May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
This song has a similar personal feeling for me than Spaceface does. Almost like they fit hand in glove. Even with the similarities in title – Space/Spaceface. There’s also a line within Wonderful In Young Life that fits in with the theme that I find particularly poignant. “Surviving these changes in paces and faces in…
I wanted to choose Space today because – I always wish to see Jim in my dreams. I spent the past few years before going to sleep, making that wish… “Please! When I go to sleep PLEASE let me dream about him. If I can’t get to be with him and spend time with him…
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Can’t “quit dreaming”. Who wants “Real Life”…? We have outer space and stars, and our dreams…
A rare beast in the Simple Minds canon, in that there is almost no musical intro before Jim starts to sing. (As far as the version on Our Secrets Are The Same goes. More on that later…) “I’ll hurt you if you say I did”. (ie: if you wish it to be, it’ll come to…
You just never know…lol
Lyric of the day Song: Space Album: Our Secrets Are The Same, Silver Box, Celebrate: Greatest Hits + Year of release: Unofficial – 2000, Official – 2004/2013 Written by: Kerr/Burchill/Hunter
Working on an art piece for Space…I came across this little gem. Had eluded me until now…
Got me some Lush yesterday. This one has a tenuous Simple Minds link (they are lines from a song of theirs called “Space” – the bath melt is shaped like a star and is covered in fine silver glitter). It smells lemony :-))