“Beyond and Back” is the tenth song on Wild Gift, the 1981 album by Los Angeles punk band X.
The drum pattern in this song was inspired by the locomotive rhythms of classic train-based blues songs “Train Kept a-Rollin'” and “Mystery Train”.
I'll go somewhere else
I'll move to the couch
It's darker in the dark
It's darker in the day
I forgot you were a liar
Now it's five to twelve
Shut up and smoke
And I'll go somewhere else
No more orange nightgowns
One o'clock and then it ends
One o'clock and then it ends
One o'clock and then it ends
This is no place
This is no place
To be addicted to another place
Never get to go
Don't you want me to make it
I took as long as you took
You take a lot from me
I forgot you were a thief
I want to be like her
Instead I stay nowhere
Marked down in the basement
Lousy at the bottom
A life of intermission
A life of intermission
A life of intermission
This is no place
This is no place
To be addicted to another place
I'll go somewhere else
I'll move to the couch
It's darker in the dark
It's darker in the day
I forgot you were a liar
Now it's five to twelve
Shut up and smoke
And I'll go somewhere else
No more orange nightgowns
One o'clock and then it ends
One o'clock and then it ends
One o'clock and then it ends
Beyond And Back was written by John Doe (X) & Exene Cervenka.
Beyond And Back was produced by Ray Manzarek.
X released Beyond And Back on Tue May 12 1981.