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Songs that overwhelm ina gooey way
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Re: Songs that overwhelm ina gooey way
Feb 06, 2003, 13:10
"The Bridge" from Time Fades Away by Neil Young. it's an obscure one, but well worth seeking out in the context of this thread. I've never heard any other song which is similtaneously so sexually explicit and so beautiful in its vulnerability.

"and love came running down like a river on your skin,
and you let me in, oh baby, oh baby.
you let me in.
The bridge we're building now, it may take a lot of time, and it may be lonely
but oh baby, oh baby."

it's an After The Goldrush-style piano song sung in Young's most plaintive voice, which is what makes "oh, baby" sound so goosebump-inducingly beautiful and fragile rather than sleazy. Apparently the lyrics are based on a poem of the same name by Hart Crane (who I've never been able to find that or anything else by).
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