Imogen Heap - Half Life
I've posted this before, but it deserves repeating. A very good song from Imogen Heap's recent "Ellipse" album, called "Half Life". There's a lot to discover here, and even the variable use of reverb on the piano as the song progresses adds a new dimension.
Pretty much the entire album is very good, but this is one of the stand-outs.
Lyrics:
I knew that I'd get like this againLyrically, it's like the counter-part to John Mayer's "Man On The Side":
That's why I try to keep at bay
Be a hundred percent when I'm with you and then
The perfect heart's length away
The stickler is you've played not one beat wrong
You never promised me anything
Even sat me down and warned me just how they fall
I knew the odds were I'd never win
Yet here I am
It's a half life
With you as my quarterback
A daft life
My self-worth measured in text back tempo
It's been two days and 8 minutes too slow
Well there may well be others but I still like to pretend
That I'm the one you really want to grow old with
Got a schedule to stick to, got a world to keep sweet
You're so much to everyone all the time
Will you ever slow down? Will I ever come first?
The universe contracts to sigh
It's a half life
With you as my quarterback
A daft life
It's a half life
With you as my quarterback
A daft life
Hold me
Darling, please
Hold me
Darling, please
You know you'll never be lonely, no you'll always be loved
And maybe you never need more than that
But for the surplus that loves, what's to become of us?
Does it even register on your conscience?
Long for one last showdown from a box in a crowd
Air compressed tight to explode
I'm clenching my ticket to the only way out
As you disappear in a puff of smoke
It's a half life
With you as my quarterback
A daft life
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posted by mattbg @ 10:51 PM
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I just blogged on how I find most people's taste in music unfathomable - especially ballads, which I tend to dislike.
My thoughts on that are that I listen to the music and not the lyrics, consequently, songs focussing on lyrics (rather than using lyrics as a form of sound) are of no interest to me.
I was going to reply to that one but for some reason my browser couldn't see past the videos to the "Comment" box (I was using an old browser when I read it).
I am more of a music-over-lyrics person, too... but I have found in the past that when I'm confronted with an unfathomable song and take a step further to listen to the lyrics and think about them, it's transformed into something completely different. Not with ballads, though...
As for ballads in general, the words are usually terrible... but I like the song structures of some of them. Peter Cetera did some great ballads.
There's a group out there called "ES Posthumus" that, on their latest album, has songs with words in an apparently foreign language. But the language is actually fictional and has no meaning... it is just meant to sound good :)
i.e. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsnUv7Y-25E
curious. That post seems broken. I will have to investigate why.
Posthumus still suffers from sounding boring to me. sorry.
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