Never heard it...supposed to be pretty good...real old, right? From ~1977???

Soladeo

soladeo1 said:

Yeah, I wanna hear it too or described at least

It's superb. Just a piano and voice...melancholy beauty.

"Sitting there all alone,
You've been there since dawn..."

rdhull said:

You haven't heard it rd?

r1ghteousone said:

uh uh--is it on testament by chance?

rdhull said:

Yeah, i'm pretty sure it is.

r1ghteousone said:

Ok cool--I have Testament version 1...I'll have to check for that

but Shes Just ABaby and I Cant Love U Anynmore are getting their own thread

i was suprised by it. It is a very beautiful song. Usually the piano ballads i didnt get in2, but i listened 2 it finally one day and said this aint bad, aint bad at all.

P ogt skills--he sounds like a world weary loung lizard Burt Bacarach --and this was in 77-78?> No wonder his ass got signed.
[This message was edited Wed Dec 10 10:31:35 PST 2003 by rdhull]

this cut is one of my top 5 fave demos.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

what took you so long?

I've checked this thread
3 times to see if you'd
replied yet

I'd love it if he threw sweet songs like this on a new album - just one at a time, as long as they fit the album (not like the Rave debacle). This would have been great on ONA - Do You Wanna Ride? would have fit well on The Truth.

For some reason, I always feel like Leaving For New York could have fit on Emancipation. Perhaps because White Mansion deals with a similar theme.

IstenSzek said:

i was workin on some graphics for my livejournal, i just logged back on here

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

IstenSzek said:

but seriously, i love this song to death, ya'll...the song's beautiful, and he was like, how old when he did that shit? man... i remember the very first time i listened to the song about 4 years ago and was just in awe. still am.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

The funny thing is, I've had it for about 10 years now, on
some tape, but somehow [as happens with tapes] I mixed up
the tracks and always thought that this piece of telephone
conversation on the tape was actually "Leaving 4 New York"
thus dubbed by a bootlegger.

It wasn't until I finally got "The Work" that I decided to
listen to it again and heard that it was in fact a song,
and not just a song but one of his best and most beautiful
outtakes ever.

Indeed, it's hard to think he came up with something like
this right smack at the beginning of his carreer.

Sappy tune. Lots of cascading piano, and falsetto lyric.