CD Review: Fiona Apple - When The Pawn... - A Look Back - Page 4

Little comfort, perhaps, as an absolutely heart-melting and poignant — almost ineffably melancholic — melodic twist at the end signals disenchantment writ large, writ loved and lost: "And if it gets too late, for me to wait / For you to find you love me, and tell me so / It's okay, don't need to say it."

Another one "gets gone," leaving Fiona Apple stronger and more stoic than ever, "sitting singing again, singing again..." And that can be extraordinary.

See also:
» CD Review: Cut Chemist - The Audience's Listening
» CD Review: Tom Petty, Highway Companion
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Gordon Hauptfleisch is a Blogcritics Books Editor, freelance writer, and book reviewer for the San Diego Union Tribune. For many years he worked in and managed bookstores and record stores. Email him and he'll stop talking in the third-person.

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