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Originally Posted by David
Oh, you so-and-so. “Dreams” is the best thing they ever did—and makes everything else seem like heaving, heavy-handed melodrama.
Now there you go again
You say you want your freedom
Who am I to keep you down?
It’s only right that you should
Play the way you feel it —
But listen carefully to the sound
of your loneliness
There’s more poetry in that than in her entire solo catalogue. Check out that wicked progression of verbs—go > say > want > keep > play > feel > listen—or that internal rhyming of “say . . . play the way,” or the sound-sense of the beat of the drums and its deft emphasis of “heartbeat” and how “loneliness” spans the hesitant, spare creep of the music, as if it were a crushed, enervated lover. Wicked, man!
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You know, my rankings change with this album. But, I truly love your demonstration because much like "In My World" you can really feel the negative sentiment in the lyrics. The pure passive aggression. I love it.