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| Name = Gratitude Walks
| Name = I've Been A Mess
| Cover = AMC-Mercury2.jpg
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| Producer = [[Mitchell Froom]]
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# '''"Gratitude Walks"'''
# "[[Gratitude Walks]]"
# "[[If I Had A Hammer]]"
# "[[If I Had A Hammer]]"
# "[[Challenger]]"
# "[[Challenger]]"
# "[[I've Been A Mess]]"
# '''"I've Been A Mess"'''
# "[[Hollywood 4-5-92]]"
# "[[Hollywood 4-5-92]]"
# "[[What Godzilla Said To God When His Name Wasn't Found In The Book Of Life]]"
# "[[What Godzilla Said To God When His Name Wasn't Found In The Book Of Life]]"
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'''"Gratitude Walks"''' is the first song on [[start|American Music Club]]'s sixth album, 1993’s '[[Mercury]]''.
'''"I've Been A Mess"''' is the 4th song on [[start|American Music Club]]'s sixth album, 1993’s ''[[Mercury]]''.


==Lyrics==
==Lyrics==
Why don't you be good for something<br>
Lazarus wasn’t grateful for his second wind<br>
And draw down the shade<br>
For another chance<br>
On a sign that sat up all night shivering<br>
Watch his chances fade like the dawn and leave<br>
On a sign that sat up all night afraid
I can barely tell you just how pale I get<br>
Without you


Well now chains on the oasis that<br>
I’ve been a mess since you’ve been gone
Leads a man to drink<br>
Drunk on the kind of applause<br>
That gets louder the lower you sink


Gratitude walks on Sixth Street
What were the first words that crowd heard him speak<br>
I bet he was cursing at the sky<br>
I bet he wasn’t turning no other cheek<br>
And was there still hope and desire left in his heart<br>
For the last word in love


Pull it from the air<br>
I’ve been a mess since you’ve been gone
And they throw it in the blue<br>
And you're spinning under their wheels<br>
Trapped in your room


You're jumpy, you don't want to see<br>
Your beauty is just a slap in the face<br>
You don't want to see them have their fun<br>
That’s gonna bring me back to life<br>
Slap her face if she should laugh<br>
Back to another sky that’s blue<br>
Push him down if he should try and run
It’s gonna turn me into another great American zombie


Gratitude walks on Sixth Street
So hungry for you


Take a number for your big lament<br>
I’ve been a mess since you’ve been gone
They sold the rules of dream land<br>
in cotton, wool, and cement
 
Well it's never what you want<br>
It's just the kind of thing that always happens here<br>
Yeah you watch the good old days pass you by<br>
Leaving your cupboards bare
 
Gratitude walks on Sixth Street


==Video==
==Video==
American Music Club performing "Gratitude Walks" on April 5, 1993 in Scotland.
Mark Eitzel performing "I've Been A Mess" on January 26, 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
<embedvideo service="youtube">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-cR_b2sZYs</embedvideo>
<embedvideo service="youtube">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dppbeTB9u0</embedvideo>


== Personnel ==
== Personnel ==
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==Also appears on==
==Also appears on==
* ''[[Johnny Mathis' Feet]]'' promo <small>Live version</small>
* ''[[Ten Years Of Tears]]'' <small>Live version</small>


==References==
==References==

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