The story of Love Will Find You, Findlay Brown's top-drawer US debut for Verve Forecast, begins with the 29-year-old Englishman finding himself on his sister's sofa after being struck by a cab, recuperating from a broken leg. For Brown, alone with a tune-challenged yet stubbornly magical heirloom guitar that had treated him well creatively in the past, this unlikely stretch of time occasioned research as pleasurable as it was enforced.
"I had none of my records with me," recalls the Yorkshire native, whose Separated by the Sea, his 2007 UK debut, met with highest praise from London critics. "I revisited and rediscovered do-wop, Elvis, Roy Orbison, as well as a lot of soul music like Motown and other '60s black music. I was really doing my homework. I would sit with that old guitar and my computer, downloading tracks off i-Tunes, whether it be vintage Phil Spector or whatever, literally studying the songs -- what the bass was doing, what the drums were doing. It was a good chance to be completely immersed, with no distractions, just laid on the sofa because of my broken leg. Pretty much nothing else to do."
Comprehensive research by a self-described "musical obsessive," however, formed only the starting point for Love Will Find You , which has emerged as the richest of current sonic experiences. A life-long fan of '60s rock and the Beatles ("They're always there…"), Brown has managed to fuse the driven and searching qualities of music by late-'60s west coast American avatars such as Jimi Hendrix , Spirit, and Captain Beefheart with ostensibly more conservative songwriting styles rooted in the more compositionally succinct ways from the immediate eras before psychedelicism.
"Over the past few years," Brown says, "I've been really interested in the Brill Building crowd, you know, the old-school songwriters. When I'm writing music, I want to write hits. With my references from the '60s, it's the '60s pop music I'm aspiring to, and the best songwriters are the Bacharachs and the Davids, the Neil Diamonds, the Carole Kings. That was their job. Part of the charm of those kinds of songs is that they sound so simple, so poppy, so instant. But it's only a seeming simplicity; they are challenging indeed to write."
Aided by producer Bernard Butler, the Suede guitarist who lately has worked with the vintage-minded English singer Duffy, Brown on Love Will Find You achieves transporting music presented as ten songs all of which long to be free-standing aural events. The stroke of the collection is that, from the freshly reimagined Spectoresque beat of the title song to the poised Righteous Brothers operaticism of "I Had a Dream," the component pieces succeed as such.
"I wanted to make something completely unashamed of where it was coming from," says Brown. The pop maximalism of Love Will Find You is, after all, more consistent with his pop tastes and dreams than was his comparatively stripped-down debut, where he scaled back to concentrate on repairing an ailing romantic relationship. As a UK teen, for instance, Brown was unsold on Britpop but nuts about Elvis. "On this album we wanted to go with whatever felt necessary, without trying to put any sort of indie slant on it, without trying to be cool. It was like, 'This is a pop record done in a classic way: If we want a string or horn section, let's go for it.' I'd been listening to big production stuff, whether it is Matt Monroe or Serge Gainsbourg or Morricone or West Side Story. I wanted to have an experience."
Brown owns a fluent, flexible pop tenor tending toward heaven but that retains an earthbound familiarity. Songs like "Nobody Cared" and "Everybody Needs Love" makes easeful use of the grammar of love triumphant and/or distressed yet the net emotional effect of Brown's careful, involved, yet unfussy performances on these thrillingly well-engineered tracks make the pieces dart off in myriad different directions sometimes unpredictable. "People ask me," Brown mentions, "''What's this song about?' My first response is that, well, it's what it's about, it's there in the words, that I wrote this song about this thing so I don’t have to talk about it."
With Love Will Find You Brown takes a step further. This is music where research and historical information and style -- and the critical but ultimately limited allures of formalism itself -- bleed into things far more momentous than any of those concerns, all working together to portray places where sung words turn into ecstatic, often difficult states quite beyond themselves.
"Here," Brown believes, "what the song is about is actually the music: It's about the performance, the sort of spiritual act of both doing and, I hope, hearing it. I rather hate to say this about any lyric I would write, but the lyric is almost insignificant to what is behind the lyric. It's the point of departure. It's the point where you cannot intellectually go on. It's where you transcend into the experience of listening. It's the end of explanation."
Love Will Find You
Findlay Brown Lyrics
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How much, how much can you give to time, when all that you see is time, hoping to feel inside
love will find you
Wasted tears we've echoed and fall, lonely I need you I won't let you go, long for the day that your love will arrive, know that I need you always be mine.
I'm here I wait for you patiently.
you too are showing me, hoping to feel inside, love will find you.
Wasted tears we've echoed and fall lonely I need you I won't let you go, long for the day that your love will arrive, know that I need you always be mine
How long, how long can we wait for it, you know that we pray for it, only to feel inside.
love will find you
How much, how much can you give to time, when all that you see is time, hoping to feel inside
love will find you
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The lyrics to Findlay Brown's song "Love Will Find You" express the universal longing for love and the patience required to wait for it. The opening lines "How long, how long can we wait for it, you know that we pray for it, only to feel inside, love will find you" show the desire for love that is embedded within everyone's hearts. The repetition of the phrase "love will find you" throughout the song is a reminder that love can come unexpectedly and when it is least expected.
The second verse speaks to the sacrifices and effort that are required to wait for love, "How much, how much can you give to time, when all that you see is time, hoping to feel inside, love will find you." The lyrics urge listeners to be patient and allow time to reveal the right person, rather than forcing a relationship that may not be meant to be. The bridge of the song "Wasted tears we've echoed and fall, lonely I need you I won't let you go, long for the day that your love will arrive, know that I need you always be mine" speaks to the emotional pain and loneliness that can come with waiting for love, but also emphasizes the persistence and determination to hold onto the hope of finding love.
Overall, "Love Will Find You" is a powerful message of hope and perseverance in the search for love. It encourages listeners to have patience, faith, and trust that love will come at the right time.
Line by Line Meaning
How long, how long can we wait for it, you know that we pray for it, only to feel inside, love will find you
We're waiting and praying for love to come, wondering how much longer it will take until it finally finds us
How much, how much can you give to time, when all that you see is time, hoping to feel inside
love will find you
We're spending so much time waiting for love to come, hoping that one day we'll finally feel its presence
Wasted tears we've echoed and fall, lonely I need you I won't let you go, long for the day that your love will arrive, know that I need you always be mine.
We've shed so many tears and felt so lonely, but we won't give up on finding love because we know we need it and want it to be with us forever
I'm here I wait for you patiently.
you too are showing me, hoping to feel inside, love will find you.
I'm waiting for you to come into my life, and it seems like you're waiting for me too, knowing that love will eventually find us
I know, I know that I wait for it, I'm willing to pay for it, only to feel inside, love will find you.
I know that I'll keep waiting for love to come, and I'm willing to do whatever it takes to finally feel its embrace
Wasted tears we've echoed and fall lonely I need you I won't let you go, long for the day that your love will arrive, know that I need you always be mine
Again, we've shed so many tears and felt so lonely, but we won't let go of the hope that love will come and that it will stay with us forever
How long, how long can we wait for it, you know that we pray for it, only to feel inside.
love will find you
We keep waiting and praying for love to come, knowing that one day we'll finally feel it within us
How much, how much can you give to time, when all that you see is time, hoping to feel inside
love will find you
We're dedicating so much time to waiting for love, with the hope that one day it will finally find us
Writer(s): Findlay Brown
Contributed by Camilla E. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
bodiddleybodiddley
Wonderful song with great chords. What a voice.
baxter4ever93
are you kidding me???? your amazing bring back this kind of music. just because you didnt become "big" dont give up!! i want to hear a new song soon on the radio!!! this music is the best.
Hank Wurst
I bought his first CD when it was first released, always loved Orbison and I thought this was great. Then I put it out of mind for years, and have now played the CD - just gets better. He has a more recent CD on Amazon, but you must buy the electronic version, which I did.
WhoLetYouGo
Saw it on Letterman too. His sound his so retro, I love it. Something about this song reminds me of the song "Only the Lonely"
юрий панин
Прекрасно!
WavelengthRose
love it..
thatssomething1
someday somehow maybe an audience will find Findlay Brown
Adam Klesh
so orbison i love it
John Hoelting
Just saw him on Letterman. Orbison like. cool song
tara murphy
If you think he's good, check out ROY ORBISON--he obviously got his inspiration from him.