Lost Gem: "If She Wants Me" - Belle & Sebastian (2003)



"If I could do just one near perfect thing I'd be happy."
~ Belle & Sebastian ~


With a plethora of folk-rock/pop indie bands working their craft these days... it can be difficult to separate the Good from the Plentys.

However Belle & Sebastian  have created quite a following thanks to the trademark quirky kool lyrics from Stuart Murdoch and the wicked 2-point takedown musicianship of the 6 other members.

Lost Gem:--> "If She Wants Me"...is breathtakingly good.  Brian Wilson good.  With a light jazzy-funk guitar and organ push, lead singer Murdoch’s falsettos spins a killer hook that is nigh on impossible to forget.
Charming, yes...but much too smart to be trite.

 Have you heard this gem?


I wrote a letter on a nothing day
I asked somebody 'Could you send my letter away'?
'You are too young to put all of your hopes in just one envelope'
I said goodbye to someone that I love
It's not just me, I tell you it's the both of us
And it was hard
Like coming off the pills that you take to stay happy
Someone above has seen me do alright
Someone above is looking with a tender eye
Upon your face, you may think you're alone but you may think again.

If I could do just one near perfect thing I'd be happy
They'd write it on my grave, or when they scattered my ashes
On second thoughts I'd rather hang about and be there with my best friend
If she wants me

And far away somebody read the letter
He condescends to read the words I wrote about him
And if he smiles, it's no more than a genius deserves
For all your curious nerve and your passion
I'm going deaf, you're growing melancholy
Things fall apart, I don't know why we bother at all
But life is good and 'It's always worth living at least for a while'

If you think to yourself 'What should I do now'?
Then take the baton, girl, you better run with it
There is no point in standing in the past cause it's over and done with

I took a book and went into the forest
I climbed the hill, I wanted to look down on you
But all I saw was twenty miles of wilderness so I went home.

Good stuff!

Casey Chambers
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Comments

whiteray said…
Been thinking about this one since I rolled through here a while ago. It seems to have dug itself into me. Thanks.
April 5, 2011 at 8:07 PM
Casey said…
Whiteray...Always great when you drop by. You've always been one of my earliest supporters!
Just think of this particular post as a payback for all the good'uns you've recommended that grabbed me and wouldn't let loose!
<:^)
April 5, 2011 at 8:53 PM
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