Legit, this song is one of my favourite songs of all time. Madison's voice, the key changes, the chord progressions, the guitar's unique sound, the lyrics, it's all perfect.
This is one of those songs where it is incredibly difficult to stop from returning to and pressing play. The moment that the song begins everything that was weighing heavily on our shoulders temporarily lightens. Beautiful piece. 🌸
when i heard this i played it 3000 times i think, i still cant get sick of it. these are the best chord changes iv heard in a long time. she is so talented.
I just watched her open for Hozier at Madison Square Garden where she performed this and OH MY GOD. I've never heard anyone sing like that in person. I hope the exposure from his tour gets her the attention she deserves!
@@joebecket557 Yes! Usually I think Cunningham sounds uncannily like a combo of Joni Mitchell and Rufus Wainwright, but I heard this and thought, unbidden, "It's a little souvenir of a terrible year..."
To: M.C., 🙂 I just heard a snippet of this on NYC Public Radio's New Sounds website this morning. So I found you here. I moved from New York, where I was born and raised, 44 years there. My Mom passed from Covid last year, May. This song is so hauntingly and simplistically beautiful. It puts me straphanging on the subway or happily walking down the street through the hustle and bustle of folks rushing, to thinking of the loves that were "almost", but didn't "make it" (all their faults, lol) or even looking at the ocean while sitting on the bench at Long Beach, Long Island's boardwalk and downtown in my little quiet spot behind the Financial Center starring across the river at New Jersey. I can even see myself at my former high school in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen area, now 30 years ago. This is like a soundtrack to my life. I'm in tears literally listening 🎧 to this as I write. Happy and sad simultaneously, full of immense nostalgia of my past and hope for the future. All things do fade away... Thank you for this song, thank you for this cry. I need to let it out mostly regarding my Mom. This pandemic has had me just "doing", thus avoiding actually sitting with my feelings. Thank you for this much appreciated pause pouring into my ears. 💝 Peace.
Heard this song on NPR morning edition and I just had to hear the whole thing. What an epic and hauntingly beautiful work of art. Congrats on the release of this song.
the lyrics here, on the second verse especially, hit so close to home. They really capture that ambivalent drained hopefulness that exists on the verge of defeat so well.
Had only heard the Corden version of this (and the strings just blow me again on that rendition), but this song is just a stone-cold killer...no matter how it's arranged. I hope you get every bit of the recognition you richly deserve!
Beautiful as ever Madi. Brings tears to my eyes. When we're all free to travel and musicians can take the stage once again, please make sure to come back to the UK, preferably somewhere up north. God only knows we need live music...
It is like Eva Cassidy, Jane Siberry and Joni Mitchell all got reborn into Madison. I mean this is a really happy, loving and excited way. You are a unique voice in a sea of crap! Love it! Thank you for your gift Madison. Wow!
Simply stunning - beautiful... stark... haunting. Easily the best new track I've heard this year. Makes me so glad I read all the way through this morning's note from NPR. :-)
Madison, I heard your interview on NPR and was deeply moved. What a gift to turn tragedy into art! Your song will be a treasured memory that will endure even as this pandemic fades away...
It’s like Eva Cassidy singing to a tune composed by Sting. Still very unique music..it’s got such a melancholic vibe which you keep drifting in and out of. Spellbinding!!
Beautiful.... AND If you hear the chord formations; for all my guitar playing buddies, you can hear radiohead clearly... and the song "daydreaming" especially at the end sequence. Extremely similar chord formations, if you were to play both songs on guitar. In the end, it's clearly brilliant anyway... if anyone wants the chords let me know...
@@billd.4224 Not a problem at all. Any mention at all of either The Sundays or The Cranberries brings a smile to my face. Add in the innocence mission and I'm downright elated.
I was listening to NPR and thought The Sundays had come back... I do remember reading an article reviewing their last album (25 years ago!) where the author said The Cranberries were where The Sundays should have been. Now we have Madison(!) ❤️
[Verse 1] 'Round and 'round this broken rat race I'm moving and stopping, I'm window shopping For love, for fame, for anything that would take me And when I'm done taking up space Well I'm coming home late to a dirty place Half awake, the broom, the rake, take the kid out of me Just say the word Just say the word and I'll give it up The word and I'll hang it up [Chorus] What do I know? What do I hold? That will not fade away All things fade away Where will I be? The crop and the wheat Feast and fade away All things fade away [Verse 2] Putting on a business coat For the tear in the jeans, the hole in the boat To make the burden float, to pay in full this time When you're living on a dreamer's salary A broken harvest, feels like robbery What do I do this for, if it's just gonna pour out easily? You've seen me there Climbing the stairs, beggin' for air And not coming up I'm not coming up
Fantastic tune. Check out the live version on the Late Late Show: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VlYMnocLgNk.html. For guitar nerds, Madison is getting that unique guitar tone by using a guitar with a rubber bridge, and a Digitech Whammy pedal set to work as a harmonizer. -Tom
