![]() ![]() He sings the words "so far away from me" about eighteen times in the song, which shows how much he really feels the distance. In the first song - So Far Away From Me - Marc Kofler's girlfriend has gone on holiday - "you've been in the sun" - perhaps Spain, or Cairns, and he is alone and therefore sad that he can't see her. There is an invisible chain that ties me back to this album all the way back to 1984 and any time I find myself in doubt or feel like I'm getting too far away from me, well, I just remember Brothers Arms and I can reel myself back in along that invisible chain until I'm back in Levin, high school, 1984, when I used to be popular with the girls. ![]() It's a great touchstone and over the years I've become close buddies with some of New Zealand's coolest musicians because of it, like Greg Johnson and Mark Tierney. I regularly describe it as the key anchor of my life when I meet new people and that's because it is like an anchor. You'll remember that I asked you all to Gush Over Just One Album - we kick off the guest-post series today with duckduck girl.īrothers Arms is singularly the most important album of my life. ![]()
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