Are you still into it? It´s hard to know if there´s any hope for anyone, in any kind of relationship. And it´s even harder to know if there´s something left after a post-rock song.
Mogway (one of the most influential bands from the second half of the 90s and from the post-rock moviment), has been showing te world how a single song can provoke an explosion of feelings on those who listen to them. "R U STILL IN 2 IT", from their first album "Young Team", has the guest singer Aidan Moffat from Arab Strap (his vocal are close enough to speaking) and a banal lyric.
When the guitar starts, forming a circle with sad repeating notes, the melancholy takes me, I have the sensation that I miss something that happened a long time ago (somethig I really don´t know what it is), that I miss something that is happening right now ("We´d share a popcorn and we can go to the pub at night, we can get right tanked up and go home and have a fight") and that I miss something that won´t even happen, like I´m afraid to miss something in the future. The story itself isn´t terribly significant. There are no names, few details. For me the song is not about the end of a relationship with shame, hurt, love, anger or hope. I think that death is the only certainty in the song, it´s a goodbye song, where someone is dying, and this person is just missing his/her life, and also missing the one this person loves ("I will now leave here but don´t follow me / I will leave you and I will miss you"). As far as I´m concerned, this song comes down to one single feeling: DEATH, and it´s too late to do a damn thing about it. Maybe, this song (like so many other from Mogwai) says more about me than I can imagine.
For two more minutes the piano plays. It´s over. It ends like: gimme a razor I just wanna finish this shoot once and for all. Love will tear us apart, always.
always...
http://writingclubblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/r-u-still-in-2-it.html
Mogway (one of the most influential bands from the second half of the 90s and from the post-rock moviment), has been showing te world how a single song can provoke an explosion of feelings on those who listen to them. "R U STILL IN 2 IT", from their first album "Young Team", has the guest singer Aidan Moffat from Arab Strap (his vocal are close enough to speaking) and a banal lyric.
When the guitar starts, forming a circle with sad repeating notes, the melancholy takes me, I have the sensation that I miss something that happened a long time ago (somethig I really don´t know what it is), that I miss something that is happening right now ("We´d share a popcorn and we can go to the pub at night, we can get right tanked up and go home and have a fight") and that I miss something that won´t even happen, like I´m afraid to miss something in the future. The story itself isn´t terribly significant. There are no names, few details. For me the song is not about the end of a relationship with shame, hurt, love, anger or hope. I think that death is the only certainty in the song, it´s a goodbye song, where someone is dying, and this person is just missing his/her life, and also missing the one this person loves ("I will now leave here but don´t follow me / I will leave you and I will miss you"). As far as I´m concerned, this song comes down to one single feeling: DEATH, and it´s too late to do a damn thing about it. Maybe, this song (like so many other from Mogwai) says more about me than I can imagine.
For two more minutes the piano plays. It´s over. It ends like: gimme a razor I just wanna finish this shoot once and for all. Love will tear us apart, always.
always...
http://writingclubblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/r-u-still-in-2-it.html
