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Sorry that I could never love you back
I could never care enough in these last days
Her tears fell on her pages found me well on her words
I don't know what to do or say
Wading through warm canals and pools clear blue
Tuscarawas flow into the great lake
Riding back where the highway met dead-end tracks
The ground is now cement and glass and far away
Heal her soul and carry her, my angel
Ohio
Green, green youth
What about the sweetness we knew
What about what's good, what's true from those days
Can't count to all the lovers I've burned through
So why do i still burn for you
I can't say
Sorry that I could never love you back
I could never care enough in these last days
Heal her soul and carry her, my angel
Ohio
Children blessed
Gather round the home she rests
So poor and cold in their Midwest moon and sun
Flashes bringing on my open eyes to lightning storm
The touch of mist felt soft, felt warm on my face
Graving dreams
A million miles ago you seem
The star that I just don't see anymore
Words long gone
Lost on journeys we walked on
Lost are voices heard along the way
Sorry for never going by your door
Never feeling love like that anymore
Heal her soul and carry her, my angel
Ohio
| zair99 | Posted: Jan 23, 2006 - 23:43 Reminds me quite a bit of Toad the Wet Sprocket. I like it. Very calming and relaxing. I give it a 6. I'd give it more, but it's just too darn long. |
| wvdominick | Posted: Jan 09, 2006 - 09:57 Such a boring song. Wow, just wow. |
| rosedraws (never close enough) | Posted: Jan 09, 2006 - 09:57 miahfost wrote: Pick one:
a) This song rocks! b) This song sucks! Argue endlessly. 
That sums up most of the song comments! |
| BikeCoachDave (London, Kentucky) | Posted: Jan 09, 2006 - 09:54 May this song never leave R.P. Still my favorite. |
| MikeCloud | Posted: Nov 26, 2005 - 18:57 could this be more whiney? |
| trollboy | Posted: Oct 28, 2005 - 13:32 BikeCoachDave wrote: the single best song on R.P.
Haunting. |
| BikeCoachDave (London, Kentucky) | Posted: Oct 28, 2005 - 13:27 the single best song on R.P. Haunting. |
| Jacksonstat (Columbus OH) | Posted: Sep 14, 2005 - 10:55 This song has always gotten to me since the first time I heard it. I love it. To each his (or in my case, her) own. Godlike to me.  |
| rKokon (Colesville, MD) | Posted: Sep 14, 2005 - 10:51 lostindetroit wrote: After reading the comments posted before me, I feel somewhat sheepish in wanting to say nothing more than I like this song.
OK, maybe one more thing. Someone referenced this as "shoegazer" type music, with no theatre. While I can agree to a point, it's irrelevant to how a song hits your heart. The melancholy doesn't find it's way to you with jazz hands, it creeps into you. Alright, I'm done. Interesting! Does this song really exemplify "shoegazer" genre? If so, I learned something. I can also understand how someone who *enjoys* feeling melancholy could enjoy this selection. It ain't me, babe.   |
| miahfost (Gothenburg, Sweden) | Posted: Sep 14, 2005 - 10:40 Pick one: a) This song rocks! b) This song sucks! Argue endlessly. |
| lostindetroit | Posted: Sep 14, 2005 - 10:37 After reading the comments posted before me, I feel somewhat sheepish in wanting to say nothing more than I like this song. OK, maybe one more thing. Someone referenced this as "shoegazer" type music, with no theatre. While I can agree to a point, it's irrelevant to how a song hits your heart. The melancholy doesn't find it's way to you with jazz hands, it creeps into you. Alright, I'm done. |
| rKokon (Colesville, MD) | Posted: Sep 14, 2005 - 10:35 If the song name at top is the one I am listening to--which is not always the case--I have to vote against the monotony and repetetiveness of it . . . relieved only by the shift from a whiny adult male vocal into an unlovely falsetto. I think I am commenting on the right song, though, because I recall liking the Solas selection that apparently preceded. If someone else enjoys this, good! |
| ploafmaster (Richmond, VA) | Posted: Sep 01, 2005 - 11:19 nuggler wrote: Sure...whatever... Now stop bugging me... Right. Now I'm bugging you. Because I'M the one who started verbally assaulting people when they didn't like the music I did...oh wait - that was you. But I suppose if you're finally without words, I've nothing more to say either. |
| nuggler (Oz via Good Hope) | Posted: Sep 01, 2005 - 10:39 ploafmaster wrote: Ah yes, I forgot - your wisdom is like pearls, and I'm a swine. Sure...whatever... Now stop bugging me... |
| ploafmaster (Richmond, VA) | Posted: Aug 31, 2005 - 10:37 nuggler wrote: pearls before swine Ah yes, I forgot - your wisdom is like pearls, and I'm a swine. Sing with me now (in a mind-jarring 13/8 time signature)! Pretense pretense pretense pretense! |
| nuggler (Oz via Good Hope) | Posted: Aug 30, 2005 - 16:00 ploafmaster wrote: See, nugget, everything you've just described is no less subjective than :puke: pearls before swine |
| ploafmaster (Richmond, VA) | Posted: Aug 30, 2005 - 14:39 nuggler wrote: OK, Im talking about the theatrical component in music here... See, nugget, everything you've just described is no less subjective than :puke: Maybe it's more descriptive, and I credit you for your effort, it was genuinely fun to read. But the problem is, you are justifying your completely subjective point with a completely subjective argument, based on your opinions of the particular bands you mentioned. And not all of your descriptions are realistic. You cannot claim, rationally, that a player who appears to perform with heart, energy, and style is really performing with more heart, energy, and style than somebody who simply sits in a chair and strums some chords. What you see is not neccessarily what you get. If you're claiming greatness or lack thereof based on the stage effect or iconism of an artist, well, go ahead and enjoy that, but don't call it "musical taste" or "music appreciation" or "musical knowledge" or anything else music related. There's music, there's theater, there's musical theater. We only get one of those here on RP, Music. So to knock or not based on something other than that makes little sense. Even if I discount an entire genre, that's still a musical element. Not that I'm claiming you need reasons or motives as such to be allowed to comment. I'm trying to contrast your pretense with your comments. You have not yet provided a rational defense of your right, ability and insight into negative comments over other people's right, ability and insight. I just think it would be fair if you could explain to everybody why you can launch into strange psychobabbelous diatribes against those who don't like your music, yet you are supposed to be free to make an equally irrational comment about not liking a song/group/whatever. |
| nuggler (Oz via Good Hope) | Posted: Aug 30, 2005 - 14:24 ploafmaster wrote: Okay, so unless English isn't your first language, and you simply don't grasp many common idiomatic expressions (which if that's the case, fine, no harm done intentionally), please explain, and I mean REALLY explain, the difference between calling one song "a lame attempt" or "lacking life" and using the :puke: emoticon that BILL HIMSELF PROVIDED FOR OUR USE ON THESE BOARDS. And personal prejudices? Yes, that's what these are...personal prejudices towards sounds we don't like. That's what you just regurgitated when you said this song had no life in it. What are your reason for not like this? And why are they more valid than somebody saying that they can't stand reggae or any other music that you enjoy? Real explanations, man, I'm willing to entertain those. Come on, out with 'em. And none of this, "not until you explain yourself first" stuff. I'm calling you out here. OK, Im talking about the theatrical component in music here. Nothing is more important. A clear dividing line separates musicians capable of theatre & those capable of simply playing. It is the division between genius & mediocrity. On one side we have pasty, uninterested, uninspiring dirty-jean bands we see on Leno, who totally lack theatre in their music & performance. On the other side are the bands we all remember . Ozzy was more than John Michael Osbourne, when he performed he was Ozzy. Cobain & the Clash, their music was more than a flashy, outward image to be flaunted on stage like a bad heavy metal act. The Clashs music was a code of ethic to live by, an ideology or even a religion, in the sense that punk rock was Joes theatre of life. Theatre is the elevation of the life impulse into a sphere of primal energies. Vitality is heightened. The senses expand. Immersed in "theatre" you don't stand on stage and stare at your shoes. You stand on stage like a Shakespearean actor! You become the Ego of your music. If your music has no ego, keep it on the shelf where it belongs and spare us the agony of having to hear it. Theatre is Jimi Hendrix, when you are without fear on stage. Theatre is Bob Marley when energy reaches beyond itself into the archetypal. Theatre is vintage Metallica, where good and evil collide. Theatre is Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden--- even Madonna, the Beatles, the Stones. Theatre does not discriminate. Theatre is being able to capture your story, your life, your destiny from a higher realm and being able to translate it into music. Those are the melodies worth hearing. Now, puke on that, because "...BILL HIMSELF PROVIDED (pukeman) FOR OUR USE ON THESE BOARDS..." Time to *grow up*, sunshine.... |
| ploafmaster (Richmond, VA) | Posted: Aug 30, 2005 - 13:50 nuggler wrote: A personal observation on my part...no disrespectful puking & sucking & regurgitating of my own personal prejudices all over someone's attempt, albeit a lame attempt..... Okay, so unless English isn't your first language, and you simply don't grasp many common idiomatic expressions (which if that's the case, fine, no harm done intentionally), please explain, and I mean REALLY explain, the difference between calling one song "a lame attempt" or "lacking life" and using the :puke: emoticon that BILL HIMSELF PROVIDED FOR OUR USE ON THESE BOARDS. And personal prejudices? Yes, that's what these are...personal prejudices towards sounds we don't like. That's what you just regurgitated when you said this song had no life in it. What are your reason for not like this? And why are they more valid than somebody saying that they can't stand reggae or any other music that you enjoy? Real explanations, man, I'm willing to entertain those. Come on, out with 'em. And none of this, "not until you explain yourself first" stuff. I'm calling you out here. |
| nuggler (Oz via Good Hope) | Posted: Aug 30, 2005 - 13:38 ploafmaster wrote: Oh, hey, cool! Once again, you get to make a negative comment about a song despite your attacks on other people who do the same! Awesome! A personal observation on my part...no disrespectful puking & sucking & regurgitating of my own personal prejudices all over someone's attempt, albeit a lame attempt..... |
| hanssachs (Old Europe) | Posted: Aug 30, 2005 - 13:35 It do take a while to reach the end, though, don't it? |
| buddy213 (Pasadena) | Posted: Aug 30, 2005 - 13:35 does it ever end?? MAKE IT STOP! |
| ploafmaster (Richmond, VA) | Posted: Aug 30, 2005 - 13:34 nuggler wrote: somewhat devoid of *life*....
Oh, hey, cool! Once again, you get to make a negative comment about a song despite your attacks on other people who do the same! Awesome! |
| nuggler (Oz via Good Hope) | Posted: Aug 30, 2005 - 13:31 somewhat devoid of *life*.... |
| Jacksonstat (Columbus OH) | Posted: Aug 30, 2005 - 13:29 Love, love, love this song! Can't explain it, luckily, I don't have to. It's just one of those songs that gets to me. |
| rah | Posted: Aug 15, 2005 - 16:58 i'm almost impressed at how this one just keeps going... |
| KohlDaddy (Wahoo, NE) | Posted: Jul 31, 2005 - 20:59 Interminable! |
| Rusty420 (north country) | Posted: Jul 31, 2005 - 20:57 philm wrote: Red House Painters look out!
Exactly, any chance this is the lead singer? I'd most certainly believe it. ED. Most definately is the guy from Red House Painters. |
| redeyespy (Sunny, FL) | Posted: Jul 02, 2005 - 09:24 Shimmer wrote: Isn't this from "The Worst of Neil Young"?
Does sound like an outtake or B-side an engineer should've accidentally erased. Good intentions abound, but this is definitely an aural Quaalude. Course, depending on your perspective, that may not be all bad. |
| MuadDib | Posted: Jun 17, 2005 - 16:10 I'm losing consciousness....can't keep eyes open....someone turn it off...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz  |
| moneygrip | Posted: May 19, 2005 - 07:51 great song |
| drover (Chicago, IL) | Posted: May 09, 2005 - 23:13 GWB's re-election theme song?  |
| wbmarco2 | Posted: May 04, 2005 - 16:25 Great Album!! |
| MrGreg (Santa Monica, CA) | Posted: May 04, 2005 - 16:24 This song is like getting a root canal in slow motion. |
| pauleywalnuts (Springfield) | Posted: Apr 25, 2005 - 08:14 Nice song. For me, this is a perfect example of why I listen to RP. A few times a day I'll be introduced to a band or an artist that I've never heard of and they sound great. Keep it up RP!  |
| Trustocity (Boston, baby) | Posted: Apr 25, 2005 - 08:11 That chorus soars. A 10 from me. As for sounding whiny... you guys are pretty big balls of whine yourself |
| coding_to_music (Beantown) | Posted: Apr 25, 2005 - 08:08 I like it I think I'll kill myself now |
| SuperWeh (51° 59' 46" N, 4° 21' 13" E) | Posted: Apr 20, 2005 - 00:55 great song, fits my mood |
| pleseq (New York City) | Posted: Apr 05, 2005 - 09:32 song kill me |
| Shimmer (Bethesda, MD) | Posted: Apr 05, 2005 - 09:31 Isn't this from "The Worst of Neil Young"? |
| mezzanine (Just below the thumb) | Posted: Mar 21, 2005 - 15:56 This song is absolutely terrible. |
| diane (seacoast, nh, usa) | Posted: Mar 06, 2005 - 22:13 chasech5 wrote: Possibly the most WHINY song ever recorded.
4 shur! "Would you like some cheese with that voice?"
... =; His voice was so annoying, I didn't care what he was singing. =; |
| GottaSneeze (Ottawa, ON) | Posted: Feb 25, 2005 - 11:27 His voice sort of annoys me but this song sums up my feelings pretty well right now. |
| philm (oregon) | Posted: Feb 10, 2005 - 17:49 Red House Painters look out! |
| RichardPrins (mtl.ca) | Posted: Feb 05, 2005 - 09:58 8) |
| chasech5 (East Lansing, MI) | Posted: Feb 05, 2005 - 09:55 Possibly the most WHINY song ever recorded. Every phrase blends into the next, except you get the feeling that you're supposed to understand and follow along. Hard to believe that I gave this its first "1." But then, it only had 62 votes at the time. Guess it doesn't move too many people either way...but isn't that the worst sign of all? :puke: :puke:  :puke: |
| MickMan | Posted: Jan 12, 2005 - 07:00 Great song from a great disc. Great guitars and melodies.  |
| trekhead | Posted: Jan 12, 2005 - 06:29 I'm getting SON VOLT out of this... |
| physicsgenius | Posted: Jan 12, 2005 - 06:26 Take some voice lessons. |
| Alexandra (A flooded Ohio!) | Posted: Jan 12, 2005 - 06:25 Love the guitars, the slow beat, and the awesome harmonies...just a great overall song that puts me in a more relaxed, thoughtful mood.  |