Just wanted to add that these lyrics are attributed to Rennie Sparks because this is a Handsome Family song (like "Tin Foil" on Fingerlings 3).
This song is strikingly beautiful, full of brilliant darkness and swelling wonder. The vocal harmonies in Bird's version reflect (for me) the eerie comfort of that single, birdlike ring of the phone... Nora's voice creeps from a silvery echo into a strong reedy tension with Bird during the song's climax, making the sensed company/other fierce, corporeal, firmly benevolent.... And then it all falls away, and the seeds fall from the trees.
In Bird's hands, I see it as a song that struggles with the melancholy of human solitude and the lurking wonder of the world, which we perceive briefly but powerfully and fail to grasp.
God, it's great. Over the years, this has grown to be my favorite track on Weather Systems.
One Andrew Bird playlist I have ends with "Spare-ohs" followed by "Lazy Projector" (which starts with a quote from Spare-Ohs), and finishes with "Don't be Afraid", since it is in the same key as Lazy Projector and offers a kinder, gentler way to face pain or melancholy, recognizing you are not alone...
One Andrew Bird playlist I have ends with "Spare-ohs" followed by "Lazy Projector" (which starts with a quote from Spare-Ohs), and finishes with "Don't be Afraid", since it is in the same key as Lazy Projector and offers a kinder, gentler way to face pain or melancholy, recognizing you are not alone...
Just wanted to add that these lyrics are attributed to Rennie Sparks because this is a Handsome Family song (like "Tin Foil" on Fingerlings 3).
This song is strikingly beautiful, full of brilliant darkness and swelling wonder. The vocal harmonies in Bird's version reflect (for me) the eerie comfort of that single, birdlike ring of the phone... Nora's voice creeps from a silvery echo into a strong reedy tension with Bird during the song's climax, making the sensed company/other fierce, corporeal, firmly benevolent.... And then it all falls away, and the seeds fall from the trees.
In Bird's hands, I see it as a song that struggles with the melancholy of human solitude and the lurking wonder of the world, which we perceive briefly but powerfully and fail to grasp.
God, it's great. Over the years, this has grown to be my favorite track on Weather Systems.
Your thoughts are beautifully expressed.
Your thoughts are beautifully expressed.
One Andrew Bird playlist I have ends with "Spare-ohs" followed by "Lazy Projector" (which starts with a quote from Spare-Ohs), and finishes with "Don't be Afraid", since it is in the same key as Lazy Projector and offers a kinder, gentler way to face pain or melancholy, recognizing you are not alone...
One Andrew Bird playlist I have ends with "Spare-ohs" followed by "Lazy Projector" (which starts with a quote from Spare-Ohs), and finishes with "Don't be Afraid", since it is in the same key as Lazy Projector and offers a kinder, gentler way to face pain or melancholy, recognizing you are not alone...