| Brooke Waggoner – Heal for the Honey Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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>>HOW COME NO ONE HAS COMMENTED ON THIS AMAZING SONG!???!!!<< Good question, but I don't know if it ever got radio play or not, so maybe that would have something to do with it. It's funny, I know nothing about "new" (newish to me, I was so surprised to find it has existed for about nine years!) songs any more unless they are on a TV show. I know, I should be embarrassed, but it is what it is. Heal For the Honey was used, along with a lot of other stuff I am so grateful to have now, on the first season of the show "Pretty Little Liars", and I was watching that from the beginning 2 days ago and just HAD to find this song! (Thank you Spotify, if I have to sell all of my shoes to keep you, I shall. And I am very fond of my shoes) - I had trouble at first, it was really hard to hear the lyrics, and I just pulled out every one I could hear, threw it on Google a few times and finally found it :) I am still really curious about the title - as a Tori Amos fan from before... well, anyone in my state probably knew who she was, I am used to beautiful, musically evocative songs with lyrics that don't really make a ton of sense, but I'm still curious! I like the first reviewer's thoughts about the song because it did what it was supposed to do - it drew out what you *feel* about the song. You started by trying to literally interpret the words, to explain why she is "poised and unrefined"... but as someone who listens and reads carefully what people say, I can tell that it became personal and your (sorry to change tense there) words started to just tumble out, no editing your thoughts or trying to "get it right"! I LOVE that. That is what a great song does - it starts the listener on a path, then there is often a merge, maybe, where it stops being about the lyrics and is so much more about how it makes you feel. This song doesn't have a lot of lyrics, it isn't really telling us a long story. I think this: "Points of light Shootin' through the tree-stained vines It draws me in To catch a fistful of wind and chime But all day long I heal for the honey Waitin' for the one I love The noons are hot with heartache aplenty I'm lovesick and undone" shows that this person recognizes beauty, knows she should pay attention to the light, which does draw her in for a bit... then the word BUT, which tells us something is crowding out other thoughts, and she is very aware of that and makes no apologies. I also love that this starts out tentatively, in a "can I trust you with this?" to the listener. So many songs these days just start out being practically yelled at us from note one, that no story is told, no emotion has time to grow... but as we listen, we hear this emotion grow and become so large, it gets louder and is just Truth. "I'm undone, I'm undone, I'm undone!" - and that is just what is happening. This song is real and truthful and I feel like this is a person who is trying to stay calm or polite or whatever, but eventually the emotion wins and we get the truth. Lovesick and undone. I like that word choice, we don't use it in "American English" much, so it packs more of a punch for me, for lack of far better phrase. I think we can all imagine what being undone means. I don't know exactly what she is waiting for, maybe she doesn't - that isn't the overarching theme, for me at least. When you are lovesick, there is no medicine. You're just undone, and she has opened her heart to us and let it spill out. Very real, and very beautiful. The musicians here (I hate to talk about the... "man behind the screen", but I love the instrumentation in this song, so hopefully it adds to, rather than detracts, from the mood) are incredible - the music and lyrics combine to give us what we get. I have heard the word "haunting" for Brooke as a singer, but I don't find this "haunting". It's not dead. We have to be alive to be lovesick. Very evocative. |
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