Monday, February 7, 2011
Waltzing's for Dreamers
See Richard Thompson move from easygoing jokester to heartbreaker in mere moments. Surely the mark of a psychopath. Also watch him tune up mid-solo. This is about as sappy a melody and sentiment as I can handle in a song...at least from people who are not Gods Walking The Earth, which Richard Thompson obviously is. Seek out a studio version; a smidge of gurl harmony really adds to the song cuz you get TWO pathetic losers instead of one.
Words:
Oh play me a blue song and fade down the light
I'm sad as a proud man can be sad tonight
Just let me dream on, oh just let me sway
While the sweet violins and the saxophones play
And Miss, you don't know me, but can't we pretend
That we care for each other, till the band reach the end
One step for aching, and two steps for breaking
Waltzing's for dreamers and losers in love
One step for sighing and two steps for crying
Waltzing's for dreamers and losers in love
Now they say love's for gamblers, oh the pendulum swings
I bet hard on love and I lost everything
So don't send me home now, put a shot in my arm
And we'll drink out old memories and we'll drink in the dawn
And Mr Bandleader won't you play one more time
For I've good folding money in this pocket of mine
Oh, one step for aching, two steps for breaking
Waltzing's for dreamers and losers in love
One step for sighing, and two steps for crying
Waltzing's for dreamers and losers in love
Oh Miss, you don't know me, but can't we pretend
That we care for each other, till the band reach the end
Oh, one step for aching, two steps for breaking
Waltzing's for dreamers and losers in love
One step for sighing, two steps for crying
Waltzing's for dreamers and losers in love
Waltzing's for dreamers and losers in love
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This is about as sappy a melody and sentiment as I can handle in a song...
Funny words coming from Iris DeMent's number one fan.
Speaking of Gods, I found a present for you to balance out all the musical talent.
Already posted at Sadly. You and your mom were busy.
This strikes me as something that would sound much better not live and, yes, with some accompaniment. But...really pretty. I may look it up elsewhere. Also, I'd never heard of this guy.
There has been some discussion here before, plus videos. Arrangements are a mixed blessing: Thompson's kind of an old fogey. There aren't many better songwriters though, fewer guitarists who are as good either acoustic or electric, and I can't think of anybody's who's so good at both at once.
I found it on iTunes and I did enjoy it more there. I felt like I was hearing more of the intricacies of the notes he was playing. But maybe I was just playing closer attention.
It's a pretty song, but, yes, a little on the sappy side, and I think I have a pretty high tolerance for sappy.
I guess if I were searching out a melancholy love (?) song, I'd go with something like this.
I'm too old for Annie Lennox. I remember The Tourists and then The Eurythmics were interesting for an album, and every time I hear her I want her to be doing weirder things than she's doing.
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