Even without the lyrics, this would be a blue song - listen to those chord changes, the way those strings slip into the minor key. It's a beautiful piece of songwriting, achingly so. And then there are the lyrics, telling a tale of seduction, an illicit affair, and guilt on the part of the tempted at his failure to resist. The protagonist goes from not being able to believe his luck to lying in the arms of hell in three short minutes.
What a song.
Yes, so blue, so haunting. Love the arrangement.
ReplyDeleteThey seem to have been a bit forgotten now, but for a time they were peerless.
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