⭐“๐ ๐ฌ๐ง๐ค๐ฉ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐จ ๐จ๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ช๐ฉ ๐ฃ๐ค ๐ค๐ฃ๐...
๐ฃ๐ค๐๐ค๐๐ฎ ๐๐ฃ ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ฉ๐๐๐ช๐ก๐๐ง”⭐
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Hi soulmates,
it's another Wednesday with no important Placebo anniversary, so we meet again for our series of lullabies.
With today's beautiful ballad, we end the era of the Battle For The Sun album, which was not too inclined to slow songs compared to the previous Meds album.
Here we see that this also confirms the departure from the dark Med's ballads towards the light, which does not eliminate the problems of human coexistence, but helps to see them more clearly and positively. ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ง ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง ๐๐ฑ๐๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง.
๐ถ๐น๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐'๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐น๐ถ
๐น๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ง๐๐๐๐ก ๐ข๐ก “๐๐๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ'๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ข๐ก๐”
”There is definitely a bigger sense of hope and optimism on this record, but Placebo's music and lyrics are never going to be like a dance in a field of flowers you know? There is always the fascination in there with the darker side of human emotions.”
(๐ฒ๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐, ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ00๐ฟ)
It's the tenth track on the BFTS album, right after Julien, whose energetic sound makes us dance... and then comes this bitter-ironic-melancholic and very emotional ballad.
๐น๐๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ญ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด, ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ ๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ด๐ข๐ช๐ฅ: ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ด ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ,
"๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐บ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ'๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ" ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ "๐๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ".
๐นGigwise music magazine included this song among the 11 underrated Placebo songs:
*๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐*⭐'๐๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ฎ’๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐'
"A melodic break-up song, ‘Happy You’re Gone’ is rumoured to be about the band’s split from former drummer Steve Hewitt (although this has never been confirmed) and finds Molko in turmoil on its chorus “How many times? How many times? Now I can't look you in the eye”. The swelling strings and more restrained pace were a marker of this period of Placebo, pointing to the direction they’d take on next album Loud Like Love."
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Okay, it could just be another sad song symbolizing the end of a relationship between two people.
But this lullaby describes exactly the state where you convince your mind that this stage of life is over, while your heart is full of living painful wounds, bleeding and crying.
And Brian really knows how to get me into these emotions.
Not only with his lyrics, but especially with his voice.
How gently he begins...
๐น"๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐ด... ๐๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ณ๐บ..."
When I heard it for the first time, I completely melted into the words...But I had no idea what would follow...
๐น"๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ง๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ... ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ...
๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ข๐บ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฃ๐บ๐ฆ...
๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด?
๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ..."
And then so ironic..
๐น"๐๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ... ๐๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ'๐ด ๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ...
๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ธ๐ข๐บ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฃ๐บ..."
...as if the narrator wanted to say - the memories of what you did to me will haunt you even where you least expect it...
⭐๐๐ฌ๐ฅ๐๐๐ฆ⭐
Breathe me every time you close your eyes
Taste me every time you cry
This memory will fade away and die
Just for today, breathe me and say goodbye
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
See me, in the eyes of another's child
Turn away, when you see me walking by
Once in a while
This melody will fade away and die
Just for today, breathe me and say goodbye
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
And I don't even want to try
My my
'Cause every word from you is a lie
My my
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
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Could this be a song about Steve Hewitt's bitter departure from the band? It certainly can, and many of you think so.
Honestly, I don't care whose departure cut such deep wounds in Brian's heart that he wrote this song.
Anyway, Brian has been at pains to point out in concerts ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ '๐ต๐ถ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ซ๐'...
It's also possible that Brian is getting a little tired of people making so many parallels, searching for direct connections between each line of every song and his private life...
However, with Brian's sense of poisonous irony, we can also count on the fact that this was someone very important in his life...and maybe it's the rendition of more such relationship breakdowns, just suddenly, in some strange melancholic mood, this ballad was born in the composer's mind.
But...
...at the end of the video from ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ช๐ฎ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฒ๐๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ, ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐, ๐๐๐๐ I'm sharing with you, Brian said something very special๐.
Can this help us to better understand this lullaby?
๐ฆ“…๐ฐ๐’๐ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐… ๐พ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐, ๐
๐๐’๐ ๐๐๐?.. ๐ซ๐๐’๐ ๐๐๐?!”๐ฆ
What made Brian make such a tender statement to all the men in the venue?
We probably won't know the exact reason.
But my thoughts lead me to the topic of men's mental health, which concerns both Brian and Stefan personally and Olga had the same idea in one of her old posts.
While preparing a post about Project Alpha, I learned that the percentage of male suicides in the UK is on the rise. The social paradigm is mainly to blame, it's the pressure that leads men to suppress their emotions because that's how the male role in society has historically been set up. And it is clear that this topic does not only concern men in the UK...
And since human consciousness has been undergoing a profound transformation in recent years, it is time to say:
๐๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ - ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐.
Soulmates, I hope you enjoy this lullaby as much as I do. And again I will be glad for your open hearts. Let me know in the comments if this song also touches you emotionally and if it connects you with a bittersweet memory. And what do you think of Brian's words at the end of the song?
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