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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In The Shadow Of The Valley Lyrics

American Music Club

I gave up my cynicism I gave up my hard shell
I gave up everything that would cause you the least pain
Im immodest as a child old before its time
Why should I hide something Ive no chance to see
My night was sleepless so all through my day
I took the next shade of weariness down to la
Im off like a shotgun out of your reach
My self-importance my mind-numbing haze
No I dont want to know about my life
No I dont want to know what Im thinking or feeling
Ignorance is bliss but babe we wont stay that way
Well escape heaven somehow down in la
I can make your future easier to predict
Hot as a devil and cold as an addict
People usually just make me tired
The plague of always deserving something better
God save me from the rewards I deserve
The one for giving up hope the on for the love that I serve
If I opened my heart then youd be washed away
Down the bone-dry rivers that drain la
My nights are all sleepless so all through my day
I like to take shades of weariness all through la