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I don't have anything definitive, so instead I went with the last song I quoted lyrics from. Quoting song lyrics is my hubris...
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Feb 7, 2025
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I finally figured out how to play this on guitar instead of piano as it's constructed here (it's in a different tuning -- drop C, CGCFAD which is also what Nirvana's "On a Plain" is in)
I think it's Faces' greatest song, from among many candidates -- Rod Stewart basically isn't on it, he's barely on this album TBH -- it was written and sung by Ronnie Lane.
You might read this if you want a deep dive/interpretation: https://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/post/3776097665/faces-glad-and-sorry-when-they-reconvened-to
“Can you show me a dream/Can you show me one that’s better than mine/Can you stand it in the cold light of day/Neither can I.”
This is the bit that really gets me, everytime. "Even when we try our best to share each other’s dreams, bare our souls, give up our inmost thoughts, even when we intend to stand shoulder to shoulder and face the world, building something new together—there’s always a point at which it falls apart, and despair creeps in, and it’s all gone past recovery... It’s that cold, hard recognition as the morning dawns and all my stupid fantasies of achievement, of desire, of love, scurry away into the shadows. Another one gone, how many more left to live?"
Songwriting is magical and this one has "it."
May 2, 2025
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⌨️Let the record show my favorite website is PI.FYI
But another good one is Songmeanings.com. I like looking up old favorite songs and reading arguments about the meanings from years ago- it’s such fun.
Here is a good comment I found under Look On Down From The Bridge by Mazzy Star “This song has a special meaning to me. It's the song played in the soprano's 1st season at Jackie Aprile's funeral. I used to watch that show every Sunday with a friend in college. We grew close, then we moved in together. It went downhill. Graduated and moved back home, I had some things to return to her, so I mailed them out and I put a copy of this song on a CD and sent it too. I never knew such a simple two syllable word as "goodbye" could be so hard to say. How could I say goodbye? How could I say goodbye? Goodbye.”
On a sillier note theres a great argument in the comments of Indie Rokkers by MGMT
Here is a good comment I found under Look On Down From The Bridge by Mazzy Star “This song has a special meaning to me. It's the song played in the soprano's 1st season at Jackie Aprile's funeral. I used to watch that show every Sunday with a friend in college. We grew close, then we moved in together. It went downhill. Graduated and moved back home, I had some things to return to her, so I mailed them out and I put a copy of this song on a CD and sent it too. I never knew such a simple two syllable word as "goodbye" could be so hard to say. How could I say goodbye? How could I say goodbye? Goodbye.”
On a sillier note theres a great argument in the comments of Indie Rokkers by MGMT
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