One of my favourite Lloyd Webber songs.
But the version I like best is the CD recording by Sarah Brightman (from “The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection”)…it’s just that I couldn’t find that exact version on YouTube.
I love this song for a number of reasons.
Firstly, great tune and chords.
I could play it a hundred times on the piano and not get sick of it.
Secondly, I think this song is quite unique in the sense that it expresses a sentiment that very few other songs express.
It’s about a girl telling a guy to break the “bad news” (and by “bad news”, we obviously refer to the fact that he wants to leave her) to her in a gentle way.
It’s like she’s saying “don’t do this and that…but take me to so-and-so and tell me nicely on a Sunday please.”
It’s a very calm and collected sentiment, which you probably might not find very often in most other females when they’re being told that they are about to be jilted.
So in a sense she’s really cool and mature about it.
I think the words to describe the mood are “contemplative”, “pensive” and to some extent “pleading”.
And the music is slow and gentle, which is highly reflective of her mood and what she’s saying.
My favourite lines in the song are:
“Don’t want to know who’s to blame
It won’t help knowing
Don’t want to fight day and night
Bad enough you’re going”
How cool is that?
And the melody at that part is really beautiful too.
I also like:
“Don’t get drunk and slam the door
That’s no way to end this”
Great song.
