Again, I need a soundtrack option here* because I while I really like the lyrics to this Shriekback song, it's exponentially better when you can hear the skittery percussion and pizzacato strings (and is "pizzacato strings" a redundant phrase?) under the almost falsetto vocal. Perfect for a dark, windy night in October.
Pretty Little Things
How they glisten. How they shine. I wish that they were mine
Half-good but not evil - make me feel so very fine.
Oh my, my my... so pretty I could cry
When I saw them for the first time, I thought that I would die
So pretty so pretty those pretty little things
So pretty so pretty those pretty little things
I can't stand the temptation, wanna touch but I don't know
Shiny bright and squeaky clean - pretty little things I love them so
Pretty things are kind of wicked - make my sick heart feel so glad
I'm sure that nothing so pretty could be bad...
So pretty so pretty those pretty little things
So pretty so pretty those pretty little things
So pretty so pretty those pretty little things
So pretty so pretty those pretty little things
Complicated as a flower glamorous as anything
Dangerous and evanescent - yes oh yes those pretty things
Boiling up and bubbling over warm and soft and simmering
Make me holler and sing - pretty pretty little things
So pretty so pretty those pretty little things
So pretty so pretty those pretty little things
*I mean one where you can hear the music, not just where I cite it
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- I know you are, but what am I?
- The Hell of It
- The Plan
- Bouncing around my head
- The Things That I Would Carry
- Wouldn't It Be Pretty to Think So?
- Why is there no Hallmark card for this?
- What to do, what to do
- My kind of compliment
- Not what was intended
- I shall write to the Times!
- And you read your Emily Dickinson
- A little Wednesday present for David
- Pretty Little Things
- The Humanities Geek Test
- Voice Twin
- Where it comes from
- As I like it
- Probably a symptom of an aneurysm or something
- Flying Time
- Postcard
- Stored Value
- Inscribed
- The Pirate Gloria
- The Eternal Typewriter
- I would have chosen a different verb
- "Drinking"
- Much more complex than the one for Dorothy Sayers
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1 comment:
Completely ignoring the main point of your post, I focus on the minute and say that "pizzicato" would only be redundant if the strings were plucked by default (harp, guitar, lute). For orchestral strings, "pizzicato" is plucked and "arco" is bowed (the default).
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