quite a slow song in reality but still a smash hit down at the Lizard Lounge in 1997. Although it was an alternative dance club really we just played anything at all ..didn't matter about the speed as long as the crowd could sing along. Just the sound of those strings at the start of this song and whoosh the crowd was away.
this was The Verve's moment even if it was kinda taken away by the Rolling Stones publishers Allan Klien who took all the royalties because it was based on a sample of The Last Time (an orchestral version from the mid 60s).
A few years later one of the acts on my record label Bloom got a song on the soundtrack of The Sopranos. Their version of 2000 Light Years From home. We would be paid 800 bucks for it. Allen klien however wanted 30000 dollars for the use of it from the makers of the show. So it was never used. Sad moment. Later I sent the ABKO 28 dollars which was their total royalties from the sales of the Bloom album at the time. I never did check if they cashed it.
'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony this life
Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to the money then you die
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet, yeah
No change, I can't change, I can't change, I can't change,
but I'm here in my mold , I am here in my mold
But I'm a million different people from one day to the next
I can't change my mold, no, no, no, no, no
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