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The lyrics juxtapose the many marvels and feats of human civilisation with the death of the natural world, constantly emphasising the passing of time — "Time is not a friend, 'cos friends we're out of time". The recording features a lead guitar solo in the style of George Harrison. Lennon originally wrote a guitar solo for the song.
"If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away" is a ballad in which a young man fantasizes about being able to spend a day in Heaven, visiting friends and family members who have died. [2] The man begins his fantasy when he drives across a bridge near a fishing spot where he and his grandfather spent time and bonded, and the grandfather also operated a fruit ...
Harrison likened "If I Needed Someone" to "a million other songs" that are based on a guitarist's finger movements around the D major chord. [22] [nb 3] The song is founded on a riff played on a Rickenbacker 360/12, [24] [25] which was the twelve-string electric guitar that McGuinn had adopted as the Byrds' signature instrument after seeing Harrison playing one in A Hard Day's Night.
"If You Wanna Get To Heaven" is a single by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils from their 1973 album The Ozark Mountain Daredevils. It was the band's debut single and the first of their two Top 40 hits, peaking at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100. [3] The song sold about 500,000 copies. [4]
The song is about the narrator's desires to live "on the outskirts of Heaven" when he dies, comparing such a place to his rural lifestyle. [1]It is in a 3/4 time signature, including accompaniment from Troy Lancaster on electric guitar, Mike Johnson on steel guitar, and Tony Harrell on piano.
Osborne agreed to record the song, singing to a live demo of a guitar. Bazilian said of the recording: "And when I got into my car and popped the cassette in, I started practising the Grammy speech that I should've gotten to give." [3] At the start of the song, a fragment of a song by a 1930s singer named Nell Hampton was added.
Allmusic cites the song as "a club hit that features Glenn Gregory's moody, dramatic lead above a percolating vocal and synth arrangement." [3]Band member Martyn Ware has acknowledged "Let Me Go" as Heaven 17's finest song: “There’s a certain sonata form to it as well where it builds and then it dies down towards the end.
In addition to the original Swedish-language version, she also recorded an English-language version of the song, "Take Me to Your Heaven", with the lyrics written by Marcos Ubeda. The song is an up-beat song about love, with the singer asking her lover to take her to heaven by loving her. [ 3 ]