The Jayhawks, “Blue” (Tomorrow the Green Grass, 1995)
Seventeen years on, and this still sounds heartbreakingly beautiful. One of my favorite bridges ever:
All my life I’m waiting for someone I can show the door
(Stand by, stand by, waitin’ round)
But, nothing seems to change, you’ll come back I know
(Now that I’m blue, that I’m blue, from now on…)
So…blue.
Just a pretty perfect song.
(While the video quality on this one is sketchy, the remastered audio sounds phenomenal. Grab an mp3 here.)
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Agreed.