Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Liz Phair
According to Pop Matters:
It’s easy, tempting even, to reduce “Stratford” to its bare essentials, to write it off as a great song structured around, and works because of, its simplicity: Phair reflecting on the weirdness of flight, the oddity of the sky’s natural beauty, the strange juxtaposition o...
[Verse 1]
I was flying into Chicago at night
Watching the lake turn the sky into blue-green smoke
The sun was setting to the left of the plane
And the cabin was filled with an unearthly glow
In 27-D, I was behind the wing
Watching landscape roll out like credits on a screen
[Verse 2]
The earth looked like it was lit from within
Like a poorly assembled electrical ball
As we moved out of the farmlands into the grid
The plan of a city was all that you saw
And all of these people sitting totally still
As the ground raced beneath them, thirty-thousand feet down
[Chorus]
It took an hour, maybe a day
But once I really listened the noise just fell away
[Verse 3]
And I was pretending that I was in
A Galaxie 500 video
The stewardess came back and checked on my drink
In the last strings of sunlight, a Brigitte Bardot
'Cause I had on my headphones along with those eyes
That you get when your circumstance is movie-sized
[Chorus]
It took an hour, maybe a day
But once I really listened the noise just fell away
[Chorus]
It took an hour, maybe a day
But once I really listened the noise just fell away
But once I really listened the noise just fell away
Stratford-On-Guy was written by Liz Phair.
Liz Phair released Stratford-On-Guy on Tue Jun 22 1993.
Phair told Rolling Stone:
Not a day goes by that someone doesn’t tell me that they booked 27D on their airplane seat specifically to have that experience [laughs]. It’s amazing.
When I lived in England as a young seven-year-old, and we went to Stratford-upon-Avon to visit where Shakespeare lived....