The first part of the song shows signs of loneliness. General Commenti don't believe this song has anything to do with vampires, but the fact that this guy has been waiting for this girl to come around for a very long time. Like getting over a break up that ended badly and he wants to move on from that episode in his life. I think this song is about realizing everything that happen during a break up, it's almost like he is trying to convinced himself to change for the better. He is realizing that thinking about her all the time is not worth it anymore. "Two thousands years of chasing taking it's toll" - He is tired of chasing her, always thinking about her until the point of frustration. "Baby I'll bleed you dry" - Means that he will try his best to forget about the girl until she is dry out of his system. "Open up your eyes" - Telling himself that he has to be realistic about the situations that happen and he has to "wake up."
"Leaving me stranded all in love on my own, do you think of me?" - I think this is self explanatory, "does she still think of him?" General Comment"She took my heart, I think she took my soul" - She turn his world upside down, he wasn't himself anymore his life completely changed.
That's why the two thousand might be the key to the song. The idea of looking for ideal love, looks familliar to christianity doesn't it? where you struggle for faith for your entire life. That means you gotta go forward and look for something new. So you loose your will to live, yet biologically you still go on. You doubt in love, the worst part of it that you'll feel like that many times, because that's life: "driven by the strangle of veins". So what do you do in that sytuation? you doubt. So with all that unrest, you feel that something bad is about to happen, lonliness possibly? It's coming.
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Words paint you a view, of when the hurricane is about to hit, the lines about the storm bubbling up on the sea kinda hint this out, and those swaying stop signs, plus phone lines being down. I love the first part of the song oozes with anxiety. The number is important, because it clearly points towards religion.īut it's not about religion, it's more about love, about the loss of it. I also played an Ovation acoustic and Denny a Martin D28 among other things.My InterpretationI still think it's: two thousand not two hundred. To achieve a staccato sound we employed the unusual technique of hitting the guitar strings with a drum stick instead of a plectrum.
Laurence Juber, in Guitar With Wings, 2014 The ending section was not completed for some months. Paul, who liked to put his rhythmic stamp on a track, spent some time overdubbing a driving part on his Epiphone Casino amped with a Vox AC30 a Beatles’ gear combo for sure, although there was nothing overtly Beatle-esque about the track. This is a straight-ahead rock tune with layered crunchy guitars. Marketed as a Double A-side with “ Baby’s Request,” the single was a relative flop, only peaking at #60.įor the release of Back to the Egg, a special was made featuring music videos for multiple songs, including “ Getting Closer.” “ Old Siam, Sir“, “ Spin It On” and “ Arrow Through Me” were among the tracks for which videos were made. Despite not being released as the first single in the UK (“ Old Siam, Sir” was used instead), the song did see a UK single release in August 1979. The single reached #20 on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as #20 on Cashbox and #22 on Record World. “ Getting Closer,” backed with “ Spin It On,” was released in the US in June 1979 as the first single from Back to the Egg. Juber said of the guitars used in the song: “ I think I played my Martin D28 on the rhythm track and some Les Paul Custom (the one in the video) for the electric.“ Release Author and Mojo contributor Tom Doyle describes Wings’ version as “ power-popping” and reminiscent of the English band Squeeze. Like most of the songs off of Back to the Egg, “ Getting Closer” bears an influence from punk and new wave music. There were times when there was a demo aspect to the sessions, and in some cases we created demos to see how the tune was shaping up. “Getting Closer” and the unreleased song “Cage” were off of demos, the latter being one that Paul and Denny did together. Upon being resurrected by the band for Back to the Egg, the song, originally at a slower tempo, was transformed into a “driving rocker.” Backgroundĭespite being released in 1979, Paul McCartney wrote “ Getting Closer” in 1974, recording a piano demo for the song later that year. The song was released on the album Back to the Egg. “ Getting Closer” is a rock song from the Anglo-American rock band Wings, Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles band.
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