Nyanko's Basket

My aim in this post isn't to provide any sort of comprehensive analysis of why I like these songs. :P Rather, it's just to share my thoughts about why I like them, without much justification.

Promise me (Kasia Rodowicz):
Keys: C minor / A flat major (with various chords borrowed from other keys as well)

( Lyrics for Promise Me )

Transcribing this song's lyrics involved searching for the lyrics online and cross-referencing, because some words were just hard to get right on a first listen. It helps that this song is quite famous, though. ^_^;; I like this song because of its use of a lot of borrowed chords, especially for the first two verses, which are in C minor and convey a bittersweet, melancholy feeling, of separation even as two people are close together. It modulates into A-flat major during the chorus, but even then there's still an undercurrent of longing and hope from the use of many 7th chords and accidentals.

I'll finish this post when I'm more alert. There's another song I wanted to talk about, but I can't really listen to it right now. ^^;; To make it easier to follow these posts, I decided to separate each song into its own entry and use the tags. ^^;