What I Bought

More on Dad later, I've already put out the gist of it below, but I learned a little more since then from the cardiologist.

To alternate back to what I was talking about yesterday, Kevin got pretty close to guessing what I had purchased. He was right to guess music, and given his guess of Metallica (which he also correctly figured out is not my type of band), I suspect he was also going off a good hunch based on the phrase “sad, but true,” that I included.

So, what was it? It was the original “Kiss Me” single. The “single” contains four tracks, three renditions of “Kiss Me,” which is a fine song, albeit not one that I need three additional copies of (I already have the self-titled Sixpence CD that includes it). It is the fourth track that had me looking for this single: “Sad But True.” Googling last night — which is how I found the eBay auction that had it — I noticed that Metallica has a song of the same name, but I checked the lyrics and they are entirely different songs, if you are wondering.

Here's a bit of history about why I was aware of this almost unknown Sixpence None the Richer song. I first heard the band in early 1999, when the radio started playing the aforementioned song, “Kiss Me.” Leigh Nash has the type of voice that catches your attention and I was curious to see who this band was. I diligently went on the computer, located the album on Amazon and listened to some of the clips. I didn't like what I heard. But their music stuck in my head. Not yet convinced that buying the CD was a good idea, I decided to fire up “Imagine Radio,” which was a neat service where you could select artists and the site stream fairly good quality audio, even over a dial-up connection, to you. Imagine Radio had Sixpence None the Richer, and after listening a few times, I quickly grew quite fond of their self-titled album. But Imagine Radio had also purchased the “Kiss Me” single, which, as I noted, included “Sad But True;” the only other place that track appears is on a limited vinyl edition of the self-titled album.

Imagine Radio, as I knew it, closed in the Fall of 1999, and since then, I have not heard the song “Sad But True.” Unlike many songs which I've heard more recently, and more often, however, I still can recall the entirety of the music that goes with the lyrics. Eventually, I purchased the self-titled CD, the older “Beautiful Mess” CD and — as soon as it came out — their last CD of original music, “Divine Discontent.” All of these are excellent, and I may do a further treatment on those in the next few days, as long as I am on the subject. But, every once-in-a-while, I'd remember “Sad But True.” Amazon had long since switched to the newer post-hit version of the “Kiss Me” single that took off the said track, and I had all but given up finding a copy. Until last night, when I found it on eBay.

So, I bought it. And now I wait for it. The lyrics are below if your interested.

Music and Words by Matt Slocum; Sung by Leigh Nash (the two founding members of Sixpence).

if I could have the words to change 
to speak into the world would they fly 
I wonder if they'd put them in a jeweled box for sale 

Chorus 2
Chorus 1