� Rhinestone Cowboy 3:28

 
Originally released: This track was only played live

Cover version by: Glenn Campbell

 
I've been walking these streets so long
singing the same old song
I know every crack in these dirty sidewalks of Broadway
where hustle's the name of the game
and nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain

there's been a load of compromising
on the road to my horizon
but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me

like a rhinestone cowboy
riding out on a horse
in a star spangled rodeo
like a rhinestone cowboy

getting cards and letters from people I don't even know
and offers coming over the phone
well I really don't mind the rain
and a smile can hide all the pain
but you're down when you're riding the train
that's taking the long way
and I dream of the things I'll do
with a subway token and a dollar tucked inside my shoe
there'll be a load of compromising
on the road to my horizon
but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me

like a rhinestone cowboy
riding out on a horse in a star spangled rodeo
rhinestone cowboy

getting cards and letters from people I don't even know
and offers coming over the phone

like a rhinestone cowboy
riding out on a horse in a star spangled rodeo
like a rhinestone cowboy

getting cards and letters from people I don't even know
like a rhinestone cowboy

 

A cover of Glenn Cambell's hit Rhinestone Cowboy, I have to say I'm impressed with Radiohead. Anyone who has heard the original, will know it is one of the most cringeworthy, awful piece of countrified cowboy crap that you will ever have the misfortune to hear. But Radiohead make it listenable. It's still not the track you're going to have on repeat day after day. But it's not going to make you consider suicide either. Maybe I'm being a bit harsh. The lads never recorded this, it's only available live.