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Post by skyscape on Jun 10, 2008 7:38:41 GMT -5
What are people's thoughts on this enigmatic B-side with the odd production glitch?
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Post by Treecat on Jun 10, 2008 8:46:09 GMT -5
I don't notice the glitch unless I think about it. Too much has been made over it IMO.
This is the darkest, most depressing song that Enya has ever recorded. It's not that I dislike the song, I just don't care to listen to it very often.
Vocally, her voice sounds very young, almost Frog Prince vintage.
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Post by Moe on Jun 10, 2008 10:34:29 GMT -5
I don't play it - it's way too dark for me. I listen to Enya to cheer up, not to feel miserable. It will not make my list of "top 20 Enya songs."
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Post by Treecat on Jun 10, 2008 11:05:07 GMT -5
Melancholy is one thing, black despair is another. This isn't a song to play when the world has turned upside down on you.
'Could be, could be the sky may fall Could be, could be the night ends all'
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Post by riene on Jun 10, 2008 18:27:07 GMT -5
Did Roma write the lyrics for this? I'd like to know what she was envisioning during the process. I don't suppose there are liner notes, comments in interviews, etc?
I have this song on my "depression music" set.
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Post by eclipse on Jun 10, 2008 23:54:32 GMT -5
It seems that I always take to the dark or melancholy songs, but that is not the case for this track. I don't play it often. It gets lost within the other Enya tracks that stand out more for me.
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Post by skyscape on Jun 11, 2008 6:37:33 GMT -5
There's somethung 'different' about this song, almost as if I can't place it in any era.
But the melody is beautiful, and I adore the clarity of Enya's voice.
The glitch! It doesn't bother me but I can't understand how Nicky let that slip out under his nose.
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Post by Treecat on Jun 11, 2008 6:48:34 GMT -5
I'm sure that Roma wrote the lyrics for it, Riene, but they're the most depressing set of lyrics she's ever penned. Did the dog die, or what?
Clarity, sound & all that: I think it's a very muffled recording, like everything's wrapped in a thick layer of gauze. IIRC, this was released around TMOT, which is strange. Her voice almost sounds so young that it might be a much earlier recording, around the time of The Celts documentary, or even something done around the time of The Frog Prince.
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Post by skyscape on Jun 11, 2008 7:31:11 GMT -5
It was a B-side on the On My Way Home single and since then I have loved it.
I admit it is a depressing lyric, but I think it similar to the sean-nós style used in Na Laetha Geal M'óige and Smaointe...
What is the lyric about? Homesickness? Death?
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Post by Treecat on Jun 11, 2008 7:46:31 GMT -5
It was a B-side on the On My Way Home single and since then I have loved it. I admit it is a depressing lyric, but I think it similar to the sean-nós style used in Na Laetha Geal M'óige and Smaointe... What is the lyric about? Homesickness? Death? I think it's about being in despair to the extent that you think it'll never end, to the point that you don't want to 'awaken' to face another day of it. I'll listen to it again, with Na Laetha and Smaointe, and listen for the sean-nós styling. The mention of a child does make me wonder if it might have been written and recorded around the time of SM and Evacuee. It seems to come out of that same lonely space as Evacuee, but on a more personal level.
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Post by skyscape on Jun 11, 2008 8:09:51 GMT -5
I think 'S Fágaim mo Bhaile and I May Not Awaken seem like sister songs, one in Gaelic and one in English. Of the two SFMB is the more depressing IMO.
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Post by riene on Jun 11, 2008 8:16:27 GMT -5
I May Not Awaken
When the warmth of the day becomes the night Who could sleep beneath a strange moonlight? No guiding star So far from home
Walked the way of promise to find but snow Throughout, the voice of the winds brings nothing more Than low echoes So far from home
Even from a child A wish is not enough For me, for me, the sky may fall And even from a child A dream is not enough Could be, could be, the sky may fall Could be, could be, the night ends all
No rains could weep as I have wept To know a simple dream will not be kept I am a child So far from home
One by one the sky falls I may not awaken -----------------------------------------
I'm with TC here. This is a song of utter despair, to the point I wonder if suicide is not the goal by night's end.
Upon a fresh listening this morning, I wonder if this speaks of a relationship ending, though? Someone who's left home to follow a promise, a dream...but finds nothing but pain and broken promises?
What is "sean-nós" styling?
What glitch are you referring to? There's a very slight pause after the word "far"...is that it?
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Post by Moe on Jun 11, 2008 9:34:53 GMT -5
I think 'S Fágaim mo Bhaile and I May Not Awaken seem like sister songs, one in Gaelic and one in English. Of the two SFMB is the more depressing IMO. Indeed they are much alike, sister songs as you say. Which is more depressing I don't know, but these are the English lyrics to 'S Fágaim mo Bhaile : Morning and the day's beginning And I leave my home My heart is breaking My youth is long past Night and I am alone Endless deep black skies Remembering days that were Without want and without gloom I listen to the wind Endless great loneliness forever The end of the long journey I am sad, sorrowful, broken After me there will be no more (of my kind) But children, it is our destiny The day is long past When I left my home There is no hope in my heart There is only death This song leads me to think of the end of the Celts more than the "personal" statement pf IMNA. I don't play this one much either.
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Post by skyscape on Jun 11, 2008 10:56:01 GMT -5
Sean-nós means 'old-style' and many old Irish songs were sung unaccompanied: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_n%C3%B3sCould IMNA be the song of an evacuee child sent away to the country during the war, overcome with homesickness and the fear of dying alone in a faraway place?
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Post by marie on Jun 12, 2008 12:08:42 GMT -5
I know it's a dark song but I like it. For personal reasons I can identify with it.
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