The WELL: deadsongs.vue.91: He's Gone

#4: David Gans (tnf) Sun 4 Dec 05 17:09

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 17:09:00 PST

#3: Christian Crumlish (xian) Sun 4 Dec 05 16:36

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:36:00 PST

Wasn't there a Billy Idol song called "Eyes without a Face"? [Read entire topic]

#2: from DR PAUL SMITH (tnf) Sun 4 Dec 05 15:57

Sun, 04 Dec 2005 15:57:00 PST

Dr. Paul Smith writes:

Well, there's always the risk that in my ignorance, I'm rehashing something that's been mentioned countless times already, but... I'm surprised to see that in the discussion of the line "Steal your face right off your head" in He's Gone, there's no mention of French director George Franju's 1959 Cinema fantastique classic "Les yeux sans visage" ("Eyes without a face"). It's about a doctor who, yes, steals faces from young women in order to graft them onto the destroyed face of his daughter. She was terribly disfigured in an accident that he caused.

It's a particularly timely film right now in light of last week's apparently successful face transplant by French doctors.

Dr. Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee [Read entire topic]

#1: Alex Allan (alexallan) Thu 4 Sep 03 19:13

Thu, 04 Sep 2003 19:13:00 PDT

He's Gone Lyrics: Robert Hunter Music: Jerry Garcia

Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission.

Rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb You know better, but I know him

Like I told you, like I said Steal your face right off your head

Chorus And now he's gone Now he's gone, Lord he's gone He's gone Like a steam locomotive rolling down the track He's gone, gone, and nothing's gonna bring him back He's gone

Nine mile skid on a ten mile ride Hot as a pistol but cool inside

Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile

[chorus]

Going where the wind don't blow so strange Maybe off on some high cold mountain range Lost one round but the price wasn't anything A knife in the back and more of the same

Same old Rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb You know better, but I know him

Like I told you, like I said Steal your face right off your head

[chorus]

Ooh, nothing's gonna bring him back Ooh, nothing's gonna bring him back Ooh, nothing's gonna bring him back [etc] [Read entire topic]

#0: David Dodd (ddodd) Wed 3 Sep 03 12:55

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:55:00 PDT

He's Gone w: Hunter m: Garcia AGDL: http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/gone.html LASF: http://www.whitegum.com/songfile/HE1SGONE.HTM [Read entire topic]