The Wild Reed: The Price I Pay

For "music night" this evening at The Wild Reed I share the promotional video for Jenny Morris's cover of the Billy Bragg song, "The Price I Pay."

Jenny's 1993 recording of this song was her last appearance to date on the Australian ARIA top 100 singles chart. The track was later included on her 1995 album Salvation Jane. (For another track from this album, click here.)

About Billy Bragg's original 1986 recording, Dan Seeger writes:

The clarity and directness of . . . “The Price I Pay” (There’s something inside that hurts my foolish pride/ To visit the places we used to go together/ Not a day goes by that I don’t sit and wonder why/ Your feeling for me didn’t last forever) is enhanced by the studio care that’s been brought to [it], the kind attention that becomes the production equivalent of a sympathetic ear, always listening with the goal of complete understanding.

To my ears the same can be said of Jenny Morris's recording, beautifully and knowingly produced by Andrew Farriss and Mark Moffatt, together with Electric Hippies' duo Steve Balbi and Justin Stanley.

So without further ado, here's Jenny Morris and "The Price I Pay" . . .

My friend said he could see no way ahead
And I was probably better off without you
He said to face up to the fact
that you weren't coming back
And he could make me happy like you used to
But I'm sorry to say I turned him away
Knowing everything he said was true
And that's the price I pay
for loving you the way that I do

And there's something inside
that hurts my foolish pride
To visit the places we used to go together
Not a day goes by
that I don't sit and wonder why
Your feelings for me didn't last forever
But I love you so much that sometimes it's such
I'd walk a mile with a stone in my shoe
And that's the price I pay
for loving you the way that I do
That's the price I pay
for loving you the way that I do

So keep that phone out of my way
for all the things I must say
Are empty if you don't believe they're true
And that's the price I pay
for loving you the way that I do
That's the price I pay
for loving you the way that I do

I love you so much that, baby, it's such
I'd walk a mile with a stone in my shoe
And that's the price I pay
for loving you the way that I do

The Wild Reed

Saturday, September 23, 2017

The Price I Pay

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