Feb 2022 random collaborations topic 12349 c261757
a random Collab due to work commitments could get finished until now post 28th
mama said before we left:
please remember the list
let’s not forget anything
cuz i’ll be pissed
if we leave out one thing.
if need be we’ll try
to take out a loan
there’s so much to buy
that we can’t get at home.
i said as we went there:
every few miles past
i see there’s another town
but we pass by so fast
you can’t tell what’s around/going down.
it just seems to me
we should stop and roam
cuz there’s so much to see
that we just can’t at home.
gotta get to the big city
gotta get to the market place
gotta get me the latest gadget
gotta get me the best phrase
gotta get that thing to make me pretty
gotta get to the big city.
i finally said as we returned:
why when we go to town
do we just to buy stuff?
in search of the latest noun
when is it enough?
just answer this for me
which’ll we regret before we die
the places we didn’t see
or the things we didn’t buy?
gotta get to the big city
gotta get to the market place
gotta get me the latest gadget
gotta get me the best phrase
gotta get that thing to make me pretty
gotta get to the big city.
BRIDGE:
we’re going to the big city
we’re just passing by
plenty of places may seem pretty
but it’s all one sky.
chorus
gotta get to the big city
gotta get to the market place
gotta get me the latest gadget
gotta get me the best phrase
gotta get that thing to make me pretty
gotta get to the big city.
@ambroise Mar 2022
Maybe greed is nothing but misplaced curiosity ? Brilliant song with a most important message.
I feel like "which’ll we regret before we die / the places we didn’t see / or the things we didn’t buy?" is the center of the song. But it's way more striking because it's rooted in an everyday-life story.
I also like how it exceed critic of consumerism with "gotta get me the best phrase" and "in search of the latest noun". Meaning buy stuff is just one mistake among others you can make due to a need to distinguish.
@berni1954 Mar 2022
I like how this goes from an apparently domestic scene to questioning the whole kit and caboodle of consumerism and our obsession with living in cities.
The drift into cities, especially in the so-called developing world, leads to them becoming dog-eat-dog places where even young children are forced to hustle to survive.
@katestantonsings Mar 2022
I could hear this chorus as an intro to a detective show. It's dark and lovely--like Nick Cave, Tom Waits, and Leonard Cohen all combined. :) Well done, collaborators! I enjoyed my listen.
@majormajormajormajor Mar 2022
Very cool...has a Nick Cave updated-folk-ballad kind of feel to it, and for me conjures a different time with a Conestoga wagon traveling along a rutted double track into the distance for that annual trip to the city.
I feel like the treatment is very faithful to the intention of the lyrics, where both have a foot in the past and a foot in the present. A well constructed modern folk ballad.
@br0th3rh00d Mar 2022
Cool vibe.
@dzdandcunfsd Mar 2022
The way that piano just prods that amazing guitar tone along is fantastic coupled with that very bluesy almost dragging vocal melody makes this a super treat for the ears.
Love this lyric as well, though I do have some regrets on some places I've seen, but absolutely none on nouns I didn't buy. Great collab!