kam 1989 auf dem Album Doolittle der Pixies, das heute als eines der besten Alternative Alben aller Zeiten gilt.

It's about winos and hobos traveling on the trains, who die in the California Earthquake. Before earthquakes, everything gets very calm—animals stop talking and birds stop chirping and there's no wind. It's very ominous.

I've been through a few earthquakes, actually, 'cause I grew up in California. I was only in one big one, in 1971. I was very young and I slept through it. I've been awake through lots of small ones at school and at home. It's very exciting actually—a very comical thing. It's like the earth is shaking, and what can you do? Nothing.

Original



Credits: idontknough

Und eine akustische Version.

Cover

Eine sehr ähnliche Version der chilenischen Alternative Rocker von Los Bunkers:



Credits: nerco

Ein wenig punkiger von Samiam:



Credits: Marcelodoido98

Und deutlich härter von Baby Blue Elephant, sorry für die schlechte Qualität:



Credits: xlnoise

Eine Version mit Streichern vom String Quartet.

Eine Version mit Xylophonen von Mike Baiardi.

Lyrics

outside there's a box car waiting
outside the family stew
out by the fire breathing
outside we wait 'til face turns blue
i know the nervous walking
i know the dirty beard hangs
out by the box car waiting
take me away to nowhere plains
there is a wait so long
here comes your man

big shake on the box car moving
big shake to the land that's falling down
is a wind makes a palm stop blowing
a big, big stone fall and break my crown
there is a wait so long
you'll never wait so long
here comes your man
there is a wait so long
you'll never wait so long
here comes your man