I want to identify a song I heard while I was on hold to Rex Airline.
Soft piano going in the background, not quite arpeggios but very repetitive, rhythmic and soothing, the piano track is kind of 'lilting'.
The only phrase I definitely heard (and it was repeated a lot) was 'I'll make my way, home … back to you'.
The lyrics are sung by a sad and tired sounding man who sings in tune, but does not have what would classically be termed a 'good voice'. It's not pure at all like a well practiced/trained singer, nor is it 'awesome and forthright in its rawness' like so many legendary blues singers, and a few others others like Joe Cocker and Tom Waites.
This guy sounds more like Iggy Pop, or Nick Cave, someone like that. Sad and woeful, sometime almost talking rather than singing; yet oddly very relaxing, and the song as a whole is really calming to listen too. Perfect music to put peeps 'on hold' with I guess!
Anyways, if anyone knows what this tune is, I would dearly like to know. Of course I've tried the usual Googling strategies etc., but the main problem is the only definite lyrics I have are used in about a million different songs. I don't think it's possible to 'Google' the answer based on what I know about the song. I think that only someone who knows the tune will be able to tell me what it is. If it helps I have never heard it before, and I've been a muso for 40 years; so I'm thinking its either some sort of 'undiscovered classic, or (more likely) it was created in the last couple of years or so.
Call Rex Airlines again. You are guaranteed to be put on hold. Hopefully they will play the same song. Put it on speaker.
Is this it? - Tom Rosenthal