This song is built around the harrowing hook “I found my broken bones by the side of the road”. The repetition of this sentence works like an echo of Chile’s darkest years: Pinochet’s dictatorship. General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Unidad Popular government of President Salvador Allende on Sept...
Nico: Te gusta ese?
Alfredo: Sí, sigue
Nico: Y ahí, estaba caminando en un pastel muy chiquitito, y estaba cantando. Y ahí vino un león! Caminando y (roars)
If every now and then you feel like you’ve seen it all
Then be sure to remember there’s always two sides to a wall
And if you ever forget that truth was fought with a code
Then be sure to remember a tale often told on the road
I was on the blue line when a wired man came through
He wore his pain like a list of all that you already knew
He said: "Careful, you might trip on the side of the road
And one eye doesn’t blink on the side of the road
And you hear that bell ringing on the side of the road?
Yea it doesn’t stop ringing on that side of the road
And no one knows your name on this side
They just point at you on that side
And people get high on this side
While sunflowers turning on their side
But the sun don’t shine of this side
Illuminated minds on that side, doing nothing at all
They’re doing nothing at all"
I found my broken bones by the side of the road
I found my broken home by the side of the road
I found my broken lens by the side of the road
I found my broken friends by the side of the road
He said: "Morality is dead on that side
It’s been thrown on the ground on this side
Like the casualties in bed on that side
Find them over on their side"
I found my broken bones by the side of the road
I found my broken home by the side of the road
I found my broken lens by the side of the road
I found my broken friends by the side of the road
Lessons from a man that wore his pain like a list
Of all that he knew
Of all that he knew
Lessons from a man that wore his pain like a list
Of all that he knew
Of all that he knew
[?] that wore his pain like a list
Of all that he knew
Of all that he knew
Lessons from a man that wore his pain like a list
Of all that he knew
Of all that he knew
Now he’s talking to you
Now he’s talking to you
Now he’s talking to you
Three Sides of Nazareth was written by Nicolas Jaar.
Three Sides of Nazareth was produced by Nicolas Jaar.
Nicolas Jaar released Three Sides of Nazareth on Fri Sep 30 2016.