Corinne Bailey Rae “I’d Do It All Again”
Even if you know nothing about the tragic reality that lingers beyond it’s script, “I’d Do It All Again”, the lead single from multi-Grammy nominee Corinne Bailey Rae’s second set The Sea, still manages to pierce your insides with it’s arresting balance of melancholy gorgeousness and lump-in-throat-conjuring honesty.
Penned following an argument with her husband (who would, sadly, end up passing only months later), “Again” starts off dripping in tear-stained wistfulness, precious acoustic guitar licks supporting Rae’s delicate crooning of “You did it all again/ You broke another skin”.
But just as you begin to settle with the idea of this being nothing more than a woeful lament to the dark lows of couple-dom, the subtle weaving in of other instrumental elements (drums, organs, strings) start to push the arrangement to a skyward swell, beautifully illustrating the bubbling forth of Rae’s personal epiphany: Yes, “someone to love is bigger than your pride’s worth”, she realizes, and in a breathtakingly climactic moment, she also reaches the conclusion that no matter how much pain it occasionally triggers, when it comes to their union, she’d “do it all again”.
Sigh. If your eyes don’t get at least a little misty after hearing this (now even more poignant) happy-sad gem for the first time, make sure you immediately check your pulse, cause odds are you have no soul.
The Sea drops January 26th.
Corinne Bailey Rae “I’d Do It All Again”
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