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TheCromulentChipster · 10-17-2003, 06:02 PM

I know this has been a topic many times over, but I think this may the reason. I think 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' has got to be one of the greatest songs ever written. It just gives me chills. When he sings, "And later that night when his lights went outta sight, came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," my heart sinks like that ship, thinking of all those who perished there. He sets it up masterfully and then he just hits you with it. And then, the coup de grace, beautiful, mournful, frustrated, searching, "Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours." The man is a master and, in my opinion, wrote a song that may be better than The Beatles, "A Day In The Life".

10-17-2003, 06:02 PM	#1
TheCromulentChipster Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Pickering, Ontario, Canada Posts: 40	I know this has been a topic many times over, but I think this may the reason. I think 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' has got to be one of the greatest songs ever written. It just gives me chills. When he sings, "And later that night when his lights went outta sight, came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," my heart sinks like that ship, thinking of all those who perished there. He sets it up masterfully and then he just hits you with it. And then, the coup de grace, beautiful, mournful, frustrated, searching, "Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours." The man is a master and, in my opinion, wrote a song that may be better than The Beatles, "A Day In The Life".