Emily-
I often react to joni's music by her inflection of just one word or sigh.
It's part of that total package that makes her the most incredible
songwriter of all time and did you know she makes up her own tunings and
chord shapes. One of these days I need to write a song about a typewriter
that had keys that kept exchanging places. Another couple of single words
that did it for mer were:
"magnet and iron"
"concealed"
also one of my all time fave lines:
"breaking like the waves at Malibu"
The first time I went to LA I spent a full afternoon on the beach by myself
and that lyric going thru my head and heart over and over.
Michael
NP-They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)-Sting
on 1/14/01 11:21 AM, Emily Kirk Gray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi all. i'm listening to TI now, haven't in a while...
> it's a gorgeous, moody, troubled album. her voice
> is so pained here.
>
> anyway, just now as i was playing "magdalene laundries"
> at the part where she sings "our lady of charity --
> oh, charity" with a planet full of anger, regret,
> and sadness all in that last word --
>
> well, i suddenly heard the last word as "cherokee,"
> very clearly. although i know that's not what she sings.
> and it made a perfect connection to me with "cherokee
> louise" -- as if the story of these helpless women
> echoes and links and reminds her of that other, horrifying,
> particular story of "my friend" louise.
>
> just a thought. has anyone else heard this or thought it?
> maybe we've already discussed, and i missed it.
>
>
> --emily
>
> NP: "not to blame"
