Thursday, August 10, 2006

taking sides

when they open
the borders
where will you be-ee-ee?

I'll climb the highest tree
to avoid the stampede

(as sung by Black)

2 comments:

Lonely Feet said...

Is this a real song? Or as sung by black is part of the peotry.

Interesting

nagihun said...

it is actually a song by Black. I love it, it's a duet with Sam Brown. The first time I heard it, after "I'll climb the highest...", I was expecting him to say something like "mountain", but the "tree" caught me totally unawares.... so understated, so lovely, and when he says stampede, it almost sounds like milipede, the whole understated tone of the song, and yet speaking of such big issues. An underrated singer, if you ask me. Another lyric I love is

"we knew you love her,
we saw you dancing with her shadow"