You can be anywhere, watching any bird take flight, and "Magpie to the Morning" is what it sounds like. The song arrives and departs with a glide, always soaring, because it can.
Come on sorrow, take your own advice/ Hide under the bed, turn out the lights
Neko Case's voice is gorgeous. After the first instrumental interlude, the recording engineer picks up her voice saying Here I go and then Neko belts out the lyrics. I'm glad they kept this in the mix. It fires me up.
Mockingbird sings, in the middle of the night/ All his songs are stolen, so he hides
Neko Case "Magpie to the Morning"
"Graceland" opens with one of the English language's greatest similes.
The Mississippi Delta was shining like a national guitar
Yet somehow, this makes perfect sense to me. "Graceland" is a song about heartache (She comes back to tell me she's gone/ As if I didn't know that, as if I didn't know my own bed) that also manages to uplift (I have reason to believe we all will be received).
It is a traveling song with the versatility to make it apropos to most pilgrimages. And the album track has the Everly Brothers singing back-up.
Paul Simon "Graceland"
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