electronic :: songs :: prodigal son

(electronic)

you may be a star in your own mind
but you’re greatly deluded in mine
i heard reports that you drink
and you take drugs most of the time

and that your life is in danger
and that you were involved in a crime

is it over, is it over
will you come home now
is it over, is it over
don’t you let me down

you’re the architect of your own excess
join the queue at the start of the line
in a wilderness with an empty sky
the clouds are gone and the desert is dry

the prodigal son is returning
he shouldn’t be walking the streets
they tell me that children are starving
he’s got everything that he needs

is it over, is it over
will you come home now
is it over, is it over
is it over now

won’t you come home now
won’t you come home now
won’t you come home now
won’t you come, won’t you come home

won’t you come home now
won’t you come home now
won’t you come home now
won’t you come, won’t you come home

won’t you come home now
won’t you come home now
won’t you come home now
won’t you come, won’t you come home

album version—7:07
come down now (cevin fisher mix)—8:20
harvey’s a star in your own mind mix—10:04
harvey’s greatly deluded mix—3:17
inch remix (touched by the hand of inch)—5:07
two lone swordsmen instrumental—5:35

prodigal son
vivid
twisted tenderness
make it happen
late at night
twisted tenderness::deluxe
get the message: the best of

at a drawn out seven minutes, this is the least tuneful song on the twisted tenderness album and a bit of a curate’s egg. the five remixes that appeared on singles and promos don’t add a great deal to this nascent appeal, and it’s best approached within the context of the lp, where it sits between the more digestible late at night and when she’s gone. all six versions were included on twisted tenderness::deluxe in 2001. .