Utilities Lyrics
I love this song. I dont know the comp version, but I love love love this version, so I can't imagine one that was better. The images that he constructs here are beautiful and poignant, and I can completely understand the wish to be good for something. Sometimes a person feels useless or like they're contributing nothing, especially when there's so many things wrong in the world, and this is the perfect song to sum up a wish to do more than you feel you're managing. Wishes don't do dishes, or solve world poverty, or stop bombings, but we continue to hope that our wishes do something good.
Guess our wishes Don't do dishes Or brake repairs Make them something Somebody could use
Emotional, real, i love these lyrics, i love this song.
And yet, every time I hear it, I think about quoting them to a friend, and their response being 'why are you quoting this as if it applies to you.'
Maybe I'm the one 'using' people. :/
got more faults than the state of california...wow...is this song out anywhere besides his CBC performance?
I could be reading this incorrectly so forgive me if I am. California is suseptible to earthquakes, which are centered around the many "fault lines" that snake through the state.
I could be reading this incorrectly so forgive me if I am. California is suseptible to earthquakes, which are centered around the many "fault lines" that snake through the state.
If you were reading fault as a negative, not as a piece of geography, I think you may be mistaken.
If you were reading fault as a negative, not as a piece of geography, I think you may be mistaken.
That song is incredible. And to answer your question, no, it's not out yet. But when I saw them last year in Montreal, they played a full band version. it was amazing.
One of John K's best songs and the version on "Reunion Tour" is so frustrating! The studio version from the "Help: A Day in the Life" comp is perfectly fine and I wish they'd just kept it. Sad.
I think I like the live version better.. But I'm sure the Reunion Tour version will grow on me quickly.
This song means so much to me. I don't even think I know where to begin. It's like he's admitting to the day that he doesn't always have something to offer it.
Well, the whole album has been leaked, and they did a lot of post production work on this one - They did a good job of it too.
Just another reason why John K Samson is a lyrical genius. This song is so sad. It's about the melancholy that seeps into us when we're feeling useless and the objects surrounding us seems just as useless as us.
I would love to hear the comp version but I can't seem to find it anywhere. If anyone has it do you think you could send it to me? It would be much appreciated.