The Blue Nile- Over the Hillside

Over the Hillside by The Blue Nile from the album Hats. A masterpiece from an almost unknown band. The lyrics are.... wow... close to me....


Workin' night and day
I try to get ahead
But I don't get ahead this way
Workin' night and day
The railroad and the fence
Watch the train go roll around the bend

Over the hillside
Over the moment
Over the hills and waiting

Workin' night and day
I try to get ahead
Workin' night and day
Don't make no sense
Walk me into town
The ferry will be there
To carry us away into the air

Over the hillside
Over white water
Over the hills and falling

The stars in your eyes
Knowin' what's right
The stars in your eyes
Don't explain

Over the hillside
Over the hillside
Over the hills and waiting
Over the hillside
Over the hillside
Over the hills and home we'll go

Tomorrow I will be there
Tomorrow I will be there
Tomorrow I will be there
Oh, you wait and see

I can't go on and I can't go back
I don't feel so, matter of fact
I tried and tried to make good sense
What's the good to try it all again?

Category:

Music

Tags:

• the
• blue
• nile
• hats
• over
• hillside
• paul
• buchanan
• ambient

[mustafa1name]

Well, not Ambient in the sense Brian Eno intended. When someone invents a genre with a clear and original vision it's rather lazy to use their term for something that's merely slow and ethereal.

Can't really see how the word masterpiece is appropriate here either.

At best it's a pleasant but dull conventional track.

The lyrics quoted below as 'second to none' don't rhyme properly, don't scan properly, and don't really make sense. If not second, perhaps fourth or fifth?

[Woffar]

@mustafa1name You're a top ten asshole. I usually don't find it necessary to dig into another's background on the internet as I DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU, but I just had to look up your music taste. Music is highly subjective but I think I wouldn't be to far off from the consensus to call your taste that of a faggot. No offense to my homosexual friends.

[Woffar]

@mustafa1name

You however are correct on the ambient title. I will change this just so I never have to hear another thing about Brian Eno. Enjoy the track, or don't.

[p262shp]

love this song best song on the hats album . i have told my family when i die i want this played at my funeral

[Woffar]

I agree until I hear Saturday Night, then Saturday Night is my favorite until I hear this song again...... profound, simple lyrics.

[bigandy59]

Blue Nile, Hall & Oates & Simply Red would probably make up the soundtrack of my life growing up (im 19). Hall & Oates when i would listen and sing-along....badly....with my dad. Simply Red when i would dance around the room with my mum and Blue Nile, when i would just sit with both of my parents and take in how beautiful the music was. Can't get any better than that :)

[mybookfacetube]

Stars in your eyes, don't explain. The memories come flooding back. This has to be one of the best bands ever. Paul Buchanan's voice is truly sublime. Lyrics second to none. "Can't go on and I can't go back, don't feel so matter of fact. I tried and tried to make good sense, what's the good? you try it all again. So nice to see that there are some other fans out there also. Music like this will never be mainstream, and I guess we should all be thankful for that.

[sjb161068]

@mustafa1name you have sure got you're 15 mins of fame.....what are you going to to do now...yawn.

[bobby08ify]

@Woffar Absolutely Awesome!!!

[bobby08ify]

@Woffar Incredible my friend!

[bobby08ify]

The awesome "Blue Nile" Music at it's very best!

[gordoncraig410]

This vid is a favorite on Ukraine

[59nazareth]

music on, looking out the back door trying to see the Northern Lights( shame it's foggy and wet) ach well the music's good!

[MrBusterfoot]

this is wrist slitting music..make no mistake. no hope here. cover always reminded me of freddie kruger, a really awful cover that indicated nothing of the music within. it was a band, after all. Signed by WB, who gave the carte blanche, they spent hundreds of thousands for ok songs.. and they were never heard from again. Without restrictions they went..Hollywood.. (Paul Buchanan & Rosanna Arquette ) a poverty of humility and a loss of aspiration, they lost their focus and broke up.

[MrBusterfoot]

@tinseltown1 well, i disagree. and i suspect you ought to spell her name right if you are going to comment. it was one of the best performances i have seen. the blue nile chose her, they loved her singing and worked with her in the US as well. singing over? you mean the harmony? I find it hard to imagine anyone could upstage Buchanan, and if she is anything, she is sensitive. Do you know where that performance is?

[damianfloyd1129]

This video is a favorite on Niamey

[srursomau]

this unknown band makes me remind somehow the sound of go-betweens, specially in the theme bachelor kisses. please have a look and tell me later. its a great ambiance that these guys had create that only rare skilled bands can do it.