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A song in two halves, each a different take on the same material. The opener is a charming piece of chamber pop, the closer a staggering reprise played in a different key. The song of the opening three minutes is fetching, defined by an undeniable melody and Newman's soft, pleasing singing. There's something off in the vague, repetitive lyrics, though: they seem incomplete, as if they're only snippets of a narrative, and even those snippets are cliches illuminating nothing--though the song seems to be about ignorance frustrating action. Newman seems frustrated, too, and he starts repeating himself. And then, out of the blue, there's a breakthrough, and the music beings to articulate the force and depth of the underlying feelings in a way the lyrics can't. The song's now grandiose, and the music renders the cliches irrelevant. As he repeats "I have waited for so long" ad infinitum against a now-epic musical backdrop, we know what Newman's feeling, even if his words fail him.
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