Say You Will sales ten years after release

[UndoingTheLaces]

Originally Posted by michelej1

You think so? I don't think it's happy sounding at all. I think it's heart breaking. Any optimism it mentions is in the past tense, like looking through a rearview window. Well, I thought it might work out . . . but it didn't.

But it's beautiful. You've shaken my faith in everything else. It just says to me, "I still believe in you, despite everything" and that's just SOB.

Michele

It's got some really sweet moments. Like "He held her hands, she listened to what he had to say" and "Maybe now he could prove to her that he could be good for her and they should be together". Lots of songs are written in the past tense. That doesn't mean that the feeling of the song is over. We know it's over because of what we know about them in real life but in the context of the song it could be interpreted to mean that after many years they finally found peace with each other. And the last line about how he'd never told her how hard it was without her sort of leads you to believe that he's telling her that now. I guess everyone can have different interpretations of it.

[BlueLight]

I've struggled to compile a good, pared down track listing for SYW for quite some time. Here's my current, still imperfect 11-track list:

Say You Will (Single Remix Cold Edit)
Miranda
Thrown Down
Red Rover
Running Through The Garden
Peacekeeper
Smile At You
Bleed To Love Her
Destiny Rules
Steal Your Heart Away
Goodbye Baby

[redbird]

Oh yeah I don't expect Lindsey to really air his side of whatever went on around The Dance particularly loudly (although with three songs on Extended Play that seem to be all about Stevie ... ), just saying, my idea of a concept to build a shorter version of SYW around isn't strictly cohesive either.

I think they're used to the weirdness of going into the studio and getting acquainted with each other's songs for the first time and how coincidentally familiar those stories sound, although probably it's still something of a trip every time.

"Thrown Down" is a pretty emotionally tough song, yes, all Stevie's songs that have to do with her relationship with faith and hopefulness and believing always get to me a bit.