Song Review
There are a lot of things to like about today’s tune. There’s that sort of Jim Cuddy mixed with Joel Plaskett vibe that can be heard, there’s the fantastic harmonies during the chorus that just ache to be turned up, and then there’s the charming lyrics like “I’m too old for the girl I love but she doesn’t know it yet” throughout. Blood’s Too Rich is the title track from indie/folk/country-rocker Luke Doucet’s 4th full-length solo album, released in Canada early in January of 2008 and in the US in late June. The album would ultimately go on to win the 2008 Canadian Folk Music Award for “Contemporary Album of the Year”. For more from Mr. Doucet, check out his MySpace below.
http://www.myspace.com/lukedoucet
Take my mother, my sister, my brother, and my first born son.
Ne’ er do wells, everyone.
There’s a fracture in the fabric of the family’s old scotch pine.
But it will heal if given time.
I for one am a believer in the nod and shake.
We’ll get on, it’s never too late.
It’s a part of your cult that I might keep for myself.
Turn the other cheek (that’s nice).
But not that but about your hell.
Because my blood’s too rich for subway cars, and I’m too poor for a cab.
I’m too old for the girl I love but she doesn’t know it yet.
When I die I will leave no shadows of regret.
I’m too tired to make amends that cannot go unsaid
