Pedro the Lion

[Im_A]

Where are the Pedro the Lion fans?

Here are two of my favorite songs off of the Achilles Heel album.

Foregone Conclusions
i don’t want to believe that all of the above is true
but i could be persuaded if you were to give me proof
so why don’t you come over thursday maybe we can talk it through
as if some new information were possible to comprehend or introduce
and after all you and i are nothing more than foregone conclusions
you were to busy steering the conversation toward the lord
to hear the voice of the spirit begging you to shut the **** up
you thought it must be the devil trying to make you go astray
besides it could not have been the lord because you don’t believe he talks that way, too close to call yet we're still so tightly wound around our foregone conclusions.

The Fleecing
deep green hills whose shoulders fade into thick grey
tall wet grass whose flesh makes fools of grazing sheep
whose fleecing makes a fool of me
who shall i blame for this sweet and heavy trouble
for every stupid struggle i don’t know
i could buy you a drink
i could tell you all about it
i could tell you why i doubt it and why i still believe
i can’t say it like i sing it
i can’t sing it like i think it
i can’t think like i feel it
and i don’t feel a thing
...why i still believe it
why i need it
and what the pharisees don't see
and we’d have more drinks
we would speak of so many things
but i don’t know you and you don’t know me

 

[nadroj1985]

Achilles' Heel is a great disc. I got it when I saw them live in the spring, actually. "The Fleecing" is probably my favorite song, although I really like "Bands With Managers" as well.

 

[DMBfanLongliveStrongBad!]

i'm a fan. i bought achilles heel a couple months ago. bands with managers is probably my favorite song on that cd. but i heard some of teh songs on the album Control that i liked better.

 

[Nico]

i like pedro. haven't listened in a while. went through this time where i listened a little too much, and od'd, so i put it on the side for a little while. think i'll listen to him right now, though

 

[onlythundergivesmerest]

Same here. He used to play here in Minnesota about five times a year from like 97 til 2000....I got way too much of him and couldn't listen for a long time. I don't really like Achilles Heel that much though....it doesn't seem as creative, just kind of blends in with all the other indie rock. The song writing is still good though. And I'm not just saying that to do the old pretentious "I like the old stuff but not the new stuff" thing...I hate that...

oh yeah, and as an interesting side note. One time he was playing at a little coffee shop and my friend Jon took a picture, and the picture ended up being kind of cool so he sent it to David Bazaan. Then a few months later I ordered the Hellicopters seven inch which had just come out and there was Jon's picture on the cover. That was kind of cool.

 

[blackwasp]

I'm going to have a friend download some of their songs. I'll let you know what I think here in a couple of days. They are one of the bands that I keep forgetting to lend my ear too.