Week Thirty-Six: The Lightning Seeds - "Sense" - Sense

This was one of those songs that actually had to grow on me, but since it starts out the CD and since it is right before "Life of Riley", I never saw the point in skipping over it. Interestingly enough, it is co-written by Terry Hall, who was the lead singer of the band, The Specials. In fact, he co-wrote a few of the songs on this album.

It wasn't until I actually took the time to look up the lyrics that I realized how intense this song actually was. In fact, there seemed to be a huge transition from the whimsical and hopeful nature of the lyrics for the songs on Cloudcuckooland to a darker and drearier nature of the lyrics for a majority of the songs on Sense, aside from this one (which is just intense, not dark and dreary) and "Life of Riley", of course.

And this song has a crazy-cool harmonica solo, and who doesn't enjoy a good harmonica solo from time-to-time?!?!? ;-)

I'm flying high on something beautiful and aimless,

it's got a name but I prefer to call it nameless.

It comes and goes and leaves me on a bed of splinters,

feels like I'm living in a town closed down for winter.

The taste of Love,

the more you get, the more you want,

and all because,

the only reason is just because.

It all makes Sense,

when you're near

it all makes Sense.

I'm standing high on tiptoes looking over fences,

waiting for somebody like you to kiss me Senseless.

I've had a bellyfull of faces drawn in sadness,

I want to jump deep into tides of loving madness.