The Poet Game
by Pete
It?s tough enough keeping up with all of the new music out there when you?re still discovering great music from years past. It?s a perpetual cycle, but that?s what is so great about music: you?ll never hear it all, and there?s always something hiding waiting to be unearthed. Like this song here?I don?t know much about Greg Brown, but every time I hear his songs, I like them. Especially this one I heard recently. Soft, heartfelt, and simple.
Greg Brown: The Poet Game (mp3) ? from The Poet Game, 1994.
The Poet Game
Down by the river junior year
walking with my girl,
and we came upon a place
there in the tall grass where a couple
had been making love
and left the mark of their embrace.
I said to her, “Looks like they had some fun.”
She said to me, “Let’s do the same.”
and still I taste her kisses
and her freckles in the sun
when I play the poet game. Read the rest of the lyrics.
February 23, 2006 - 12:52 pm
Love the song. Thanks.
February 21, 2006 - 9:15 am
A coworker introduced me to Greg Brown about eight years ago. I have to say his body of work is overwhelming to someone just finding out about him. He almost makes Ryan Adams look like a slacker.
I don’t know if you’re familiar with a tribute album put out a few years ago called “Going Driftless: An Artist’s Tribute to Greg Brown.” It’s on Red House Records (Brown’s label) and features a roster of female singer-songwriters, including Lucinda Williams, Shawn Colvin, Victoria Williams, Gillian Welch and Mary Chapin Carpenter, and “The Poet Game” is beautifully done by Ani DiFranco.
February 21, 2006 - 4:48 pm
the tribute is ok but him singing his own songs is infinitely better, i think poet game is his best song and one of the best songs ever written