Last year someone gave me Indigo Girls' new Christmas album. I played it on my computer while I was wrapping presents. This song came on, and that was the end of that. I had never heard it before. It's a cover of an old Melissa Manchester tune. I brought my tree down to … [Read more...]
Songs That Stab Me in the Heart: “How You’ve Grown” By 10,000 Maniacs
"My, how you've grown." I remember that phrase from my childhood days too. "Just wait and see." I remember those words and how they chided me, when patient was the hardest thing to be. This song has been on my mind for a while. There, in my mind, it's bittersweet and … [Read more...]
Songs That Stab Me In the Heart: “I Come and Stand at Every Door” by This Mortal Coil
The only version of this song that I've ever heard is by This Mortal Coil, a collaboration of European musicians that put out several recordings in the 1980's and 1990's. A quick poke around the internet today taught me that the origin of the song is a poem by Turkish poet Nazim … [Read more...]
Songs That Stab Me in the Heart: “Fix You” by Coldplay
Okay, yes, I know what you're thinking. It's Coldplay. Whatever, KTP - manipulative and obvious, and I'm never going to take you seriously again. Hear me out. Chris Martin's singing is indeed cringeworthy at the beginning of this song, like at that point in his career he … [Read more...]
Songs That Stab Me in the Heart: Naked As We Came by Kina Grannis (Iron & Wine Cover)
I can't listen to any Iron & Wine songs without getting very still and contemplative, and there are many that make me misty. Somehow I stumbled on this cover of "Naked As We Came" by some girl a few years ago. Huh. That "some girl" was featured in a video on McDonald's … [Read more...]
