![]() ![]() ![]() So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.Introducing Pin Drop: a revolutionary tool for field canvassing teams looking to build a comprehensive and accurate database from scratch. Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other: "Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet" I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines: This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. It’s such a wonderfully rich sound.” Reason: I’ll put anything through a Leslie - guitars, keyboards, vocals. A lot of people associate them with the past, but I think it’s a timeless sound. This time we fed it through a Leslie cabinet. “Guthrie plays another extraordinary solo towards the end. ![]() I was thinking of Nick when I did the vocals. They both sing in a dramatic way that I love. I was very inspired by a singer called Nick Harper - he's the son of Roy Harper. I tried something a bit different: I opened up my throat and sang in a less contained, less controlled way. ![]() “With this band, I’ve been able to concentrate more on being a singer. The sound of a pin dropping on a floor can be the thing that instigates the fury. “The idea is that sometimes in a relationship there can be so much tension, so much unspoken resentment and hatred, that the tiniest thing can set off a violent episode, and in this case, one that ends in tragedy. She’s dead, she’s been thrown in the river by the husband, and she’s floating down in the river while singing this song - from beyond death, beyond the grave, as it were. They’re both songs about the idea of inertia or spaces within marriage it's the concept that you can be with someone because it’s comfortable and convenient, not because there’s any love or empathy. “Lyrically, it’s one of two songs, consecutively on the record, about marriages or relationships gone wrong - The Watchmaker being the other one. We did the most takes of this song than any other. There’s really only one or two musical motifs in it, so it’s all about the way it’s layered and structured. It’s all about the dynamics and sustained sense of tension and release. “In some ways, it’s one of the simplest pieces on the record, but it was also the hardest to get right. I tried to be the way that he wanted me to be I am tired of struggling and the rain is beating down on me Love intersecting a rift that will break us apart Carried away by the river that passes through bulrushes on to the seaĭragged by the current to rest on the stakes of the breakwater shaded by trees ![]()
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