Gord Downie - Safe is Dead (Official Audio)
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- Gord Downie - Safe is Dead (Official Audio)
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The Atlantic article about the friendship between Gord Downie and Joe Thornton brought me here.
Same, what an amazing story.
And here's an excerpt from The Athletic article:
Thornton’s career is littered by the kind of no-look, behind-the-back passes few players in NHL history had the brains, or the audacity, to try. Thornton remains the active leader in NHL assists, and is seventh all time.
He got there by sticking to this credo: “Safe is dead.”
During one of their many hangs, Thornton casually dropped the phrase in conversation.
Downie stopped in his tracks.
“Wait, what?” he asked, stunned. “Safe is dead?”
Thornton began likening his approach to Downie’s intense and uninhibited onstage persona.
“It’s like you, Gord, when you’re up on stage; nothing you do is safe. Safe is dead, man,” he said.
Having never heard the phrase before, it stuck with Downie, both as a lyricist and a person.
After that conversation, Thornton received frequent text messages from Downie asking for more insight into what “Safe is dead” meant to Thornton.
“He just kept on going back to it,” Thornton says. “I had no idea what he was going to do with it. Like an artist, he heard something and he had to learn more and dig further.”
Thornton assumed his credo had piqued Downie’s interest, and that was the end of it, until the release of “Introduce Yerself,” Gord Downie’s sixth and final solo record.
“Every song is about a person,” Downie said. Some song titles speak for themselves (“My First Girlfriend”), but the inspiration for the majority of the songs remains a mystery.
“Safe Is Dead” was one of those mysterious tracks. It crystalized his friendship with Thornton and it hit hard. “Very humbling,” he says now.
The opening lyrics capture Downie’s surprise at hearing the term, and then speaks to their friendship: “Wait, what/Safe is dead/The dark previews/Who’d miss this fear/A damn silence/Exiles meet.”
Love billy ray and Patrick on backing vocals and Gords howl at the end wrecks me.
This song makes me think about deeper issues in my life and realize that my problems don't compare to many others'
The mix is amazing! This album is a beautiful gift
I left my CD in a buddy's car.
I still like to think it's out there somewhere, doin somethin
'the dark brochure / full dark soon / then the rise of a scarred moon' - haunting image anticipating his brain surgery (multiple surgeries)? I can't even fathom how he could manage to write this
Such a beautiful song ... Amazing man 😢
Use it up don’t save your love for later.
I was going to say that
Beautiful. Sing me a song when I meet you in heaven
This is heaven
I am loving this!
Epic
this album I can relax too google riel boire
Safe is dead
Wait, what
Safe is dead
The dark previews Who'd miss this fear
A damn silence Exiles meet
Wait, what
Safe is dead
What, wait, what
Safe is dead
The dark brochure Full dark soon
And then the rise Of a scarred moon
Wait, what (wait, what)
Safe is dead (safe is dead)
What, wait, what (wait, what)
Safe is dead (safe is dead)
The dark preview Into my bed
The mirror is clear In my head
Wait, what (wait, what)
Safe is dead (safe is dead)
Wait, what (wait, what)
Safe is dead (safe is dead)
Thanks bud
What, Wait, What?