February 12, 2010

Fire And Rain - James Taylor (1970)

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[1970-1974 Best Songs]
Billboard Top 100, 1970, #67 James Taylor - Sweet Baby James - Fire and Rain

One of the most poignant lines I've ever heard:

Well, there’s hours of time on the telephone line
To talk about things to come
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.

Fire And Rain is the original soundtrack to despair. James Taylor writes an agonizingly personal lyric, touching on death, addiction, failure, and depression, and somehow everyone in America thinks it's a song written in their name.

A great song can have that effect.

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