THE VERVE LYRICS - Space And Time

Tried to add a comment to the Casablanca quotes post, but I got bitchslapped for having too long a comment. (max=2000 characters)

so,

2 additional quotes involving 'pride'.

Echo & the Bunnymen, in what was Ian McCulloch's poorly veiled departure song, 'The game': 'Pride, a proud refusal, I refuse to need your approval. Too many seekers, too few beacons, but through the fog will keep on beaming.'

And Richard Ashcroft (formerly of the Verve): 'Do you know how hard I'll try, to lose this foolish pride?
Can you take me as I am
Can you understand me (I'm changing now)"

In the post 'A Northern History' Verve/Ashcroft tracks, he's got this really cool production technique where the lyrics in parenthesis sound like he's answering his own lyric. that's a shitty description.

From Space and Time off Urban Hymns:
Oh, can you just tell me
It's all right (It's all right)
Let me sleep tonight
Oh, can you comfort me
Tonight (It's all right)
Make it all seem fine

My friend Adam once told me about a particular episode in his life, where he was comforted in the night.

He and his wife were going through some really hard times - I think she fell out of love with him, and there future was shaky like an Argentinian peso. Adam was a bit of a wreck, and it took him a while, but he opened up to me at the Blue Moon one night, let it all spill out. I think if you would've asked him, he would've said that he didn't think the marriage would work out.

It was tough times for him. Within the past year, his Dad had died in a car accident. Him and Kell called in the middle of the night for me to take them to the airport. Which I did, but then one of them forgot their ID (pre 9/11) and I went and got it and brought it to them.

That's what friends do.

Anyway, a few months after the Blue Moon night, Adam told me about a dream he had. He said that he was talking to his dad, and telling him about everything that was going on with him and his wife, and that his Dad told him that 'Everything is going to be alright.' and gave him a hug.

And it was.

And Adam truly believed that it was his dad speaking to him from beyond the grave.

'Oh, can you comfort me tonight?'
and distantly a voice sings back
('It's all right.')