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

The love cry of the traveling man goes
No one knows who I am
But Im as priceless as a brass ring
Thats losing the heat from your hand
A quiet man sits quietly learning his lesson
The slwo smooth wheel of disintegration
You dont want them to talk to you
No you dont want to take part
You say, just get me back to the leper colony
cause thats where you left my heart.
I feel time pass by like a joy no medicine can preserve somewhere along the line I lost my nerve
Maybe Im almost there
Give me the keys to your theme park
Bury me under your layer of snow
And watch me ride all the rides
Around and around I go
I dont know if Ive reached the bottom yet
And I dont know if the ice has finally begun to set
I feel time pass like a joy I tried so hard to relearn
But somewhere along the line
I passed the point of no return
Maybe Im almost there
The love cry of the traveling man goes
No one knows who I am
But Im as priceless as a brass ring
That lost the heat from your hand