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Even after "Eileen" has faded out into sympathetic serenity, the best of the disc is far from over. The next track is a live take of "Gimme Shelter." Many will remember it as the lead-off on "Let It Bleed," the album that blared, "THIS RECORD SHOULD BE PLAYED LOUD" on the inside cover...
Sweet's penchant for infusing his lyrics with religious images is evident on Knowing People, in which he asks, "Are you made like God/ When you start to bleed/ Do you really know/ What it is to breathe?," and on Evergreen, where he declares, "You started to pray/ But all your prayers they brought no answer/ Your faith...
...other topic as our troubled millennium ticks away) civilization is banging and whimpering toward its well-deserved end. The characters are Kraft, a harried, too sensitive surgeon-in-training; Espera, a gallant nurse; and an appalling procession of dying children. The doomed kids arrive by ambulance and taxi, bleeding from gunshot wounds, septic with cancers both physical and psychological, withering from every disease in the manual. Kraft prunes and hacks and catheterizes; Espera listens and comforts; the children bleed and expire...
...obscene." The haunting, slow-tempo Yellow Brown recalls the cyberpunk film Blade Runner; synthesizer bass notes drip like fat raindrops, and the sounds of droning machinery resonate. Edwards laments ecological destruction caused by technology: "In the city air, in all our seas, you can see every other color bleed into/ Yellow brown. There's nothing to save us from ourselves...
...really caught fire against Cornell. The Davenport, Iowa native burned the Big Red (she sure did make 'em bleed) for a season-high 31 points. And Maher asserted her dominance in the Ivy League and the country from behind the arc. She hit five of the six treys she put up and knocked down all 10 of her freethrows to boot...