The only song on Arthur without a power chord?...and done wonderfully. This song is the ultimate nostalgic peice from the album, a theme presented in a variety of ways on Arthur, but definetely culminating here. I think the character singing is Arthur's son and that he is longing for innocence again in a world which he believes is vile or brainwashed.
The way Ray and Dave perform this song so well together, and with alternating harmonies, always made me think it was like an ode to eachother as brothers. I know I can't help but thinking of my great childhood spent with my siblings when I hear this song. The words "I see the lines that cross your face" make me look at how much older my family and I are now and leaves me with this unsettling, hopeless feeling that "nothing ever can replace".
The only song on Arthur without a power chord?...and done wonderfully. This song is the ultimate nostalgic peice from the album, a theme presented in a variety of ways on Arthur, but definetely culminating here. I think the character singing is Arthur's son and that he is longing for innocence again in a world which he believes is vile or brainwashed. The way Ray and Dave perform this song so well together, and with alternating harmonies, always made me think it was like an ode to eachother as brothers. I know I can't help but thinking of my great childhood spent with my siblings when I hear this song. The words "I see the lines that cross your face" make me look at how much older my family and I are now and leaves me with this unsettling, hopeless feeling that "nothing ever can replace".