My Top 1000 Songs #216: Some Jingle Jangle Morning
Lyrically, there's a hint of the drugs & darkness that have haunted Lord's life & surroundings, as the song parses through unrequited love and absent friends--"I was too freaked out to deal with it all, and too fucked up to care. I stood right there and watched it fall apart." But with Lord's sweetly girlish vocals out front, it's a hopelessly buoyant tune with a singalong chorus to die for, the rousing melody and fizzed-out guitars barely concealing its sad resignation. "I love to watch you walk, and I love to hear you talk. But there's nothing I can say to make you feel the same way."
The more stripped-down original version:Live in 1998:
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