Weekend Music
Both eMusic and Amazon offer a free mp3 every day, frequently from some artist I’ve never heard of. That comes out to about 60 tracks a month, and for a while I tried to hear them all. I had to give that up because there were just too many of them. But I do, most days, at least listen to the sample, and download the song if it seems promising. I then listen to them a couple of times, and mark them (in my audio software) as keepers or not.
I can’t remember now which service I got this one from. I’d never heard of the band and don’t know anything more about them than this song. When I heard it in full, in my car on the way to work (where I usually audition these finds) I found it enchanting musically. But the lyrics, which I couldn’t entirely understand, seemed to be the typical emotionally hardened casual-sex stuff that is so prevalent and so depressing:
What I
What I’ve found
is that we
are all just sleeping around
So I wasn’t going to flag it as something worth returning to–like I say, I find the current sexual climate deeply depressing, and I don’t need reminders of it coming at me from my stereo.
Then I listened to it at home and was able to make out the line repeated at the end:
All we really want to do is love
That puts the whole thing in a very different light. (You really need to listen to this with decent speakers or headphones to hear everything that’s going on sonically.)
Light On Dark Water 
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