Post by Arnold on Apr 3, 2010 18:28:58 GMT -5
I knew from the opening notes that this song would fill me with longing and regret because I know now how well Sabrina can do that to me. I'm sure I'm not the only one. From the beginning, I could not turn away from Sabrina's songs and this is no exception. Sabrina's vocals are like fine surgical tools, opening the heart to a sweet pain.
Your fingertips across my skin
The palm trees swaying in the wind
Images
You sang me Spanish lullabies
The sweetest sadness in your eyes
Clever trick
I never want to see you unhappy
I thought you'd want the same for me
Utter loss yet a plea for requite that you can't help but understand. How sweetly she sings. Sabrina is very young yet she sings this song with a maturity well beyond her years. She captures the emotion between the beautiful sounds of her voice and she conveys that directly to the heart and you cannot help but feel it. How can anyone listen to this beautiful plaint without tearing up just a little?
Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should've known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do
Sabrina does not let up, she is immersed in the mood and rebuilds a melancholy sense of loss yet with bittersweet images that clearly will remain with us forever. Nostalgia and loss glow in these verses and no singer, no performer today could deliver it better than Sabrina.
We walked along a crowded street
You took my hand and danced with me
Images
Listen how smoothly she sings that wavering "images" ...
And when you left you kissed my lips
You told me you would never let forget these images, no
I never want to see you unhappy
I thought you'd want the same for me
Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should've known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do
This song is riddled with the contradictions of someone wronged in love but it is essential to the song and here Sabrina steps up the drama and makes it count so very much and she does it smooth as the finest silk, too.
I cannot go to the ocean
I cannot drive the streets at night
I cannot wake up in the morning
Without you on my mind
So you're gone and I'm haunted
And I bet you are just fine
Did I make it that easy
To walk right in and out of my life?
Goodbye, my almost lover
Goodbye, my hopeless dream
I'm trying not to think about you
Can't you just let me be?
So long, my luckless romance
My back is turned on you
Should've known you'd bring me heartache
Almost lovers always do
The song ends and I slowly pull the knife from my heart and tell myself "it's only a song ... it's only a song ..." This song will haunt me, that much I know. I hope Sabrina doesn't do many sad songs in the future ... I may not be able to take it. Sabrina, this is Top 40 stuff and I am not kidding in the least.
Arnold
