Song of the Day #82

[urgencytobleed]

Song of the Day



My Brightest Diamond - Gone Away

Far away you've gone and left me here
So cold without you, so lonely, dear
May, June, July, I count the time
Every minute I go takes the smell of your clothes further away

'Cause you've gone away
Where there isn't a telephone wire
Still I wait by the phone
You don't even write to say goodbye

I have saved every piece of paper
Like grocery lists and old cards, to-do lists and race scores
So just in case you change your mind
And come back I've kept everything safe

While you're gone away
Where there isn't a telephone wire
Still I wait by the phone
You don't even write to say goodbye

Get me out, get me off
Get me out, get me off

For this is a ride going nowhere but somewhere that I despise
Going nowhere to end up with a tearful eye
I don't want to go on with these pieces of paper
That you've left behind

For this is a ride going nowhere but somewhere that I despise
Going nowhere to end up with a tearful eye
I don't want to go on with these pieces of paper
To keep me company in my old age

While you're gone away
Where there isn't a telephone wire
Still I wait by the phone
Why don't you write to say goodbye?

I kind of wrote this song off as boring for a very long time. I do that with slower songs a lot because they don't tend to hit me as quickly as more upbeat songs do. Now I realize that, though the first half of this song is very slow and languid and molasses-like, it's the farthest thing from boring in the world. However, I do still enjoy the last part of the song ("For this is a ride going nowhere...") the most, where it picks up a bit. Shara's voice there just completely transforms from pretty to intense and emotional and huge. It gives me chills it's such a fantastic pay-off for the very slow build-up that leads into it. The emotions she can wring out of her voice just amaze me to no end, never mind the fact that her voice technically is extremely impressive as well.

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P.S. Go download "Golden Star" if you haven't, too. That's my other favorite song from this album currently.

Comments

[sstarss.livejournal.com]

this is one of my favorite songs on the album, too. it makes me sad, though. it's so heavy and grief-ridden.

just one nit-pick -- isn't it "race scores," not "race cars"?

[urgencytobleed.livejournal.com]

Most likely. "Race cars" doesn't really make sense but I was too lazy to actually look up the lyrics to see if they were right.

[sstarss.livejournal.com]

i'm so smart.

why aren't you online??