Crow Calling

Until now I'd only ever heard the Martin L Gore cover of this on the Conterfeit EP. Don't know anything much about Joe Crow himself except that, according to a review on his MySpace page, it took him a mere 28 years to follow it up with an album!

One of the things I like about the song is that the restless, circular nature of the melody creates the imperative that drives the lyrics. "Finding the right words, can be a problem/How many times must it be said/There's no chance/It had to happen." It's not an 'emotional' outpouring, but more like automatic writing. The lyrics both dramatise the process and are process.