soul merchants

http://www.myspace.com/soulmerchants85


I am so completely excited to find this band once again! I have searched many times without success but finally found them on Myspace. I was disappointed that the song "Just One More Favor" wasn't on their page so I checked iTunes and I almost cried when I saw it there. I purchased it immediately. It's so appealing to my melancholic sensibility. I own the album on Vinyl, which is in LA. I also have a copy of the song on tape and before I moved to NY I listened to it while driving through the desert during a road trip.



A former pen pal of mine in the 80's had introduced me to them and she was also in a band called "Nobody" and she sent me a mix tape with tons of different goth bands and also a song of hers, I believe which was also called, "Nobody" and I can still hear it in my memory. I have it on that cassette in my LA storage…



My cool ex pen-pal. I forget her name…Debbie maybe?

It's so funny how a song can haunt you. And the meaning of the lyrics…they're so ambiguous. I remember creating my own meaning to them. On the record version of the song (or was it the tape?) there was the sound of childrens' muffled laughter which was both sweet and chilling.

Here is what I transcribed for the lyrics. They could be wrong.

Just One More Favor

So silently tucked away…my dreams came to me flowing through my system once again.
Can't wait wake my sleepy head, the fun has just begun.
Adventure seeking hero sees the end (???)

The ambulance waits at the door. Please don't let them in.
I won't share my thoughts with anyone.

I'm asking one more favor.
One more favor from you.
I'm begging down on broken knees.

So silently tucked away…my dreams came to me flowing through my system once again.
Can't wait wake my sleepy head, the fun has just begun.
Adventure seeking hero sees the end (???)


I found this footage on YouTube.



You can purchase their album here:
Smooch Records