This is off Adam's Live at Carnegie Hall album, a good album that captures the Ryan Adams concert experience accurately with all the audience dialogue, OCD moments and improvisational creativity which is fantastic to be a part of live but becomes tedious on an album that is listened to frequently, those 6-7 minute songs are not as special, thus this album will not make my top albums but the songs are still great. There are a couple of special song versions live, I chose this one a lesser known commodity off an EP 1984 he made last year. Adams is primarily know as alt country now but he is who he wants to be, I enjoy his hard core country of Whiskeytown or Jacksonville, his Rock n Roll album, his softer acoustic of Ashes and Fire, perfect pop/folk sound and when he dabbles on the edge of a punkier sound on this EP. As you can see from the lyrics Ryan is working through some spiritual and relationship things here-
you can’t go home anymore
rats in the wall, rats in the wall
I can hear them crawl
you don’t know, you don’t understand
everything to you it was already planed
by a man in the sky
shelters from the bombs and choppers and napalm
blood on the beach, blood on their hands
all of the people that you fuckin’ defend
and there’s no guarantee
it's even gonna come
so step into the rays of the burning sun
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