The Songs - Waterfall

This is another entry in my ongoing “songs that visited me and decided they wanted to stay” series. I hope you like these enough to become a paid subscriber, because I really need you to keep this series going…

Waterfall - The Stone Roses

She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall

I don’t know what this songs means. Maybe it’s a Manchester, England thing. Oasis would later release the equally opaque Wonderwall, which may or not be intended as a homage to their hometown idols, but that’s another discussion. The above lyric is all I can quote from Waterfall without googling. I’ve listened to this song 1000 times and didn’t know until right now (I just googled) that the first line is..

Chimes sing Sunday morn
Today's the day she's sworn
To steal what she never could own
And race from this hole she calls home

It’s not a case of me singing the wrong words this entire time. I just noticed that I’ve been approximating whatever is coming out of singer Ian Brown’s mouth without using the actual English language, because that guitar riff is so wonderful that he could be singing in Swahili for all I care. The song is relentless and gorgeous and, now that I think on it, about as aptly named as a song can be.