Falsetto
19th August, 2013
I didn’t want to be here
I never liked your dad ‘cos he never loved the fact
That you were you
And you liked to sing falsetto
Which real men shouldn’t do
I’m mumbling through the hymns
I can see him now belt that nonsense out beside you
As you try to find a way to sing
That makes this thing ring true
Jesus, Jesus I need love
Not stuff about having faith in God
And Jesus, that would be enough
Talk of doing things through duty
Did no one like this man? Even his priest seems glad he’s gone
So I watch you simply bearing it
Hoping it won’t last too long
Jesus, Jesus he needs love
Not stuff about having faith in God
And Jesus, that would be enough
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At first I thought it was about a girlfriend, then I thought it was about a male friend, then I thought it was about a boyfriend.
I love how my perception of the song’s meaning has changed over just the few days I’ve listened to it.
Where are the lyrics for the falsetto chorus?
Please correct me if I’m wrong:
“If we’re going to burn, we might as well enjoy the fall. Into love, into drugs, into any kind of pleasure at all.”
I love your work so much, Justin. The bittersweet beauty and hope in this song makes me cry. I am not a religious, but the combination of scorn and hope is spiritually intoxicating.
At first I thought it was about a girlfriend, then I thought it was about a male friend, then I thought it was about a boyfriend.
I love how my perception of the song’s meaning has changed over just the few days I’ve listened to it.
Where are the lyrics for the falsetto chorus?
Please correct me if I’m wrong:
“If we’re going to burn, we might as well enjoy the fall. Into love, into drugs, into any kind of pleasure at all.”
thanks Leslie & mcat
or perhaps a son who needs love because his father left a deficit of love…maybe the father was a churchgoing man who sung about loving Jesus but the son did not get all that stuff and only saw a father who did not love him…and now he looks back and realises that perhaps the reason his father did not love him was because he was not loved himself…perhaps I’m going too deep!!
Brilliant arrangement….I am loving the entire CD. Thank you JC…
I sort of imagined it being about the funeral of a fairly uneducated father. Maybe in a little tough community like a pit village or a small town near a steelworks.
The sort of place where men are men etc and cling to the blinkered views of the past. Maybe they feel threatened by art or culture and even intelligence, because all they’ve ever known is hard work.
Perhaps they shut it out, and shut it down, before it can make them feel inadequate, maybe they even deny their kids the chance of improvement rather than encouraging them, so that they remain the leader in the household.
Hi Justin
I have enjoyed listening to all your solo stuff, and I just downloaded Lower Reaches…can you help me understand a bit more about Falsetto? Is it about your mum & dad? I hope you don’t mind me asking, I just like the stories of the songs. Cheers. Neil
Neil,
I red it as about the typically dad who doesn’t get his son and at the same time they are God and Jesus …