somehow, the music of cardiacs, and this piece in particular, reminds me of a passage from forkel's monography about bach: "but in fugue, counterpoint, and canon he [bach] stands alone in a grandeur so isolated that all around him seems desert and void. no one ever wrote fugues to compare with his; indeed persons unaquainted with them cannot imagine what a fugue is and ought to be."
Crazy lover like mad And it cakes walls with sun I shall be a sky and a hill of good And it keeps my mind happy Sucking breath shrieking From my belly doing no favours And fluid like the waves and fouling glass And it keeps my mind happy I've been white clean And I taste in my mouth a worry Everyone falls I feel fine And I and I feel fine Air is thin and it is hurting you Beast of field, fowl of air Heart of stone, man of metal Shakes loose his core Crazy lover like mad And it cakes walls with sun I shall be a sky and a hill of good And it keeps my mind happy I've been white clean And I taste in my mouth a worry Everyone falls I feel fine And I and I feel fine Air is thin and it is hurting you Lost Jim, I held his fat hand Needed to be looked after I saw the vapours Saw the vapours Saw the vapours I tried but could only think of me
Tims singing on this track is both wonderful and hilarious at the same time. It just makes me so HAPPY. La la la la la la, la la la… I do not understand why even these small “simple” songs shine so brightly for me. Often in the past I would discover music, and I’d eventually fall in love with a particular song or couple of sons, listen to them over and over, sometimes for days on end. Music meant a lot to me. Then I discovered Cardiacs. And as above, I fell in love with their songs. But not just one or a couple. Almost every song triggered the tingles. It is just crazy just HOW MANY of their songs are SO good. More than any other songs I’ve previously fallen in love with combined. What a loss for this world when Tim passed; but what unfathomable treasures they have left us.
You can hear the interviewer chuckle a little bit during the second song. That's what this music does to me, just chuckle in disbelief at how good it is.
Tim Smith, you are in another dimension, but we're all here loving you. I don't believe in gods, such a funny showcase of human weakness, I know you are not dead, You're alive beyond thbe pbvoius fact you're dead so you don't exist anymore in EXISTANCE, but holy fuck you are alive in my mind every second, you are alive beyond being dead, you exist like Frank Zappa and other people dead but knowing their WORK will survive. I will never thank you enougg. So har now, when you don't share anymore our fucking pathetic enclosure. You have been a light, you will continue to be forever. And now this is why people of value will survive beyond their human limits. Tim is doing it, I will never forget about him, like a relative.
