Wire to Wire

November 3, 2008

Wire to Wire (English for wire to wire ) is a song by Anglo- Swedish indie rock band Razorlight. It was released on November 3, 2008 at the studio album Slipway Fires at Mercury Records.

Content

The plot of the song is dominated by the love of two people who are to participate fully and always love. To do this, first of all searched for a definition for love (" What is love but the strangest of feelings ?"), After which the author works out negative aspects of love ( " A sin you swallow for the rest of your life. " ), Which listeners reveals the bad sides of love. In the course of questions and demands are made, expressed doubts about the love and the deal critically with this ( " How do you love with the fate full of rust ?"). It is described that love is boring if you live just past each other and you should therefore go where a passion sweeps ("We go where the wild blood flows. "). Finally, the author of the text by contrasts an overall statement is that conveys that there are certainly not only positive aspects for love, but you can not live without that in spite of everything.

Background music

Musically, the song is based less on typical Razorlight titles, but by a reduced instrumentation is a better concentration allows the text and the subject, which treats of the song is clear. An exhibit, so a special emphasis on the piano and a polyphonic chorus sung remember little more to the usual Razorlight style, but resemble much more a gospel song.

Reception

While the album containing the single broadly received especially negative criticism, Wire to Wire is one according to Andreas Bättig of laut.de " the few beads on, Slipway Fires ' [ ... ] ". Many times it was highlighted next to the second single from the album Hostage Of Love as a highlight of the album. It has even been called " [e ] ne of the most beautiful ballads that Borrell has ever written ," the " has everything what a pop song needs ', inscribed and thus extremely good rezipiert.