| Bonnie Raitt – I Can't Make You Love Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| it seems like the ultimate song for females wanting love and males just wanting sex, but it may interest you all to know a man wrote this song! But it's Bonnie Riatt's delivery, the slow tempo, and Bruce Hornsby's awesome piano playing, that really turn this song from good to great. I don't perceive the other person in this song as callous or a user, that person wants to love the narrator but doesn't. The narrator understands the other is a good person but simply doesn't love him/her. this song really affects me because in a relationship i was the person Bonnie is singing about. I felt really bad and still do about that. | |
| Bruce Hornsby – Mandolin Rain Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Bluegrass music, which Hornsby grew up with and has recorded, was developed by a mandolin player called Bill Monroe. The mandolin still plays an important part in traditional bluegrass music. In this song the narrator is listening to a bluegrass band and it takes him back to a time in his youth when he was in a relationship with a girl. Basically Hornsby paints a picture of a band playing in a tent by a lake i.e. very traditional folk america and couples it with pain we all feel about that first love which got away. I think that the nostalgic image of old America - bluegrass, steamboat - ties in brilliantly with nostalgia for young romance. I was very young when this song came out but it lodged in my subconsciousness. When i heard it again for the first time in my early 20's i actually cried, it triggered something in me. Cheers Bruce, one of the best musicians of our time. |
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