Chords for The Jesus Lizard - Interview (1993/12/04) (2/2)

[E] _ _ _ [B] [N] Well, I really would like to know _ what do you want to_ _
_ You had enough?
_ _ _ [G] Okay.
_ _ _ Is there something you want to say? _
Not yet.
Who writes the lyrics in your band?
_ _ [Am] You do?
_ Yes.
[N] _
_ Is there any special thing about the lyrics that _ _ you want to say something [Bm] about? _ _
[A] _ _ [Db] Let's see.
To be honest, to me, _ it's more important [N] what the lyrics sound like than what they say.
_ That's why [Am] a lot of times on our records it's really [Gm] hard to understand what's being said
because it's really not that important that anybody gets it.
If they do, that's great.
_ _ It's more important to me that I like what is being said and I like the [N] way it sounds.
I'm a drummer. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Okay. _ _ _ _
_ I _ hear you.
Mac, the drummer.
Okay, hello Mac.
Hello Rene.
[D] You want to say something to the Amsterdam [Ab] public?
_ [G] How's it going?
I've [N] never been in a brush fire.
_ _ _ _ Okay, one more question.
_ I heard you live in Chicago.
_ Is it possible to live there? _
Is it still possible to live there? _ _ _ _
Six million people do it.
Okay. _ _
It's a [E] really heavy city.
[N] A lot of violence and a lot of _ [D] _ [A] _ misery.
No misery, just violence.
Happy violence.
Happy violence.
_ _ [E] _
Happy violence.
You _ can't get around that.
[Gm] Kicking _ [E] ass.
Really happy [D] violence here. _
Is it [G] an inspiration for you to live in a city like Chicago?
[D] _ _ _ [Em] Maybe for the rest of our [Am] daily lives, not for our music.
Not [E] for the music.
[Gb] You don't get inspiration [B] from things [Ab] happening in the city or something [A] like that? _ _
_ _ [Bb] Perhaps subconsciously.
I don't think that it comes out [G] directly.
_ _ _ I'm sure that in some way it changes the way we behave and stuff.
What are the things that you are really _ consciously [N] _ _
busy with at this moment?
Just trying to stay awake.
[E] _
How about you, Mac?
[N] _ I'm not getting up.
It's day.
It's turning to night.
_ [F] _ Night [Gb] turns into day.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N]
Okay.
_ _ Well_ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ Okay, [N] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [Am] _ _ [N] _
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ _ one more _ question.
_ You worked with the producer Steve Albini _ _ _ and he played in Big Black.
_ _ Can you tell us something about that cooperation?
_ _ _ Steve is a good guy, a very generous guy, who works for us really cheaply.
And _ due to that we've used him on pretty much everything we've released.
_ _ We had to police him a little bit recently and tell him that he's going to have to do things the way we tell him to
or he's going to lose his job working with us.
So he pulled his pants back up and did what we told him to.
[Bb]
He has [G] his own sound, Big Black sound, I heard.
Did you have any problems with that?
_ He's got a very [N] definite taste, particularly with drums.
You can _ tell when Albini's [Ab] engineered [G] something more than, say, a lot of other [N] _
engineers might do with the things they do.
_ _ [Ab] Okay.
[A] _
_ _ What's the [B] difference between Scratch Acid and [A] Jesus Lizard?
_ _ [C] Scratch Acid doesn't exist [N] anymore.
Jesus [Gm] Lizard still does.
_ _ _ Jesus Lizard is a much better band than Scratch Acid.
Jesus Lizard only has [N] two of the guys that were in Scratch Acid, whereas Scratch Acid had all four of them.
_ _ _ Jesus Lizard sells about five times as many records as Scratch Acid. _ _
_ _ Everybody in Jesus Lizard gets along like they were lovers, _ _ whereas that wasn't the case in Scratch Acid.
_ _ Should I go on?
When does your new album come out?
Probably in the summer.
We're going to record in January.
_ _ _ Probably somewhere around the summer, between June and September.
Okay, that's about it.
Is there anything you [Abm] want to say to the [N] Amsterdam people?
_ You need to ask him again.
Tell him more.
Max can say another thing.
Okay, is there anything you want to say to the Amsterdam [G] people?
Like right now?
[E] Yeah, [Am] okay.
Yes?
Yes.
[N] _ _ _ _
_ Alright you guys, listen up right now.
We're going to take a trip in a canoe down the corridors of your mind.
The sun never shines, but the moon is shining all day long.
Grab your cockpit and strap yourself in.
Blow down the volcano of your imagination until you find your religious substance which is unlocked in the camera.
_ _ _ That's great. _ _
Thanks a lot and a lot of success. Thank you. _ _
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