i usually don't like slow "sappy" songs, but i'm in love with this song

[Ava]

the piano does it for me.. i love it! i already picked it out on the piano by ear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaXXdF_tKPM

Boston - Augustana

In the light of the sun, is there anyone? Oh it has begun...
Oh dear you look so lost, eyes are red and tears are shed,
This world you must've crossed... you said...

You don't know me, you don't even care, oh yeah,
She said
You don't know me, and you don't wear my chains... oh yeah,

Essential yet appealed, carry all your thoughts across
An open field,
When flowers gaze at you... they're not the only ones who cry
When they see you
You said...

You don't know me, you don't even care, oh yeah,
She said
You don't know me, and you don't wear my chains... oh yeah,

She said I think I'll go to Boston...
I think I'll start a new life,
I think I'll start it over, where no one knows my name,
I'll get out of California, I'm tired of the weather,
I think I'll get a lover and fly em out to Spain...
I think I'll go to Boston,
I think that I'm just tired
I think I need a new town, to leave this all behind...
I think I need a sunrise, I'm tired of the sunset,
I hear it's nice in the Summer, some snow would be nice... oh yeah,

Boston... where no one knows my name... yeah
Where no one knows my name...
Where no one knows my name...
Yeah Boston...
Where no one knows my name.

[billyskank]

1. You played it on piano by ear?

I always used my fingers. :D

[Ava]

2. har har har

i play piano by ear silly :P

i've never taken lessons, though i'd like to.. just don't have the time! i grew up around the piano in my house, so i've always played around on it and started playing by ear when i was about 12 or so. nothing excellent, but enough to impress non-piano players :rofl:

[Orsino]

3. That's lovely.

My wife and I discovered this Cohen cover last night, in an episode of Scrubs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR0DKOGco_o
Now, I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah

[Ava]

4. oh that's a great version of it

i still prefer the jeff buckley, but that version is great too.

i like his cover of across the universe too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H71Fv3PcQQY

an original of his that i like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUIsQo4K70Y

[Orsino]

5. Thanks for the reminder.

I love the I Am Sam soundtrack.