The song inspired the creation of the Deep Note, the audio trademark for the THX film company. Jeff Beck, Barry Gibb, the Fall and Phish are among the artists who have covered the song. Following the second crescendo, the song ends with one of the most famous chords in music history, played on several keyboards, that sustains for over forty seconds.Ī reputed drug reference in the line "I'd love to turn you on" resulted in the song initially being banned from broadcast by the BBC. In the song's middle segment, McCartney recalls his younger years, which included riding the bus, smoking, and going to class. The recording includes two passages of orchestral glissandos that were partly improvised in the avant-garde style. Lennon's lyrics were mainly inspired by contemporary newspaper articles, including a report on the death of Guinness heir Tara Browne. It remains one of the most celebrated songs in music history, appearing on many lists of the greatest songs of all time. Credited to Lennon–McCartney, the verses were mainly written by John Lennon, with Paul McCartney primarily contributing the song's middle section. I'm seeing things, through a young mothers eyes Īnd I recognise this road, as the town where you was born." A Day in the Life" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as the final track of their 1967 album Sgt. And if you can listen to Dearly Departed and don't want to cry a little, you have no soul.įrom One Last Vow, because this one has the most poetic lyrics I think, but the music in the other ones are is what gets to me mostly: Specifically How It Ends and One Last Vow. 2 all kill me.Īlso, some Devotchka can be really depressing. This song, Two Headed Boy, and Two Headed Boy pt. 'i would read all night if it reminded me of she
There's a song by a dude in my hometown that has a line that goes 'running up that hill' by kate bush is a melancholy trap too. Her father would come to her in the night Your thoughts they never lasted long when you were under the sky Watch them as they try to fly their kites inside their bedrooms i would almost rank it alongside with radiohead's 'how to disappear completely' if i didn't worship that song so darn much. The national's 'son' is pretty melancholy, and its performed beautifully. No-one can get you out, if you overstep time.!"Īnd then of course you can just have Bob Dylan, as has already been said. Oh, it's cold and so dark here, and you must keep in mind, It will open the gates, so we can sneak you in. īring us only this goat and we'll lead you to him, On to the cell, where your love might be found. Straight through the realm of the fallen and slain.ĭown, further down, where the gloom becomes sound, "Bring us a goat and we'll show you the way It shall open the gates, so we can sneak you in.") (".bring us only this goat and we'll lead you to him,
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Know when to throw a laugh, know how to force a smile, To "the wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime, out of Space - out of Time". I'm going back to the land where the bone-flowers grow, SHATTER THE MIRRORS, SO THAT HE CAN NEVER BE CALLEDīACK FROM THE BLESSED SILENCE OF HIS SCARED VAULT. On to the cell where your love might be found.
(".down, further down, where the gloom becomes sound, That has neither warmth nor life of its own. Yes, it's like kissing some marble statue I sensed the wretched spectres of the drowned Straight through the realm of the fallen and slain. (".bring us a goat and we'll show you the way On a bed that my dead lover was preparing I dreamt that I was lying on the bottom of Now befouled they lay bare as they stalked in When the masks and the faces had been identical twins.Īs our sanctuaries were locked to hypocritical lies In a former time in a long forgotten place, Here, where even my own image is spitting, Please, release me from my chains that crucify me Stop the waiting, the cruel waiting for nothing.Įveryday is a perfect day, a perfect day for suicide.! Give me the reason to life so that I might laugh It is the perfect day to end this wretched life. I cannot bear the sun so I close me eyes, How I hate each mortal cell that is rottingly This stench and old-age and malodorous fear. Or if you really want to go ott, how about some nice uplifting Sopor Aeternus, ie Todeswunch: The next page of the diary won't have a date I personally like the simple, unadorned lyrics of Sol Invictus. I can win this any way you cut it, because I listen to neo-folk and darkwave.
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