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rfmcdonaldOut a collaboration between Norwegian producer Todd Terje and the legendary Bryan Ferry came a cover of the 1980 Robert Palmer song "Johnny and Mary". The song appeared first on Terje's debut album It's Album Time last year and then on Ferry's fifteenth studio album Avonmore.
This is a superbly Ferryesque song, stately and full of langour and elegant despair. Sung in Ferry's gently worn voice and against Terje's arrangement, lyrics take on a sadness that I don't pick up in Robert Palmer's performance.
Johnny's always running around
Trying to find certainty
He needs all the world to confirm
That he ain't lonely
Mary counts the walls
Knows he tires easily
Johnny thinks the world would be right
If it could buy truth from him
Mary says he changes his mind
More than a woman
But she made her bed
Even when the chance was slim
This is a superbly Ferryesque song, stately and full of langour and elegant despair. Sung in Ferry's gently worn voice and against Terje's arrangement, lyrics take on a sadness that I don't pick up in Robert Palmer's performance.
Trying to find certainty
He needs all the world to confirm
That he ain't lonely
Mary counts the walls
Knows he tires easily
Johnny thinks the world would be right
If it could buy truth from him
Mary says he changes his mind
More than a woman
But she made her bed
Even when the chance was slim
