Song Rec for Exchange Playlist

[teddy_radiator]

Perfect Severus song. Jonny Lang sings this like a man whose soul is being torn from his body by the cold-hearted woman walking away from him. This song has haunted me since I first saw this, not only for the lyrics, which could have been written by Severus about Lily, but the heartbreaking performance of a man listening to the retreating steps of the woman who is holding his heart in her careless hand.

The video quality isn't the best, but the performance moves me to tears every time I see it.

Make up your mind, take me or leave me; I'll be doing fine with or without you. I'm wasting my time letting you deceive me;
The truth is in your eyes but I deny what I see time and time again

I let you get back under my skin, I let you break me down again, I let you get close way too close but I see through it
You gave me that smile and I gave in and you knew that I would time and time again you pulled me in
Just to give me up, give me up again

What is a dream if it doesn't come true; I believe I'll find love, but will it be with you? I never would have thought such a pretty little face could offer me so much and take all that I had - well, I want it back!

 

Comments

[reg-flint.livejournal.com]

Eerily accurate IMO. Lily never understood Severus, nor did she want to. She walked away...but she never walked alongside him in the first place.

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

This song just pierces my heart in the same place each time. I have thought about Severus since the first time I heard it.

[reg-flint.livejournal.com]

Piercing is the right word :(

[justpinkpastel.livejournal.com]

Wow. That songs makes my chest constrict. You can really hear the pain behind his voice.

I can completely see Severus in this.

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

It is an incredible song. I have the original, which is wonderful, but this performance (Eric Clapton's Crossroads Festival) just floored Trev and me. The emotion just seems to be torn from him. It gets me every time.

[justpinkpastel.livejournal.com]

I just want you to know that I am kinda obsessed with this song now.

I'm listening to it while writing, and it really just fits in perfectly at the moment in the story.

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

I have been obsessed with it from the moment I saw this performance. It haunts me every time I hear it. I'm glad to share my angst with you!

[beffeysue.livejournal.com]

OMG! That voice, that song. Makes my heart hurt.

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

It is truly the sound of a soul in torment. It doesn't make me like Lily very much.

[mimimanderly.livejournal.com]

He has that lovely skinny Severus body, too! I don't think that Severus would sing in front of people about his torment, though. He'd maybe quietly write poems and then burn them, poor lad.

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

That's the thing about Jonny Lang. When he first started singing, this whiskey voice was coming out of what looked like a 10 year old. Now that he's a little older, he still looks like a teenager. Jonny's been here before, if you know what I mean :)

But this song just grips my heart and shakes it mercilessly...