"Moonlight" SPOILER Question
 

Lady From the Mountain/Moonlight

I just really wish she would have tacked on the last verse....it would have totally fit in with the song....


So.........go with her
You know that you want her
I think you could use a dreamer
Somewhere on your side
Any maybe....if that woman could make you crazy
Did she call out....did she say "Please save me!"

I definitely agree... those were my fav lines in the demo :). But the finished product is very good still. Probably my fav on the album, even.

I listened for that myself but you know, this is how I feel about Annabel Lee, this new song is so amazing and there are still reasons to listen to the demo. So this way you don't replace that little demo that you love so much, you just have two wonderful songs that are great in their own ways.

Maybe there will be an extended mix ala POTU with the extra lyrics.

I can't even think of extras yet. I'm so knocked out by this album that I can't think straight.

This is sooo cool to see that this song really is LFTM. It's currently playing now, and I love how when the chorus kicked in the first time, I was like, "OMG, I KNOW THIS PART FROM THE REEL!!" This is just too amazing!

Just think how awesome My Heart is going to fit!

Stop. Just stop. My heart can't take this greatness for much longer.

As much as I love the new lp and Moonlight I am really missing that verse too.

sell out!!!
 

my boy!!! i thought you were gonna wait!!! i'm still waiting to hear the whole thing. not easy with all the chitchat here! but i'm holding out until the cd is in my grubby , nicotine stained hands!

The absolute only reason I didn't wait is because you can hear the entire album, every note, on Rolling Stone's website. I saw the snippits were released this morning, and decided against listening to them. I didn't want to ruin the album for myself. But once the entire album was posted on Rolling Stone's website, it seemed pointless to wait another week. I cleaned the house, bought champagne (well, Cava, technically), and lit some incense and streamed the album. I don't regret it, either. :D

now you're teasing me!
 

i have a gift card to a local wine specialty shop. thinking of buying a fabulous pink champagne and doing the same thing tomorrow after work! only my BFF BDay is may 3rd. so i might wait and have her over for a little listening party. anyhoo, i thought you were gonna be a stalwart with me n resist bro. all good. glad you like it. makes me feel better about the anticipation!

This sums it up perfectly :thumbsup: It's really great that she's FINALLY recorded Lady From The Mountains (Or as I'll now forever think of it; the little song that finally could!) but, it's even BETTER that she didn't take 100% of it, she adapted it and made it modern, so it's relevant to the Stevie of the 21st century. This way, we have two amazing versions of this song :)

I like the way she uses her voice on this song.

Hell yes! :D

I wonder if every woman identifies with Moonlight. It reminds me of my sisters.

I used to listen to Lady From the Mountain so much, maybe it's making it hard for me, idk. I love Moonlight, but am having trouble hearing it as one flowing song. I love the verses, and I love the chorus, but it keeps feeling like two different songs spliced together. It makes me wish we had LFTM *AND* Moonlight, if that makes sense? I do totally love it, and I'm replaying it over a few times in a row right now so I'll get used to it as a whole.

Anyone else feeling this? As if the chorus should be from another (yet equally as awesome) song? It's like there are two amazing songs pushed into one, yet we'd be twice blessed if they were indeed 2 separate songs?

It's probably just me, and as i listen to it more and more it will probably be something I come to love, that chorus kicking in as it does.

No, you are not alone. I was thinking the same thing. I had no idea they were 2 songs, but it's kind of jarring when she goes into the chorus, it DOES sound like a totally different song, YET, I still LOVE IT and it's still my current favorite!

Completely agree! I had been meaning to post this topic on here since listening to the song 147 times last night. :lol: I absolutely LOVE everything about Moonlight - but in a way the change in mood and tempo is detrimental overall to the song being chosen as a single. Personally, I think that (except for the slow tempo piano LFTM parts before the chorus, which are stunningly gorgeous, don't get me wrong) this song has the most commercial appeal. It would make an absolutely gorgeous single, and would sound killer on the radio. I think that it would propel MASSES to buy IYD, but it won't be released as a single due to the slow beginning. I don't wish the song was different, but I don't think it will ever reach the radio, which is a BIG shame.

Also - and I think this is a good point - in a way, having the album trailer and listening to those tiny clips of the songs relentlessly since March almost hinders listening to the full songs now. Not in a terribly bad way, but for me, it's hard to really let the full songs have a flow when you're listening to all the glorious new bits and then - boom - there's that part that I memorized so long ago. It's not a bad thing. Just an odd thing to get used to!

Lady From The Mountain is not a demo that I've listened to very often, and I'm not really that familiar with it. So I can obviously hear the difference musically between the verse and the chorus, but I never got the sense that they were two songs put together becuase of the lyrical themes that connect them.

There's the "Some call her 'strange'" that comes at the very beginning of the song, and that "strange" theme plays throughout it until almost the very end. As well as the imagery of the candle burning in the middle, and having the two of them meeting in the middle.

So for me, as a Lady From The Mountain novice, I really didn't think of it as a combination of two songs at all.

I would agree, but there is this TERRIBLE song being played to DEATH right now called Jar of Hearts. It is such a dirge and SLOW and makes me want to pull over and slit my wrists when it comes on XM 25.

Moonlight would OWN this song

I felt the exact same way you did and was torn about the song at first because of this reason. But after listening more times, I really love it. :shrug:

I guess it shows what a creature of habit I can be. 'But still, the song is one of my favorites on IYD, for sure, and I can't wait to crank it up in the car when I get the cd next week.

It's like when RAL came out, I was bummed that the very first song on the album was not RAL, and that there was no duet with Tom Petty, lol. BD and WH seemed to set the stage and create "tradition" in her solo works. I obviously had to get over that fast! ;p

And yes, the lyrics blend beautifully to make it a solid song. just such a strange shift when the chorus hits. " it's so strange!!"yet alluring!

I haven't listened today, but from last night that is what I have been singing to myself:

Strange, she knew too much to walk away. Strange, she wouldn't do it anyway.

That's in my head. Yes, you're right alluring and eerie.

Michele

And I think if she wanted it linked to Twilight that would fit in with that story as well. In true romance style, the heroine in Twilight was very much a damsel in distress, coming into mortal danger often as one of the few humans around all invincible vampires and werewolves.

I don't know if Stevie has read the books, rather than just seen the movies, but there is a point in the novel where Bella tells Edward that she knows a relationship has to be equal, that Edward can't keep saving her all of the time. She says she has to save him too. He responds, "You have saved me." Furthermore, both of them admitted that during their separation they veered close to insanity.

The omitted lyrics would work nicely on their own or within the Twilight scenario and they could even be switched around so that the man is the one saying, "Please save me." And maybe if that woman could make you crazy, would you call out? Would you say 'please save me.'

What an awesome way to listen to the album!