parachutes

ledbetteroregon
ledbetteroregon Posts: 107
edited July 2008 in Words and Music...Communication
i just came to realize yesterday what an amazing song Parachutes is. Great lines, great melody, and just a great feel to it all. Love it!
9/16/96, 7/18/98, 11/02/00, 08/4/01, 12/08/02, 4/13/03, 10/22/03, 9/24/04, 3/18/05, 9/01/05, 9/02/05, 7/06/06, 7/07/06, 7/09/06, 7/10/06, 7/20/06
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  • Androgynous Mind
    Androgynous Mind Posts: 520
    ledbetteroregon wrote:
    i just came to realize yesterday what an amazing song Parachutes is. Great lines, great melody, and just a great feel to it all. Love it!

    I know where your coming from. It took me a long while to even get myself to listen to the song at all. But one day it all just sounded different and I found myself playing it on repeat.

    It is always great when you hear an old song and pretty much rediscover it. It is like finding buried treasure!
    Oh he fills it up with the love of a girl...
  • Abner11
    Abner11 Posts: 67
    Androgynous Mind wrote:
    It took me a long while to even get myself to listen to the song at all. But one day it all just sounded different and I found myself playing it on repeat.

    It is always great when you hear an old song and pretty much rediscover it. It is like finding buried treasure!


    I had always said that Eddie could record the sounds of himself taking a steaming dump and it could end up on an album and most PJ fans would enjoy it. Then I heard "Parachutes," and I thought "see, I was right!" However, once I actually heard the song played live, I developed a new affinity for it, and I actually love the song now.
    10/96 Hartford, 9/98 Hartford, 7/03 Mansfield I, 9/04 Boston I, 5/06 Boston I (Best crowd to date)
  • Evacuation Rules
    Evacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    I always liked "Parachutes". The chord progression and strcture throws off less adventurous types. Mike's Brian May bullshit at the end is beautiful.
  • Rachel Ann Goudreau
    Rachel Ann Goudreau Posts: 21
    Abner11 wrote:
    I had always said that Eddie could record the sounds of himself taking a steaming dump and it could end up on an album and most PJ fans would enjoy it. Then I heard "Parachutes," and I thought "see, I was right!" However, once I actually heard the song played live, I developed a new affinity for it, and I actually love the song now.

    You've God me filling(?) emotions...
    Inside Job - "Let me run into the rain, to be a human light again." "Don't ya think you should run into the Son?"
    "Life comes from within your heart & desire." (or)
    "Life comes from within your "hold hands" desire." (or)
    "Life comes from within your desire to hold hands. (or,simply,)
    "Life comes from within your desire to hold hands with your girlfriend, or give her a "high five", ect.
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    It's all about the lyrics for me. And the lyrics are fucking beautiful.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • Abner11
    Abner11 Posts: 67
    slightofjeff wrote:
    It's all about the lyrics for me. And the lyrics are fucking beautiful.


    My best friend would agree with you. He loved that song from the beginning, and his exact words were "They had me at infinitum." Now I hear that sentence in my head everytime I listen to the song.
    10/96 Hartford, 9/98 Hartford, 7/03 Mansfield I, 9/04 Boston I, 5/06 Boston I (Best crowd to date)
  • Trimmer McGrady
    Trimmer McGrady Posts: 17
    ledbetteroregon wrote:
    i just came to realize yesterday what an amazing song Parachutes is. Great lines, great melody, and just a great feel to it all. Love it!

    The way the song flows, to me...it's Beatle like.
  • drlovemonkey
    drlovemonkey Posts: 394
    Couldn't stand it the 1st time I heard it. I still don't like the studio version. But when they played it at the 2nd Boston show, I thought "hey this is pretty good". I have since warmed up to it on the bootlegs.
  • Stereotype
    Stereotype Maribor, Slovenia Posts: 885
    I love the simplicity of the melody and the minor rythm brakes..
    Lyrics are so gentle..almost fragile..I always get the feeling they're going to brake apart..as a heart sometimes do.
    The worst enemies of music? Money and Mathematics. Combined with music, they both do the exact opposite of what they're supposed to do. Money makes music cheap, mathematics makes it stupid and predictable.

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  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    When it's sung live I'm not sure what the lyrics are. However, I usually think of it as the Pink Cotton Candy song. It's outside the box of their usual sound, if there is such a thing.

    I'm listening to Vienna 06 right now, and even though it still reminds me of a carnival and pink cotton candy, I can't deny that it would be a good date in a pizza parlour song, too. :)
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
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  • brainofjb
    brainofjb Boston Posts: 381
    I am tossing around the idea of having it as my wedding song!

    I love the lyrics!!! the music sounds like parachutes.. if that makes any sense
    There's the moon asking to stay
    Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
  • SDHSClassof82
    SDHSClassof82 Seattle Posts: 306
    Trimmer McGrady wrote:
    The way the song flows, to me...it's Beatle like.


    Definitely, mid-sixties Lennon.
    “Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere...
    Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead...overhead...”
  • i like matt.c
    i like matt.c Posts: 1,122
    Eddie's poetic in that song. How does he think up this stuff?

    "And love,... Wish the world could go again with love
    One cant seem to have enough
    And war,.... Break the sky and tell me what it's for
    I'll travel there on my own
    And love,.... What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you"
  • stuckinline
    stuckinline Posts: 3,407
    i didn't like it at first, but after hearing it live on a boot........i love it!
    the lyrics are amazing

    i especially like these lyrics:

    And I don't want to know your past
    But together share the dawn
    And I won't need

    Nothing else
    Cause when we're dead
    We would've had it all
  • VMGACg
    VMGACg Posts: 135
    very good song in the perfect spot on the album much like thumbing my way
    I am questioning my education
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    I didn't love it as much as I did after hearing it performed. Excellent vocals!
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • PiCTuReKePT
    PiCTuReKePT Posts: 311
    strangely enough,the melody reminds me of beatles songs;but that doesn't mean that it's not orginal.i really enjoy listening to it.
  • loki
    loki Posts: 40
    I loved it at Camden 2 06. Vegas 06 is my favorite even though Ed was sick. The amount of heart he put into it to pull it off was amazing.
    6/14/98, 9/4/00, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/12/03, 10/1/04, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 7/6/06, 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 8/16/08, 8/17/08
  • rybes
    rybes Posts: 136
    brainofjb wrote:
    I am tossing around the idea of having it as my wedding song!

    I love the lyrics!!! the music sounds like parachutes.. if that makes any sense

    Instead of people throwing rice or confetti at your ceremony, they could throw those little plastic parachute figures up in the air!

    Just a thought, I never said it was a good idea ;)
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    Top 5 all time PJ song easy :D
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.

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