2 things I can't believe :
-1- only one comment for one of the most beautiful songs ever written at the surface of the earth
-2- that Joni wrote this while sniffin' cocaine...
Such a haunting melody, very subtle changes in the backup playing...
Very few albums or songs reach that level of lyricism, I mean music that's purely led by emotions, in all their implied contradictions, as is all the "Hejira" album, Talk Talk's "Laughing Stock" or Robert Wyatt's "Rock Bottom" (and I almost forgot Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks").
That's music that grows on you, into you, ever deeper and deeper, endlessly...
I love (the word is weak) the way the lyrics are written : Joni floats between her present melancholy days, memories of the past, of Sharon, all linked by repeating images ("the lace"), metaphors, places, united by a sort of road trip feeling...
"I can keep my cool at poker
But I'm a fool when love's at stake
Because I can't conceal emotion
What I'm feeling's always written on my face"
2 things I can't believe : -1- only one comment for one of the most beautiful songs ever written at the surface of the earth -2- that Joni wrote this while sniffin' cocaine...
Such a haunting melody, very subtle changes in the backup playing... Very few albums or songs reach that level of lyricism, I mean music that's purely led by emotions, in all their implied contradictions, as is all the "Hejira" album, Talk Talk's "Laughing Stock" or Robert Wyatt's "Rock Bottom" (and I almost forgot Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks"). That's music that grows on you, into you, ever deeper and deeper, endlessly...
I love (the word is weak) the way the lyrics are written : Joni floats between her present melancholy days, memories of the past, of Sharon, all linked by repeating images ("the lace"), metaphors, places, united by a sort of road trip feeling...
"I can keep my cool at poker But I'm a fool when love's at stake Because I can't conceal emotion What I'm feeling's always written on my face"
Once you've heard this song, you're tied