Favorite BDAW vocal line

[Nietzsche]

I think on this album, Justin Sullivan has really come up with some very beautiful and emotional vocal lines. I know he usually does, but this time he has taken it even further, in my opinon.
For Instance, at the moment, I am really struck by lines such as
-If I told you not to look, would you do that for me... this one time in Pull The Sun
and
- We were rising to break, like the sea against the shore in Lean Back And Fall

What is your favorite BDAW vocal line?
Maybe I missed something 

Thank you

[ruckedout]

"I have a friend on the other side, we smile across the wire"

I think my favorite song on the album. But then again the more i listen to it the better it gets.

Honestly, in my opinion............... the best album by far.

[Master Ray]

And Abraham rose, took his only son, and knife and tinder in his hand, and setting out across the desert and up into the scrubland hills, he bound the boy Isaac to the stone, raised the blade and waited for the miracle.
But the wind blows silent across the hills, across the dead and the empty hills,
dead, like the god that never came, like your face, the day that you turned away.

And then Mr Sullivan lets out such a brilliant scream...

Spine-chilling, every time, one of NMA's best ever songs and one I dearly hope they will put back in the set sometime soon...

[ruckedout]

And Abraham rose, took his only son, and knife and tinder in his hand, and setting out across the desert and up into the scrubland hills, he bound the boy Isaac to the stone, raised the blade and waited for the miracle.
But the wind blows silent across the hills, across the dead and the empty hills,
dead, like the god that never came, like your face, the day that you turned away.

And then Mr Sullivan lets out such a brilliant scream...

Spine-chilling, every time, one of NMA's best ever songs and one I dearly hope they will put back in the set sometime soon...

God damn the Master Ray..........i thought it was meant to be from lines from the new album.

I love that line too.

[Nietzsche]

It WAS meant only for the new album, posted bright and clear. But some are more observant than others 

And while I am here, I really should add this one.
-You were so much in love with her in the beginning of Summer Moors
Brilliant delivery by JS.

[Impuri-D]

So you tried to make family,
But nothing was given.
So you gave them your own blood,
but all of it stolen.

Coming through to the end of a divorce that has seen a great deal of acrimony from people I sacrificed a decade going the extra mile for with little to show for it, March in September is alternately cathartic and upsetting at the moment.

[Master Ray]

Um, sorry, I must have missed out the BDAW bit of the heading...

*skulks away in embarassment...*

 

[ruckedout]

Um, sorry, I must have missed out the BDAW bit of the heading...

*skulks away in embarassment...*

 

Do you know what i very nearly did the same thing!!!

Glad you did first though.

[Jibberish]

"As we slashed and we burned and laid waste to it all"

It summarises so much of everything.

[Johnz]

Hmm, quite a few really but these ones get me every time:

'We can watch our children growing away into the people that they'll become'

'Ain't it always the ones that want to be saved that do all of the saving'

'And when the music's gone the silence is still ringing, with all these conversations between the dead and the living'.

[Barty]

Maybe this time not coming back....just another setting sun....

No-one else could sing it so beautifully.

[sailor_joe]

And i'm ok up here flying, I just don't know where to land
It took me nearly a lifetime to understand
the world has no anchor and no chains

But there's many many fav lyrics in BDAW, I honestly think that this is the best album in a long time, maybe even best album ever (But then again it's a bit hard to compare to the others because it'S so different). I LOVE it! (Except 'lean back and fall' of course.

[Guillaume]

"I have a friend on the other side, we smile across the wire"

And i'm ok up here flying, I just don't know where to land
It took me nearly a lifetime to understand
the world has no anchor and no chains

I love the lyrics of "Seven times" too!

"The tried to bring you their love and fear
But you wouldn't receive it
I tried to tell you that you had everything that you need
But you would never believe it

So you tried..."

"You can count up everything that you have it never stops the craving"

"It's a very long way, far, far away
from you hometown streets and all those rusting mills
and they never could understand why you had to go, why you had to go"


All the lyrics in "I need more time":

"As one by one the faces we love slide away in deep, deep waters
I've still so much to give, i've still so much to learn
I've still so much to love, still so much to burn
I need more time, i need more time..."

"Impossible the desire, impossible the dream"

"Now the years they have gone live thieves in the dark
Did your eyes follow them after into the night?"

"And me, i've got a black place in my heart..."

"Where the breath is sweeter and the lights are diamond
Where the blood runs faster and the taste is stronger
And the night uncoils moving around us
Come, take you want in the place..."

The lyrics of "Qasr El Nil Brige"

[Shush]

The sleeve notes as ever read like fine poetry.

After listening to the album now more times than I would like to admit, the song which stands out most to me now is Ghosts.

"the Ghosts are part of us" makes a big impression on me. I have lost people very close to me, but they are still part of me in my fond memories of them. When we are dead and gone, I think we are still alive to some extent in the memories of the people we have loved and left behind.

Thats what the song says to me.

Apologies to JS if it is meant to mean something else 

[DannySan]

There are so many great lines on the new album I'll have to have think about it!