Kristin Hersh : Fortune

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"Fortune"

(written by Kristin Hersh)

I left you cracking up in the East River

Like some river devil

Both cruel and unusual

Thick with gold

And smoking my friend

Under the wire again

And by the way, you cost a fortune

And by the way, you cast a shadow today

I watched you crawling up through the leaf litter

You don't seem to need to breathe

Unlike us: oily, flimsy, cheap

Thick with Wonderbread, my friend

Under the weather again

And by the way, you cost a fortune

And by the way, you cast a shadow today

And by the way, you cost a fortune

And by the way, you cast a shadow today

CASH Music

APPEARS ON:

- Cats And Mice, 2010

- Crooked, 2010

WORDS FROM KRISTIN:

- "I think "Fortune"'s my favorite Speedbath song yet. Not that I have favorites or anything. It's just such an interesting take on Wonder Bread and the East River and gold, smoking devil people. When I finished writing it, I felt like I'd just met someone who's very cool but too weird to hang out with for an extended period of time.

Recording it at Steve Rizzo's Stable Sound with a CASH meeting going on in the next room, I got to know it a little better, pulling the CASH guys in every now and then to critique an overdub or evaluate my girl-drum levels in a mix. "Fortune" turned out not to be such a weirdo after all, just kinda spacey. Now I wanna hang out with it all the time. I'm a total sucker for lead bass.

And then it just floats away, which I'm also a sucker for. I'm not normally a lyrics guy, given that I don't talk right or understand human speech, so when Act 2 kicks in with only reverb-soaked melody, spooky and sweet, I feel nicely...I don't know...let off the hook.

"Fortune" says its piece and then wanders out of the room, lost in a zone.

Love, Kristin"

Fireworks for you in the ozone snow.