My Lai (Amy's Version)
2012 · Orchid Tapes OCT042 · Asheville, North Carolina
- Artist
- Elvis Depressedly
- Title
- My Lai (Amy's Version)
- Release
- Mickey's Dead
- Year
- 2012
- Label
- Orchid Tapes # OCT042
- Format
- Cassette · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Asheville, North Carolina, USA
- Genre
- Pop · Bedroom Pop · Lo-Fi
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs
- "My Lai (Amy's Version)" - Reference to My Lai massacre - Group formed 2011, Columbia, SC, United States - Currently Asheville, NC, United States - Bedroom Pop, Slacker Rock, India Folk
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: I ain't never gonna learn to swim / So when the water rises to my mouth / I'm just gonna breathe right through my smile / And be happy to drown / This planet is a torturer / Nature gets off on pain / From My Lai to your wife's black eye / From genocide to tooth decay / I ain't never gonna learn to run / So when the walls come tumbling down / I'm just gonna stay where I always been / I wanna die hanging around / This planet is a torturer / Nature gets off on pain / From My Lai to your wife's black eye / From genocide to tooth decay
Notes
Digital 1 July 2012 and Orchid Tapes cassette, both 2012. Primary location is the current base (Asheville); formed Columbia, SC.
About the artist
Started in 2011 in Columbia, South Carolina, by Mat Cothran (ex-Coma Cinema) with Delaney Mills and a rotating cast, later based in Asheville, North Carolina; self-released tapes and the EP "Holo Pleasures" (2013) led to Run for Cover in 2014. [Source: Wikipedia]