I was completely blown away. It literally gave me chills! I've gotta say that it has instantly become one of my favorite Travis songs. All I can say is WOW...thank you so much Travis for such a beautiful, powerful song. It's perfect. The bit when Fran sings "I love you, I love you, I love you ooo...*DRUMS*"... :O It's amazing...so emotional! This is why I freakin' love this band.
Nikki, that's... what can I say... do you know my minds??? Every single time I've heard and hear it, it feels like the PERFECT song for me!
And I always ask myself: Is this a lovesong for Clay? When you look at the words, for me it sounds like the things you think about what you did BEFORE you've got a child.
- you can sit in the morning sun without the baby screaming
- you can turn the radion on as loud as you want
And the other words:
- if Clay ever needs his father he shall call
- Fran has only got two hands (reminds me of this pic with Nora and Clay where Fran seems to handle thousand things in this second)
- "I hope the fire never dies" - wonderful! A children's fire shall never die, is that what he means?
For me the whole text means: Hello Clay, this is your father speaking (singing), whatever happens, I'm there for you and I love you!
What do you think?
Wow. I didn't see it in that way. ...I don't know how I saw it, but that's a very fitting analysis!
The more often I listen to the tracks on the album the more I love it intensely. At first I thought I wouldn't like it as much as BWNN but now I'm just WOW. Plus the fact that there's a narrative undercurrent...really good stuff.
And I haven't even GOT the album ...physically... yet. (I have to wait til my exams get over!)
I've been holding out to hear the songs on Ode because I want to hear the album in its entirety, but I just couldn't resist listening to "Before You Were Young" any longer, especially with all of the positive talk about it on the board. So, I caved in last night and listened to it for the first time.
I was completely blown away. It literally gave me chills! I've gotta say that it has instantly become one of my favorite Travis songs. All I can say is WOW...thank you so much Travis for such a beautiful, powerful song. It's perfect. The bit when Fran sings "I love you, I love you, I love you ooo...*DRUMS*"... :O It's amazing...so emotional! This is why I freakin' love this band.
I've been holding out to hear the songs on Ode because I want to hear the album in its entirety, but I just couldn't resist listening to "Before You Were Young" any longer, especially with all of the positive talk about it on the board. So, I caved in last night and listened to it for the first time.
I was completely blown away. It literally gave me chills! I've gotta say that it has instantly become one of my favorite Travis songs. All I can say is WOW...thank you so much Travis for such a beautiful, powerful song. It's perfect. The bit when Fran sings "I love you, I love you, I love you ooo...*DRUMS*"... :O It's amazing...so emotional! This is why I freakin' love this band.
It's my favourite on the new album, too. I cried when I first heard it, and then I listened to Ode in the car and almost had a small accident because I wasn't focussing on the traffic, lol! And today when I listened to the album, I was just about to tidy some stuff up and when BYWY came up, I stopped in the middle of it and just stood in my room speechless. I guess it's something special about this song that it just makes me focus entirely on the song and I can't think of anything else in this moment :) (of course not really helpful when I'm driving. :D)
