American Music Club(often abbreviated AMC) is a San Francisco-based band led by singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel. They've been recording and playing in SF clubs since the mid 1980's, showing a remarkable longevity for a band that has been far more critically acclaimed than financially successful. Although commonly lumped with other bands from the " slowcore" and " sadcore" movements, like the Red House Painters, AMC is better known for mastering the disparate strands of American music into a wholly unique synthesis all their own. Although born in California, frontman Mark Eitzel spent his formative years in Great Britain and Ohio before returning to the Bay Area in 1980. After a brief stint with the punk band he founded American Music Club in 1983 with guitarist Vudi, bassist , keyboardist Brad Johnson, and drummer .
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American Music Club

Gary tell me why the leaves on the trees
Are falling this early as the spring
Why the leaves on the trees that are falling on us
Are like the words to the song
Ive lived my whole life to sing
If you swim too much youll drown
If we sit here and drink enough beer
Well be two inflatable dolls in a hookers bad dream
When the storm reaches us well be two blind drunks
Whove absorbed through the skin
A whole lifetime of kerosene
If you drink too much you will dream
And the shame of my life is watching you
Gary, I think weve worn out our welcome
Theyre waiting for us to leave
Gary, theyve got a new kind of person
A newer, stronger, cleaner breed
And I think I just came in my pants
Oh baby do you want to dance
Everything collapses here, slow motion
And the roots of the dance and the stain in my pants
Are beyond any small mans conception
If you drink too much you will drown
And the shame of my life is watching you drown