Music Friday: "Time Spent in Los Angeles"

Dawes is a band I've featured before on Music Friday, and Nothing Is Wrong, their second album, came out a while ago.

The second album is just as good if not better than their first effort, North Hills. One of my favorite tracks on the new album is the slow tempo tune titled "So Well," which is written from the perspective of an "old sailor." The lyrics are below:

I am an old old sailor
With a future much shorter than his past.
I live alone. I do not wander
A world that just slips further from my grasp.

And from my home I watch the people
Struggle through the burden of each day.
That's where Marie sweet and gentle
Smiles to me when she passes on her way.

And she does it so well.
She pulls me out of time's cruel spell
For long enough to finally tell
That nothing is wrong.

I am a boy. I am a child
With those simple dreams still burning in my heart.
I've known Marie for a while.
She shows me where all my beginnings are.

And once a week she takes me dancing.
She shows me friends and places I never knew.
And it always ends watching her leaving
With a man she knows don't understand what loneliness will make you do.

And she does it so well.
She shows me where my dreams dwell.
She shows me how to find myself
And that nothing is wrong.

I am a lonely singer
With a song for every feeling I cannot name
And I find Marie in every measure
And somehow the clearer it becomes the longer she's away

And she does it so well.
I was still falling in love when she said farewell
For long enough to finally tell
That nothing is wrong...that nothing is wrong.


But the new album begins with a more mid-tempo and reflective tune, "Time Spent in Los Angeles," which the band recently played on Letterman.





Have a good weekend, folks.

And nothing is wrong.