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by blackcoffee » Thu Nov 16, 2023 12:32 pm
As others have suggested, why couldn't such a simply, pretty song have been released at some point earlier than nearly 30 years after it was first conceived. That said, there is a plaintive quality to Perry's voice that I think he owes in part to time. That deep register Hype references that Perry leans into more here. And like Hype, I see the link between this and Dogs They Rule the Night. But this song has more purity and/or joy than Dogs does.
The opening "hum" (?) that Perry does and then repeats seems in part reminiscent of the scat vocal improve he does at the beginning of Jane Says, but I also wonder if it's a cheat to avoid having to come up with more lyrics. Regardless, the few lyrics we have aren't bad. I like the word organization here, "cause when you look away/and back at them/they're gone"
and on the line about the girl on the bus, which I imagine is Perry's original bus ride out to LA from Florida: "on the bus ride heading west/she put her head on me/and just like that I was possessed".
My wife frequently, but lovingly, rolls her eyes at my lifelong commitment to Perry's limited, and inconsistent output, but I picked her up from the airport last night, played it for her, and as we were getting into bed, she was unconciously humming it.
I'm happy for them--especially for Pete--to have this and the soon to be released complete EP. The thought that a group I consider my contemporaries are heading out on a farewell tour is deeply unsettling to me. To the point that I tear up. So, this song seems even more poignant. Am hoping to make it to the SD show. In our 20s my sister and I saw P4P at least 5 times--seminal early LA shows and the Tijuana show, and she often paid for me cause I was drug using POS at the time. I hope to score two tix, and take her in February.
Much love to you all.