Steven Wilson - "Perfect Life"(Comments RSS)
A friend put me onto Steven Wilson some time ago, and I have gradually dipped my toes into his music. His work is heady stuff - an emotionally immersive experience; I do not know if I can handle too much of it in one sitting, it's that rich. His songs can be like morality plays mixed with tragedy.
But for the past twenty-four hours or so I have been haunted by this piece - "Perfect Life". So touchingly sad and painful, yet beautiful.
Allow yourself to become lost in this.
Album version (almost):-
Extended mix:-
Live performance:-
But for the past twenty-four hours or so I have been haunted by this piece - "Perfect Life". So touchingly sad and painful, yet beautiful.
Allow yourself to become lost in this.
Album version (almost):-
Extended mix:-
Live performance:-
29/3/2016 5:20 PM
his sounds like a tragedy that is happening EVERY DAY across America... in the extended version, more information is given in another verse...To me, it seems like the older 'sister' was a newly arrived foster teen, removed from a terribly abusive situation ('pale and shell-shocked'...) and placed with a brand new-to-fostering family. It was a wonderful placement for her new 'sister' and her... 'the perfect life'...
But, when the parents separated later that year, the older teen was removed by social services and sent to a different placement far away... and out of contact...
This really happens, ALL THE TIME (foster kids are moved an average of 5-8 times during their time in foster care ) and sometimes contact is forbidden with no reason given... It's a little-known American tragedy -- except by the people who live through it...
smillernc