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{{Infobox song | {{Infobox song | ||
| Name = | | Name = Miracle On 8th Street | ||
| Cover = AMC-Everclear.jpg | | Cover = AMC-Everclear.jpg | ||
| Caption = Everclear cover | | Caption = Everclear cover | ||
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| Released = 1991 | | Released = 1991 | ||
| Format = LP / CD / CS | | Format = LP / CD / CS | ||
| Length = | | Length = 4:07 | ||
| Label = [[Alias Records]] | | Label = [[Alias Records]] | ||
| Writer = [[Mark Eitzel]] | | Writer = [[Mark Eitzel]] | ||
| Producer = [[Bruce Kaphan]] & [[American Music Club]] | | Producer = [[Bruce Kaphan]] & [[American Music Club]] | ||
| Tracks = | | Tracks = | ||
# | # "[[Why Won't You Stay]]" | ||
# "[[Rise]]" | # "[[Rise]]" | ||
# " | # '''"Miracle On 8th Street"''' | ||
# "[[Ex-Girlfriend]]" | # "[[Ex-Girlfriend]]" | ||
# "[[Crabwalk]]" | # "[[Crabwalk]]" | ||
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}} | }} | ||
'''" | '''"Miracle On 8th Street"''' is the first song on [[start|American Music Club]]'s 1991 album, ''[[Everclear]]''. It was first recorded in 1989 during the aborted ''[[Everclear]]'' sessions, under the working title of "Brandy Into Beer".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://rateyourmusic.com/list/tkmallon/tom_mallon_recording__1978_present_/ | work=rateyourmusic.com | date= | author=Tom Mallon | title=Tom Mallon Recording (1978-present) | accessdate=June 16, 2017}}</ref> | ||
In 1989 Eitzel told ''Unhinged'', "Here - 'We'll waste a thousand years sitting round the kitchen table/Watching the brandy turn into beer/And we can't get out even though we're able'. Stupid line, but there really was a night out when we started drinking brandy and then we got the beer out and drank all that up..."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://americanmusicclub.com/index.php?title=Articles:Unhinged_-_Winter_1989 | work=Unhinged | date=Winter 1989 | author=Drew | title=American Music Club | accessdate=March 27, 2018}}</ref> In 2015, Eitzel said, "You know I was playing off the movie ''Miracle On 34th Street'', and it was sort of an answer to that movie. But I had these friends, and there was always a party on 8th Street. I thought a lot about cinema and movies in my songwriting. I thought of characters and actors. Robert DeNiro was a huge influence. ''Raging Bull'', all of those Scorsese movies he was in."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2015/02/06/mark-eitzel-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/ | work=aquariumdrunkard.com | date=2015 | author= | title=Mark Eitzel: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview | accessdate=June 16, 2017}}</ref> | |||
==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
C'mon let's waste another thousand years<br> | |||
Sitting around your kitchen table<br> | |||
We'll turn the brandy into beer<br> | |||
Later they'll say, "What a miracle" | |||
You say all you need is a right position<br> | |||
'Cause nothing in this world helps you to see<br> | |||
You say that you never do it<br> | |||
Unless someone gives it to you for free | |||
You say I never listen to you<br> | |||
Well | Well you're right about that<br> | ||
But I thought that I love you<br> | |||
More than that | |||
I know you're strong enough to live<br> | |||
In a world where all the magic's gone<br> | |||
I watch your hands tremble, you reach for another sip<br> | |||
Now all your luck is gone | |||
Look at the moon, ain't it pretty at night<br> | |||
Don't look away - give it a chance for once<br> | |||
In it's own way it's just alive as any of us<br> | |||
In any way it's where you face | |||
You say I never listen to you<br> | |||
Well you're right about that<br> | |||
But I thought that I love you<br> | |||
More than that | |||
==Video== | ==Video== | ||
== Personnel == | == Personnel == | ||
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==Also appears on== | ==Also appears on== | ||
* ''[[The Everclear Rehearsals Late 1990]]'' <small>Rehearsal</small> | * ''[[The Everclear Rehearsals Late 1990]]'' <small>Rehearsal</small> | ||
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[[Category: | [[Category:AMC songs]] | ||