidently found this
What a fabulous band! The bass player was a huge influence on me back in 1994..
Anyone know whether this song goes back to when they had a different name and John Popper was in the band? It has some of that Blues Traveler sound.
Yes, this song was a part of that lineups song catalogue when they were called Trucking Company but Popper left to focus on Blues Traveler and the band changed its name before album release
This would seriously be an awesome song to hear and see live! Another very underated band from the 90s
You are correct. I used to see these dudes in bars and it was a blast
First album I ever bought - standout track!
Anthony Cohen that's a first one done right!!!
AWESOME!!!
Spin Docs! love'm
Criminally underrated band, album, song, and Youtube video. Thanks for uploading!