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Can't believe this song doesn't have a million likes, so fucking good.

Such a beautiful version - way better than the album cut, imho. Thanks so much for putting it up!

Top 10 all time

Look at me, I'm Mr. Spaceman Out of control again Stumblin' over words again And finished before I even begin When gravity fails and I'm falling down Glued to the ceiling, spinning around Yeah, that's when I'm counting on you Callin' you my better half Was always good for a laugh But it's not always such a laugh When I think that you're not coming back When gravity fails and I'm falling down Glued to the ceiling, spinning around Yeah, that's when I'm counting on you I know I'm asking for too much And I know I'm always saying stuff And I mess up so much stuff and Sticking with the fool is tough But baby, I'm sayin', please, please, please Down on my baby blue, blue jeans Maybe it's something in my jeans Maybe it's something in my genes

Great - now I can play along

Yes 😊

This album changed my life, opened up so much beautiful music to me. Richard Thompson is a gift to us all.

Superb

"Hmm..mmm..mmm... Mmm..mmm... Mmm..mmm... Mmm..... Deepening night, think on a time All was bright Here in this dark place, I see in your face All is not right Make it, make your way home Better than the last Break it, break the alone Take a second chance Open a window, let in the snow Cold is all I know Go to the fire, stir it around There's a warmer place for you to go So, make it, make your way home Better than you have Break it, break the alone Leave it in the past Oh, look and you'll find it Someone wants to love you Look and you'll find it Someone wants to love you Wake it, wake your dream One forgotten me Sleepin' deep inside o' you Heavenly peace"

Wow!

Taylor wishes she was this good.

With what's happening now this is so true

Dear Shawn Colvin, I still love you. Why shouldn’t I? Expecting you to love me…now that’s ‘nuts’…even I know that…but I’m wishing you every good thing and you are in my prayers, which are constant now…I’m in a perpetual state of prayer now…it’s necessary. Anyway, I hope you’re well. I’m doing ok…at a Starbucks for the 1st time in awhile and enjoying being out and free among others and not standing out as a homeless weirdo…as long as I keep my mouth shut! I’m singing in chapel 2-3 times per day and my voice really helps the mix…no, it really does! I’m a great singer in case you didn’t know! Like you care…right? Anyway, after we die I hope we’ll be friends and go on another adventure together where I have better luck and stuff…no, I know I had plenty of chances this time around. It looks like I may actually be able to recover somewhat from my latest fuck-up…huge…cause I really thought I was an eternal goner…now I’m not so sure…feeling the workings of grace in my life again and the place I’ve fallen to has everything to do with it…it’s a Holy Ghost Building…for sure! So, I love you Shawn! God Bless You! Please keep me in your beautiful prayers and make my day by reposting that rendition of ‘Another Long One’ where I posted the long poem…please. Peace Posted in Uncategorized on March 5, 2015 by blackshepherd Down At The Rescue Mission They made a decision the old man needs a bottom rack he’s broken and bent and it’s not just his back he sings Shawn Colvin songs he’s a real sad sack and there’s nowhere he belongs he came in drunk as a skunk beyond hope prayin’ only for a bottom bunk “a Heart needs a home he sang” but oh! how he stunk finally he passed out and slipped away the next day down at the Rescue Mission the chaplains pray for lost causes and broken men thank you Jesus! Halleluia! Praise you for everything down at the Rescue Mission they sing give us a bottom rack for this homeless soul that’s never comin’ back cause a Heart needs a home no matter how broken wherever they roam end October 14, 2023 - Maine- I have a bottom rack in Heaven Shawn just so you 'know'. Kisses. Arthur This was written at the 'Waterfront Mission' in Penscecola, Florida. It was no where near any water and was a long walk to anywhere in blazing sun with no shade whatsoever but they kept me 6 weeks when the limit was 10 days. It was built with several million by a local car dealership and had a huge chapel with 'services' three times a day and I was at everyone of them and they had a great house band that did all the spirituals of the day. Awesome! Sang my ass off but never from the stage though I was invited. Good and plentiful food. God bless that Holy Building. Peace. Love. Kisses. Arthur

It's cool that she did a cover of an AC/DC song.

Got the day right & I’m not even American 🇺🇸! Love Aimee.

nice fur cover

This is the most beautiful recording of this song, from Los Angeles ‘Morning Becomes Eclectric’ radio series.

Any guitarist know the tuning?

Yes!

theres so much to hate you foorrrr

Great Sunday morning song!!! Love me some BT!!!

Accurate

Best song ever.

beautiful song from an extraordinary album

Still great!

This song and Belly in general will forever be a favorite 💖💞💖

I want to live alone in the desert I want to be like Georgia O'Keefe I want to live on the Upper East Side And never go down in the street Splendid Isolation I don't need no one Splendid Isolation Michael Jackson in Disneyland Don't have to share it with nobody else Lock the gates, Goofy, take my hand And lead me through the World of Self Splendid Isolation I don't need no one Splendid Isolation Don't want to wake up with no one beside me Don't want to take up with nobody new Don't want nobody coming by without calling first Don't want nothing to do with you I'm putting tinfoil up on the windows Lying down in the dark to dream I don't want to see their faces I don't want to hear them scream Splendid Isolation I don't need no one Splendid Isolation

Wow, brings back good memories. Thanks Peter those were some good times.

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This song was the cause of my last CD purchase in life (so far anyway). I bought the Learning To Flinch album in 1993 in Bielefeld, Germany. And Splendid Isolation, opened the record (Acoustic version on a 12-string guitar) , and I loved the song. Some 20 years later, a studio version of it was part of the soundtrack of the Norwegian TV-series ”Dag”. And it was only then, that I realized that I had overlooked ,that there actually existed a studio version of it in the first place. So I went to Spotify and TH-cam to listen to it again, but back then, no one had uploaded it. So I finally ended up buying the CD on an American online CD store. I seldom play CDs, but when it happens, it is quite often Transverse City. And in 2023 it is 20 years since Warren Zevon left us. What a magnificent talent he had.

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This live version captures all the impressions I get from the song. It sounds like rural life to me. The emptiness you feel in the country, the claustrophobia of the home and relationships. That outro solo is what ties it all up for me - sounds like the sky looks, if that makes sense. This track is like an updated version of Glen Campbell/Jimmy Webb "If These Walls Could Speak". Same vibe.

Love this...

Yes, lovely!

Love this song ..

Killer song.

Tugs at the heartstrings. Lovelorn beauty.

Joyride (1997) soundtrack.

I truly hate Tennessee as a truck driver. Just wasted almost two hours in a traffic....

XOXO....... Kolovani

Possibly the saddest and also the most poignant song I ever heard.

I really like that song!

i like the tuning on this one a bunch :)

Thank you

I absolutely love this track! Pretty good album over all, but this closing piece elevates it so much higher.

Go move to NY.

The northerner just called you a wenis. You don't know how good you've had it. Y'all didn't have to flee your home to save your soul and sanity.

Wenis.

wonderful

Many years ago, there was a trippy video uploaded with this song performed as a Nine Inch Nails parody of Closer. Does anyone know about that version?