Mercury Rev- Silver Street

Deserter's Songs is the fourth studio album by the Buffalo, New York-based rock band Mercury Rev, released in late September 1998. British music magazine NME named Deserter's Songs album of the year for 1998. Limited edition copies of the album came in a brown cardboard envelope-like package, with a stamp on the cover postmarked with the release date, as well as two art postcards.

The success of this album was a pleasant surprise for the band. After the commercial failure of See You on the Other Side, which Donahue considered to be the band's best album, they decided to make one more record entirely for themselves, ignoring commercial influences, and expecting to split up shortly afterward. Surprisingly, Deserter's Songs was their most successful album, and made them big celebrities in the UK and Europe, also making a smaller mark in the US.

The hidden track at the end of "Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp" is played on the Tettix Wave Accumulator, an instrument built by Donahue and Grasshopper. Reportedly, two versions of the instrument exist--one for recording that takes up half of Grasshopper's basement, and a smaller one for the road.

A 10th anniversary edition of the album[1] was rumored to be released on March 5, 2007, but never came to fruition. Mercury Rev released their seventh studio album Snowflake Midnight on Deserter's Songs' actual 10-year anniversary, September 29, 2008.

The song "Holes" was used in the 2000 film Panic, starring William H. Macy and Neve Campbell.

Upon the album's release, a 6-track promo EP was issued, featuring covers recorded as B-sides from live recording sessions:

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[flaps1000]

Have this in my favourites on the iPod. Beautiful song.

[roncronton]

Such a beautiful song,blew me away first time i heard it,thanks for uploading and sharing the wealth!

[VintageandUsed]

I moved out from the Bible Belt

And down to Silver Street

Victorian oasis in the afternoon

The place we always used to meet

The girls there, they're all dressed in powder blue

They're always crawling through my hair

Jodie, she's as pretty as your mother used to be

With her dark lantern stare.

You just don't know.

You just don't know.

[VintageandUsed]

Black velvet jacket and a hat of antique lace

She moved down to Silver Street

Kisses like rings of the purest uncut gold

I couldn't help but see her face

The girl with the leather in her shoes

She's always crawling through my hair

Jodie, she's as pretty as your mother used to be

Oh, as pretty as mother used to be.

[VintageandUsed]

You just don't know. You just don't know. I moved out from the Bible Belt And down to Silver Street Couldn't help but cry just to see her there The place we always used to meet The girls there, they're all dressed in powder blue They're always crawling through my hair Jodie, she's as pretty as your mother used to be As pretty as mother used to be Just as pretty as we used to be We're just as pretty as we used to be Just you and me.

[MrZivram]

somebody know where can i find the original song?& where can i find the EP?