Back to Basom
"Back to Basom" is a song by Ween from the 2000 album White Pepper.
Song Details[edit | edit source]
The lead vocals are sung by Gene Ween. Glenn McClelland plays keyboards, Claude Coleman plays drums, and Dave Dreiwitz plays bass.[1]
"Back to Basom" was written probably sometime in 1998, and was played live for the first time on New Years Eve of that year.[2] An early demo recording can be heard on the bootleg Long Beach Island Tape, as well as an alternate version found on the bootleg White Pepper Demos[3]
Beginning in the summer of 1999, Ween began playing "Back to Basom" live frequently, and it has remained a somewhat common live Ween song ever since.[4] A 7/7/2000 recording from the White Pepper tour is heard on the album Live at Stubb's. In addition, Gene Ween has played the song a few times at solo acoustic shows.[5]
Basom is a small hamlet/town located in Western New York.
Lyrics[edit | edit source]
Reaching out now and I touch your face
Please believe I'm only travelling
Like seeking wonder from a foreign place
It matters not from where I'm coming
And the snow, so light, is bleeding
We sleep so tight when we're breathing
Calm a little pint of soul, creeping
Calm the light
Let me fly
Back to Basom
(Call is waiting, contemplate a thread already spun)
Calm the light
Let me fly
Back to Basom
(Should you carry what you are, it's cooked up 'til it's done)
Left to locate the last trace of waste
I picked it up and it was smiling
Just like the dancer who has lost her leg
She laughs alone but then she's crying
And the snow, so light, is bleeding
We sleep so tight when we're breathing
Calm a little pint of soul, creeping
Calm the light
Let me fly
Back to Basom
(Call is waiting, contemplate a thread already spun)
Calm the light
Let me fly
Back to Basom
(Should you carry what you are, it's cooked up 'til it's done)
Song Themes[edit | edit source]
Love, Sung by Gene Ween, Waste