Weekend Song – Ben Taylor
July 14, 2007
Here you’ve got seafaring references in an a cappella intro with one male and female voice. For that alone, it deserves to be the weekend song, but then add in cello and whistful lyrics, and we’ve got ourselves a tune.
I must have listened to this hundreds of times and I still couldn’t tell you where the drums or the guitars come in. They drift in like a daydream and stay with you like a good meal. The arrangement is beautiful and the words make you think there is sense beyond reason.
Burn off the haze around the shore
Turn off the crazy way I feel
I’ll stay away from you no more
I’ve come home to stop yearning
Listen: Ben Taylor – Think A Man Would Know
5 comments
I love a good cello.
God, this is lovely – as is your description. I’ve only heard a few Ben Taylor songs, and thought they were okay. This is my favourite by far.
“Nothing I can do” is another great one from Ben Taylor. I love the acoustic version.
Cello rocks, Ed.
Thanks Wendy, it’s up there with mine even though its one of the simpler ones.
Dawn, and there is nothing that I can do* but link to a previous post about Ben Taylor and the song you mention among others.
*I actually said that.
I’m just wondering what this has to do with teh stork?
Leave a comment. Play nice. I will turn this blog around.