Lyrics excerpt:
I died in a car crash four years ago.
My tree drinks melted snow,
Just eight feet tall, a pale and fragile thing.
Bee stings, beaches, bright vacations,
Sunburnt high-school graduations,
A sparrow healing from a broken wing.
This year a glimpse of second chances:
Tiny apples on my tree's branches
Reasons to love this song:
This is one of those songs I can't listen to without feeling close to tears. It is an a capella song like, for example, Suzanne Vega's Tom's Diner or Tori Amos's Me And a Gun, but in these two songs the a capella singing conveys a feeling of intimacy. In Passage it, appropriately, sounds haunting and otherworldly.
The song is sung from the point of view of a young woman who has died in a car crash, and is now watching her family, her co-workers and her lover as they react to her death and as their memories of her slowly fade through time. The fading away of their memories feels even more heartbreaking than their grief.
Link to Amazon preview:
Passage
Youtube link:
Vienna Teng performing Passage live in 2006
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