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Rating: Left (1) passato prossimo di LEAVE
Left (2) sinistra: on the left, sulla sinistra...
On tiptoes it arrived, it caught me off guard. I didn’t notice it at all. Yes, it caught me off guard. It caught me twice, just like what happened with How We Operate by Gomez, meaning: there is no trace of the album in Italy!!! And this is very sad.
I don’t know how I found the first one here in Naples. A "miracle" precisely because that debut was a real "miracle," a great album that accompanied me for months and among the many bands I know, continues to do so today.
Meanwhile, "teng' a capa tost'" as they say here in Naples, and I continue not to trust various eBay and Amazon, so I was forced to resort to other means to get the album. And I must say this means is not the noblest way to thank these "hope of the states."
I would like to smell the pages of the booklet and insert the album in the stereo, turning the case around. I DON’T want to click and listen, NO. But the temptation was very strong, I couldn't not do it, I had to listen to this LEFT because I was sure of another absolute masterpiece. And so it was.
"Seconds" is a useless track, a sparse and quite predictable introduction. The two singles "Blood Meridian" and "Sing It Out". In the second, there is a hint of Muse and Placebo in the initial guitars especially. It’s not a well-chosen single and it’s not even very nice, while the other one, Blood Meridian, is authentic Hope of the States style. Guitars played with a brush, rhythmic drums, violins with a very catchy chorus blasted to 1000. The distinctive style of HotS continues to be felt, differing little from the debut even though there are some gems like the choir-like church songs in "The Good Fight". In the title track, Samuel Herlihy recites "An argument, an ambulance. The sound of sirens in my head just like you're singing to me" building an excellent song complete with electric piano, in a crescendo of instruments. "Industry" is short and sharp like a well-honed blade.
The general opinion people have of Sam Herlihy is that he has a bad voice and that it's precisely that which ruins the band, but in my opinion his suffering and hoarse voice even if it isn't very tuneful, expresses emotions that many singers do not convey.
Left in the end is made up of beautifully orchestrated songs with violins (sometimes brass).
The songs I highly recommend you listen to before getting the album are: Blood Meridian, Left, Industry, This is a question, Forwardirektion.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Blood Meridian (04:04)
The money's running out
The casino's burning down
The police are getting nervous
The transmission's shot
And the schools are all locked
The offices have shut up shop
It's quiet on the streets today
I think I know what's going on
But I'm too scared to say
In case I got it wrong
And made a bad mistake
Emergency, emergency
Someone acted honestly
You'd better string em up, tie em down
Never let the news get out
Never let it happen again
Emergency, emergency
Someone meant every word they said
You should beat em up, lock em up
Throw away the key and
Never let it happen again
There's a flood coming in
And the snow is coming down
There's fighting on every corner
The troubled little kids
That were bullied at school
This is the only chance you�re getting
To stand up for the put upon
The worried and the anxious
But you're too scared to say
That they got it all wrong
And made a bad mistake
Emergency, emergency
Someone acted honestly
You'd better string em up, tie em down
Never let the news get out
Never let it happen again
Emergency, emergency
Someone meant every word they said
You should beat em up, lock em up
Throw away the key yeah
Never let it happen again
Tell me, would you tell me
How we ended up so cynical?
You should give it up, start again
Make mistakes and try to change
Never let it happen again
Tell me what's wrong with meaning every single thing you do
03 Sing It Out (03:14)
The signs above my head are clear to all
An underachiever but a true believer
Who never had a hope in hell
I am the soldier
I am the soldier
Who fought a war for nothing
I am the damage that a dream does
I am the damage that a dream does
Sing it out
Sing it out yr not alone
You are not
You are not the only one
You are lost and now yr found
Sing it out
Sing it out
Sing it out
Sing it out yr not alone
You are not
You are not the only one
You are lost and now yr found
Sing it out
Sing it out
If I sing a song for economics
The numbers never add up
I am debt
I am loss
I am written off
Again and again and again and again
So I walk this line alone
I endure 'cause I've always known
The only way things will ever change
Is if I try
And I'm right
And I'm right
And I'm right
Sing it out
Sing it out yr not alone
You are not
You are not the only one
You are lost and now yr found
Sing it out
Sing it out
Sing it out
Sing it out yr not alone
You are not
You are not the only one
You are lost and now yr found
Sing it out
Sing it out
Sing it out
Sing it out yr not alone
You are not
You are not the only one
You are lost and now yr found
Sing it out
Sing it out
Sing it out
Sing it out yr not alone
You are not
You are not the only one
You are lost and now yr found
Sing it out
Sing it out
04 Bonfires (04:23)
It's speeding up around me
But my heart is slowing down until it stops
This train is off the rails
The devil's in the details
No one notices
There's bonfires in my head
There's criminals in my chest
No one notices
And I'm desperate
And I'm lonely
The hospital is empty
No one notices
It's not enough to say I'm sorry
For all the pain and the worry
What are you waiting for?
Give up on me and leave
It's not enough to say I'm sorry
For all the pain and the worry
What are you waiting for?
Give up on me and leave
So I saw the houses empty
And the people gathered round
And spat at me
Yr the family we hated
Not the only one who's waiting for the end
There's bonfires in my head
There's criminals in my chest
No one notices
And I'll lead them off the edge
I'll drown them in the Dead Sea
Now they're noticing
It's not enough to say I'm sorry
For all the pain and the worry
What are you waiting for?
Give up on me and leave
It's not enough to say I'm sorry
For all the pain and the worry
What are you waiting for?
Give up on me and leave
It's not enough to say I'm sorry
It's not enough to say I'm sorry
For all the pain and the worry
What are you waiting for?
Give up on me and leave
11 January (04:48)
I want to be a kid again
I want to wash my eyes out
I want to mean everything I say
And never be scared again
I refuse to be ashamed
However many doomed attempts it takes
To forget my history and my mistakes
And everything I waste
I fell apart in January
But I fixed myself for everybody
I know tomorrow will be better
Without you all I don't know where I'd be
I hope a day will come
To make me forget everything
When it comes I'll sing it out
And praise the Lord
I saved myself
I fell apart in January
But I fixed myself for everybody
I know tomorrow will be better
Without you all I don't know where I'd be
I fell apart in January
But I fixed myself for everybody
I know tomorrow will be better
Without you all I don't know where I'd be
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