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| From | "floatingunder" <underthefloat@msn.com> |
| Subject | Narrative songs-- was Re: The Clientele |
| Date | Thu, 10 May 2007 21:36:22 -0000 |
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One more post related to The Clientele from me.
On "Strange Geometry" the final song is called "Losing Haringey".
It's this nice song but instead of singing the lyrics, the vocals are
more a narrative and spoken over the music. I heard the song a few
times and really enjoyed it. THEN I listened carefully to the lyrics
and just fell in love with the song.
"Losing Haringey" seems to be a story of the narrator's looking
back at a bleak time in his life ( snip--"Everything in my life felt
like it was coming to a mysterious close. I could hardly walk to the
end of a street without feeling there was no way to go except back").
His wandering around, feeling worn out, sitting down and having this
very fleeting but emotional moment in time, where the surroundings
(trees, stars, benches) outside remind him of and in fact, in his
fatigue, place him IN an old "underexposed photograph" taken by his
mother from 1982. This time warp creates a nostalgic but palatable
shift in mood, pre the current troubles in his life. The moment is
sad but yet he hangs onto it for the short moment it lasts.
I can't do it justice. For me, it's like trying to describe an
ocean wave. Not able to really capture it. Anyway, it seems like a
very well written and evocative (not pretentiously) song that hits a
personal, emotional and quietly transcendent moment. And then it's
gone.
The first times I recall this experience was listening to The
Velvet Underground and listening to "The Gift" for the first time and
THEN really listening to the story as it's darkly humorous story
unfolded.
So, anyone else have songs that come to mind, that jump out for them
on a disc, that are more like narrative stories being told over the
music? Songs where once you really listened to the narrative in the
story you were really taken away.
Best,
Steve D.
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