Search - Far Too Jones :: Shame & Her Sister

A lyrical gem

lilangel7617 | USA | 08/02/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I have owned this cd for a little more than seven months now, and I can truthfully say that the only time it has left my cd changer was when I went away for a week (then it just never left my portable cd player.) This is because of the final three tracks, which are all just absolutely beautiful. I listen to them every single night before I go to sleep-NO, they do not put me to sleep, rather they're the kind of songs that you really should listen and pay attention to as opposed to, say, playing them in the background while you read or do your homework. "Ballad of Mary," is, in my opinion, an incredibly clever song about the Virgin Mary-clever in the sense that it took me upwards of three weeks to realise that that was what it was talking about. Its really one of those songs that you can take and interpret in any way you want. The message of it sort of reminded me of Better Than Ezra's "At the Stars" just because of the chorus: "This small town has got nothin' left/For a couple high school prom rejects/But this old car has got a new headlight/And you can sleep while I drive." I would have bought the cd for that one song alone, but all the songs are great. This is the sort of cd that draws you in musically, with powerfully played guitars, but then keeps you listening for the great lyrics, which are the real treasure on this album."