singer-songwriter
best known for 1988's Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
, the debut album by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
, which went #4 on the US Albums Chart.
Brickell was born in Oak Cliff
, Dallas, Texas
. She attended high school at the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
in Dallas. She attended Southern Methodist University
for a year and a half. In 1985, she made the decision one night in a bar to get up on stage with a local folk rock
group, New Bohemians. She would join the band as lead singer.
Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave.
He made me mess the song up when I looked at him... We can show the kids the tape and say, "Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other."
I'm not aware of too many things. I know what I know if you know what I mean.
Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box. Religion, is a smile on a dog.
Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.
What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?
The village idiots in her bed Never cared that her eyes were red Never cared that her brain was dead. In the hours that her face was alive It was a thing just to be by her side.
Wheels keep on turning and turning and turning And nothing's disturbing the way they go around.