Optimistic
Yes, Radiohead has a magnificent song with this title, but I’ll always think of Sounds of Blackness and the grand, mighty, never-tired positivity of this song. The choices in terms of arrangement might be a wee bit dated, but it’s simply glorious. I love love love this recording.
It’s one of the handful of songs I know I can turn to when I feel the seeds of doubt germinating deep within me. I hope that its notes are among the very last to float past my body before they close the casket.
ps - this is the best quality version of it that I could find on YouTube, sorry for the pixelocity or pixeliness or pixelrama or whatever you’d like to call it.
