Relative Something

Lately I’ve had Chastity Brown‘s music in my mind, particularly, her song “Lift Us.” It suits me. You know how I feel about love, that it certainly does lift us. I think she’s got it right with these lyrics, and every other nuance of this recording, as well. She wins me over right away at the opening guitar up-strums, but then the way the bass slides to enter with the drums; the background “ooo ooos;” the light balance, yet fuzzy substance of the electric guitar; the emotion with which she distorts the pronunciations –getting “lift” to sound like “leeeeft;” the rhythmic bounce that carries the whole thing all the way to the end.

I highly recommend you take the time to pay extra attention to the details as you listen, but be forewarned, when you listen to all the detail, songs have a way of burying themselves in your mind.

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I was heading down a road
Going nowhere
But I didn’t even know
Ya know I didn’t even care
But along the way
Came a word I was needing to hear

Chorus:
Love can lift us
Oh love real love
Love can lift us
Talkin ‘bout love real love

So you say you’re all alone
Drowning in a sea of people
I will throw you a rope
Pull you to shore
So you can feel this

Chorus

Talkin bout love
If you’ve ever been on the floor
Aint go no where to go
Just lookin up keep lookin up

Chorus

credits: from Back-Road Highways, released 24 March 2012

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