Favorite BDAW vocal line

[Barty]

Looks like both of us misunderstood Master Ray - I thought this was about vocals rather than lyrics but having read the original post I stand corrected! D'oh!I'll get me thinking cap on......

[Johnz]

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 

I think that's exactly what makes a song great. The fact that you can apply the lyrics to your own situation. To me it also makes me remember loved ones I lost but also people from my past who no longer 'exist' in the way they did then, including myself.

It's a very melancholic song and I can't stop playing it.

[Bill B]

It took me nearly a lifetime to understand, the world has no anchors, no chains.....

Poignant genius

[Scruff225]

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 

Shush, I think you nailed it. Justin said in a recent interview that it is a reference to the loss of Rob.

[sozbot]

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

No-one else could sing it so beautifully.

Agreed. LOVE that one.

Also, "You were so much in love with her that it drew you away"

So much emotion in that one line.

[Fatalist]

too many poetic lyrics of quality to mention - all good but particularly I like:

'I need to make good on the promises I made to the world when the world was moving slower'

Brilliant

JS: the people's poet - set to the world's best music

[Shush]

That line is on the back of a T-shirt I brought earlier this year from the shop. Now I know why 

[kabe]

I'd better preface this by saying it's a Saturday night, and I've had a couple of drinks, so excuse any waxing-lyrical ....!

For me a lot of the impact is simply very personal: for me, NMA have always spoken, about as eloquently as it's possible to, of love and loss and realisation and understanding - in essence, the too-many thunders and consolations of being here and now.  BDAW, for me, adds to that by looking back at the same time.

And, again for me, the musical context is important - possibly just because of how I expect emotion to come through in music.  Would the lyric "if I could only choose one moment to last forever, I would be here with you" sit happily in a jazz-funk track?  I reckon I'd spew my dinner.

Favourite BDAW lines:

BDAW: "If I could only choose one moment to last forever, I would be here with you".  Because of a great love lost.

Did You Make It Safe: last chorus, the way Justin sings "they'll never understand why you had to go, why you had to go" really strikes deep for me.  I've left too many people on the wayside, none of them understanding why.  Why it strikes deep is cos I don't really understand why myself, when I now look back.

Pull The Sun: "Me, I've got a black place in my heart".  'Nuff said.

Knievel: that moment of f&ck-you-all bitterness in the line "you only get from me what you pay me for" is priceless.

And maybe an oddball side-note but instantly when I listened to 'Summer Moors' I heard 'just another setting SON' rather than 'just another setting sun' - don't know if that was deliberate or happy coincidence but that's how it worked for me.  Regardless, that instant (mis)reading nailed Summer Moors really deep for me.

[dilla]

Lyrics that are really hitting home at the moment

"And I'm lost here and I'm doubting myself
And I'm losing myself"

Oddly enough off my least favourite track

[Stoney]

I watched you as tried n tried, to pull the sun from out of the sky.
The colours all run and the clouds collide, but that was never enough.....
And me, I've got a black place in my heart,
my favourite chord, my favourite card
That I draw every time, On these occasions............

[Willard]

I watched you as tried n tried, to pull the sun from out of the sky.
The colours all run and the clouds collide, but that was never enough.....
And me, I've got a black place in my heart,
my favourite chord, my favourite card
That I draw every time, On these occasions............

Good one, Stoney.

I'll add

It took me a lifetime to realize the world has no anchor, and no chains.

[The Ghost of Cain]

Remember all those songs of love and freedom
As if they were the same thing
Now we know they were not the same thing
They echo in empty beauty down through the boarded-up streets
To the sound of closing doors and locking of the gates

[purplehaze]

my favourite  vocal line has to be"and me ive got a black place in my heart,my favourite chord ,my favourite card ,that i draw every time on these occasions"From pull the sun,it gets me every time not just the lyrics but how justin sullivan sings it ,it proper  touches me like.

[DannySan]

There really are some great lines on the album and all the ones mentioned are ones I'd have chosen myself. I do like:

'I need to make good on the promises I made to the world when the world was moving slower'

'Remember all those songs of love and freedom, As if they were the same thing, Now we know they were not the same thing' - This song is one that has really crept up on me slowly and developed into one I love.

[Bunny]

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

No-one else could sing it so beautifully.

Agreed. LOVE that one.

Also, "You were so much in love with her that it drew you away"

So much emotion in that one line.

The preceeding two lines building up to that are pretty fab too and with the music its a pretty deep and thought provoking song. Love it