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	'''"Southend On Sea"''' is the 11th song on [[Mark Eitzel]]'s 3rd album, 1996’s ''[[60 Watt Silver Lining]]''.		'''"Southend On Sea"''' is the 11th song on [[Mark Eitzel]]'s 3rd album, 1996’s ''[[60 Watt Silver Lining]]''. In a 1999 unpublished interview, Eitzel says that the song is about breaking up in England with his lover at the time.<ref>{{cite web \| url=http://www.geocities.ws/rsjbraz/eitzelfireflyaticle.html \| work=Firefly \| date=January 15, 1999 \| author=Jane Oriel \| title=Unpublished Firefly Interview \| accessdate=June 16, 2017}}</ref>

	==Lyrics==		==Lyrics==

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{{Infobox song
| Name = Southend On Sea
| Cover = ME-60Watt.jpeg
| Caption = ''60 Watt Silver Lining'' cover
| Artist = [[Mark Eitzel]]
| Album = [[60 Watt Silver Lining]]
| Released = 1996
| Format = CS / CD
| Length = 4:09
| Label = [[Warner Bros.]] (US) / [[Virgin Records]] (UK)
| Writer = [[Mark Eitzel]]
| Producer = [[Mark Eitzel]]
| Tracks =
# "[[No Easy Way Down]]"
# "[[Sacred Heart]]"
# "[[Always Turn Away]]"
# "[[Saved]]"
# "[[Cleopatra Jones]]"
# "[[When My Plane Finally Goes Down]]"
# "[[Mission Rock Resort]]"
# "[[Wild Sea]]"
# "[[Aspirin]]"
# "[[Some Bartenders Have The Gift Of Pardon]]"
# '''"Southend On Sea"'''
# "[[Everything Is Beautiful]]"
}}

'''"Southend On Sea"''' is the 11th song on [[Mark Eitzel]]'s 3rd album, 1996’s ''[[60 Watt Silver Lining]]''.

==Lyrics==
This summer the sun was a shotgun pointed down at me 
and I was just another ugly American melting in the heat 
watching the stagnant ocean breathe painfully 
it only wants to drag you down by your feet 

No one swimming in the water 
no sharks, no eels, no little life boats 
just a history lesson and some two bit Victorian ghosts 
who do a turn at the pirate ship 
singing, "It's A Small World After All" 
either you laugh at it baby 
or you hit a brick wall

You said to me, 
"You're from California 
and you laugh too easily," 
You said to me, 
"You just let things happen 
that are killing me"

We're like whitefish beached all day on hot parking lots 
waiting for the summer parade to sadly drift by 
melancholy floats filled with suicides and drooping paper flowers 
a defeated army and no wind to blow away the smell of surrender

There was '50s nostalgia and horrifying Flintstone characters 
living memorials to wasted days and wasted bitter nights 
and everyone on the promenade participates in your silence 
'cause I'm always wrong baby and you're always right

You said to me, 
"You're from California 
and you're as dumb as can be," 
You said to me, 
"Are you the Scarecrow, the Tin Man 
or are you Dorothy" 
You said to me, 
"I'm beginning to think that you're 
a part of the enemy" 
You said to me 
"If I was drowning would you save me 
from Southend-on-Sea" 
from Southend-on-Sea

There was a chamber of horrors 
and it was packed with onlookers 
wax figured day trippers being tortured 
worse than their crimes deserved 
and there I was in a stranglehold spinning out 
from your nightmare 
and my life with you was a black cloud hanging in the air

And you said to me, 
"You're from California 
and you lie too easily" 
You said to me, 
"Did you really think that this was 
going to set my heart free" 
You said to me, 
"I'm beginning to think that you're 
a part of the enemy" 
part of the enemy

You said to me, 
"If I was drowning would you save me 
from Southend-on-Sea" 
from Southend-on-Sea

==Video==

==Also appears on==
* ''[[60 Watt Silver Lining Sampler]]'' promo

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

[[Category:Mark Eitzel songs]]

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