RE: SoJ/I, Week Six: "when I was a boy"

So as I told you last week WIWAB was the first time I heard of Jane, though it
was because of BBTB the second album I experienced. And experience seems to
be the right word

As I thought of BBTB as some kind of
country-folk-sweet-small-world-and-here-I-am album, WIWAB turned out be
something completely different. It was also the first album by Jane I bought.



mmm gimme you call that hard? you call this cool? thats nothing. come on
come on Temple appeals to me as this yearning song. Wanting it so badly it
hurts well its not tough enough And it was already Tracy who mentioned
this sweet young high voice so innocent, so determined I also want into the
temple thats there to be mine to be entered thats how I feel about Temple.
(Years later I received this song as a cd single, with all those remixes, and
I can still play it again and again and again - its just a very strong
song).



Calling All Angels Dont know whether I want to be short about this one, or
if I should go over board Its one hell of a song intense, deeply human, so
sensitive BUT I feel its somehow over used. Its heard everywhere (if you
listen), its been covered too much to leave it in its own sweet universe. I
felt so vulnerable when I watched that Six Feet Under episode. I was moved at
the end of Pay It Forward. And the version made for PIF was so more intense,
had so much more power with this huge choir at the end huge but not too long
It gets to me in some unusual way.



Love Is Everything. Simply love it. But not just simply. I like the normal
version more than the harmony version because of its vulnerability. Its so
beautiful in such I-feel-so-small-but-I-will-survive-way. And I do love the
last verse You try too love bigger, bigger still, but its too late And boy,
does it break my body down And I gave it big sometimes in my own sweet time,
and Im just leaving



Im willing. Im bending. Im wondering. I am trembling. Im trying. Love
is... Not much more to add.



Where will come from? From this place I suppose. The talking, and then the
singing, then the notion of smallness theres a theme



Sweet Incarnadine. I can not talk about this song without getting emotional.
This is such a huge song to me. Somehow it feels so real, no thinking, just
saying, its overwhelming. And dont we all cry like a child?



Somehow the Gospel kind of fell together with the knowledge that a friend had
lost his mother way too early. So this song became his song. And I do love it
for that. But its also so huge because of the sweet conversation inside. I
know you understand. The strange strength of the second I see you lookin
around at the people verse also makes me time after time very soft.



I still havent figured out what An Angel Stepped Down is about. Still, to me,
the strength of the song lies in the way it builds up, all the way to I
Believe That Love Is The Only Thing That Will Heal Us All. And boy, if ever I
would ask for such a dance!



This album has always felt to me as an introduction, an overture to the last
two songs, being The Vigil and At The Beginning Of Time. It all adds up to
those two, doesnt it?



The Vigil being one of the most touching songs I ever heard. I cant express
how I feel every time I hear it, and I better not hear it at the wrong moment
or Ill end up lost and in tears, and why it gets to me to so much, I have no
idea. Its only a movie, I know, but still



Bells are cute, and recognizable, and a very well found transition.



One night or was it day I dont know. Maybe just black and just sound. Wow
shes just awesome. You have to go through the sequence of songs to understand
the picture of the woman (man) when she (he) was still a boy and now
reflecting and rememberingIt really was the quality of blackness, and the
absence of fear and we were waiting not knowing



I may have talked about WIWAB as a book, mostly lyrical but I dont think the
lyrics would be so strong if they werent accompanied by such pointing music
and such singing with the right timbre, the right emotion, the right angle
angel whatever.

I think WIWAB is definitely worth its status, but not for its ability to let
Jane be known to the world. It should be recognized as one hell of an album,
book, movie, painting, suit, body of thoughts and inspiration.



Love is everything in a harmony version I still wonder whose idea that was



Koen



PS Love IS everything!

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