What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

CROWDED HOUSE  "time on earth" cd, 2007

a revisit listen....
their fifth of six with a new one on the way in June...
initially meant to be a Finn solo project but the sudden and unexpected death of drummer Paul Hester drew the remaining band members together for obvious reasons...
typical CH sounds here, uptempo music with quite a few solomn, sombre, dour lyrics, again, not unexpected given the circumstances...
was their highest charting album in the uK (peaking at #3), another platinum seller in their homeland and Australia...
if i did a ranking of all their albums this would probably end up in the bottom three but...
I LOVE THIS ALBUM

favorite has a distinct Split Enz feel to it and his tribute to Paul Hester, RIP (the lyrics are quite simple but effective IMO)
love his falsetto in this one also





She called up
And gave me the news
It made me so sad, sad, sad
There was nothing I could do
She's too far away
And you had to leave
I can never repay you now
For what you gave to me....


A whisper that can blow a chasm wide
It took us all
It took us all
Pushed apart the mountains and the tide
It took us all.

She called up
And gave me the news
It made me so sad, sad, sad
There was nothing I could do
I was so lost
In delirious sleep
Wasn't prepared for that position
Yeah maybe I was naïve....

But truth is a mortal blow
You know all there is to know
The hurt that you held so close
There's something better now.

And she called up
And gave me the news
It made me so sad, sad, sad
There was nothing I could do
She's too far away
And you had to leave
I can never repay you now
For what you gave to me...

For what you gave to me
She called up
She called up
She called up
And gave me the news