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RACHEL STEVENS | Nothing Good About This Goodbye | |
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LYRICS:
I guess I should say What is on the tip of my tongue 'Cos I've seen how it aches When you've missed your chance The time's gone Snap decisions cause you so much pain Then you come round again And there's nothing left at all Perfect vision now I'm running blind Too scared of what I'll find When you call Only now I've let go Honey I just don't know Sit right here and watch The sky above for a sign Tell me will you miss me When I'm in your history Baby there ain't Nothing good about this goodbye If you are the one This regret will last forever 'Cos nobody knows If we should stay together Snap decisions cause you so much pain Then you come round again And there's nothing left at all Selfish but I think it's for the best I'll miss you for the rest Of my life Only now I've let go Honey I just don't know Sit right here and watch The sky above for a sign Tell me will you miss me When I'm in your history Baby there ain't Nothing good about this goodbye Snap decisions cause you so much pain Then you come round again And there's nothing left at all Selfish but I think it's for the best I'll miss you for the rest Of my life Only now I've let go Honey I just don't know Sit right here and watch The sky above for a sign Tell me will you miss me When I'm in your history Baby there ain't Nothing good about this goodbye
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INFORMATION:
x appears on: Rachel Stevens - Come And Get It (2005) CD
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Written by Alexis Strum, Brian Higgins, Nick Coler.
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"Nothing Good About This Goodbye" was originally recorded by Alexis Strum.
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(...) stirring, poignant, (...) perhaps the album's most transcendent moment. Ross Hoffman
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There is something about Rachel Steven's emotionless delivery that suits the track, much in the same way that her vocally-vacant style suited the Richard X produced Some Girls, a track about ruthless wannabe popstrels who will do anything for fame. Also, the inclusion of a Natalie Imbruglia-esque guitar middle 8 means that Rachel's version just wins over Alexis's original. missprint
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I think the two versions of 'Nothing Good About This Goodbye' could be used as a textbook example on how a pop song can be radically transformed by slight
production changes. Listening to Rachel's version, I couldn't notice a lot more than a small change of tempo and a couple of very sublte harmonic variations in both the verse and the chorus (OK, the radical difference between the three verse parts in Alexis' version is also missing). Yet it seems to me that, rather tragically, the escence of the original is lost. I really can't explain why, but it just doesn't take me anywhere near the original version does. daavid
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Her reading of Alexis Strum's superb song "Nothing Good About This Goodbye" is also sublimely hurt, wandering in a limbo between Air and Emma Bunton. Marcello Carlin
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