Graham Nash Songs - Wild Tales Lyrics

Graham Nash - Wild Tales

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Album: Wild Tales
Released: 1974

Wild Tales Lyrics

You came over here with Wild Tales from the East
About the floods that are rushing 'round your door
About your old lady who up and walked away from your feast,

So you flew your bike over Highway 1
You were lucky to land on your feet
And you started crying 'cause you bent the key,
But it was your lady that landed underneath.

And it is alright
Take it as it comes
You will find a way
To get there.

So tell me your company's being reviewed,
By the people that sit on the stand,
And you tell me your factory's been renewed,
With computers instead of hands.

So you filmed Old faithful in super-8
And you monitored all of her calls
Cause you caught the milkman with double-cream
He was delivering down your halls.

But its all right
Take it as it comes
You will find a way
To get there.

Writer/s: NASH
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP
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Wild Tales Song Chart

Nash expected the Wild Tales album to chart higher than #34 on the Billboard 200 and blamed Atlantic Records for not promoting it enough. He would leave the label shortly after and sign on to ABC Records with partner David Crosby.

Sound engineer Don Gooch: "'Wild Tales' is based on a couple of real stories, in particular the milkman part ('Cause you caught the milkman with double cream, he was delivering down your halls') was part of a story that someone Graham had met had related and it was so bizarre he wrote the song around it. A lot of the other songs are based on his personal experiences and may be too personal to divulge." (thanks, DeeTheWriter - Saint Petersburg, Russia Federation)

The album's darker tone is often attributed to the murder of Nash's girlfriend Amy Gossage, but that didn't occur until over a year after it was released. It was actually his breakups with Rita Coolidge (who'd previously left his CSNY bandmate Stephen Stills to be with him) and Joni Mitchell (who'd had a love affair with bandmate David Crosby) that put him in a somber mood. Mitchell contributed vocals on another of the album's tracks, "Another Sleep Song."

Nash borrowed the song/album title for his 2013 memoir, Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll Life.