There’s a neat song that Dylan did called ‘Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight‘ and I hope my readers won’t fall apart on me when they hear for perhaps the umpteenth time today’s track Goodbye My Lover by James Blunt. This is what a song sounds like when you write in Princess Leia’s bathroom. I could think of worse places to write a song. Anyway, James did exactly that writing this song (playing the piano) staying at actress Carrie Fisher’s house and it left the whole music world gobsmacked, well at least the sentimental ones. As we used to say back home: ‘Don’t Cry in your Weet-Bix‘.
[Verse 1]
Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
Cause I saw the end before we’d begun
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won
So I took what’s mine by eternal right
Took your soul out into the night
It may be over but it won’t stop there
I am here for you, if you’d only care
You touched my heart, you touched my soul
You changed my life and all my goals
And love is blind but that I knew when
My heart was blinded by yours
I’ve kissed your lips and held your hand
Shared your dreams and shared your bed
I know you well, I know your smell
I’ve been addicted to you
[Chorus]
Goodbye my lover
Goodbye my friend
You have been the one
You have been the one for me
Goodbye my lover
Goodbye my friend
You have been the one
You have been the one for me
While in Los Angeles, Blunt lodged with Carrie Fisher, whom he had met through the family of a former girlfriend. Fisher was very supportive of Blunt’s aspirations, and provided the use of a bathroom in her home that featured a piano for him to record “Goodbye My Lover”. Blunt later said, “Everyone sings in the shower and everyone in Los Angeles seems to have a piano in the bathroom.”
I can’t remember the last time I had a piano in my bathroom and that’s sad.
References:
1. Goodbye My Lover – Wikipedia
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