Songs:Thin Wild Mercury (135391)
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Todd and I wrote this after having numerous discussions about the night Bob Dylan called his folk-singing contemporary Phil Ochs “a journalist” and then threw Phil out of his car. That’s the sort of thing we have numerous discussions about over on my side of town. The story is in the song. To our way of thinking, Dylan and Ochs probably both wished everything had played out differently. “If he ever thought better, he thought too late,” is the way we wrote it. We never said who “he” was, because we didn’t have to. My heart goes out to Dylan, wherever he is tonight. And to Phil Ochs, lying in that cold, cold ground.
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(Peter Cooper/Todd Snider) Well Known Music/SESAC and Nobody's Collecting On These Songs/BMI admin. by BUG Music Poor Phil Ochs Sad and low Hands in his pockets Wonderin’ where to go Thrown from the limo For speaking his mind Like a red-eyed photo Into a garbage can At the corner of Hero and Also-Ran A fragile heart skipped a fragile beat It’s warm in the limousine Cold on the streets of Thin, wild mercury And gold lame Where things will go your way Or they won’t Thin wild mercury And gold lame You know what they say Or you don’t It was all over some new Dylan song That Phil had the nerve to say sounded wrong Dylan stopped the car Words shook like a fist Phil you’re not a writer, you’re a journalist Phil you’re not a writer, you’re a journalist Death of a rebel in a twist of fate If he ever thought better, he thought too late Poor Phil Ochs, he slipped through the cracks Judas went electric and he never looked back on Thin wild mercury Or gold lame Where things will go your way Or they won’t Thin wild mercury And gold lame You know what they say Or you don’t No, you don’t No, you don’t
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