Yesterday's News
Author: Ryan Adams / Phil Wandscher
Studio Versions: 2 -- FS Re-Issue Version / SA Version

Official Appearance:

Strangers Almanac-- Whiskeytown
Yesterday's News [Single] -- Whiskeytown
Faithless Street (Reissue) -- Whiskeytown

Unofficial Appearance:

 N/A
Notes: Ryan Adams interview:  "Like "Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight," this is the original recording and the definitive version. It sounds younger and freer than the one on Strangers Almanac, a little bit faster and louder. That was our Big Star phase. I played through a Vox amp at [producer] Chris Stamey’s request. Phil put a space-echo on the solo, and he talks underneath me in the choruses. The singing is better on the original. The lyric is a little different, too. There’s a line in this one that’s not in the Strangers Almanac version. It says, "I can be serious now," which is strange, because I don’t remember why I said that. I had just written the song when we recorded it with Chris for the Baseball Park Sessions. The person it was about was still fresh in my mind. Some of the lines, like "Wait a minute/ See, the pieces don’t fit this time," came a lot later and weren’t recorded until we did Strangers Almanac."

Played Live:

 08/18/96 01/18/97 01/26/98 12/31/99 03/17/00
03/14/97 02/06/98 09/17/00
03/24/97 02/08/98
03/26/97 02/11/98
03/28/97 02/12/98
04/03/97 02/19/98
04/05/97 02/24/98
07/19/97 02/25/98
08/12/97 02/27/98
08/13/97 03/07/98
08/14/97 03/18/98
08/21/97 03/20/98
08/22/97 03/21/98
08/29/97 03/24/98
09/05/97 03/25/98
09/06/97 03/27/98
09/11/97 03/28/98
09/12/97 04/02/98
09/13/97 04/09/98
09/16/97 04/11/98
09/17/97 04/28/98
09/21/97 04/29/98
10/21/97 04/30/98
10/25/97 05/05/98
10/26/97 05/06/98
10/29/97 05/09/98
10/30/97 06/09/98
11/01/97 06/15/98
11/03/97 06/16/98
11/06/97 09/01/98
09/04/98
09/06/98
09/08/98
09/09/98
09/10/98
09/17/98
10/01/98
10/02/98
12/20/98
Notes: “This song is about this place that I used to hang out in Raleigh, North Carolina called the Comet that Van Alston owns.  It’s a mighty fine place to go and have a cocktail.”  Ryan Adams,  December 31, 1999.

Lyrics:  

Well traveling to the point
That I can't stop it
Get so familiar
Never get enough
Talk about it all the time
Just drop it
Damage in your pretty little eyes says it all

I can't stand to be under your wing
I can't fly or sink or swim
It's a lot like falling down
Standing up, and I'm falling down
Fill my cup 'til I understand
Wait a minute, see the pieces don't fit this time

Well, yesterday's news is what I have been reading
See you at the Comet and I end up needing
Know if you were thinking it could have been
It was nothing it's cause nothing's what you did

I can't stand to be under your wing
I can't fly or sink or swim
It's a lot like falling down
Standing up, and I'm falling down
Fill my cup 'til I understand
Wait a minute, see the pieces don't fit this time

Well I can't stand to be under your wing
I can't fly or sink or swim
It's a lot like falling down
I'm standing up, falling down
Fill my cup 'til I understand
Wait a minute, see the pieces don't fit this time

 

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