Long Road

MeI'mNot
MeI'mNot Posts: 9
edited June 2008 in Words and Music...Communication
So I have been listening to Long Road a lot recently, and I just love it. Excellent son.g, especially the "I have wished for so long, how I wish for you today" is really moving.

Feel free to share your opinion.
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  • yellowled24
    yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    this is a "goosebump" song for me...gets me everytime...also reminds me of Hippiemom so.... :(
    "....and was very surprised to see that he didnt actually have a recipe for anus-ankle soup." - Big Ed
  • Julien
    Julien Posts: 2,457
    this song is incredible. Maybe my favorite PJ song. Or even my favorite song from any artist/band. it's rally moving, very powerful.
    I was lucky enough to hear it as opener in Copenhagen: I cried. And I have chills nows thinking about it.
    2006: Antwerp, Paris
    2007: Copenhagen, Werchter
    2009: Rotterdam, London
    2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
    2012: Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin
    2014: Amsterdam, Stockholm
  • Gremmie95
    Gremmie95 Posts: 749
    I've seen it live a few times but none can touch Kitchener 05...check it out if you can.
  • Hard2IMAGINE2007VIC
    Hard2IMAGINE2007VIC Posts: 638
    "Long Road" is one of my favorite PJ songs as well! Great lyrics and melody. My mom also enjoys the songs so I played "Long Road" and "Last Kiss" for her at her surprise 50th Birthday party last week. It was the first time since 2003 that I had performed for anyone live. It was pretty special to play for my Mom and our 150 friends and family members. I think it sparked the buzz for me to get back in music and maybe start recording my unfinished solo project that I have been working on since 2003. Who knows...we will see since we all walk the long road....
  • yellowled24
    yellowled24 Posts: 3,118
    Hard2IMAGINE2007VIC wrote:
    "Long Road" is one of my favorite PJ songs as well! Great lyrics and melody. My mom also enjoys the songs so I played "Long Road" and "Last Kiss" for her at her surprise 50th Birthday party last week. It was the first time since 2003 that I had performed for anyone live. It was pretty special to play for my Mom and our 150 friends and family members. I think it sparked the buzz for me to get back in music and maybe start recording my unfinished solo project that I have been working on since 2003. Who knows...we will see since we all walk the long road....
    when Ed starts singing "Cannot stay" it really hits me.
    "....and was very surprised to see that he didnt actually have a recipe for anus-ankle soup." - Big Ed
  • vluggage
    vluggage Posts: 71
    This one was and instant favorite for me and has remained so. My favorite version of this song used to be the one from Touring Band 2000. That changed once I heard Cincinnati '06.
    "I think I kinda want it."
  • vonnegutnaked2
    vonnegutnaked2 Posts: 43
    Easily my favorite opener...especially when it has some meaning, like in Cincy in '06.

    Hell, easily one of my handful of favorite songs.

    And the wind keeps rollin'
    And the sky keeps turning grey
    And the sun is set
    The sun will rise another day

    just wow...
  • NeverbeenLedbetter
    NeverbeenLedbetter Posts: 213
    great tune, typical PJ song that sneaks up on you and all of a sudden it's a fav. loved it when it was used on "Scrubs".
    Raleigh '03; Hartford '08; Mansfield II '08; Buffalo '10; Hartford '10;
    East Troy I '11; East Troy II '11; DeLuna Fest '12; Wrigley '13; Buffalo '13;
    Toronto II '16; Wrigley I '16; Wrigley II '16; Wrigley I '18; Wrigley II '18;
    Asbury Park '21; MSG '22; Camden '22
  • Clarice
    Clarice Posts: 256
    MeI'mNot wrote:
    So I have been listening to Long Road a lot recently, and I just love it. Excellent son.g, especially the "I have wished for so long, how I wish for you today" is really moving.

    Feel free to share your opinion.

    Great song, no doubts. And the introducion, you really can fell as bell is ringing for the loss of someone who you love. And lyrics is beatiful.
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    yellowled24 wrote:
    when Ed starts singing "Cannot stay" it really hits me.

    I love how is changes to "cannot say" for one line in the first verse.

    Also, "the sun will rise another day."

    That is typical Ed. Everybody thinks he writes depressing songs (see the "happy lyrics" thread elsewhere on this page) but that isn't always 100 percent true. Many of his "depressing" songs actually contain a tinge of hope, and this is one example.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    One of the best songs ever written by Ed.

    Powerful words and this might just be me but when I hear Neil's use of the pump organ it's somehow symbolize the human organs, the heart and brain(mind). I just love the attribution it gives out.
    PJ- 04/29/2003.06/24,25,27,28,30/2008.10/27,28,30,31/2009
    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • TheLostSoul
    TheLostSoul Posts: 773
    yellowled24 wrote:
    this is a "goosebump" song for me...gets me everytime...also reminds me of Hippiemom so.... :(

    i dont think ill ever listen to this song again...
    I miss you hippiemom.
  • prodacake
    prodacake Posts: 319
    vonnegutnaked2 wrote:
    Easily my favorite opener...especially when it has some meaning, like in Cincy in '06.

    Hell, easily one of my handful of favorite songs.

    And the wind keeps rollin'
    And the sky keeps turning grey
    And the sun is set
    The sun will rise another day

    just wow...

    I am with you on this one amazing
  • elderman
    elderman Posts: 180
    One of their very best songs and just CANNOT understand why it did not appear on Lost Dogs, big disappointment there.
  • Clarice
    Clarice Posts: 256
    yellowled24 wrote:
    when Ed starts singing "Cannot stay" it really hits me.

    years ago, you could feel the pain in his voice during this song...touch me until now.
  • vedder_soup
    vedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    amazing song live!
    always a setup for a great show!
    2003 - Sydney x3,
    2006 - Reading Festival,
    2007 - Katowice, London, Nijmegen, Rock Werchter,
    2008 - MSG x2, Hartford, Mansfield x2, Beacon Theater,
    2009 - Melbourne, Sydney,
    2010 - I watched it go to fire!
    2011 - EV Brisbane x3, Newcastle, Sydney x3,
    2012 - Manchester x 2, Amsterdam x2, Prague, Berlin x2, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen,
    2014 - Sydney, EV Sydney x3

    I wave to all my Friends... Yeah!
  • ONCE DEVIDED
    ONCE DEVIDED Posts: 1,131
    elderman wrote:
    One of their very best songs and just CANNOT understand why it did not appear on Lost Dogs, big disappointment there.
    Alas it is not a lost dog. it was on Merkinball
    this song means so much to me
    My younger brother played it for me 3 days before my mother died from cancer. I do not visit her gravesite much, but long road always brings her into my mind, my thoughts. When I heard Eds talk about long road in the 06 tour, he talked about ringing the bell- man I just cried so hard that night.
    Just recently My younger brother got married, I was best man and shared the gift my brother gave me when he played me long road, I reflected on the words the sun has set, the sun will rise again- I turned to him and said well today is your sunrise, and then I thanked his new wife for being that sunrise.
    I was told that there was a few tears in the room from that comment.
    Im just glad that he got to understand the true meaning in that song.

    For myself my sunrise is my wife and daughter
    whats yours??
    AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE
  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    my favourite opener ... and easy to play on guitar ...
  • PJSEMPRE
    PJSEMPRE Posts: 687
    I love the version from Dead Man Walking OST with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
    My favorite opener as well.
    Let's say knowledge is a tree, yeah.
    It's growing up just like me.
  • OysterJam01
    OysterJam01 Posts: 29
    I totally love this song too - its lyrics are so straight forward and yet powerful in a way that speaks of a kind of optimistic universal nostalgia. It reminds me not to take the "present moments" for granted but to accept that they are fleeting and continously changing into memories of the past.

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