Coldest Day
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LYRICS
No I never heard through the grapevine
How you left long before your time
But in France on the radio
I could not understand a word
But I felt you go
We waited all night for the midnight lover’s calling
It was the coldest day of the year
And I’m still thawing
I didn’t sleep a wink
But while radio played
I was day dreaming
Of what might have been
While the cold night air was freezing
The coldest night
The coldest day of the year
What is happening mother father please
Who will save us from the autumn breeze
Shivering to a halt no one wants to speak too soon
Although we all knew under the pale blue moon
The pale moon
The pale blue moon
What happens then when the sun goes down
Tell me what’s the word Johannesburg
When the rent goes up and the lights go down
On the coldest day outside the coldest town
We waited all night and I’m still falling
I didn’t sleep a wink
But while radio played
I was day dreaming
Of what might have been
While the cold night air was freezing
The coldest night
The coldest day of the year
The coldest night
The coldest day of the year
The coldest night, day, year
OVERVIEW
| Composer | Role |
|---|---|
| Chris Foreman | Music |
| Clive Langer | Music |
| Graham McPherson | Words |
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“the coldest day… of the year…”
Coldest Day manages to be one of the standout songs from Mad Not Mad for me, featuring quite possibly what is the absolute best song finishing melody that they have ever recorded, working even better as an album finisher.
A lot of people dislike this album, but it’s undeniable that some of the songs they wrote during this time (and The Madness by extension) were brilliant, i really wish they could’ve expanded more in this style they were trying to achieve, but in a more coherent way, as a lot of the songs in Mad Not Mad were very evidently over-produced, something that i do agree on, despite how much i would love to worship the album.
In the end, this is a wonderfully written song, reaching a very good matched energy between every element, brilliant chorus, then the ending manages to wrap up this album in a wonderfully magestic way, despite its flaws.