Take some salt and sugar and rub it in your eyes: "Candleland (The Second Coming)" by Ian McCulloch · Jul 13, 02:05 PM by Don
I’ve been listening to a lot of Echo & The Bunnymen lately. I recently bought the 2003 reissues of Crocodiles and Heaven Up Here. Those dominated the car stereo for two weeks. Two days ago, I received in the mail a “like new” used copy of Echo singer Ian McCulloch’s solo single, “Candleland.” The chorus hook is subtle, but insidious. After one listen, my wife and I found ourselves singing and/or humming the hook for the rest of the day. In a 1990 interview with Dave Kendall on MTV’s 120 Minutes show, McCulloch had this to say about the purpose of songwriting:
“There’s a lot of things that go into the writing of a song, and if people want to draw more than you’ve actually put in from a song, that’s fine. But basically your writing to have a nice tune, to not sound stupid, and hopefully give a little bit of who you are to somebody else.”
mp3: Ian McCulloch – Candleland (The Second Coming) (Featuring Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins) (Extended Version) :: from the “Candleland (The Second Coming)” compact disc maxi-single (1990)
Lyrics:
Get your handful of remembrance
For you to sprinkle through your life
In between the penance
That you carry by your side
With the make-believe and miracles
That only come alive
In Candleland, Candleland
Wear your guilt like skin
And keep your sins disguised
Take some salt and sugar
And rub it in your eyes
You’ll know that somethings left you
Just as you arrive
In Candleland, Candleland
I walked back inside me
I’d gone back for my youth
As I came down the fire escape
It must have stayed up on the roof
They say you just know
And that knowing is the proof
Of Candleland, Candleland
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