i still cannot get over how incredibly beautiful this song is it is CRIMINAL how underrated this band are on the otherhand at least it stops them gettin destroyed by popularity i guess
I love this song so much. It captures a specific moment and yet, if you've been on a Manchester bus in the pouring rain, it also captures that. You really can imagine the weary shoppers and the bus crawling the Manchester town centre; everyone just wants to get home.
Mr Garvey agrees with you ,he said at the Q the music gig in Covent garden 'this is the best song we've ever written' before playing the best performance i've ever seen.
why a song like this can't propel a band to god status I'll never know . An awesome vocal, measured, beautiful, heartfelt, wells up emotion. Leaders of the free world is an awesome album
Lovely tune. I have to work on Saturday or I would be at Webster Hall (NYC) too. I believe the bass in this video is an Epiphone Jack Cassidy model, Gavin from Camera Obscura has one too.
Great Expectations by Elbow | Lyrics And if it rains all day Call on you I'll call on you Like I used to Slide down beside and wrap you in stories Tailored entirely for you I'll remind you We exchanged a vow I love you I always will A call girl with yesterday eyes Was our witness and priest Stockport supporters club kindly provided a choir Your vow was your smile As we move down the aisle Of the last bus home And this is where I go Just when it rains Blinking and stoned Rain in your hair You only smoke cause it's something to share Singing bring on the night To have and to hold The sodium light turning silver to gold Spitfire thin and strung like a violin I was Yours was the face with a grace From a different age You were the sun in my Sunday morning You were the sun in my Sunday morning Telling me never to go So I'll live on the smile And move down the aisle Of the last bus home And if you're running late This is where I'll go Know I'll always wait
I realise this song isn't actually about marriage but I felt it was written about two people having some kind of realisation of how in love they were at that random moment. However my boyfriend called me 'naive' by claiming that the song is about falling for a random girl on a single bus journey. He's probably right but it's such a beautiful song, I want to believe its about something far deeper - real love!! Anybody else have any ideas so I don't feel so crushed?!
That's exactly what I thought - and I used those lines to try and disprove the boyfriends theory. Thanks for your confirmation, don't feel so 'naive' anymore.
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! Does anyone know the block chords? I've tried to play it by ear but it's not the same :| Ahh. I love Elbow. Absolutely beautiful :')
i know how to play it but i'm not that big on how to write it down cos its a plucking pattern and I'm not musically trained. I can write it as a tab for you.
Thought the gig last night was bloody brilliant - his voice is so great live (just as good as on the CDs). Highlights for me were Newborn and One Day Like This. Great Expectations was good too, but spoiled for me by some arsehole having a natter with his mate right beside me - you know the kind of idiot: stands with his back to the stage and talks in a loud voice during the quiet numbers. Just stay in the pub pal, do us all a favour. BUT... apart from that, really excellent gig.
I love this song so much. It captures a specific moment and yet, if you've been on a Manchester bus in the pouring rain, it also captures that. You really can imagine the weary shoppers and the bus crawling the Manchester town centre; everyone just wants to get home.
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Oh elbow elbow elbow, how you bring me to the brink of tears, the word beauty was made for you.
i still cannot get over how incredibly beautiful this song is
it is CRIMINAL how underrated this band are
on the otherhand at least it stops them gettin destroyed by popularity i guess
It just shows the real talent of the group. They can play different tempo songs and they do them all well. One of my favorites.
Extraordinary emotions in an everyday setting. Memory, time in a bottle. Perfection.
Mint! Perfect! Back when the love of my life was around. Miss her dearly.. Always with me❤️, never forgotten ❤️. Thanks lads 👍 xx
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I love this song so much. It captures a specific moment and yet, if you've been on a Manchester bus in the pouring rain, it also captures that. You really can imagine the weary shoppers and the bus crawling the Manchester town centre; everyone just wants to get home.
this is heavenly, powerful, soft, heartfelt and delicate. Only Elbow can weave such wonderful music , they are all completely working in sync.
stunning and tender. Big hearted men of the people. Nobody does it like Elbow.
What at beautiful song, makes me cry every time!
Hope lots of people out there get into ELBOW!!!!!
Cheers, Y
A sodium light, turning silver to gold.
One of the best lyrics ever.
Great Expectations IS THE most beautiful Elbow track. It makes me tear up when I listen to it..
One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard, I love listening to it!
This song is perfect. Defs the best song they've ever written. Delicate and heartbreaking.
most amazing song by the most extraordinary band of my lifetime.
Absolutely brilliant music, loving all these live Elbow clips now on youtube.
Can't wait for them to return to Australia.
I'm not surprised there are zero dislikes! How could anyone in their right mind not like this?!
God asked Elbow how they could improve on perfection, and they responded with this. Absolutely f***ing gorgeous.
Seeing them in Glasgow tomorrow night... this is my favourite song from Leaders (hope so much they play it!)
Unmissable track❤❤
Mr Garvey agrees with you ,he said at the Q the music gig in Covent garden 'this is the best song we've ever written' before playing the best performance i've ever seen.
This song does me in..in a good way. The music the lyrics
why a song like this can't propel a band to god status I'll never know . An awesome vocal, measured, beautiful, heartfelt, wells up emotion. Leaders of the free world is an awesome album
the best band.Simple like that.
one of my fav of all time...
Gorgeous. Unparalleled in every way.
Lovely tune. I have to work on Saturday or I would be at Webster Hall (NYC) too. I believe the bass in this video is an Epiphone Jack Cassidy model, Gavin from Camera Obscura has one too.
My pleasure. Much as I love Elbow, I'm a happily married man so they are all yours...
So well performed that it sounds like a playback. I love this band!
You'd never guess Guy was smothered with a flu that night. What a voice!
how could some tool thumbs this down......? lol Soulless beast.. I pity the fool (Said in the voice of BA Barracus )
Stockport supporters club kindly provided a choir
Fantastic
Beautiful!!!
No studio work on his voice. Solid performance.
Still my favourite...
Love You Elbow
- xxx - Mij
Just the best Guy and the lads
Great Expectations by Elbow | Lyrics
And if it rains all day
Call on you I'll call on you
Like I used to
Slide down beside and wrap you in stories
Tailored entirely for you
I'll remind you
We exchanged a vow
I love you I always will
A call girl with yesterday eyes
Was our witness and priest
Stockport supporters club kindly provided a choir
Your vow was your smile
As we move down the aisle
Of the last bus home
And this is where I go
Just when it rains
Blinking and stoned
Rain in your hair
You only smoke cause it's something to share
Singing bring on the night
To have and to hold
The sodium light turning silver to gold
Spitfire thin and strung like a violin
I was
Yours was the face with a grace
From a different age
You were the sun in my Sunday morning
You were the sun in my Sunday morning
Telling me never to go
So I'll live on the smile
And move down the aisle
Of the last bus home
And if you're running late
This is where I'll go
Know I'll always wait
❣
what a band watched grounds for divorce on jon ross this morning superb
Pure music
wonderful
this song got me through my gcse's
Stunning
I still don't get why this video only has 62,438 views. Seriously.
Me too. Glad you like.
This song always reminds me of "Wind and Wuthering" or "A Trick of the Tail" era of Genesis.
I realise this song isn't actually about marriage but I felt it was written about two people having some kind of realisation of how in love they were at that random moment. However my boyfriend called me 'naive' by claiming that the song is about falling for a random girl on a single bus journey. He's probably right but it's such a beautiful song, I want to believe its about something far deeper - real love!! Anybody else have any ideas so I don't feel so crushed?!
the last line: "know i'll always wait". he is a fuckn poet that garvey, a fuckn poet.
That's exactly what I thought - and I used those lines to try and disprove the boyfriends theory. Thanks for your confirmation, don't feel so 'naive' anymore.
Reminds me of early Genesis. They must have been fans...
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!
Does anyone know the block chords? I've tried to play it by ear but it's not the same :|
Ahh.
I love Elbow. Absolutely beautiful :')
Does anyone know what make that Bass is please? 1:23
i know how to play it but i'm not that big on how to write it down cos its a plucking pattern and I'm not musically trained. I can write it as a tab for you.
Aye, i was at the glasgow ACB gig last night aswell, check out my page for a few vids from the gig.
Thought the gig last night was bloody brilliant - his voice is so great live (just as good as on the CDs). Highlights for me were Newborn and One Day Like This. Great Expectations was good too, but spoiled for me by some arsehole having a natter with his mate right beside me - you know the kind of idiot: stands with his back to the stage and talks in a loud voice during the quiet numbers. Just stay in the pub pal, do us all a favour. BUT... apart from that, really excellent gig.
I love this song so much. It captures a specific moment and yet, if you've been on a Manchester bus in the pouring rain, it also captures that. You really can imagine the weary shoppers and the bus crawling the Manchester town centre; everyone just wants to get home.