Lilac Wine

Roland of Gilead · **Posted:** May 26, 2008 1:22 pm

I lost myself on a cool damp night
Gave myself in that misty light
Was hypnotized by a strange delight
Under a lilac tree
I made wine from the lilac tree
lost my heart in its recipe
It made me see what I want to see
and be what I want to be
When I think more than I ought to think
I Do things I never should do
I drink much more than I ought to drink
Because it brings me back you...

Lilac wine is sweet and heady
like my love
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady,
like my love

Listen to me...
I cannot see clearly
Isn't that he coming to me nearly here?
Lilac wine is sweet and heady
where's my love?
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady
where's my love?

Listen to me, why is everything so hazy?
Isn't that he, or am I going crazy?
Lilac Wine, I feel unready
for my love...
Feel unready for my love...

MelvilleB · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 8527

Definitely not a favourite of mine.

Believer · **Joined:** Apr 7, 2008 **Posts:** 407

MelvilleB wrote:

Definitely not a favourite of mine.

I would have bet my **** that it wouldn't have been. Obviously, I disagree completely, it's one of her best interpretations. Besides, it's a quite difficult song to sing, and Katie already in this early interpretation at only 19 years shows what she's able to do. I'm happy that she's performing it live again.

By the way: It's a cover. Why has the cover section been opened?

Roland of Gilead · **Posted:** May 26, 2008 1:39 pm

I like this song very much. One of my favs of COTS

Siocnarf360 · **Posted:** May 26, 2008 1:40 pm

Roland of Gilead wrote:

I like this song very much. One of my favs of COTS

Me too... But I have between 10 and 12 favourites in COTS :lolk:

renehans20 · **Posted:** May 26, 2008 1:43 pm

I just love this song, and how Katie's voice is on it especially when it's sung live.

Lepton · **Posted:** May 26, 2008 2:50 pm

Her live performance in Hannover was absolutely stunning, I would have never believed that song can be so beautiful.

On the album, it sounds awful, much too whiny. She was not yet capable of singing such a song at that time, I think.

duw1427 · **Posted:** May 26, 2008 3:54 pm

I love the acoustic version of the Croydon concert DVD :approve:

AAAAhhhh, this reminds me I have to watch the Croydon concert once again ... and again ... and again :joyjoy:

spicyapple · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 1868

Lilac Wine is a beautiful, lyrically brilliant song. Nina Simone's version I consider the standard by which all others are measured. Often any song Katie covers she makes her own, but this is the exception.

Ronald · **Posted:** May 26, 2008 5:48 pm

I looove this song. Definitely a favorite of mine :music:

Nammzi · **Posted:** May 26, 2008 6:33 pm

Believer wrote:

By the way: It's a cover. Why has the cover section been opened?

There are a lot of covers that have had topics created about them, as people want to discuss more deeply the songs. I've always seen the covers section a place to sort of roughly discuss covers, or covers that aren't as well known a the covers on her albums

DavidA · **Posted:** May 26, 2008 10:26 pm

Nammzi wrote:

Believer wrote:

By the way: It's a cover. Why has the cover section been opened?

There are a lot of covers that have had topics created about them, as people want to discuss more deeply the songs. I've always seen the covers section a place to sort of roughly discuss covers, or covers that aren't as well known a the covers on her albums

Exactly what I had in mind when I started the Covers topic.

DavidA · **Posted:** May 26, 2008 10:33 pm

A beautifully sung cover and I think the album version is great. She imbues this song with a kind of tipsiness which is perfect for it. I drink much more than I ought to drink Great, especially that last craaaaaaaaaazzzzeeeeeeeeeeeeee! :woohoo:

Believer · **Joined:** Apr 7, 2008 **Posts:** 407

DavidA wrote:

Nammzi wrote:

There are a lot of covers that have had topics created about them, as people want to discuss more deeply the songs. I've always seen the covers section a place to sort of roughly discuss covers, or covers that aren't as well known a the covers on her albums

Exactly what I had in mind when I started the Covers topic.

Exactly what I agree too immediately. So let's start goin' a bit further than "I love it" / "It's not my favourite".

Believer · **Joined:** Apr 7, 2008 **Posts:** 407

DavidA wrote:

(...) I drink much more than I ought to drink Great, especially that last craaaaaaaaaazzzzeeeeeeeeeeeeee! :woohoo:

Yeah. And it sounds as if knew what she's singing about.

Nats · **Joined:** Apr 1, 2008 **Posts:** 1251 **Location:** SA

MelvilleB wrote:

Definitely not a favourite of mine.

I'm sorry, I must agree with you on that point. This is one of the songs that I do not really like because is too 'flighty' and 'capricious', not really right for Katie to sing, maybe someone else. Her performance is good, but I do not enjoy the 'lyricism' as it were. I do not like songs that recount stories. :roll:

JosCR66 · **Posted:** May 27, 2008 10:22 am

When I first heard it on COTS, I did not like it. However, her performance of it in Wembley Arena made me reconsider it, and its slowly growing on me, though at a snails pace.
Probaly the delivery here is still not convincing me fully....

Siocnarf360 · **Posted:** May 27, 2008 11:19 am

DavidA wrote:

A beautifully sung cover and I think the album version is great. She imbues this song with a kind of tipsiness which is perfect for it. I drink much more than I ought to drink Great, especially that last craaaaaaaaaazzzzeeeeeeeeeeeeee! :woohoo:

This is my favourite part of the song too! :music:

And I think her voice fits perfectly with the lyrics, being different from what it usually is...

DavidA · **Posted:** May 27, 2008 11:13 pm

Nats wrote:

MelvilleB wrote:

Definitely not a favourite of mine.

I'm sorry, I must agree with you on that point. This is one of the songs that I do not really like because is too 'flighty' and 'capricious', not really right for Katie to sing, maybe someone else. Her performance is good, but I do not enjoy the 'lyricism' as it were. I do not like songs that recount stories. :roll:

Is that what you really mean, because surely most songs have a story, including loads of Katie's?

MelvilleB · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 8527

Well as far as I am concerned some songs just appeal to me and some just don't. That is one of my don'ts.

Nats · **Joined:** Apr 1, 2008 **Posts:** 1251 **Location:** SA

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Is that what you really mean, because surely most songs have a story, including loads of Katie's?

I was referring to the style of the song in which a story or tale is recounted. This is mostly known as a 'character piece'. Just like Heaven is another example of this kind of song...here is a fact I don't know if you know...this song was first written by James Shelton, then covered by Eartha Kitt(1953), Judy Henske(1963), Nina Simone(1966), Elkie Brooks(1978), Jeff Buckley(1994), and most recently Katie Melua(2003). The biggest success, is said to have come in 1978. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilac_Wine

colliewhip · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 769

I used to really love this song but over time I've come to tolerate it only which is strange. I think Katie has grown as a musician and I've grown with her, rendering some of her earlier stuff as not so likeable. Thats not true of all her songs because I still love most of her earlier stuff, but it is true in this case. When pictures first came out I admit I was not quite so keen, now it is my second favourite album of all time. PBP being my favourite so she's not doing too badly having the top two albums in my all time favourites.
I'm going to demote Lilac wine in my list with Kewa.

Believer · **Joined:** Apr 7, 2008 **Posts:** 407

colliewhip wrote:

(...)I think Katie has grown as a musician (...)

Indeed. And that's why Lilac Wine now fits even better to her than when she was a 19 year young girl. Katie's playing this song on the actual tour alone with the guitar. Strange, my general impression here is that the songs which Katie herself prefers often are refused by the fans. As to me, a lot of people have a wishful thinking design of Katie's character in their mind which has nothing to do with reality.

Patreides · **Posted:** May 30, 2008 2:03 am

duw1427 wrote:

I love the acoustic version of the Croydon concert DVD :approve:

I think, she overdid it a little bit.

But she was so young, and... I like that performance, though.
It is, after all, the OTRA DVD! :mrgreen:

DavidA · **Posted:** May 31, 2008 1:04 am

Believer wrote:

colliewhip wrote:

(...)I think Katie has grown as a musician (...)

Indeed. And that's why Lilac Wine now fits even better to her than when she was a 19 year young girl. Katie's playing this song on the actual tour alone with the guitar. Strange, my general impression here is that the songs which Katie herself prefers often are refused by the fans. As to me, a lot of people have a wishful thinking design of Katie's character in their mind which has nothing to do with reality.

I hadn't realised the song was so old and I agree that it suits Katie's style better now than when she was starting out- a bit like MAIY in that respect, although the songs are dissimilar.
Which songs do you mean that are 'refused by the fans'?

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