'Til Tuesday scored a big hit with "Voices Carry" in 1985, a #8 smash. They were unable to ever follow it up with another Top 20 hit. But the Boston group came up with this song in 1987 that should have joined "Voices Carry" in the Top 10. A real shame that radio ignored it.
"Coming Up Close"
'Til Tuesday
Lyrics and Music by Aimee Mann
One night in Iowa
He and I in a borrowed car
Went driving in the summer
Promises in every star
Out in the distance
I could hear some people laughing
I felt my heart beat back
A weekend's worth of sadness
There was a farmhouse
That had long since been deserted
We stopped and carved our hearts
Into the wooden surface
We thought just for an instant
We could see the future
We thought for once we knew
What really was important
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home, and oh, by the way
Don't you know that I could make
A dream that's barely half-awake come true
I wanted to say
But anything I could have said
I felt somehow that you already knew
We got back in the car
And listened to a Dylan tape
We drove around the fields
Until it started getting late
And I went back to
My hotel room on the highway
And he just got back
In his car and drove away
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home, and oh, by the way
Don't you know that I could make
A dream that's barely half-awake come true
I wanted to say
But anything I could have said
I felt somehow that you already knew
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home, come on home
Apologize for the link to the original video. If you heard it, you can tell how great this song it is, and how hard it is to remake it!
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