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Thread #75675   Message #1331943
Posted By: catspaw49
19-Nov-04 - 12:31 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Colours (Donovan)
Subject: RE: Help! A folk/pop song from the 60's?
Versions make such a difference in a song. Another of my favorite songs is "Catch the Wind" and I generally have heard it as a bit plaintive to the point of sighing. But the song, both words and tune, lends itself to a different interpretation. Far more aggressive in it's plaintiveness and with some anger thrown in for good measure as though the singer is mad at himself and the world because he cannot remedy the situation. In the first version the singer is basically hopeless and in the second, though equally hopeless, the dude ain't giving up without a fight.

This may be a classic "navel gazer" to some, but unlike a true navel gazes where only the writer can directly relate, "Catch the Wind" shares an emotion and situation that many have felt in one way or another.

Sorry to zoom off topic there..........

Spaw