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Songs is a 39-minute album spread across 11 songs which feature more lyrical and traditional songwriting. [8] Lenker avoided writing personal lyrics in her previous work, but felt the need to write from a first-person perspective while dealing with heartbreak.
Although McCarty felt that all of the group contributed to the lyrics, producer Simon Napier-Bell attributed them to singer Keith Relf. [6] He also claims that Relf's original verse "Over under sideways down, That's the best way I have found" was changed to "Over under sideways down, Backwards forwards square and round", because BBC censors ...
The vocals on "Ya Hozna" song are all backwards, although the backing track and guitar are mostly forwards. The vocals are made up of distorted outtakes from "Valley Girl", "Lonely Little Girl", and "Sofa #2". [93] The lyrics sheet reads, "backwards vocal — you figure it out". [33]
"Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards" is a 1988 song by English singer/songwriter Billy Bragg. [1] The song was released as an advance single from the album Workers Playtime on August 30, 1988. [ 2 ]
But it can also be an imperative, meaning just that it is necessary that you leave. [10] And the song is as much about new beginnings as it is about endings. [1] The song not only notes the requirement that Baby Blue leave, but also includes the hope that Baby Blue will move forward, in lines such as "Strike another match, go start anew". [1]
It's quite a song title, too. If we take a trip down memory lane and look at Olivia's debut album Sour, the phrase "teenage dream" came up in her music before. In Sour's opening track "Brutal ...
Morrison asserted that the song's lyrics are not political. [2] Part of the song ("Your ballroom days are over, baby/ Night is drawing near/ Shadows of the evening/ crawl across the years"), was seemingly lifted from the 19th-century hymnal and bedtime rhyme "Now the Day Is Over" ("Now the day is over/ Night is drawing nigh/ Shadows of the evening/ Steal across the sky") by Morrison. [10]
The song reflects the folk-rock style of the time with socially conscious lyrics. [32] Relf's folk-ballad vocal is complemented by Beck's vibrato- and sustain-heavy guitar solo. [32] [12] "Still I'm Sad" is the album's sole original tune by the band, written by Samwell-Smith and McCarty. It is a slow, brooding piece with psychedelic pop ...