Sunday Samples 128

Gin Blossoms’ major-label breakthrough, New Miserable Experience came out in 1992, while I was still in middle school. There were a whole group of us who really liked the album, but I don’t think any of us realized why until much later on. It leads off with one of the few songs on the album not to be released as a single: “Lost Horizons”.

The last horizons I can see
Are filled with bars and factories
And in them all we fight to stay awake

I’d drink enough of anything
To make this world look new again
I’m drunk, drunk, drunk in the gardens and the graves

She had nothing left to say
So she said she loved me
I stood there grateful for the lie

I’d drink enough of anything
To make this girl look new again
I’m drunk, drunk, drunk in the gardens and the graves

Turn summer trees to bones and ice
Turn insect songs against the night
With words we build and words we break
I’m drunk, drunk, drunk in the gardens and the graves

Maybe I could use you
To reassure myself
I wouldn’t wish this indecision
On anybody else

I’d drink enough of anything
To make this world look new again
And when the sin smiles, how could it be wrong?

The last horizons I could see
Are now resigned to memories
I never thought I’d still be here today

I’d drink enough of anything
To make myself look new again
I’m drunk, drunk, drunk in the gardens and the graves