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Rating: This morning I woke up, it was raining. But it was a rain that was kind to me, and I felt strangely happy. Together with the few plants that adorn my apartment, I went out, barefoot, to get a little water on my face. And as I wiped the drops from my face, which were not tears, not mine, I mean, I smiled at the cat who, indeed, has figured out how to truly live, squatting unlawfully on a bench not his own.
Once back inside, I was overwhelmed by an inexplicable sense of gratitude, I looked for "Love not money" (1985), an album I can only listen to when the rain is benevolent, when you have the feeling that someone is expressing their joy and it's not you doing it, you don't care, don't ask questions!
"when all's well my love is like cathedral bells"
This crystal-clear pop from another time, gentle and round like its three letters, soft in its blanket of lightly strummed guitars and here and there flecked with some naiveté in writing, might not be the best pop of the era but it makes me feel good because it steals me away from life every now and then and only for a short time, just enough to say "I have" a life and it is also good.
"Love" instead of "Money", for Eden is here with us!
Perhaps rhetorical, but if EBTG says so, I believe it.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 When All's Well (03:03)
We are not true
We are not pure
We are not right
O but still I'll steal to you at night
Too selfish by half
Too ugly by far
But when your songs have been sung, come to me
Rumours are rife
And winter blows cold
Reminds me of such wretched times
And yet all the same
I will never deign
To think ill of you
When all's well
My love is like cathedral bells
Amongst all the dross
The lies and the grief
There are so many things you just wouldn't believe
But amongst all the dross
The lies and the grief
When all's well
My love is like cathedral bells
06 Sean (03:32)
There's a Belfast girl I loved and lost
On the rolling hills around my home
Now she stays home nights behind locked doors
Since a plastic bullet stopped him
And he don't come no more
There's a Belfast boy was loved and lost
On the crowded streets of his own home town
Pepper my heart with a lover's words
And I'll pepper yours with a Getlin gun
Mother my heart is full of lead
And it weighs me down and I just can't cry
Remember me to schoolboy friends
And tell it as it was, please try
So come by my boy and sit you down
There's a tale to hear, a tale to tell this town
You say the devil will get me some day
You can tell him I'm waiting
Cause these are the things I must say
Mother my heart is full of lead
And life holds few surprises too
Tell that to the little ones
Before they learn to leaugh at you
Mother my heart is full of lead
And it weighs me down and I just can't cry
Remember me to schoolboy friends
And tell it as it was, please try
09 Anytown (03:28)
Over dale and over hills
I'll take you through the cotton mills
To the ginnels where we played
And where are friendships all were made
Still they came and tore them down
And now we live in Anytown
They came and tore it down
And now this place could be Anytown
Can't forget and won't forgive
The places we've been forced to live
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But rather that than live alone
For they came and tore it down
And now we live in Anytown
They came and tore it down
And now this place could be Anytown
Rags to riches, that's a lie
For some things money just can't buy
Thicker than water blood may be
And comfort still brings misery
For they came and tore it down
And now we live in Anytown
They came and tore it down
And now this place could be Anytown
They took the heart when they ripped it down
And in its place sent Anytown
Summer in the driving rain
I can hear the Oldham train.
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