Like Indecision To Call You...

In the past couple of days I remembered how much I like the song "I Miss You" by blink-182. It's really pretty hard to believe that such an amazing song can be developed from such simple components. The bass only plays 4 notes in the verse, and the guitar (which is acoustic and therefore understated) is, I believe, during the verse, always only playing one of two notes, one note at a time (the same note on two different strings). The music of the chorus is just a stepwise scale. The piano, too, is very linear rather than broad and colorful, usually only playing one note at a time.

And yet I can't really think of many songs whose melodies make me feel better than that of this song. Whenever I hear the piano in the beginning I get the sense of someone calming me, getting ready to tell a story that I've heard before, a love story, and they sense that I don't want to hear it, but they know without a doubt that they way they will tell it this time will captivate me. The song is just so personal with its confessional lyrics, and yet it testifies to the beauty of very very deep emotional intimacy, of two people who have each other and that is more than enough ("and we'll have Halloween on Christmas, and in the night we'll wish this never ends...")--it testifies to this so assuredly and confidently for any ears to hear.

The second verse and the chorus pretty tragic in content. I feel like I can relate as of late...but I'm starting to appreciate these things more for their beauty than for their pain. Or for the beauty in the pain. It sounds so strange, but when you can feel it, don't question it, I suspect is the way to go.

Even the strange intonation on the vowels ("stop this pain to-NOIGHT") can't even come close to ruining this song for me.

I feel pretty good right now.

Methinks I'm going to listen to it as I fall asleep tonight.