One of the band’s more controversial songs, given the subject matter. People have postulated that the mooing at the end was the voices in the song “HAY” reversed and slowed down, but it’s actually the other way around, as Paul Leary told the Quietus that their field recordings of cows mooing at a n...
(Man: Um, madam
Woman: I enjoy your show and I've been trying to get through for quite a while
Man: Well, we're glad you kept trying
Woman: Um, I have this problem. Last July, I was assaulted... sexually, and ever since then, I cannot sleep, I've been having trouble sleeping
Man: How old are you?
Woman: I'm 22 going on 23.)
(Medicine...Counseling...Anxiety...Rape program...Medicine...
Sleep problems...Psychiatrist...Depression...Anxiety...Counseling...
Medicine...Rape program..."I cannot sleep"...Psychiatrist...
Depression...Anxiety...Counseling...Sleep problems...Medicine...
Rape program...Psychiatrist...Depression...Counseling...
Rape program..."I cannot sleep"...Sleep problems...Depression...
Psychiatrist...Anxiety...)
(Woman: Well, they told me, when I have these bad dreams, to try and put endings on the, the dreams, like I come out a winner. But every time I try to do that, I just...can't get anywhere. It seems that I keep having the same dream over and over again and...I had one again tonight, and this is why I'm up so late.)
(2nd Woman: And I watch one soap opera a day. And if he happens to walk in the house, I'm paranoid. I just jump up and turn off the TV. Because he says, "Is that all you're gonna do all day, just sit around and watch TV?" And I love to travel, so I've mentioned traveling to him. And finances are no problem. And he says that he did all the traveling that he wanted to do while he was in the service.)
22 Going on 23 was written by Teresa Nervosa & King Coffey & Jeff Pinkus & Paul Leary & Gibby Haynes.
22 Going on 23 was produced by Teresa Nervosa & King Coffey & Jeff Pinkus & Paul Leary & Gibby Haynes.
“[We recorded this] when we were in Georgia. I think that was before Jeff joined the band. I took acid one night, and everybody else went to sleep, and I wanted to record really bad but I didn’t want to wake anybody else up. I had this little transistor radio so I put a microphone on it and turned i...