Okay so I’m a huge Damien Rice fan - I got a chance to help put together a benefit concert with him in London and it was amazing; I totally fell in love with him, he’s incredible - but he played this one song that I later found out through fansites he never released, didn’t plan to release, and had specifically asked fans not to to bootleg… his fans being the loyal flock they are actually did not bootleg it… I have had nothing but the memory of one performance of that song until just now… when….
Last year (yeah, I know, late to the party) he released “9″, an album of mostly new stuff… and it includes the song. IT INCLUDES THE SONG!!!! Seriously - there is a song that I have been pining away for for THREE YEARS with nothing but a memory, and now I finally have it.
The song… well it’s got a silly name, it’s “Accidental Babies” - but when he played it live well, tears were streaming down my face. I’ve never heard a song as honest and beautiful and utterly devastating. It’s not the sort of song I’ll listen to every day but… just to know I have it…
If you haven’t yet, or aren’t a fan (yet), or don’t have the song - do yourself an enormous favor: GO GET IT. Now. Or at least check out the lyrics. If you’ve never been wistful about an ended relationship well then maybe it won’t touch you, but I think if you have just a bit of empathy, well, he’s so damn honest and it’s just so simple and unpretentious and, well. You need to listen to it.
Anyway I know it’s 5:30am, I just finished a paper, but I am SO excited to have found this song I could stay up another 18 hours!! Oh Damien Rice, I do adore you.
