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GrrrlRomeo
Apr 16th, 2007, 06:54 AM
This week's song is "Virginia Woolf"

Discuss it, rate how you like it on a scale of 1 to 5 stars. If you tabbed the song you can also post it in this thread if you like.

*For these threads please keep the topic related to the song.

Lyrics from lifeblood.net (http://www.lifeblood.net/songs/athruz/virginiawoolf.html)

some will strut and some will fret
see this an hour on the stage
others will not but they'll sweat
in their hopelessness and their rage
we're all the same the men of anger
and women of the page

they published your diary
and that's how i got to know you
the key to the room of your own and a mind without end
and here's a young girl
on a kind of a telephone line through time
and the voice at the other end comes like a long lost friend
so i know i'm all right
life will come and life will go
still i feel it's all right
cause i just got a letter to my soul
and when my whole life is on the tip of my tongue
empty pages for the no longer young
the apathy of time laughs in my face
you say "each life has its place"

the hatches were battened
the thunderclouds rolled and the critics stormed
the battle surrounded the white flag of your youth
if you need to know that you weathered the storm
of cruel mortality
a hundred years later i'm sitting here living proof
so you know you're all right
(all right)
life will come and life will go
(life will come and go)
still you'll feel it's all right
(all right)
someone'll get a letter to your soul
(someone gets your soul)
when your whole life is on the tip of your tongue
empty pages for the no longer young
the apathy of time laughed in your face
did you hear me say "each life has its place"

the place where you hold me
dark in a pocket of truth
the moon had swallowed the sun and the light of the earth
and so it was for you
when the river eclipsed your life
and sent your soul like a message in a bottle to me
and it was my rebirth
so we know we're all right
(all right)
though life will come and life will go
(though life will come and life will go)
still you'll feel it's all right
(all right)
someone'll will get a letter to your soul
(someone gets your soul)
then you know you're all right
(when my whole life is on the tip of my tongue)
then you feel you're all right
(empty pages for the no longer young)
and your hear dry you eyes
(you said)
and you know it's all right
(each life has it's place)
and your hear dry your eyes
(you said)
and you know it's all right
(each life has it's place)
and it's all right
(it'll be all right)

words and music by emily saliers

GrrrlRomeo
Apr 16th, 2007, 07:15 AM
This is a song that I would love if it had no words, or if I didn't speak English and didn't understand it. It's just...musically rich...the strings, the harmonies, the percussion... the harmonies. This is one of those "IG" songs...where it's... "IG" not just an Emily song and Amy singing backup. You know what I mean? Their voices are really woven together. Hell, I might even like it acapella.

The percussion is interesting....like they're in a room with several old clocks that were started at different times, but have the same tempo.

When I hear this song live...I really like that note Emily hits and holds at the end for some reason. It's like the sweet spot in her range 'cause it kinda resonates and gives me goosebumps.

poptart
Apr 16th, 2007, 09:33 AM
my favourite song off my favourite album. transcendent. need i say more.

Summer
Apr 16th, 2007, 12:21 PM
I know this is heretical, but it's only a three for me, even though I want to like it more. There are parts of the song that I absolutely love - as usual, I adore the point-counterpoint vocal effect. But I don't care for the first verse. I can't really describe why in musical terms, but it kind of feels like walking into the wrong room, then backing up and walking into another one (i.e., the second verse), and everything is alright again. So I guess if the song started with the second verse, it would be a solid four for me, but I just can't get past the "false start" feeling of the first verse.

Smorl
Apr 16th, 2007, 01:11 PM
I think this was the first IG song I ever heard back in college, it was enough to hook me :smile2:

QHShowoman
Apr 16th, 2007, 02:50 PM
I gave this song a three. I really can't stand this song. I skip over it on the CD and whenever I hear the opening bars of it live, my stomach turns.

paulie
Apr 16th, 2007, 02:53 PM
love it--as above, great classic IG sound, harmony, music, melody---great Emily lyrics, great crescendo at the end--always fun to hear live, especially the end when they're both singing together really loud. Yum.

"So I know I'm all right
Life will come and life will go"

MsCedarTree
Apr 16th, 2007, 03:07 PM
I gave this a 3. It's usually a "skipper" for me, but I do appreciate the woven vocal harmonies and the overall message of the song.

Toots2
Apr 16th, 2007, 08:52 PM
I second that!


love it--as above, great classic IG sound, harmony, music, melody---great Emily lyrics, great crescendo at the end--always fun to hear live, especially the end when they're both singing together really loud. Yum.

"So I know I'm all right
Life will come and life will go"

golden
Apr 16th, 2007, 10:12 PM
I dont care for this song live or recorded. Well one time I did cuz Emily messed a verse up and dropped the big ol F-Bomb not once - but twice. Which was funny.

But a 3 I gave it,
G.