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Lori b​/​w Melancholy Way (single)

by monkeyheaven feat. Howard Waller

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1.
Lori 05:45
You used to be so sad Until I met you And when I met you You used to be so sad you said You know it's not that bad that I don't get you But I can't let you Induce a madness in my head It's crazy when I think Before I met you That others set you Along a path that led you here I know I'm never going to forget you You're gone And yet you Live your life through me instead Lori You'll be The death of me With your almost Infinitely sad smile You stayed a while And then were gone You were always so gone
2.
I don't really understand what's going on I just tried to find a way to get along But you With your melancholy ways Came through And changed it all one day And you With your melancholy smile Made it all Seem worthwhile I don't really understand What to do You say that I'll never be Enough for you For you For you With your melancholy ways For you Nothing is ok For you With your melancholy smile For you

about

An unlikely collaboration between two of England's oldest and least successful musicians, this single represents the low point of an already crushingly unloved repertoire.

What's this one about then? Probably something vaguely to do with Laurie Anderson and a crazy girl at a disco. The delusion of innocence; the cruel persistence of hope, reflected in a glitterball in a low-rent nightclub, the bass tones in the background of the final passage sounding a note of ominous warning à la Mahler 9, before being swept away by the pizzicato violas in a last rush of youthful exuberance. And all the while, fate - in the guise of an unlicensed kebab van - lies waiting outside in the glowering darkness.

The B-side, Melancholy Way, is an attempt to describe what's commonly referred to as 'the morning after the night before' in relation to Lori's somewhat foolish disco biscuit-induced quasi-upbeatness. Some have gone so far as to describe it as 'a chirpy little number in the vein of Joe Dolce'. I suspect they were being sarcastic. I know I am.

credits

released August 4, 2012

Thanks to guest performer Howard Waller for writing and recording the two-synth sequence that forms the basis of Lori and which inspired the rest of it, and also for giving the song its title.

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