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Rating: Historically, three is the perfect number, but let's cast a shadow of doubt on the third work of Doves. Jimi Goodwin should explain to us what "the urban mood that permeates the first tracks" truly is. He hasn't done it. Well, let's give it a try ourselves.
"Some Cities," let's forget about it as it was written by the Oasis under the influence of bromide. "Black And White Town" is the glamorous soundtrack!? of a nocturnal cruise through the center of Manchester. Decide for yourself if the ending is happy or sad. "Almost Forgot Myself" projects a city recovering after a storm. "Snowden" sings about getting up at dawn to buy bread and milk, but not at the supermarket. "The Storm" is realizing you're stuck in traffic. Then comes "Walk In Fire," the turning point. Definitely the turning point of the album, but certainly not the musical one. Try listening again to "There Goes The Fear" from The Last Broadcast. Nothing new on the ear-front. However, nothing prevents us from appreciating it. It's a pity we're at the top of the album, and the helicopter that could take us higher doesn't arrive. So we look at the other side: some people are climbing. But it's the Coldplay with "Someday Soon" and "One Of These Days" on their shoulders. Better not to start a conversation.
Now far away from the city, we head down towards the countryside where the "Shadows Of Salford" hang, inviting deserved rest. But suddenly a nightmare: it’s Chris Martin again. The Doves express their wishes with the last track "Ambition." They recorded it in a closed monastery in Scotland, closed due to lack of vocations. And then they say it's better not to bring troubles upon oneself. No come on, in the end, it's an album to which one can be devoted. (the actual rating is 3.5?).
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Some Cities (03:22)
Think I might have met you before
I think it's time we settled a score
Buildings there they stretch so tall
It's steel and brick no more, no more
Can't I make you see?
Too much history coming down
Another building brought to ground
Roads that come together
My memory never severs
The love'll never sever for me
Can't I make you see?
Some cities crush
Some cities heal
Some cities laugh
While other cities steal
Can't I make you see?
Some cities crush
Some cities...
02 Black and White Town (04:15)
Here comes the action
Here comes at last
Lord give me a reaction
Lord give me a chance
You should follow me down
In satellite towns
There's no colour and no sound
I've been ten feet underground
Got to get out of this satellite town
Here comes some action
First time in my life
I gotta get up to get compensation
I gotta get up to get this to last
Whether you live alone
Or you're trying to find your way in this world
you better make sure that you don't crack your head on that pavement Man
My God! the shock!
It's been preying on me and mine
This is a dangerous place man
This is a dangerous place, there's nothing here.
You should follow your way down
In satellite towns
There's no colour and no sound
I've been ten feet underground
Black and White Town
You should follow me down
There's no colour and no sound
In the Black and White Town
I've been ten feet underground
In the Black and White Town
03 Almost Forgot Myself (04:42)
So close...
You're wasted again
I know, somehow...
I lost myself...again
Making me high again
I almost forgot myself again
It hits me so hard
It kills me again
Today
So close
Yet you're wasted again
I know, somehow...
We'll find ourselves...
I don't know, I don't know
Then we'll be high again
I almost forgot myself there
It hits you so hard
And kills again
I almost forgot myself again
I almost forgot myself there
It's hitting me hard
It moves me again
Again...
04 Snowden (04:12)
I said man, can you help me out?
Bring me back to love
Bring me back to life
Oh why should I care?
I said how, could you keep me out?
Without a wish to share
So without a doubt
Oh then why should I care?
We have been warned
It's a classic sign
It's a wicked mind
With an axe to grind
When is it our, our turn?
So why should we care?
Yeah we have been warned
It's a classic sign
Why should we care?
If this is our last summer
Oh then why should we care?
If this could be our last summer
Then why should we care?
05 The Storm (04:52)
You weathered the storm
You came out the other side
The place you were born
Is a place inside
Don't be sad it's gone
Don't be sad I'm gone...
To weather the storm
Up on your feet again
If it all comes down
Would you still call this the end?
Don't be sad it's gone
Can't be sad for long
Don't give up be strong
Don't be sad I'm gone
The night you left the storm
To weather it all
To come out the other side
With the moon all high
I'll see you on the other side
So come out the other side
06 Walk in Fire (05:34)
It seems, it seems there's nothing
That you couldn't do
With a drink inside of you
Is there nothing
You'd not do
With a drink in you?
I've always known
That you felt the pain
And it had to start to show
It'd driven you insane
I could lie, but I can't
'Cause you know it's so
You tell me, you say
"I walk in fire, you walk in fire"
You're not free till you
Walk in fire, I walk with fire, I walk in fire
You've always been
A loose cannon, gone
And the way you were back then
You'd take on anyone
It takes years to accept it all
And to be yourself
You tell me, you say
"I walk in fire, you walk in fire"
You're not free till you
Walk in fire, I walk with fire, you walk in fire
On and on and day by day
We fool ourselves we ain't the same
Everyone who stayed away
Man I always felt your pain
On and on I tell myself
Fool ourselves we ain't the same
Everyone who stayed away
Man I always felt your pain
You tell me, you say
"You walk in fire, you walk in fire"
You're not free till you
You walk in fire, walk with fire, walk in fire
07 One of These Days (04:50)
Say something
Anything will do my love
There's a girl on the 'phone
That's the girl who's never home
Say something good
There's a wilderness of hope
That's the girl, on the 'phone
That's the girl who's never home
And your friends they were so close
Say you will stay
Forgot what I came here for
Passing signs on the road
Telling me I'm far from home
Strangers out here
Myself I disappear
That's the killer on a call
That's the man who works alone
Your friends they were so close
One by one they didn't stay
Drift away like rolling sea
One by one they drift away
One of these days
One of these days
And your friends they were so close
One by one they didn't stay
Drift away like rolling seas
Day by day they drift away
And the people that were close
Are the ones you miss the most
One of these days I'll blow away
One of these days I'll blow away
08 Someday Soon (04:08)
All my love and all my heart go with you
Just look into my eyes and what can you see?
But all my love and all the time keep with me
I'll keep it with me
Someday soon you'll know how it feels to love someone
Someday soon you'll know how it feels to trust someone
Seven days and seven nights have fallen
Empty streets and bright lights he's walking
So why is it the ones we love we can't trust?
We can't trust
Because someday soon you'll know how it feels to love someone
Someday soon you'll know how it feels to trust someone To trust someone
It's been a while since I loved someone
11 Ambition (04:00)
So ambition cut you down
Ain't a love as perfect
Everybody knows it
Something drove you down
Something as good
Something new
Somebody good
Our ambition cuts us down
There's not a love that's perfect
But I, I live in hope
Somebody good
Somebody new
Something as good
Something that's mine
Ain't a love that's perfect
Everybody knows it
Ambition cuts us down
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