Sorry to burst your deeply analytic bubble 'the calling' but Why isn't about Busted at all. As far as I remember it's about the loss of a close friend, the end of a solid relationship. And Charlie wasn't the original writer, it was his eldest brother Will who wrote it. I forget the exact meaning of the song as provided by him and I can't find his original comments anymore, but he wrote it quite a while before Busted even existed and Charlie asked if he could use it for the APFE album. Of course Charlie made some changes to the song both lyrically and musically to make it suitable for Busted's audience, but in essence the song is still Will's.
I think the last verse is one that is evidently untouched by Charlie. The style of the chorus and the structure of the lyrics are seemingly typical of Will's other songs with his band Brigade shameless plug www.brigademusic.com or www.myspace.com/brigade end of shameless plug The reason I say this is because those words strike me as being cynical of the other person in this relationship, and Will is the first to admit that he is deeply cynical of human nature and relationships.
I would love to hear the original version, but Will is insistant that it isn't going to happen now it's known as a Busted song. I am also gutted that there is no known video footage of Will onstage with Charlie at Wembley performing this song :(
Nice analysis though. Perhaps it's just the same way as I now look at their cover of 'Runaway Train' and the lyrics of that song as the first signal of discontent from Charlie. But that's a different song and now isn't the place.
Sorry to burst your deeply analytic bubble 'the calling' but Why isn't about Busted at all. As far as I remember it's about the loss of a close friend, the end of a solid relationship. And Charlie wasn't the original writer, it was his eldest brother Will who wrote it. I forget the exact meaning of the song as provided by him and I can't find his original comments anymore, but he wrote it quite a while before Busted even existed and Charlie asked if he could use it for the APFE album. Of course Charlie made some changes to the song both lyrically and musically to make it suitable for Busted's audience, but in essence the song is still Will's. I think the last verse is one that is evidently untouched by Charlie. The style of the chorus and the structure of the lyrics are seemingly typical of Will's other songs with his band Brigade shameless plug www.brigademusic.com or www.myspace.com/brigade end of shameless plug The reason I say this is because those words strike me as being cynical of the other person in this relationship, and Will is the first to admit that he is deeply cynical of human nature and relationships. I would love to hear the original version, but Will is insistant that it isn't going to happen now it's known as a Busted song. I am also gutted that there is no known video footage of Will onstage with Charlie at Wembley performing this song :( Nice analysis though. Perhaps it's just the same way as I now look at their cover of 'Runaway Train' and the lyrics of that song as the first signal of discontent from Charlie. But that's a different song and now isn't the place.