Like or Dislike: I Sing For The Things
 

When I first got really into Stevie (about 1998), this was a really big song for me. I made a compilation tape to play in my car (no CD player yet) and this was on it. Now, I don't love it quite so much. I don't dislike it, mind you. I've just gotten over it, I guess.

The music is so gentle - love the tinkling piano from Mr. Tench. Same with the vocal - so soft, gentle, very vulnerable. Actually the entire song is like that - really quiet & sedate, yet it packs an emotional punch thanks to the lyrics & the way she delivers them. I don't care for the "anything you want me to do" stuff, too submissive for my taste, but it does match the mood of the song so I can deal.

I LOVELOVELOVE:

"I'm living on dreams and chains"

and

"Well, have you ever been in love, have you touched the soul of someone, did the fear inside you make you turn and run"

I was recently wondering if the "dreams and chains" line is a purposeful reference to her life & career with Mac. :shrug:

Live? I don't think I'd care to hear this live, to be honest. I don't think she could ever recapture the emotion that's on the album version and it might come off as boring.

I LOVE this song. It's very sweet and I like the way she sings it. I also love the upbeat version.

I love the lyrics to this, and I love the emotion that Stevie puts into the vocal, but for me the music has always taken it from what could have been an amazing song to just a mediocre one. :shrugs: That doesn't mean that I skip it when it comes on, I just don't turn it up or get excited about it.

I think this song is excellent!!! She really brings you in on this song and the vocals are, shall we say, AWESOME. This song could easily bring a tear to my eye.

one of my top ten stevie songs

Wow Jason you like it that much? It's in my top 20.

I enjoy this song but I used to be more into when I first got into Stevie and not so much now. I still appreciate the sense of wistfullness and longing that comes across through Stevie's lyrics and singing.

I love it a lot, but I love the demo I have of it better. Not the upbeat one, the just piano one.

I like this song. Not a favorite. One of the few that I will skip occasionally if I'm listening to the CD.

The piano demo is awesome too! :nod:

I do, I like the master demo with gypsy on the end...excellent :angel:

I need to go listen to that again. :xoxo:

Great minds think alike..i was just doing that...

Eh, I like it a bit. I think "Rock A Little" pulls off the intimacy schtick on RAL much better, but I never skip "ISFTT". It's pleasant.

Not so much. The music is shockingly bad and her vocal is pretty lousy. Some of the lyrics are okay. It's just not a fave of mine.