I don't know if you know this... but Renee Fleming just released an album called Dark Hope on which she covers songs by people like Arcade Fire, Death Cab for Cutie, Band of Horses, Peter Gabriel, Muse, and others. When I first heard it, I was very uncomfortable and felt violated...
Ok actually, here's the real deal. When I heard this song playing in Barnes and Noble, I was very curious about who was covering it... and then I Shazamed (can that be a verb?) and saw that it was, in fact, Ms. Fleming.
The CD as a whole is strange... but I just think someone should listen to it. It's bizarre because she's a WORLD CLASS opera singer with the most vibrant career and she agreed to take a huge risk and record what someone at Universal Music decided were songs from the best songwriters of our generation. I guess I'm glad so many of my favorite bands made it into that category.
Listen to Renee's Version:
since LaLa was recently shut down, there is no way to post this song for you. LAME.
(illegally download it and then delete it if you want... but if you like it buy it. cause i don't condone stealing music.)
http://www.egydown.com/2841-renee-fleming-dark-hope-2010-fray.html
Sample it/Buy it on iTunes.
Listen to/Watch the original:
Lyrics
It's looking like a limb torn off
Or altogether just taken apart
We're reeling through an endless fall
We are the ever-living ghost of what once was
But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one's gonna love you more than I do
And anything to make you smile
It is my better side of you to admire
But they should never take so long
Just to be over then back to another one
But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one's gonna love you more than I do
But someone,
They could have warned you
When things start splitting at the seams and now
The whole thing's tumbling down
Things start splitting at the seams and now
If things start splitting at the seams and now,
It's tumbling down
Hard.
Anything to make you smile
You are the ever-living ghost of what once was
I never want to hear you say
That you'd be better off
Or you liked it that way
But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one's gonna love you more than I do
But someone
They should have warned you
When things start splitting at the seams and now
The whole thing's tumbling down
Things start splitting at the seams and now
If things start splitting at the seams and now,
It's tumbling down
Hard.
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