much love for this song! it's right up there with "thin air" off of binaural, both exquisite in music and meaning. and that line "we were but stones, your light made us stars" - it's gorgeous. kinda how we as people just roam about but it's when love hits us that we truly shine.
it's gorgeous, no doubt. for me though i can't hear it too much, just because it does have that sad edge to it. i have to be in the right frame of mind, thin air i can hear on a loop all day though, no problem!!
Check out the version from this show. Ed sings the "and where ever you've gone and where ever we might go" with a totally different emphasis and inflection, it's f'ing amazing!
This makes me wonder if PJ shouldn't bring-in a more hands-on producer for an album. I'm telling ya, if Tchad Blake hears the way Eddie sings LY on this boot, he'd loose his shit. I wonder if he tried to coax Ed to sing it different or if he just let the band do it's thing. I think this song could've been a hit with different production. Not that I don't love it anyway.
As for the lyrics, memories are like star light...what you see in the sky is many years old, not unlike the way you remember old friends, truth is the image of that old friend in your mind is like the light from stars: it's radiating from the past....classic EV!
Also, I think Ed was referencing Cobain in this song. "Your light made us stars." Too straight-forward of a reference? Or so close to that it can't be anything but?
Our love is like our music, it's here... and then it's gone.
They released Binaural 2 months after my Dad died. This is one if the reasons I love this band so much... Their timing is absolutely perfect. No it wasn't fair, however, a song written from the heart about something we all have to deal with, helped me alot when it came to his death and dealing with his loss. When I go to visit my Dad now, instead of looking at the dirt-laden headstone, I look up to the stars.
Sometimes I burn like a dot on the sun with no one knowing, but you're keeping me strong, moving along with you. EV
wow. awesome stuff. thanks fanner and screaminhello for sharing your thoughts/stories. I've actually been lucky so far not to lose anyone really close to me. but when that time comes I'm sure this song will be part of the healing/mourning process. awesome stuff
I totally agree with all of you this song is just AWESOME. One of my favorites. The only time I have heard it is on the TN CD. But the first time I heard it I fell in love with it!
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I think they should open some shows with it
~Ron Burgundy
the futures uncertain and the end is always near.
jim morrison
He says so all the way
Don't be sad
it's only dad
being a man
being made
perfect
by a womans hand.
Its alright tonight for here we stay
we will find a way so don't delay
Just smile, you'll be okay.
PhillyPJ, Did you know one donut sits undigested
in your belly for 3 days?
YUP
This makes me wonder if PJ shouldn't bring-in a more hands-on producer for an album. I'm telling ya, if Tchad Blake hears the way Eddie sings LY on this boot, he'd loose his shit. I wonder if he tried to coax Ed to sing it different or if he just let the band do it's thing. I think this song could've been a hit with different production. Not that I don't love it anyway.
As for the lyrics, memories are like star light...what you see in the sky is many years old, not unlike the way you remember old friends, truth is the image of that old friend in your mind is like the light from stars: it's radiating from the past....classic EV!
Also, I think Ed was referencing Cobain in this song. "Your light made us stars." Too straight-forward of a reference? Or so close to that it can't be anything but?
No time to be void or save up on life.
Oh, you got to spend it all
If i were a woman or gay,id marry this man.
-Homer J.Simpson