At first, I thought this song was about a guy who was being melodramatic about a breakup...then it gets to the end, and it’s clear it’s a suicide note. Boy, that lady is gonna feel guilty for the rest of her life. Elvis’ version perfectly captures the emotion of the song. The despair is heard in his voice. How did he do that, with nearly all his songs, esp. when singing live? With the passion he put in them, you’d think he was the one that wrote them.
@ileatrekkie Exactly, and I firmly believe that most fans somehow tune out just how suicidal this powerful song is in its essence [been there, done that, so to speak, and thus skipped listening to it for a long while, i.e. a year+], like on a subconscious level, them tuning out its severity. The end note reminds me of an Elvis documentary where Bono, speaking of his last ever performance of Unchained Melody said something about how incredible his voice always was "...and in the end, he did opera.", which is spot on 'cause Pavarotti at his greatest is the only...
@ileatrekkie Exactly, and I firmly believe that most fans somehow tune out just how suicidal this powerful song is in its essence [been there, done that, so to speak, and thus skipped listening to it for a long while, i.e. a year+], like on a subconscious level, them tuning out its severity. The end note reminds me of an Elvis documentary where Bono, speaking of his last ever performance of Unchained Melody said something about how incredible his voice always was "...and in the end, he did opera.", which is spot on 'cause Pavarotti at his greatest is the only one I'm reminded of when it comes to this amount of audible and emotional power.
At first, I thought this song was about a guy who was being melodramatic about a breakup...then it gets to the end, and it’s clear it’s a suicide note. Boy, that lady is gonna feel guilty for the rest of her life. Elvis’ version perfectly captures the emotion of the song. The despair is heard in his voice. How did he do that, with nearly all his songs, esp. when singing live? With the passion he put in them, you’d think he was the one that wrote them.
@ileatrekkie Exactly, and I firmly believe that most fans somehow tune out just how suicidal this powerful song is in its essence [been there, done that, so to speak, and thus skipped listening to it for a long while, i.e. a year+], like on a subconscious level, them tuning out its severity. The end note reminds me of an Elvis documentary where Bono, speaking of his last ever performance of Unchained Melody said something about how incredible his voice always was "...and in the end, he did opera.", which is spot on 'cause Pavarotti at his greatest is the only...
@ileatrekkie Exactly, and I firmly believe that most fans somehow tune out just how suicidal this powerful song is in its essence [been there, done that, so to speak, and thus skipped listening to it for a long while, i.e. a year+], like on a subconscious level, them tuning out its severity. The end note reminds me of an Elvis documentary where Bono, speaking of his last ever performance of Unchained Melody said something about how incredible his voice always was "...and in the end, he did opera.", which is spot on 'cause Pavarotti at his greatest is the only one I'm reminded of when it comes to this amount of audible and emotional power.