When we use the word haunting, Snowflake is what we’re talking about. They were the envy of so many other bands for the way they operated, and this song is a testament to that and to them. The message is a universal one: do things for love, not money. His band mates get the upbeat Love Over Money, which would have made for a good album name, and it’s the one that sounds the closest to a Hip song – appropriate, of course. “The Bruins got the conversation going” he sings, in a line that reflects the times when life can get heavy and sports is the thing we rely on for easy conversation. I like that it’s still a mystery to me at this point.Īnd I don’t think he would have considered You Me and the Bs about he and his brother’s shared penchant for the Boston Bruins, a team his godfather, Harry Sinden coached. His longtime wife, Laura Leigh Usher, has many more odes on this album, and I wonder if she’s actually the woman in the title song. He couldn’t have named it My First Girlfriend, one about the way girls made him feel when he was younger, when he was learning what attracted him: “I watched your every move/your sophistication/ your sadness/ and your certitude.” Although this was likely the girl who steered Downie into the books that served to add archetypal storytelling to his songwriting. He uses careful vocal cadence in front of piano and soft drum beat to recount the tender moments putting one of his four children to bed “when I got to the door, closed to within an inch/that’s when you’d come awake/as if you’d been watchin’ me.” A Natural seems to be about one of his kids, as well, and is one of the only upbeat songs on the album. He could have named it Bedtime, which is actually the standout song for me. Some other choices must have been laboured over for the title. But he also says this is the person who “helped me out of so many scrapes…helped me wait and wait and wait…helped me when I had to pretend…helped me walk through thickets again and again.” Photo: Youtube Unless he chose the experience over the person because the figure from Introduce Yerself doesn’t seem that close to him still – he says “When I see you, I’ll show you my hand” meaning this person hasn’t seen him for awhile. I trust it would have been difficult to choose one person to dedicate the album to, and that’s what choosing one song would do. So why is this so important to name the album after? Is it about the person or the experience? It was such an impactful experience that he later considers getting the tattoo of that same message on his hand. We then presume she introduces herself to the driver and Downie learns his name. So, why Introduce Yerself? It’s a story about him in the backseat of a car where he’s forgotten the driver’s name so he pens an arrow to those exact words on his hand and shows it to the person beside him. This album is for the people closer to him, the ones that helped shape him. He said goodbye to his fans on the Man Machine Poem tour.
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