Broken Chairs; Built to Spill

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“But what about Neil Young? The last track on Keep It Like a Secret, ‘Broken Chairs’, contains mighty, Crazy Horse-style riffs, slurring guitar solos and Martsch’s sweeping high-end vocals that, if you close your eyes and try hard enough, will remind you of a certain Transformer Man.

“‘Actually, now that I think about it, that song totally reminds me of a Neil Young song’, Martsch said. ‘It sounded more like Neil Young when I first wrote it, though. The rhythm guitar part that you can barely hear was in a different key and was a little stronger. I thought the melody was pretty Neil Young-ie, but by the time it was recorded, it didn’t remind me of Neil Young at all.

“Martsch said he’s been more influenced by Dinosaur Jr.’s J. Mascus, who also was ‘pretty Neil Young-ie’.”


Broken Chairs your body conforms to
Out beyond the quieted garden
You can bring the man form into trust
Through the holes in my everydayness
Lends sustenance where starvation's necessary
Cause my head's a dictionary
Of long spring days and the speech of crows
Who themselves are mirrors of apprehensions
In the fallen sun

Where starvation's necessary
Cause my head's a dictionary
Of long spring days and the speech of crows
Who themselves are mirrors of apprehensions
In the fallen sun
Who themselves are mirrors of apprehensions
In the fallen sun

Well, alright
You can make it stay
Well, alright
Well, alright
Well, alright
You can make it stay
Well, alright
Alright
Alright
Well, alright
Alright
Alright