Love Pains Make You Feel Alive

from agnes in the gleneagle;

I don't know about you, but I'm nearly, just nearly, fed up with little boys full of self-knowing doubt singing 'love' songs with their nice non-electric geetars. Sometimes they even appear in the church in Dingle with Mr Patronising Kelly.

Give me someone who gives everything in a song, including real feeling.

Neko Case is such a woman. This is "The Pharoahs". It gives me a shudder each time I listen and drink in the words.



lyrics;
you were married in the mirrored hall when I was 16

you spoke the words, "I love girls in white leather jackets"
that was good enough for love, it was good enough for me
I listened in when you thought you were alone
calling the sphinx on a tornado's phone
who knows what she'll say
I only heard what i wanted
you said I was your blue, blue baby
and you were right
you said I was your blue, blue baby
and you were right
wandered the halls all the nighttime
my body burned, my legs ached
but you never came to bed
you just left me there awake
you kept me wanting wanting wanting
like the wanting in the movies and the hymns
I want the pharaohs, but there's only men
I want the pharaohs, but there's only men
you said I was your blue, blue baby
and you were right
you said I was your blue, blue baby
and you were right