Closer

Current Music: "The Blower's Daughter", Damien Rice

I watched the movie Closer the other day to get in a Natalie Portman mood before Star Wars III. It was sort of disturbing and depressing, especially in the last half, as most empathy for all the main characters was eroded. Great acting and everything... the film probably had its intended effect. I liked the sequences at the start and end of the movie with the Damien Rice song; the music added a lot of emotion to experience. I especially like the last part of the song where "I can't take my eyes off of you" gets replaced with "I can't take my mind off of you"; quite effective, as is starting the lyrics with "and so it is..." which helps suck us into the movie at the very start.

Damien Rice's whole album, "O", is great, if depressing. "Cannonball" actually continues the theme of "The Blower's Daughter", although it has even more poignant lyrics like these. This song actually includes the word "closer" in it a few times even though it wasn't the one used in the movie:

Still a little bit of your taste in my mouth ...
Still a little bit of your face I haven't kissed ...
Still a little bit of your song in my ear ...
You step a little closer to me
So close that I can't see what's going on

"Cheers, darlin'" is a great blusey drinking song, especially when he wrenchingly half-sings the lament "I should have kissed you" in:

And I die when you mention his name
And I lied, I should have kissed you

So here is "The Blower's Daughter"; such sad lyrics!

And so it is
Just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
Most of the time
And so it is
The shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky

I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes...

And so it is
Just like you said it should be
We'll both forget the breeze
Most of the time
And so it is
The colder water
The blower's daughter
The pupil in denial

I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes...

Did I say that I loathe you?
Did I say that I want to
Leave it all behind?

I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind...
My mind...my mind...
'Til I find somebody new