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Let's be clear: Chan Marshall may not be an irresistibly beautiful top model like Carla Bruni, but she has charm, she's pretty enough but most importantly, she knows how to make good music... and that's what matters to us.
The 31-year-old from Atlanta has a voice tinged with sorrow, distinctive yet enchanting, capable of making her harmonious melodies (sometimes dragging) resonate in the back of the human mind, transporting it on an imaginary journey, above a cloud, making you feel free. After all, that's the function of the album, right?
It's a record whose "not easy" listening makes it undeniably delightful by presenting its rare consistency: thus we are offered fourteen ballads of unusual beauty in its genre, a set of precious gems each distinct from the other by exemplary simplicity, always remaining on the same sound line.
Most of you are "free" thanks to the combinations of voice-guitar, voice-piano, and thanks to that beautiful feeling conveyed by the voice-piano-guitar complex... In Werewolf, the violins seem to cry, painting an almost surreal atmosphere, just the way I like it.
In other songs, there are "illustrious guests" such as Dave Grohl and Eddie Vedder... but Cat Power remains front and center.
Maybe because of opinions like "already heard, doesn't say anything new, too banal, etc.," few will be able to discover the splendor contained within these seemingly "lazy" and "light" songs. But all in all, who cares? At the end of the album, if listened to "all in one breath," the emotion comes out nonchalantly and envelops you with its warm arms...
And as Condor would say, how could you not buy an album with a cover like that???
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 I Don't Blame You (03:07)
Last time I saw you, you were on stage
Your hair was wild, your eyes were bright
And you were in a rage
You were swinging your guitar around
Cuz they wanted to hear that sound
But you didn’t want to play
And I don’t blame you
I don’t blame you
Been around the world, in many situations
Been inside many heads in different positions
But you never wanted them that way
What a cruel price you thought that you had to pay
Them back for all that shit on stage
But it never made sense to them anyway
Could you imagine when they turned their backs
They were only scratching their heads
Cuz you simply deserve the best
And I don’t blame you
I don't blame you
They said you were the best
But then they were only kids
Then you would recall the deadly houses you grew up in
Just because they knew your name
Doesn’t mean they know from where you came
What a sad trick you thought that you had to play
But I don’t blame you
They never owned it
And you never owed it to them anyway
I don’t blame you
04 Speak for Me (03:06)
Pick us up we’re all by ourselves
The great big howling is about to begin
A thousand miles from where it all begins
Old world, the whole world is
Going on and on (forfeit the shape to fit)
The backhand to a touch is moving on again
Going on and on
What’s next?
I’m out of time
Losing my touch I can't feel
Speak for me
Do you see the same signs?
Do you know how to read between the lines?
All in all, it's all or none, all for one
What you want?
Pick us out of a lineup
Stranded and strange just as innocent as kids
The found are leaving and they're trying to forget
The old world, the whole world is
Going on and on (forfeit the shape to fit)
A backhand to the touch is moving on again
Going on and on
What’s next?
I’m out of time
Losing my touch I can't feel
Speak for me
Do you see the same signs?
Do you know how to read between the lines?
All in all, it's all or none, all for one
What you want?
Going on and on
05 Werewolf (04:10)
Oh the werewolf, the werewolf
Comes stepping along
He don't even break the branches where he's gone
Once I saw him in the moonlight, when the bats were flying
I saw the werewolf, and the werewolf was crying
How nobody knows, nobody knows, body knows
How I loved the man, as I teared off his clothes.
How nobody knows, nobody knows my pain
When I see that it's risen; that full moon again
For the werewolf, the werewolf has seen appathy
For the werewolf, somebody like you and me.
And only he goes to me, man this little flute I play.
All through the night, until the light of day, and we are doomed to play.
For the werewolf, the werewolf, has seen appathy
For the werewolf, somebody like you and me.
06 Fool (03:51)
Apartment in New York, London and Paris
Where will we rest, we're all living on top of it
It's all that we have the USA is our daily bread
And no one is willing to share it
Why can't we see our fortunancy
Living as legends have lived.
Bane and dismannered
We coax all the time
Knowing that nothing is left when we die
Come along Fool
A direct hit of the senses you are disconnected
It's not that it's bad�it's not that it's death
It's just on the tip of your tongue, and you're so silent
Wanting to live and laugh all the time
Sitting alone with you tea and your crime
Children with kids, and people with parents
Anywhich way there's no past and no presence
When the day comes and all of them bums
Will reveal enchanting persons
Come along...
When it's a rut and baby's no luck
Half of it's misunderstanding love
The war we have won we're winning again
Within ourselves and within our friends
Come along...
07 He War (03:34)
I never meant to be the needle that broke your back
You were here, you were here, and you were here
Don't look back
I never meant to be the needle that broke your back
You were here, you were here, and you were here
Don't look back
He war he war
He will kill for you
He war he war
He will kill for you
From who you can
You know you can
Hey hey heeeyyy x4
I'm not that hot new chick
And if you won't let me run with it
We're on to your same old trick
Get up and run away with it
I'm not that hot new chick
And if you won't let me run with it
We're on to your same old trick
Get up and run away with it
Hey hey hey
He war he war
He will kill for you
Hey hey hey
He war he war
He will kill for you
Hey hey hey
From who you can
Hey hey hey
You know you can
Hey hey hey
He war he war
He will kill for you
Hey hey hey
He war he war
He will kill for you
Hey hey hey
From who you can
Hey hey hey
You know you can
12 Half of You (02:44)
When you give half of you
I want all of you
When you give half of you
I want all of you
When you go back window
You see shadows
When you’re shopping for me
'Cause when you give half of you
I want all of you
Sadness is a gentle mind
But a good women has her hands to use
Empty package of chips will tell you
What can be sold market and what can belongs to you
When you give
When you give half of you
I want all of you
14 Evolution (04:44)
Better call the ships, they been caught sailing
Better call the captain, he's been caught stealing
Better call the porter man, he's been caught leaving
Better call all the guys on the deck; they've been caught with no feeling
Better call the fisherman, cause they're coming on land
Better call the head nurse, wrap us up, to throw us in the dark
Better call with some resistance, better way to feel no shame
Better call with some persistence, that way you feel nothing at all
Better call on evolution, better way to make a revolution
Better make your mind up quick
Better make your mind up quick
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