http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK4yC7TaTgo&feature=related (ignore the visuals)
I know, I know, chances are you wrote off James Blunt when he sang a marble mouthed pop tune with the genius chorus "You're Beautiful." Or maybe you were over him after the video for that same single, a video that was nothing more than James taking off most of his clothes in the snow and then diving off a cliff into deep waters. James isn't as goopy as his singles, and his second album took the dark undertones of the first and amped them up. This is still pop on the level of a David Gray but with a bit more grit to the voice and a deep menace that runs through this song. He's whispering the song, imploring in the darkness of a bedroom, across the pillow and that's all well and good but there's something unnerving about his insistence ("I really want you") and those skittering strings that insist on something more than meets the eye. As the song crests, his voice raises, cracks, falls to pieces, returns to a whisper, to our shared secret. If you can find it, there's a lovely official vid for this song, but the record company appears to be not so pleased with it being on the internets. The song is slightly more upbeat in the official vid, but the visuals definitely are in keeping with the undercurrent of unyielding erotic obsession commingled with James's reliance on religious metaphors.
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