Galveston - Sparklehorse

The B-side of Sparklehorse's haunting 2006 single "Don't Take My Sunshine Away" / "Galveston", a cover of the 1969 Jimmy Webb song, later popularized by Glen Campbell. The song describes a soldier waiting to go into battle who thinks of the woman he loves and his hometown of Galveston, Texas: "I still hear your sea waves crashing/as I watch the cannons flashing/ I clean my gun/And dream of Galveston." The song was widely perceived as an anti-Vietnam protest song, but Campbell, a Republican, performed it up-tempo, conveying a more general message. The protagonist is a soldier, as shown in the original promo video with Campbell dressed up in a military outfit. Webb described it as an anti-war song, and sarcastically scoffed at Campbell's version version of his song and the notion that it was in any way a "patriotic song"