Quicksilver Messenger Service - Forty Days

Artist: Quicksilver Messenger Service
Album (Year): Comin' Thru (1972)
Title: Forty Days

Update: Thanks to Eesgrampa for completing the lyrics!

Forty days it's been raining
And I still ain't seen the light
Forty days it's been raining
And I still ain't seen the light

You tell me that the sun is shining
But my day's
Black as night
But my day's
Black as night

If the sun don't shine tomorrow
Well what difference would that be?
If the sun don't shine tomorrow
Well what difference would that be?

Sometimes I feel a good feeling
And oh, the blues gets a hold on me
Oh, I get a good feeling sometimes but, ah
The blues gets a hold on me

I know that Death don't have no mercy
In this land
I know Death don't have no mercy
In this land

But look out-- he's just a passenger, baby
Ah, I'm the conductor, man
Yeah, look out, he's just a passenger
I'm the conductor, man

Forty long nights I've been riding
Riding on this Hell-bound train
Forty nights I've been riding
Riding on this Hell-bound train, yeah

Station to station
Woah, it's a crying shame
Yo, oh, oh, lord--
Oh, it's a crying shame
Yo, look out, oh
It's a crying shame
Oh, lord
If you don't know where you're going
Better stay at home, woah...

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[YOIBEJONI1]

"COMIN THRU" was such a highly underated album, because the wrong songs

and /or cuts were pushed on radio.. This is DINO'S voice at it's best and

and an instrument in and of itself!! I love MARK RYAN on the bass here!

And GARY lays down a great funky blues riff!!! One of my favorites!!

[SpaceJapes]

@YOIBEJONI1 yeah, they're great together

[SpainishArcher]

What a great QMS song !

Such a groove the bass lays down .

I've never heard this song before. ..anyone know what Album it is on ?

Thanks for posting such a fine piece of work.

Love Dino's voice and words .

[SpaceJapes]

@SpainishArcher yeah, i love this one. it's on their 1972 album Comin' Thru, along with another song ("Mojo") featuring a wonderful bassline from david freiberg-- and an awesome bass solo at 3:36 (it's on youtube)

you're quite welcome for posting this! i'm just glad that anyone still likes this music!

[Eesgrampa]

GREAT SONG! tks for posting ... why isn't Duncan recognized as one of the guitar greats? dig his interaction with the horn section and his solo ...

[SpaceJapes]

no problem! and i agree, duncan's work is great...

[Eesgrampa]

Spacejapes, some of the lyrics are ... 'but my day is black as night' ... and after sometimes i get a good feeling - 'the blues gets a hold of me' ... and after he's just a passenger baby - "i'm the conductor man, yeah look out he's just a passenger, i'm the conductor man' imo ...

[shakerson]

Great song drunk or sober... but drunk (or stoned) it is fucking amazing.

[Southerntredkill]

This is one of those albums where the B-side was so much better than the A-side.The ass on this record is fabulous. The critics never made it passed the second track, most of the band had already quit, and to think some asshole critic on Amazon said this album is terrible and will never grow on you! :0

This album rocks!

[gondoman1]

got to see the Comin Thru Tour at the academy of Music NYC what a show it was

how bout 3 min guitar into to doing time in the USA with driving beat Ryan and Chuckie Steaks were laying down, the whole show was smokin, saw em again about 6 times after that and were never that good as that night!!

[NickKostalas]

oh man, thanks a ton!! i'll go update it now!!