Elbow — The Only Road
Album: Flying Dream 1
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Total ratings: 825
Released: 2021
Length: 4:09
Plays (last 30 days): 7
Avg rating:
Your rating:
Total ratings: 825
Length: 4:09
Plays (last 30 days): 7
The open road unrolling
And you in reach beside me
And a very chatty monkey
Fast asleep behind me
And the mountains rose before us
Noble brass for the chorus
And we talk of country kindness
As we put some miles behind us
And I guess we'll get to Inverness tonight
And I've lined a piper up just to make you cry
And the moon shows up to roll around our sky
And I've never been so sure
That I was right where I should be
In my whole life
Oh, I didn't see you coming
But now I'm nowt without you
You're the cooling glassy water
That feeds the trees about you
And the only road I know now
Is you and I together
And the little heart we started
Picks up that beat forever
And I guess we'll get to Inverness tonight
And I've lined a piper up just to make you cry
And the moon shows up to roll around our sky
And I've never been so sure
That I was right where I should be
In my whole life
And I've never been so sure
That I was right where I should be
In my whole life
And you in reach beside me
And a very chatty monkey
Fast asleep behind me
And the mountains rose before us
Noble brass for the chorus
And we talk of country kindness
As we put some miles behind us
And I guess we'll get to Inverness tonight
And I've lined a piper up just to make you cry
And the moon shows up to roll around our sky
And I've never been so sure
That I was right where I should be
In my whole life
Oh, I didn't see you coming
But now I'm nowt without you
You're the cooling glassy water
That feeds the trees about you
And the only road I know now
Is you and I together
And the little heart we started
Picks up that beat forever
And I guess we'll get to Inverness tonight
And I've lined a piper up just to make you cry
And the moon shows up to roll around our sky
And I've never been so sure
That I was right where I should be
In my whole life
And I've never been so sure
That I was right where I should be
In my whole life
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Bumped to 10.
Perfection.
So tender it hurts.
As soon as I hear those soft opening beats, my scalp tingles...
Perfection.
So tender it hurts.
As soon as I hear those soft opening beats, my scalp tingles...
Hub and I love long, 1,000 mile road trips. I'll have to play this for him.
Sheer bliss.
Sheer bliss.
Perfection.
ScottishWillie wrote:
I've liked this a little more each time I've listened to it. Then I read the lyrics, which took the song to a new level for me. When I got the context from SpinyNormas comment, I was blown away. Thanks, Radio Paradise.
I've liked this a little more each time I've listened to it. Then I read the lyrics, which took the song to a new level for me. When I got the context from SpinyNormas comment, I was blown away. Thanks, Radio Paradise.
Moonkey! Love this band.
A grower not a shower Upping to 9!
slugore wrote:
Totally agree!
Hearing this band in regular rotation here on RP and I 100% approve. Yet another band introduced to me by RP!!!
Totally agree!
Just. Brilliant.
Bumped to a 9.
Fab photo.
Smooth sound.
Sweet words.
Plus, great BBC Radio 6 radio on which I depend.
Mr Guy Garvey.
slugore wrote:
Yes indeed. I jumped over to post the same sentiment - you beat me to it.
c.
Hearing this band in regular rotation here on RP and I 100% approve. Yet another band introduced to me by RP!!!
c.
Hearing this band in regular rotation here on RP and I 100% approve. Yet another band introduced to me by RP!!!
SpinyNorma wrote:
I've liked this a little more each time I've listened to it. Then I read the lyrics, which took the song to a new level for me. When I got the context from SpinyNormas comment, I was blown away. Thanks, Radio Paradise.
Mr Garvey, as usual melting my stony old heart with this gorgeous love song to his wife and son
I've liked this a little more each time I've listened to it. Then I read the lyrics, which took the song to a new level for me. When I got the context from SpinyNormas comment, I was blown away. Thanks, Radio Paradise.
not heard this understated, glorious little love song before. This Monday morning is now a warm and fuzzy one
I've only recently discovered this extraordinary band. Thank you RP
sqqqrly wrote:
Still widely used by almost everyone in the northern half of England (Yorkshire, Manchester, Lancashire, etc.)
+ 1 for using "nowt", Middle English for "nothing".
Still widely used by almost everyone in the northern half of England (Yorkshire, Manchester, Lancashire, etc.)
sqqqrly wrote:
Cool observation!
Note: this word still exists in the modern English "naught".
+ 1 for using "nowt", Middle English for "nothing".
Cool observation!
Note: this word still exists in the modern English "naught".
SpinyNorma wrote:
Yeah!
Gentle to my ears and soul.
Somehow sounds age-wise.
Melting my old ❤ too:)
Mr Garvey, as usual melting my stony old heart with this gorgeous love song to his wife and son
Yeah!
Gentle to my ears and soul.
Somehow sounds age-wise.
Melting my old ❤ too:)
Mr Garvey, as usual melting my stony old heart with this gorgeous love song to his wife and son
New Elbow, Nice
Lovely
+ 1 for using "nowt", Middle English for "nothing".
Divorced 4 years ago. The decision was good, the relationship was bad, the love utterly gone. Now more of a father to my kids then I ever would or could have been in that mutually toxic environment. The kids enjoy that, I enjoy that. There’s much love going around. Perhaps we will become part of blended family. In any case, all is pretty well, considering.
But, every time this song comes on, I literally cry my heart out. It is unstoppable, try as I might. It’s as if the music and the words touch upon what seems to be a very real and very basic human need. A need that will go forever unfulfilled because of the divorce. Mind you, this comment is not a lament or a wallow in self-pity. Just trying to describe why it is that every single time I hear this, I am in total awe of how deep it goes, in all its beautifully crafted simplicity, right to the core of my (or maybe the?) human heart.
Hell, I don’t even have a driver’s license… 😉
So, 9 --> 10, also unstoppable