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Dark End Of The Street


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Guitar Tab: http://www.frankblack.net/tabs/song.asp?song=honeycomb_dark_end_of_the_street

Lyrics:
At the dark end of the street
That's where we'll always meet
Hiding in shadows where we don't belong
Living in darkness to hide our wrongs

You and me
At the dark end of the street
You and me

I know time's gonna take its toll
We have to pay for the love that we stole
It's a sin and we know that it's wrong
Oh, but our love keeps coming on strong

Steal away to the dark end of the street

They're gonna find us, they're gonna find us
They're gonna find us, oh, someday

You and me
At the dark end of the street
You and me

And when the daylight hour rolls round
And by chance we are both downtown
If we should meet, oh, just walk on by
Oh, my darling, please don't you cry

Tonight we will meet
At the dark end of the street


Quotes:
"This was the one song on the album that didn't need a chart; all the guys knew it so well that they could play it in their sleep. Reggie Young's guitar solo is so laid back, just like his personality. He looks like this really lean lion, with his mane hanging down. He was almost lying down in his chair as he played, and it sounds like that. I've never had a guy as smooth as Reggie Young on one of my records. It's like you almost hold your breath during his solos, like, 'Oh, my God! I can't believe what I'm hearing.'" The whole night before we cut this, though, I spent the night in the bathroom of my hotel, quietly practicing the vocal. I think I got that fragility in my voice from having listened a lot to Freddie Fender."
- Frank on recording Honeycomb - Night Times. 12/06/2005

"Well, I wasn't familiar with all these other versions. I know Gram Parsons' version and I'd mentioned it to the producer, you know, 'If we have enough time...' and at the session I'm with the engineer who wrote it! So when the producer says 'Dark End of the Street' I go 'I'm not ready to do that man.' Dan was like, 'It's cool, we'll lay it down for you and you sing it later.' And he went in and sang it and it was like, smokin', and then he says 'Let's stop fucking around, let's play a real version!' And then he sang the most haunting version of it. How can I follow that? I stayed up in my hotel bathroom all night, singing that song all over, trying to find my voice. The next day Dan was like, 'OK, I'm going to go upstairs and take a nap.' Which meant, have some time with the song away from him. We cut it and then he came down a little later, toothpick in his mouth, gave me a little look... 'You're OK, kid'."
- Interview in Mojo, 2005

"Not to be hokey but the song had some emotional thing going on for me when I rediscovered it. I was listening to it a lot in the car (a few years ago). There was a lot of shit going on in my life at the time. i can be a very non-emotional person; I'm not too nostalgic, not too precious, but even someone like that can eventually be rocked enough that suddenly things on the radio seem like the soundtrack to your life, making all these association. I went through a divorce; I moved from LA to Oregon, you know, that was kind of a big deal for me."
- Frank Black interview in The Clash



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