Warwick Avenue

First time I listened to "Mercy", I knew it'll be a timeless classic. Like a modern day Aretha Franklin, Duffy has a voice of the golden ages. She sings so amazingly, it is as if she brought the listeners back to the nostalgic world of the old days.

What caught my ears, however, was Warwick Avenue.
The first time I saw the music video in Channel V, it felt so depressing yet so powerful. The music was soft and comforting but her voice brings you to tears. In the video, we see her leaving Warwick Avenue Station and along the journey she starts crying. The song itself unfolds the story, suggesting the break up had occured on "entrance of the tube". She starts crying even when she says, "You hurt me bad but I won't shed a tear" that suggest the pain in leaving.

It may sound like a break up song, but it's mostly on starting anew. Moving on after a relationship might be a difficult process, but we have to live with it, be strong, drop the past and be true.



When I get to Warwick Avenue
Meet me by the entrance of the tube
We can talk things over a little time
Promise me you wont step out of line

When I get to Warwick Avenue
Please drop the past and be true
Don't think we're okay
Just because I'm here
You hurt me bad but I won't shed a tear

I'm leaving you for the last time baby
You think you're loving
But you don't love me
I've been confused
Outta my mind lately
You think you're loving
But I want to be free
Baby you’ve hurt me

When I get to Warwick Avenue
We'll spend an hour but no more than two
Our only chance to speak once more
I showed you the answers, now here's the door

When I get to Warwick Avenue
I'll tell you baby that we're through

'Cause I'm leaving you for the last time baby
You think you're loving
But you don't love me
I've been confused
And outta my mind lately
You think you're loving
But you don't love me
I want to be free
Baby you've hurt me

All the days spent together
I wish for better
But I didn't want the train to come
Now it's departed, I'm broken hearted
Seems like we never started
All those days spent together
When I wished for better
And I didn't want the train to come
No, no

You think you're loving
But you don't love me
I want to be free
Baby you've hurt me
You don't love me
I want to be free
Baby you've hurt me

This is one song for a rainy day.