This womans voice is a masterpiece, its like an instrument bestowed upon her by the heavens that only she can play! The whole performance was just excellent, what got me real bad was 4:13- 4:18 Unbelievable!
OH DEAR GOD HELP ME I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH SELF RIGHT NOW. TOO MUCH TO HANDLE. TOO MUCH. AND SHE'S RIDICULOUSLY CUTE AT THE BEGINNING! I JUST CAN'T. I CAN'T. I LOVE HER SO MUCH IT'S SURREAL.
🎶🎶Regrets collect like old friends Here to relive your darkest moments I can see no way, I can see no way And all of the ghouls come out to play And every demon wants his pound of flesh But I like to keep some things to myself I like to keep my issues drawn It's always darkest before the dawn And I've been a fool and I've been blind I can never leave the past behind I can see no way, I can see no way I'm always dragging that horse around All of his questions, such a mournful sound Tonight I'm gonna bury that horse in the ground So I like to keep my issues drawn But it's always darkest before the dawn Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back So shake him off, oh whoa And I am done with my graceless heart So tonight I'm gonna cut it out and then restart 'Cause I like to keep my issues drawn It's always darkest before the dawn Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back So shake him off, oh whoa And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back And given half the chance would I take any of it back It's a fine romance but it's left me so undone It's always darkest before the dawn Oh whoa, oh whoa... And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't So here's to drinks in the dark at the end of my road And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope It's a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat 'Cause looking for heaven, found the devil in me Looking for heaven, found the devil in me Well what the hell I'm gonna let it happen to me, yeah Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back So shake him off, oh whoa Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa Shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, shake it out, ooh whoa And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back So shake him off, oh whoa🎶🎶
For me there's no such thing as "the black dog" the often used euphemism for depression, it's most definitely "black birds". It's always darkest before the dawn. In that space before dawn "black birds sing", loud, clear, light like Flo sings this wonderful song, it's their moment each and every day. I get get depression almost every day around this time. I think back to days gone by I think back every morning. I used to use loads of drugs and alcohol, stay up raving dancing screaming all night. Tired, beyond tired and coming down, walk that last stretch of road to my bed is when the black birds sang the loudest. Just me and the blackbirds my timid footsteps, always just me and the black birds even if I had someone in tow or others in tow, each one always alone with the blackbirds feeling much the same. Some have died some hide but we all had those blackbirds. I never escaped those blackbirds. That dark moment before dawn, blackbirds ringing out at me loud and clear even when they were long gone. Seemed the colonials exported them every fucking where. From London to the Cape of Africa to the Antipodes, blackbirds (the real thing) loud and clear, singing the song of my depression. Today I still wake up before dawn depressed, have done so forever even as a child. Blackbirds ringing out at me loud and clear. It's how I wake up, morning depression. I wake up scared worried and feeble most days of my life, afraid of the new day and its torturous pain. Never angry, never loud just feeble and afraid. Some wake up angry, moody, not me, black birds, Turdus marula (Black Thrush) black birds. So this song is pertinent one could say, you just never get to "bury that horse in the ground" if it's with you forever. Sobriety doesn't do it when it's with you forever. it helps though, it certainly helps. Besides, my best friend in life was Iolanthe, my beloved Iolanthe, an angelic mare. I cried when i buried her I never stopped crying, she was the only one who could silence the black birds. She used to dance rings around me light as a fairy whenever we met in the green fields of my childhood home, me a mere mortal had Iolanthe a strong and powerful horse by my side. Together we were the strongest I've ever been. She still showers me with light but its mostly the pain I remember when losing her when I look back. Had I done something wrong to break her heart, could I have fixed her heart. She died of a hole in the heart and sadly all we could do was wait for the fatal day it would burst. In those eyes no black bird ever sang.
Skin895 this is called shake it out, I can never say my own song titles normally, it's a really weird thing like, I have to say it in a real stilted way, I get really shy....... hope that helps :)
