Sunday, October 18, 2009

Been A Long Time (Waiting on Love)

Been A Long Time (Waiting on Love) is off Before the Frost . . . as well as my new favourite driving song. On the Stuck Inside Utopia tour, so far, it's already been played 38 times live! I think TBC loves playing Been A Long Time live and why not? It's rocking! In fact, I think Been A Long Time has been played at almost every show or at least as much as I Ain't Hiding or Good Morning Captain. I think another reason TBC is loving playing Been A Long Time is its incredible potential for jams...just listening to shows from the tour, the jams are incredible from this song! Chris really really plays a mean harmonica in some of them as you can see in the video below as well as Luther being AMAZING!

Been A Long Time does have good lyrics like all TBC songs but I like it more for its sound -- it just pumps you up and makes you want to get up. If I had to pick, I'd say "Low country blushing bride / Blind to the ways of time" are my favourite lyrics of the song... and I'm sure you can guess why. I just love the imagery because it goes along with this entire "go west" mentality of the last two (er, three...) TBC albums...that whole providence thing. I still can't believe how good BTF/UTF are -- just, wow.

Earthbound wingless dream
Child born to necessity
Tied to crimson velvet wings
She flies

New moon midnight star
Medicine is in the jar
Head full of going far
She flies

Lost out on the dream road
Looking for a key hole
Never try to fight it
Feeling right inside it

Low country blushing bride
Blind to the ways of time
Clear crystal burning mind
She flies

Falling through liquid air
With music everywhere
Stone faces silent stare
She flies

The old guard on the hill
Can feel the chill
Deep into the freeze
Of those who don't believe

Been a long time
Waiting on love
Been a long time
Waiting on love
Been a long time
Waiting on love

Damp with this morning dew
The world is bright and new
Her word is always true
She flies

Step into the new day
Right over the old way
We are the horizon
See our future smiling

Been a long time
Waiting on love
Been a long time
Waiting on love
Been a long time
Waiting on love
Been a long time

Lost out on the dream road
Looking through the key hole
Never try to fight it
Feeling right inside it

Been a long time
Waiting on love
Been a long time
Waiting on love
Been a long time
Waiting on love


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