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22. When will it end? 1978
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Basic jazz chords Would sound better with a hollow-body electric guitar and a cymbal with brushes.
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3 CDs available: The Best of Heidi and the Wolf: Heidi's band in the 1980's/ raw energy, some rare live cuts. Mating Calls: (1996) Spoken work/hardrock fusion
Heidi Wolfson is a Philadelphia singer-songwriter. In her fourth decade of making music, Heidi is taking a slightly softer approach... but her music remains vocally interesting and the lyrics are definitely worth checking out. If you like Patti Smith, you will probably like Heidi. Have fun and thanks for listening.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Rock
Charts
Peak #201
Peak in subgenre #30
Author
Heidi G. Wolfson
Rights
1978
Uploaded
May 14, 2012
Track Files
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MP3 5.5 MB • 160 kbps • 4:46
Story behind the song
By this time, at twenty years old, I was rethinking the relationship. The only issue was, I wasn't really sure how to get out. For the first time in my young life, I thought I needed permission to leave. So I stayed around for a little longer than I wanted to. And b*** ed about it through my music. This song is very important to my development as a musician, as it contains my very first rant. At this point I didn't have the confidence to take the rant as far as I could today. But it is fun to go back and listen to how this impulse developed.
Lyrics
WHEN WILL IT END? (1978) When will it end? Don't you bring this thing up again, not again I couldn't stand it one more time If you said you want to be my friend Cause a friend would never, ever even dare to think All the things that you say out loud And a friend would never, ever try to pull me down If it saw that I was feeling proud You're supposed to be my lover But you fill my heart with so much doubt That I have to shout When will it end? Let's not pretend We've taken it apart too many times to condescend We've been over this thing for so long now It's beginning to feel like a trend You know I've written a whole goddamn book of notes Of all the things that you say and you do Your movements can't escape me, yet your eyes they still rape me Baby, what are they trying to prove You're supposed to be aware But you still don't know the color of my hair After all we've been through When will it end? You are such a big man and I think I'm so wise We are both so stubborn, believing that we'll compromise I take apart your every word, evaluate and analyze You go off into a mood And then you look at me with those big brown eyes And I just have to laugh and cry Cause I know that you're hurting but you're so funny looking And nothing in this world can make me come apart like you can Make me fall over, roll over, play dead like you can And I just have to laugh and cry And then the fever starts to rise and tears Are coming from my eyes and neither of us know what to do When will it end? When will it end? I ask you in bed once again, two, three, four, five times again We've been over this thing for so long now It's beginning to feel like a trend You know I've written a whole goddamn book of notes Of all the things that you say and you do Your movements can't escape me, yet your eyes they still rape me Baby, what are they trying to prove You're supposed to be aware But you still don't know the color of my hair After all we've been through When will it end?
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Abrasive Flowers
May 15, 2012
Always liked this one and still do. Works very well musically as well as lyrically.