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This may come as a shock to a lot of you, but I’ve got another amazing track from a Canadian indie band coming out of… wait for it… Montreal. Mollie’s Song can be found on Bent By Elephants’ self-titled EP, released on August 20th of this year. I don’t have a lot of information regarding the band, so I’m forced to fill the remainder of this post with my thoughts on the song. Usually I avoid doing this, as I believe that music is way too subjective for my thoughts to be relevant to anyone else. However, here we are. I think the coolest part of this song is the way the band uses the brass section to manipulate the mood of the song. Throughout the first half of the number, the brass seems to be quietly crying, and it adds a thick sense of despair to the song. Then, seemingly without warning (I suppose the bridge could be considered a warning), things take a turn for the better and the brass begins to rally the rest of the instruments. This rally turns into an amazing crescendo that seems to yell out “Hey Chris, things are going to be OK.”.
I met this young girl
She was waiting for you
In the dusty morning
She sat waiting for you
The sun came up
and she had nothing to lose
So I sat down by her
To find out what she knew
She pulled out an old tattered picture of you
Drawing her finger over lines she once knew
There is nothing like this unrequited love
Try as I might, I can not fight it off
And she sang
And I find myself
Picking up lies ’till there’s nothing else
And I find myself
Hoping for lies
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