Come Monday Night

At the beginning of this year I wrote a post about the song 'God Help the Girl' which I described as the "anti-cringe-worthy-moment song" and I mentioned how I wanted to see the movie for so long... Well, I finally watched the movie a couple of days ago and I loved it! It took me long enough to find a way to watch it (thank you to my friend who let me use their Netflix).

The movie is about a girl (played by Emma Browning) who had an eating disorder and was sent to a rehabilitation hospital, but she kept running away because of her love and passion for music. She ends up meeting this guy (who is by Ollie Alexander, the lead singer of 'Years & Years') and his music tutor pupil (Hannah Murray, who plays Cassie in 'Skins') and together they try to start a band. It's not exactly a typical musical, but it's got music incorporated into the story, which is all written by Belle and Sebastian. It's filmed with nice cinematography, which really suits this independent feature and the story is really charming, set during one Summer in Glasgow.

But back to the song of the day: "Come Monday Night" which has a really sweet tune and vocals. The lyrics themselves may seem a bit simplistic at first glance, wording observations, but they are poetic, for example:

"Come Monday night we turn the telly off,

To listen to the silence,

Light that comes in from outside,

If you could catch it all

And pin it to your wall" 

And then when you think about it, the words are actually quite profound with hidden metaphors, different for everyone who listens.