Liar
The Three Dog Night take is good, the Argent original is CLASSIC! I’d like to point you somewhere online to hear it, but I can’t find it on YouTube, MySpace or iMeem or by searching for MP3s via AltaVista, and that’s a shame, because if it was dark out and there was no possibility of interruption, you’d be taken away, your mind would be BLOWN!
Okay, nothing lives up to that kind of hype. But I’ll tell you there’s no older file in my iTunes library than "Liar", I downloaded it the very first day I used Macster back in the year 2000. I’d only heard it a few times, once on the radio, a couple of times when I went to people’s houses and they had the band’s debut. I didn’t want to buy a whole album just to get it, but this one track…
The reason "Liar" is so good is its ethereal quality. Like you’re on the spaceship in "2001" and someone starts singing through the intercom. The track is simple, but the guitar figure is hypnotic, the bass line bubbles up and supports the whole structure. And then comes Russ Ballard’s vocal, the words…
I won’t ever leave while you want me to stay
Nothing you could do that could turn me away
Maybe it was a character flaw, maybe it wasn’t an outright lie, not in her case anyway. She said she couldn’t live without me, she said to never leave, then she got up and disappeared!
Hanging on every word
Believing the things I heard
Being a fool
According to the Oxford Dictionary, a fool is someone who acts unwisely or imprudently, or is duped. She ultimately told me she tricked me into marrying her, but still, I knew it was a mistake, I knew she couldn’t be tied down, that relationships with her were intense, then over. I went from God to garbage.
The reason we love our records is they speak to us. They comfort us. They deliver wisdom. They understand us.
Records you’ve heard incessantly don’t make sense until suddenly you’ve had life experience, you suddenly GET THEM!
Records are not about the beat, not about how long it takes to get to the chorus, but how they AFFECT US! Ears are human, charts are not. We know what we hear, that we need to hear again, to feel whole, to get through…
