Carbon Leaf Countdown #12: Torn To Tattered
Feb 13
Charles Schultz would have adored this song had it come out about a year earlier. Oh, well! At #12, it’s “Torn To Tattered!”
I once asked my friends (most of all my friends are big Carbon Leaf fans) what their favorite lyric or phrase was. Of course, no one had just one and it was a very varied response field, but one phrase popped up more and more. The Charlie Brown lyric. “You walk the path like Charlie Brown. You’re full of hope, but with your head down. And you only have one eye to see. The other’s closed and too scared to peek.” In a song full to the brim of enjoyable elements, it’s a lyric (which I’m sure was written somewhat as a throwaway to finish the verse) that really sticks with people. The song’s tale of daydreaming while tutoring and the line above just leads you to think the songs about being pulled in two different ways. If so, that Charlie Brown is double awesome for really summing perfectly how some people make those decisions.
“Torn To Tattered” is one of the three songs on Echo Echo I call the bass trio. “I Know The Reason, Follow The Lady,” and this one all have killer bass parts that I find myself singing along to almost as much as the regular lyrics if not more in some cases. There are fun bass parts all throughout Carbon Leaf’s catalogue, don’t get me wrong. They’re even there on Curious George, but they’re not as frequently at the forefront of the songs. It just so happens that they are here and are extra nifty as well equaling an amazing song. Singing along to Charlie Brown and a bass part? You could do a lot worse. A whole lot worse people.
Song: Torn To Tattered
Album: Echo Echo
Year: 2001
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