 The Red Thread (2004) [ larger cover art ] |
Share this song
Tweet this song
Wikipedia search
Musicbrainz DBI had something
It fell from me
Something strong
Like a pounding drum
Like ringing bells
When I was young
I had something
And it was gone
I had something
Made me walk all night
Made me run from home
Made me fight
I had something
Made me feel alone
Like an orphan
Waiting for a home
Every footstep that I take
Completes the circle my life makes
Every living thing has ties that bind
What I lost returns with love and time
I heard something
It called to me
And it told me
I was saved
Not by God
And not by words
Not by any living thing
It was the voice that I once knew
Of my daughter or my son
Not yet born
And not yet known
Another orphan waiting for a home
Every footstep that I take
Completes the circle my life makes
Every living thing has ties that bind
What I lost returns with love and time
Every living thing has ties that bind
What I lost returns with love and time
| Diamond_Dog (Round Equatorial Pound) | Posted: Mar 19, 2013 - 17:18 Beautiful, lovely segue from Crowded House; Into Temptation |
| MsJudi (Houston, TX) | Posted: Feb 16, 2013 - 08:00 Shades of Patty Griffin. |
| bluecshells | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 08:59 I saw her live in Austin, TX several years ago...a spontaneous event that blew me away. LOVE her. |
| ScottN (Condo in Gaza full time now. Thank TFSM I saw the divot where the landmine was placed.) | Posted: Aug 11, 2012 - 21:13 On_The_Beach wrote: Nice to see she's moved on from the whole Bill Clinton scandal. I'm glad you "got help". Nice song.  |
| Far | Posted: Aug 11, 2012 - 21:12 That's neat! bella494 wrote: Love her voice. I met her on a YMCA camping trip across the US when we were 15. She played and sang like an angel even then. |
| bill-1956 (The Greater Moncure Metro Area, NC) | Posted: Jul 11, 2012 - 10:43 On_The_Beach wrote: Nice to see she's moved on from the whole Bill Clinton scandal. It took me a moment - LOL |
| bella494 | Posted: Oct 31, 2011 - 17:11 Love her voice. I met her on a YMCA camping trip across the US when we were 15. She played and sang like an angel even then. |
| SinisterDexter | Posted: Aug 29, 2011 - 14:14 Knopfler on guitar? |
| apd (Toronto, On) | Posted: Aug 29, 2011 - 14:13 On_The_Beach wrote: Nice to see she's moved on from the whole Bill Clinton scandal. I'd like to "favourite" this comment. |
| On_The_Beach (Vancouver BC, Bud) | Posted: Jun 27, 2011 - 18:50 Nice to see she's moved on from the whole Bill Clinton scandal. |
| Sjaaks (Horst, Netherlands) | Posted: Nov 19, 2010 - 04:32 SERIOUSLY, if you like/love this, listen to the cd "Red Horse" by "Red Horse", a collective of Lucy Kaplansky, Eliza Gilkyson and John Gorka. Trust me, you'll love it!! |
| ScottFromWyoming (Powell) | Posted: Oct 18, 2010 - 12:41 horstman wrote: "Heaven" is a song by the American New Wave band Talking Heads from their 1979 album Fear of Music. It explores the idea of achievement and purpose by way of identifying heaven as the perfect victory over human goals, and, subsequently, by showing this heaven as a place where the perfectly best thing happens over and over at the exact same time in the exactly perfect way ("Oh, heaven, heaven is a place... a place where nothing ever happens".) In this way, it mocks achievement as an absurd, or even futile, struggle. David Byrne has said that Heaven was the name of a gay bar somewhere where they weren't afraid of trouble; nothing ever happens. It's hard to imagine that nothing at all could be so exciting... Chris Frantz has said that sometimes, for a touring rock star, Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens. ============= All this has nothing to do with the fact that Hippiechick was rudely treated here. No call for that. And yes I'm amused that she thought it was a Bowie quote... she hates the Talking Heads!  |
| ziakut (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Jul 14, 2010 - 20:03 Wouldn't mind if she bathed me right now!!!! |
| horstman (Syracuse, New York) | Posted: Feb 06, 2010 - 09:34 hippiechick wrote: It's a quote from a David Bowie song. It means that heaven is a place of peace. I don't believe in a literal heaven, or god. So suck that! "Heaven" is a song by the American New Wave band Talking Heads from their 1979 album Fear of Music. It explores the idea of achievement and purpose by way of identifying heaven as the perfect victory over human goals, and, subsequently, by showing this heaven as a place where the perfectly best thing happens over and over at the exact same time in the exactly perfect way ("Oh, heaven, heaven is a place... a place where nothing ever happens".) In this way, it mocks achievement as an absurd, or even futile, struggle. |
| hippiechick (topsy turvy land) | Posted: Feb 06, 2010 - 08:47 spanks wrote: hippiechick wrote: Nice! you suck hippy chick, if nothing happens in heaven then why did the lord only want to return there? It's a quote from a David Bowie song. It means that heaven is a place of peace. I don't believe in a literal heaven, or god. So suck that! |
| dedawson (You never know where you're going til you get there) | Posted: Dec 05, 2009 - 13:39 Until I looked up, I thought it was Natalie Merchant (who I just can't stomach). Sorry Lucy. |
| gatorade (Ocean Park, WA) | Posted: Oct 03, 2009 - 15:09 Really enjoy Lucy's style. She's put out some good music over the years. It's too bad she doesn't get the air time she deserves. Check out her song...One Good Reason. |
| Bazooka (Mountain View, CA USA) | Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 20:29 a hint of blue grass? |
| spanks | Posted: May 30, 2009 - 01:26 hippiechick wrote: Nice!
you suck hippy chick, if nothing happens in heaven then why did the lord only want to return there? |
| hippiechick (Heaven, a place where nothing ever happens) | Posted: Feb 24, 2009 - 07:43 Nice! |
| TheFriendlyCat (BC) | Posted: Jan 23, 2009 - 17:58 inindian wrote: Better and a little like Nicky Mehta of The Wailin' Jennys  soloindeed, i thought it was them for a moment. |
| Danimal174 (Upstate South Carolina) | Posted: Nov 21, 2008 - 13:28 lmic wrote: Thanks. I thought this was Dar Williams. Their stuff is very similar. Lucy's voice is a tiny bit deeper & more soulful, IMO. I have some of her older stuff (specifically, "Ten Year Night", which has "For Once In Your Life", which is an AMAZING song, I think), but hadn't heard this song before. I liked it quite a bit. |
| Pyro | Posted: Nov 21, 2008 - 13:21 This made me stop what I'm doing to see who it was. VERY nice, quite delectable! |
| ThePoose | Posted: Sep 19, 2008 - 09:18 modernomad wrote: i believe the red thread refers to her daughter that she adopted from China. at least that's what i remember when i saw her perform live a few years back when this album came out. That's absolutely correct. My wife and flew to southern China to adopt our daughter in April 2004. In Chinese folkore, a red thread links us to all the important people in our lives. Red is the most favourite and auspicious colour in the world's most-populous contry. |
| purplespider (Portland, OR) | Posted: Sep 19, 2008 - 09:16 Nice mellow set for morning productivity  |
| rtrudeau (Bay Area, California) | Posted: Jun 16, 2008 - 15:48 drews wrote: She looks *good*
*wink, wink, nudge, nudge* |
| drews (London, Blighty) | Posted: Apr 14, 2008 - 16:55 Talking of folk, I'm amazed there's no history of Eric Taylor songs here at RP, hopefully rectified soon. Eric Taylor plays blues-infected Texan folk and should be much more famous than he is owing to his great skills on the acoustic, and after spending time alongside Lightnin Hopkins and Nanci Griffith I'm amazed the folk haters at RP haven't crawled out from under their log on this gorgeous acoustic song. I see Chris Smither is coming up next, maybe they're holding out for him. |
| drews (London, Blighty) | Posted: Apr 14, 2008 - 16:51 She looks *good* |
| lmic (Sacramento, CA) | Posted: Feb 11, 2008 - 18:00 Thanks. I thought this was Dar Williams. mgoldman wrote: If you like this check out the band she was in with Dar Williams; Cry, Cry, Cry. See: (click here) |
| Mari (île de lesvos) | Posted: Jan 11, 2008 - 06:45 what a gal!  thanx bill! |
| merkabah (Toronto) | Posted: Nov 09, 2007 - 11:39 very nice...long live acoustic!  |
| TobiMc3 (Sunny, Arlington VA) | Posted: Nov 09, 2007 - 11:36 Nice to hear Lucy on RP! |
| xkolibuul (Pacific Rim, salmon, big trees) | Posted: Sep 07, 2007 - 15:19 I'm amazed the folk haters at RP haven't crawled out from under their log on this gorgeous acoustic song. I see Chris Smither is coming up next, maybe they're holding out for him. |
| xkolibuul (Pacific Rim, salmon, big trees) | Posted: Sep 07, 2007 - 15:16 Not to mention with Richard Shindell too, who's been getting some well deserved play here on RP lately. mgoldman wrote: If you like this check out the band she was in with Dar Williams; Cry, Cry, Cry. See: (click here) |
| Antigone (A house, in a valley, Virginia) | Posted: Aug 07, 2007 - 05:17 This is a really lovely song. Anyone know who's singing backup? Richard Shindell maybe? |
| Imkirok (Minneapolis, MN) | Posted: Jun 05, 2007 - 08:41 Guitar reminds me of Allison Krause and Union Station. (That's a good thing, IMO.) |
| Alexandra (The American Riviera--so come visit!!!) | Posted: Jun 05, 2007 - 08:41 Yay! I love Lucy!  |
| inindian (Victor on the ocean) | Posted: May 04, 2007 - 23:28 serendipity_blue wrote: She sounds like Natalie Merchant. A bit, at least.
Better and a little like Nicky Mehta of The Wailin' Jennys solo |
| Lensles (Baton Rouge, LA) | Posted: Apr 03, 2007 - 08:56 Thea wrote: very pretty melody. lovely voice. I too thought of Natalie Merchant . . .
Ack, I like this voice. At least she sings in tune! |
| onerb | Posted: Apr 03, 2007 - 08:55 Impossibly beautiful personal song. Thanks. |
| ty (Bellyache Ridge) | Posted: Jan 02, 2007 - 11:09 hippiechick wrote: Does the red thread refer to Kaballah? Great folk-style artist.
...as Lucy writes in the album liner notes, there is an ancient belief in China that when a child is born, an invisible red thread reaches out from the child's spirit to all of the important people who will be a part of the child's life. In songs like "I Had Something," "The Red Thread," "Land of the Living," and most notably "This is Home," Lucy tells the story of the many threads that connect her to people, time and place - including family and fellow New Yorkers. |
| modernomad | Posted: Nov 19, 2006 - 18:33 hippiechick wrote: Does the red thread refer to Kaballah? Great folk-style artist.
i believe the red thread refers to her daughter that she adopted from China. at least that's what i remember when i saw her perform live a few years back when this album came out. |
| (former member) (Near the coffeemaker) | Posted: Oct 06, 2006 - 20:32 Thea wrote: very pretty melody. lovely voice. I too thought of Natalie Merchant at a couple moments throughout the song (but not enough to make me stop and do a double-take.)
Suzanne Vega, too.  |
| Thea (Sacto) | Posted: Sep 07, 2006 - 13:41 very pretty melody. lovely voice. I too thought of Natalie Merchant at a couple moments throughout the song (but not enough to make me stop and do a double-take.) |
| Leslie (Antioch, CA) | Posted: Sep 07, 2006 - 13:41 Nice! |
| hippiechick | Posted: Aug 09, 2006 - 08:08 Does the red thread refer to Kaballah? Great folk-style artist. |
| liser (hurricane alley) | Posted: Jun 26, 2006 - 08:11 serendipity_blue wrote: She sounds like Natalie Merchant.
A bit, at least. Yeah, but without that irritating vibrato. |
| Geecheeboy (under a crescent moon and palmetto tree) | Posted: Jun 11, 2006 - 17:50 This album keeps being recommended to me by Amazon.  Glad to hear some samples. |
| Art_Carnage (DeepintheheartofTexas) | Posted: Jun 11, 2006 - 17:48 Natalie Merchant? Not at all. Sounds like a most excellent Lucy Kaplansky to me. |
| mgoldman (Papeete, Tahiti) | Posted: Feb 14, 2006 - 15:49 If you like this check out the band she was in with Dar Williams; Cry, Cry, Cry. See: (click here) |
;){kind=link}