Non sentivo un album pop-rockeggiante così forse dai tempi di "(What's The Story?) Morning Glory" degli Oasis oppure dai tempi di "The Man Who" dei Travis.
Qui i Feeder danno il loro meglio fronteggiando anche la scomparsa del loro batterista, morto suicida nel 2002 e arruolando l'ex batterista degli Skunk Anansie Mark Richardson dopo 7 mesi...
Si parte con una delle più belle e tristi ballate pop degli ultimi anni, "Just The Way I'm Feeling", che negli accordi iniziali ricorda moltissimo "Wonderwall", accompagnata da un video altrettanto malinconico, che può rappresentare metaforicamente un bellissimo sogno appena finito...
Avanzando si arriva a due tracce un po' più dure nel sound, come "Come Back Around" e "Helium" e ci si rende conto che non è un disco che ci farà addormentare, per poi arrivare a canzoni più calme e ragionate come "Child In You" e "Comfort In Sound"...
Struggente "Summer's Gone", dedicata a Jon Lee (il batterista scomparso).
Epiche infine le due canzoni finali, "Love Pollution" e "Moonshine".
Disco colpevolmente poco pubblicizzato, forse per far spazio a roba del tipo chihuahua e asereje (scritte appositamente in minuscolo, non meritano una minima considerazione...).
Ascoltare questo album significa immergersi per circa tre quarti d'ora in un mondo fatto di pop tranquillisimo alternato a capitoli leggermente più inca**ati ma non per questo inascoltabili, anzi...
"...you feel the moments come to soon..."
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Just the Way I'm Feeling (04:22)
Love in, love out,
Find the feeling
Stream in, stream out,
Time for healing
You feel the moment's gone too soon,
You're watching clouds come over you.
Torn in two,
You close your eyes for someplace new,
Torn in two
And I feel it's going down,
Ten feet below the ground,
I'm waiting for your healing hand,
One touch could bring me round
I feel it's going down,
Ten feet below the ground,
It's just the way I'm feeling.
Glow in, burn out,
Lost the feeling
Bruise in, you bruise out,
Nurse the bleeding
Torn in two,
Each time we bruise
And I feel it's going down,
Ten feet below the ground,
I'm waiting for your healing hand,
One touch could bring me round
I feel we're going down,
Ten feet below the ground,
It's just the way I'm feeling.
Yeah yeah, it's just the way I'm feeling.
Two different views,
As words confuse and break
I can't get out,
There's no way out of here,
I can't get clear.
Love in, love out,
Find the feeling.
And I feel it's going down,
Ten feet below the ground,
I'm waiting for your healing hand,
One touch could bring me round
I feel we're going down,
Ten feet below the ground,
It's just the way I'm feeling.
Yeah yeah, it's just the way I'm feeling.
Yeah yeah, it's just the way I'm feeling.
Yeah yeah, it's just the way I'm feeling.
Yeah yeah, it's just the way I'm feeling.
02 Come Back Around (03:13)
Turning into something
Drifting off to old ways
Got to pull myself back in
Holding back the questions
We're bruised with all rejection
Gotta pull myself back in
Suffer the breaks
You know I still remember it
It keeps burning away
I know that you may take a while
To come back around
Come back around
I miss you around
Reaching out for someone
Burning out for so long
Got to pull myself back in
There's no new religion
And there's no real solution
Gotta pull myself back in
Come back around
Come back around
Feel you're going under
So keep on treading water
Got to pull myself back in
Feel no obligation
But no more indecision
Gotta pull myself back in
Suffer the breaks
You know I still remember it
It keeps burning away
I know that you may take a while
To come back
We suffer the breaks
You know I still remember it
It keeps burning away
I know that you may take a while
I know that it may take a while
To come back around
03 Helium (03:15)
Fuel emotions, killing me
Pure devotion, cut and bleed
You're the crystal, the ecstasy,
The drug that keeps feeding me.
So come on
Torn together we sow the seed,
Bring the pleasure back for free,
The world is frozen but
I can taste new life every time i breathe.
[Chorus:]
So come on, get in,
Take a ride, till you sink,
Come on, get in,
Lets feel a new high kicking in
Change the system, break the shape
New connection hands to make,
Find the honey and learn to taste again,
So come on
Burn forever, learn to feed,
Find the pleasure it's yours to keep
The world is frozen,
But I can taste new life every time I breathe
[Chorus x2]
Come together, feel the heat,
Suck the life left right out of me,
The world is frozen,
But I can taste new life every time I breathe,
Every step I take,
Every drop I bleed
04 Child in You (03:27)
CHILD IN YOU
Talk about it
You dream about it
You feel that theres no place left to GLOW
Operatics, break the habits
You feel that theres no place left to GROW
You gotta reach inside yourself and let it go
Chorus
So close your eyes and drift away to some place new
Where the skies are blue brings back the child in you
Cross a lonely field as birds begin to speak
Its alright
Its ok
Blue, true
Blue, true
Cry about it shout about it
You feel that theres no sense in going on
Late november, change in weather
The cold has got a hold of you again
That river's gonna drag you down again
Chorus
Close your eyes and drift away to someplace new
Where the skies are blue brings back the child in you
Cross a lonely field as birds begin to speak
It's alright
Its ok
Its alright
Blue
Nothing was stopping you
Nothing was stopping you
Nothing was stopping blue
Blue, true, blue, true, miss you
Child in you
05 Comfort in Sound (03:46)
We fall right in and suffer the sins
Try to pull things round when the air starts to thin
We nurse regrets, restricted in our own belief
A new disease
We shake new hands, the victims of fate
We tread new ground misfortune conveys
You tear yourself apart
Wishing to be born again
A different man
Comfort in sound
Its all around
Ease back the strain
Come heal your pain
Comfort in sound
Its all around you now
Comfort in sound
We suffer love together as one
An empty heart with nowhere to turn
We find ourselves looking back another way
A brand new day
Comfort in sound
Its all around
Ease back the strain
Come heal your pain
Comfort in sound
Its all around you now - yeah
Solution gone, emotions ablaze
A life so strong just faded away
You find yourself searching for a quick release
A new belief
Comfort in sound
Its all around
Ease back the strain
Come heal your pain
Comfort in sound
Its all around you now
Comfort in sound
06 Forget About Tomorrow (03:51)
Calling, distorting
Reach the ends for you
Put a hole right through
Talking, we keep talking
Fill an empty space
In this lonely frame
As the image fades in to one
Today it all feels fine
An' a sense of freedom fills your mind
Can't think about tomorrow
Just breathe the air inside
And bring on back that lonely smile
Can't think about tomorrow ...
Twisting, constricted
On the edge for you
You know I'd jump right through
Falling, we keep stalling
I can see the ground
Someplace new to land
As the image fades into one
Today it all feels fine
A sense of freedom fills your mind
Can't think about tomorrow
Just breathe the air inside
And bring on back that lonely smile
Can't think about tomorrow
Can't think about tomorrow ...
Because you, feel yourself
Fall apart again
You hold your face inside your aching hands
The angels just come flooding down again
Bring us back again
Yearning, returning
To this empty street
As the city sleeps
Tearing, despairing
As the day comes in
As the morning sings
As the image fades into one
Today it all feels fine
A sense of freedom fills your mind
Can't think about tomorrow
Just breathe the air inside
And bring on back that lonely smile
Can't think about tomorrow
Today it all feels fine
A sense of freedom fills your mind
Can't think about tomorrow
Can't think about tomorrow
08 Godzilla (02:05)
Hey hey hey...
Live life in overdrive
Lost love in suicide
Godzilla
Find ways to sanitise
Clean mind no overtime
Godzilla x3
We are the paranoid
Suck life until you die
Godzilla
Godzilla
Hey,hey,hey,hey,hey...
09 Quick Fade (04:24)
Time, time on your mind
A conscience ticking
Images passing by like picture slides arranged
Love will survive
It twists and turns you
A circuit inside your head reminds you that it's fine
I miss you more than words can say
A part of me has torn away
A china heart will always break
A fracture to a twisted face
But things are gonna heal again
Eyes once blind will see again
I miss you more than words can say
I miss you more than words .....
Quickfade
Try, learning to fly
Reach new sky
Find a new place to be and watch life pass you by
Try to get high
Jumped so you could feel it...
You're living inside a dream
As waterfalls surround
I miss you more than words can say
A part of me is torn away
China hearts will always break
A fracture to a twisted face
But things are gonna heal again
Eyes once blind will see again
I miss you more than words can say
I miss you more than words .....
Quickfade...fade, fade, fade...
Glide, Glide over tides
And waves that pull you
Oceans divide us once and bring you home again
Love will survive
It twists and turns you
He's gone, gone, Quickfade
Its gone, gone, Quickfade...
I miss you more than words can say
A part of me is torn away
China hearts will always break
A fracture to a twisted face
But things are gonna heal again
Eyes once blind will see again
I miss you more than words can say
I miss you more than words .....
Quickfade
10 Love Pollution (04:13)
Crossing bridges over water
A new reflection creeping in
Got your head so full of traffic
The love pollution's setting in
Cos I'm feeling that I can't go on
I can't go on this way
Turning back a hundred pages in the book
As letters fade
Been calling out for days
As emptiness invades
Another moment's lost again
Just sunk beneath the waves
Been calling out for days
As emptiness invades
But hey, hey, hey...
Holding back the undercover
No respect in giving in
You'd sell your soul to be another
When love pollution's setting in
Cos I'm feeling that I can't go on
I can't go on this way
Turning back a hundred pages in the book
As letters fade
Been calling out for days
As emptiness invades
Another moment's lost again
Just sunk beneath the waves
Been calling out for days
As emptiness invades
But hey, hey, hey ...
'Hey'
You pick the pieces up again
You're like the song that never ends
And you're the reason I wake up
And you're my vision
You're my touch...
Cos I'm feeling that I can't go on
I can't go on this way
Turn it back a hundred pages in the book
As letters fade
Been calling out for days
As emptiness invades
Another moment's lost again
Just sunk beneath the waves
Been calling out for days
As emptiness invades
But hey, hey, hey ...
11 Moonshine (06:49)
Floating in the everglades
Faces lit in sun
A moon that lights a thousand ways across
Is company for one
Ooh won't you come back to me
Ooh won't you shine out for me
Falling down from grace
In houses made for one
Holding matches til they burn away
Ashes to the wind
Ooh won't you come back to me
Ooh won't you shine out for me
Only you, it's only for you
Always true
But time is passing by
Only you
Always you
But every time we cry
We wave the sun goodbye
Moonshine
Desolate the renegades
Poisoned tongues persuade
Take the hand that carried you above
Oceans to the grave
Ooh won't you come back to me
Ooh won't you shine out for me
Only you, it's only for you
Always true
But time is passing by
Only you
Always you
But every time we cry
We wave the sun goodbye
Moonshine
Tear yourself, you tear yourself .... (repeat)
Going over every minute every second in your mind
Turning over catching fragments of a life before you die
Going over every second, every minute left behind ...
It's only for you
Always true
But time is passing by
Only you,
Always you
But every time we cry
We wave the sun goodbye
Moonshine
Only you, it's only for you
Always true
But time is passing by
Only you
Always you
But every time we cry
We wave the sun goodbye
Moonshine
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