Sunday, August 20, 2006

100 favourite songs: #82: "In Love With A View" - Mojave 3

…the romance was hard to ignore — / you were beautiful, I was happy to fall…

For me, in many ways “In Love With A View” is all about those few words — simple, plain even, but resonant, too…I hear them running around in my head more often than would seem at all likely. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that the song is an introspective, woozy, folk and country-tinged weeper which soars and really burns when everything comes to a head before subsiding gently back into a starry-eyed dreaminess…