“You came like a comet blazing your trail, too high, too far, too soon”

The Whole Of The Moon - The Waterboys

I had a fabulously miserable song lined up for today, then I changed my mind at the last minute, and picked this instead.

It’s an amazing song that is just so inspiring both lyrically and musically. There are so many parts woven together creating such an immense sound. Great violin, followed by the trumpet fanfare, building up to the crescendo of the last verse and the sax solo, and then too high, too far, too soon and it’s all over, and the listener is exhausted, but happy, and all the better for having listened to it.

Oh, and how many songs do you know with unicorns, scimitars and scarves in the same verse?

Listen to it. Enjoy. Then listen again, and go to bed happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsNTmjlf1vI