Spun this version in rotation before the album came out at the alternative station I was programming at the time. We were in such a small market nobody from the label ever noticed, but we got a ton of requests for it. FAR superior to the album version in my opinion.
So interesting. This song has the album version of Talk's riff, along with drums that sound similar to Square One's. Sounds like a mashup between the two amazing songs in live, in my opinion. Pretty cool.
It's not the first version. This is the version that was going to be used on the album. But the record label thought the first version was better. So that's the one that got on the album
Lyrics: Under the great North Star Try to work out where you are In the silence of the sea I don't know where I'll be In the future, in the past Going nowhere, much too fast When I go there, go with me When I go there, go with me ‘Cause I don't know where I'm going and I wanna talk I feel like I'm going where I've been before And I wanna talk Take a picture of Something that you're not sure of Bring it back to show to me But I don't know what I see In the future, find a home Getting nowhere on your own Got to find your missing piece 'Cause you don't know where you're going and you wanna talk You feel like you're going where you've been before Nothing's really making any sense at all You tell anyone who'll listen but you feel ignored Let's talk, let's talk Do you wanna talk? I'm up in the part of the throne I'm trying to sing a song In a language I don't speak I tried but I can't get through I'm trying to get to you But you're difficult to reach Won't you talk to me? So you don't know where you're going and you wanna talk You feel like you're going where you've been before Let's talk, let's talk Let's talk, let's talk
Back in the day, I downloaded this from Limewire and thought it was the final version for YEARS. It wasn't until I got into legitimately acquiring my music that I realized what happened. In my heart, this will always be Talk.
There’s something beautifully ethereal about this version that just takes it a little step further on those verses. “Going no where much too fast” ooh what a line
Omg, love both this and the official album version. Totally agree with other people that they should release a "first drafts" album. So much of their original versions are seriously good, in addition to how they changed and finally released them which are also completely fabulous to.
