Glad I chose this entry by Dave Stroble, Colin Hay was on Jeff Probst Show last night. What a nice guy! Hope you enjoy his song as much as I did!
Escúcheme por favor. ESCÚCHEME! I'm back amigos y amigas with another piece of my iPod puzzle. I am sure that you have all heard the early 80's classics "Who Can It Be Now?" or "Down Under" by Australian rock band Men At Work. The band who had a very hot couple of years back then was led by singer/songwriter Colin Hay. They found success in America in 1982 when those two singles became huge radio hits and eventually winning the band a Grammy for Best New Artist in 1983. However, they couldn't duplicate that success on their follow-up release Two Hearts which helped contribute to their break up in 1986.
After Men At Work's break-up the Scottish-born Hay who moved to Australia as a teenager embarked on a solo career that has seen him release 11 albums between 1987 and 2011. The song that I am talking about today, "Maggie", can be found on the Going Somewhere record which came out in 2001.
"Maggie" is actually a true story told by Hay about a girl that he met when he was a young boy. They grow up together and their relationship evolves from them being little kids with crushes on each other to them being in love culminating with him losing his virginity to her. His family then moves away to Australia and he becomes part of one of the biggest bands of that time. She subsequently gets wrapped up with drugs, her life on a downward spiral. He expresses his regret at not seeing the signs that she was headed for trouble throughout the song. His plaintive cries of "I miss you" lie between each chorus as well. Eventually, after not hearing from Maggie for a few years he receives a call from her mother who through her tears tells him that Maggie has died. However, before her death she wrote him a note. in the letter she tells him that she is better off now and that she is forever his and she misses him.
The song ends on a semi-positive note with Hay singing that he thinks that she visited him the other night and while it might have been just a dream he would still go to places that he's never been with her.
After Men At Work's break-up the Scottish-born Hay who moved to Australia as a teenager embarked on a solo career that has seen him release 11 albums between 1987 and 2011. The song that I am talking about today, "Maggie", can be found on the Going Somewhere record which came out in 2001.
"Maggie" is actually a true story told by Hay about a girl that he met when he was a young boy. They grow up together and their relationship evolves from them being little kids with crushes on each other to them being in love culminating with him losing his virginity to her. His family then moves away to Australia and he becomes part of one of the biggest bands of that time. She subsequently gets wrapped up with drugs, her life on a downward spiral. He expresses his regret at not seeing the signs that she was headed for trouble throughout the song. His plaintive cries of "I miss you" lie between each chorus as well. Eventually, after not hearing from Maggie for a few years he receives a call from her mother who through her tears tells him that Maggie has died. However, before her death she wrote him a note. in the letter she tells him that she is better off now and that she is forever his and she misses him.
The song ends on a semi-positive note with Hay singing that he thinks that she visited him the other night and while it might have been just a dream he would still go to places that he's never been with her.
Inside my pocket burns with these words you wrote
Hey darling boy, don't you cry for me
I am forever yours now that I am free
We'll be together, throw stones into the sea
There'll be no others there, just you and me
I miss you
Hey darling boy, don't you cry for me
I am forever yours now that I am free
We'll be together, throw stones into the sea
There'll be no others there, just you and me
I miss you
There are three songs written by Colin Hay that either refer to Maggie or contain parts of her suicide note to him. The first one obviously is the one I discussed above, Maggie. The title of the song Waiting For My Real Life To Begin is a line from her suicide note and the song I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You is the last one.
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