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A Sense of Doubt blog post #2952 - "Long White Dress" - Tracey Thorn - Music Week 2023 #011
Second post featuring Tracey Thorn in this "12-day week."
Like "Queen," this song got its hooks into me and not just because it contains the name of the album in the lyrics: "Love and its Opposite."
I adore Tracey Thorn.
Just a few years ago, Thorn reappeared with a solo album, and now she's back with another. Her latest release is a stark, powerful record called Love and Its Opposite. The record centers on themes of second chances and starting life again at middle age -- topics Thorn says are often ignored in pop music.
"If people carry on making music, but write lyrics always from the perspective of younger people, they're actually missing a trick," she says. "There are different stories to tell."
OFFICIAL SITE: https://traceythorn.com/
"Long White Dress" - Lyrics
He found out everything
Before the rest of us did
He said, "I don't think
That you have to be married"
And I don't know why I felt so scared
I just knew I didn't want to wear
The long white dress
Long white dress
Jackie was the first to hide
Kept all of his better feelings inside
He said, "I know I love you but
I can't decide"
And tucked away in some back bed
Like a ghost of something dead
Long white dress
Long white dress
I know I'm not an independent woman
So you might say, "Well, really
What's the difference?"
Is it all in my head?
Is it all in my head?
Is it all in my head?
I found myself a torch
And a book and I hid
And nothing ever scared me like
A wedding did
And I filled my head with so much shit
And I dreamed and I dreamed of it
Of love and it's opposite
Long white dress
Long white dress
Long white dress
Long white dress
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| https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2019/0127/1025824-tracey-thorns-regret-about-relationship-with-mother/ |
Everything But the Girl singer and memoirist Tracey Thorn has reviewed her relationship with her parents, declaring "there is regret there, especially about my relationship with my mum."
Her new book, Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia candidly explores her London childhood and youth.
"We’d been very, very close when I was young and then became so distant when I was a teenager, " she tells today's Observer, recalling her relationship with her mother. "And it never completely healed and we ended up being on different sides of every argument and every conversation.
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