I bought the new Be Good Tanyas CD, Hello Love, after listening to NPR feature them on "All Things Considered" the other day, and it is such a good record. The Be Good Tanyas are a Canadian female folk trio who I was introduced to through their song "The littlest birds," which is the theme song to the show "Weeds." They have this pretty, melancholy sound that I can't get enough of. One of my favorite songs off the new CD is "Nobody Cares For Me." It's very self-deprecating (or emo, if you will), but it's just so damn pretty and soothing. I was sitting on the floor of my room listening to it over and over last night. Here are the lyrics:
Lonesome is I, I wished I could die
Nobody cares for me
Lonesome is I, I wished I could die
Nobody cares for me
It was a bright moon light night, the moon shining bright,
when you and I made love
Your heart wasn't true, I'll say unto you,
I moaned like a turtle dove
Lonesome is I, wished I could die
Nobody cares for me
Lonesome is I, wished I could die
Nobody cares for me
I'm coming home, no more to roam,
darling I'm coming home
I'm coming home, no more to roam,
darling I'm coming home
Down in the pasture, where the birds are singing
You can’t hear nothing but what the birds are saying
Down in the pasture, where the birds are singing
You can’t hear nothing but what the birds are saying
It was a bright moon light night, the moon shining bright,
when you and I made love
Your heart wasn't true, I'll say unto you,
I moaned like a turtle dove
Lonesome is I, wished I could die
Nobody cares for me
Lonesome is I, wished I could die
Nobody cares for me
The other song that I looooooove is a cover of Prince's "When Doves Cry." They played it on NPR, and I thought it was really cool and different, but then I missed it the first couple times I listened to the CD because there's a minute of dead air before it starts and I apparently thought the CD was over before the song started. So then last night when I finally waited long enough to hear it, I absolutely fell in love with the song. I don't know which of the girls does the singing on this one, because it doesn't say in the liner notes, but her voice is husky and quiet, sort of like a whisper. She has a subtle vulnerability that works really with these lyrics. Plus the song overall sounds wildly different from the original. The only thing it has in common is the lyrics and the basic tune. I hate when a band covers a song and it ends up sounding exactly like the first version. I mean, what's the point? But this sounds distinctly like The Be Good Tanyas, not like a Prince song sung by a girl.
The point is, go buy this CD. It's fantastic.
Lonesome is I, I wished I could die
Nobody cares for me
Lonesome is I, I wished I could die
Nobody cares for me
It was a bright moon light night, the moon shining bright,
when you and I made love
Your heart wasn't true, I'll say unto you,
I moaned like a turtle dove
Lonesome is I, wished I could die
Nobody cares for me
Lonesome is I, wished I could die
Nobody cares for me
I'm coming home, no more to roam,
darling I'm coming home
I'm coming home, no more to roam,
darling I'm coming home
Down in the pasture, where the birds are singing
You can’t hear nothing but what the birds are saying
Down in the pasture, where the birds are singing
You can’t hear nothing but what the birds are saying
It was a bright moon light night, the moon shining bright,
when you and I made love
Your heart wasn't true, I'll say unto you,
I moaned like a turtle dove
Lonesome is I, wished I could die
Nobody cares for me
Lonesome is I, wished I could die
Nobody cares for me
The other song that I looooooove is a cover of Prince's "When Doves Cry." They played it on NPR, and I thought it was really cool and different, but then I missed it the first couple times I listened to the CD because there's a minute of dead air before it starts and I apparently thought the CD was over before the song started. So then last night when I finally waited long enough to hear it, I absolutely fell in love with the song. I don't know which of the girls does the singing on this one, because it doesn't say in the liner notes, but her voice is husky and quiet, sort of like a whisper. She has a subtle vulnerability that works really with these lyrics. Plus the song overall sounds wildly different from the original. The only thing it has in common is the lyrics and the basic tune. I hate when a band covers a song and it ends up sounding exactly like the first version. I mean, what's the point? But this sounds distinctly like The Be Good Tanyas, not like a Prince song sung by a girl.
The point is, go buy this CD. It's fantastic.
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