Greg Laswell – High and Low

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  General Comment:I'm going to see some friends from out of state
  The very trip you were supposed to take
  A while ago
  But it fell through
  
  It means we're supposed to take a trip and meet my friend but you died and plan fell through.
  
  Thought I'd make the drive
  But a free plane ride is in the air
  And just like that my fear of it disappeared
  Like all of you
  Like all of you
  
  I always fear of losing you but now you're gone and i have learned to live alone and so my fear is gone.
  
  And I look high and low for yesterday
  High and low for you and I
  High and low
  
  Once I can see straight I might move
  Somewhere cold
  Seattle or the Bay area; to see your ghost
  What's left of you
  What's left of you
  
  Once tears from my eye will gone and i can see clearer , i will move to the place that you liked ( may be she/he liked the colder place ) to remember the moment ( ghost refers memory) that we lived together.
  
  And I look high and low for yesterday
  High and low for you and I
  High and low
  
  Found a letter from a man I might have met
  Addressed to you
  And I'll steal the words he ended with:
  I miss you
  And I do
  Miss you
  And I do
  
  When i was going through your belongings i found a letter that i wrote to you that end with i miss you. i want to say again that i still miss you when you're not here.
  High and low for yesterday
  High and low for you and I
  High and low

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  General Comment:When he says, "And I look high and low for yesterday, high and low for you and I" I think he might be referring to self-medication, "Once I can see straight..." helps justify the point.
  And when he talks about the letter, he is saying it is from him, but from a time in the past, a time where he was a different man.
  

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  My Interpretation:To me- this is about losing someone. whether you were dumped, the person is just out of your life or someone passed away. I always think of my best friend when i listen to this, since shes alive and very much a part of my life, to think about her disappearing or dying, makes me cry so hard. probably one of my all time favorite songs. I love it.

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  General Comment:I can't believe what a beautiful song. this is my favorite by him.
  the combination of his voice and the music is breathtaking. I want
  to cry every time i hear this song because of the lyrics and the
  song and music itself!

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  General Comment:since when was the bay area cold?

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  General Comment:My first ALL TIME favorite by Mr. Laswell. The haunting melody flows beautifully with Greg's lyrics in this particular song. Especially on the anniversary of the "divorce" from the EX --- this "factors" in perfectly.

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  General Comment:Beautiful song. I had the pleasure of seeing him perform with Rachael Yamagata this past weekend and he was amazing. He commented before he performed this that he was in a much better place now than when he wrote the song, which is good to hear since it is a very sad song. I also heard that this song and album was about the dissolution of his marriage as someone else commented above.

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  General Comment:to me the song is about lost love. its so beautiful and so sad. "I miss you. And I do. Miss you. And I do." It almost seems as if it is the first time he is saying it since she left. Heartbreaking.

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  General Comment:My favorite greg laswell song, definitely [=

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  General Comment:i found greg on myspace - just browsing through indie, unsigned bands and what not and i immediatly fell in love with this song. i know a lot of people relate to songs like these with past relationships and this song in general goes creepishly great with my last relationship. i was seeing this guy for a little under 5 months and i was absolutely head over heals but there was so many unspoken problems. i guess we thought because we cared about eachother so much that the problems would just disappear. we were supposed to take a trip upstate to visit my best friend for a weekend but the plans fell through and a few weeks later we broke up. when he says "i look high and low for yesterday i look high and low for you and i" thats exactly how i feel. we met through mutual friends and it was great bc it was all couples and we all always had a good time and i really miss that part of my life. i dont even talk to those friends anymore. a lot the the time i do things i know that we would enjoy doing together - kinda like how he says "to see your ghost - whats left of you" - its kind of pathetic, but im sure everyone does it. after we broke up i wrote him this long letter about how i truely felt about everything (all the unspoken problems) and at the end of it i wrote i miss you a lot - even though we were still talking at the time i wrote the letter everything was totally different, it was like we were trying to become strangers so we could just get over it fast. a while later, before we really stopped talking, he told me he cried when he read the letter and wished we would have spoke about those things a lot sooner. in the end we really just hurt eachother too much. i havent talked to him in about 4 months but i still feel very close to him.
  
  anyway, the song is amazing - greg laswell is amazing.

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