Something about a real classy, traditional cover that just hits all the right notes.
With her voice, so bluesy and pure, and this song, so traditional and heartfelt, I cannot help but sip some tea, light a cigarette, and indulge in the purity of grand piano keys and soft brushes on a snare. A good torch song will do you right, and a singer like Fiona will bring out its most delicate and honest moments. It’s easy, I think, on first listen, to write off the kind of songs you’ve heard time and time again, or at least thought you have, the kind of songs with this old-school vibe. So easily we forget how much these words meant to the one who wrote them, back in the 30s, 40s, 50s, or whenever.
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“I’m sentimental
So I walk in the rain
I’ve got some habits
Even I can’t explain
Go to the corner,
I end up in Spain
Why try to change me now?
I sit and daydream
I’ve got daydreams galore
Cigarette ashes
There they go on the floor
Go away weekends,
Leave my keys in the door
Why try to change me now?
Why can’t I be more conventional?
People talk, people stare.
So I try
But that can’t be,
Cause I can’t see
My strange little world
Just go passing me by.
So let people wonder,
Let ’em laugh, let ’em frown
You know I’ll love you
Till the moon’s upside down
Don’t you remember?
I was always your clown.
Why try to change me now?
Don’t you remember
I was always your clown
Why try to change me,
Why try to change me now?”
~Why Try to Change Me Now
Fiona Apple, Then Was Then & Now Is Now
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