Us covering “Working Titles” by Damien Jurado from his new album Maraqopa.
Video by Ben Moon. Shot at Antler & Co. in Portland, Oregon.
This is my favorite song from Maraqopa and I’m not at all surprised to see how many other people love it, how many other people find it beautiful and heartbreaking. It’s one of those songs. I am pleased, though, and fascinated by how every single line in the song seems to inspire something in someone.
Working Titles by Damien Jurado
You could mess up my life in a poem
Have me divorced by the time of the chorus
Theres no need to change any sentence
When you always decide where I go next
Many nights you would hide from the audience
When they were not in tune with your progress
In the end you are a fool like the journalist
Who turns what you sing into business
You could use to be more like a hero
A darker shade of damage distortion
Wearing death like a cape or a costume
Cut your ties and leave town when you want to
Killing time till I pass through the chamber
Or the room where you keep my replacement
So fed up still you’re starving on paper
You are no him, but he’s you, only better
Leave me an exit to damage
I could use a ledge to jump off of
I wasn’t lying when I said this was over
I have questions that lead to more questions
Running time that will cut off my fingers
You wrote about me on every new record
I’ll show up in the title of your song
I only hope somebody requests it
Whats it like for you in Washington?
I’ve only seen photos of Washington
I’ll never know
Leave me Manhattan
I want the evergreens
Write me a song
I can sing in my Sleep
As sure as the rain
that will fall where you stand
I want you and the skyline
These are my demands
What’s it like for you in Washington?
I’ve only seen photos of Washington
I’ll never know
No
