Rilo Kiley - A Man/Me/Then Jim

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I had one friend in high school recently he hung himself with string
His note said
"If livin` is the problem, well that`s just baffling."
And at the wake I waited around to see my ex first love
And I barely recognized her, but I knew exactly what she was thinking of
We sat quietly in the corner whispering close about loss
And I remembered why I loved her, and I asked her why I drove her off

She said
The slow fade of love
Its soft edge might cut you
And our poor friend, Jim
Well he just lived within
The slow fade of love

A woman calls my house once a week; she`s always selling things
Some charity, a phone plan, a subscription to a magazine
And as I turned her down, I always do, there was something trembling in her voice
I said
Hey, what troubles you?
She said
I`m surprised you noticed
Well, my husband, he`s leaving, and I can`t convince him to stay
And he`ll take our daughter with him, she wants to go with him anyway
I`m sorry I`m hard to live with, living is the problem for me
I`m selling people things they don`t want when I don`t know what you need

He said the slow fade of love
And its mist might choke you
It`s my gradual descent
Into a life I never meant
It`s the slow fade of love

I was driving south of Melrose; I happened upon my old lover`s old house
I found myself staring at the closed up door like the day she threw me out
"Dianna, Dianna, Dianna I would die for you
I`m in love with you completely, I`m afraid that`s all I can do"
She said
"You can sleep upon my doorstep, you can promise me indifference, Jim
But my mind is made up, and I`ll never let you in again"

For the slow fade of love
It might hit you from below
It`s your gradual descent
Into a life you never meant
It`s the slow fade of love

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23 September 2004

2004-09-23: San Francisco, CA, USA

1. It's a Hit (4:28)
2. Good That Won't Come Out (5:18)
3. My Slumbering Heart (5:35)
4. More Adventurous (4:05)
5. Portions for Foxes (4:47)
6. Three Hopeful Thoughts (2:49)
7. Absence of God (3:55)
8. A Man/Me/Then Jim (6:17)
9. Don't Deconstruct (3:30)
10. Pictures of Success (6:29)
11. Small Figures in a Vast Expanse (3:44)
12. Love and War (5:00)
13. I Never (4:30)
14. Does He Love You? (5:17)
15. Simply Irresistable (2:14)
16. The Execution of All Things (4:12)
17. Daughter or Son (5:01)

09 November 2004

Live At Fingerprints EP

1. More Adventurous (acoustic) (3:24)
2. A Man/Me/Then Jim (acoustic) (4:54)
3. Somebody Else's Clothes (acoustic) (2:34)
4. Ripchord (acoustic) (2:11)
5. The Good That Won't Come Out (acoustic) (4:23)
6. Does He Love You? (acoustic) (5:28)

27 July 2004

More Adventurous

1. It's a Hit (4:28)
2. Does He Love You? (5:17)
3. Portions for Foxes (4:47)
4. Ripchord (2:24)
5. I Never (4:30)
6. The Absence of God (3:56)
7. Accidntel Deth (4:27)
8. More Adventurous (4:05)
9. Love And War (11/11/46) (3:40)
10. A Man/Me/Then Jim (6:17)
11. It Just is (2:26)