1989 – Hated Uncles: “Variety Show” cassette
John Harvey (vocals) John Kinsella (music)
1989-12-07 – Rathskellar – McMaster University – Hamilton, ON
Harvey Dog (vocals), Paul Settle (trumpet), John Battaglia (guitar), John Kinsella (bass, vocals)
Lyrics
Walking through life comatose
to everything,
same fucking thing
day after day after day,
You go to work for some obscure reason,
like survival,
and that damn empty feeling
keeps approaching
a little nearer every day.
Apathy approaching alarmingly,
and all I do is sit
like a vegetable
with no reason to wake up,
the days creep by faster and faster
and nothing is accomplished,
and that damn empty feeling
keeps approaching
a little nearer every god-damned day.
Yep,
on a train,
in the rain,
in a hurricane,
I feel no pain,
I’m a little insane.
In a plane,
you killed Michael Caine,
nothing to gain,
I feel no pain,
I’m a little insane.
That damn empty feeling
keeps approaching
a little nearer every god-damned day.
Lyrics Written: 1988
Video
Hated Uncles – That Damn Empty Feeling – Live 1989-12-07 – Rathskellar – McMaster University – Hamilton, ON