{"id":1487,"date":"2014-10-16T22:17:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T05:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:55:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:55:30","slug":"savage-garden-darren-hayes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2014\/10\/16\/savage-garden-darren-hayes\/","title":{"rendered":"Savage Garden \/ Darren Hayes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guilty Pleasure: the Australian group Savage Garden and its lead singer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darren_Hayes\">Darren Hayes<\/a>, who&#8217;s gone on to a solo career.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one of Savage Garden&#8217;s best songs: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dtQ7n_wG_pE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dtQ7n_wG_pE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Savage Garden- You Can Still Be Free Lyrics\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dtQ7n_wG_pE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCool breeze and autumn leaves<br \/>\nSlow motion daylight<br \/>\nA lone pair of watchful eyes<br \/>\nOversee the living<\/p>\n<p>Feel the presence all around<br \/>\nA tortured soul<br \/>\nA wound unhealing<br \/>\nNo regrets or promises<br \/>\nThe past is gone<\/p>\n<p>But you can still be free &#8230;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/savagegarden\/youcanstillbefree.html\">lyrics<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Though there are many others; their popular earlier songs were &#8220;I Want You&#8221;, &#8220;To the Moon and Back&#8221;, and &#8220;Truly Madly Deeply&#8221; &#8212; and my favorite by far of their earlier songs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=THg28lcMGtc\">This Side of Me<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI want to move in time with you<br \/>\nI want to breathe in rhyme with you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For this one time, one time, let my body do what it feels<br \/>\nFor just this one time, one time, let this fantasy become real\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(There is a certain irony, if not duplicity, in the song, especially the video, since when they were released Darren Hayes had not yet come out as a gay man.)<\/p>\n<p>As with many other groups and singers, e.g. REM and Bruce Springsteen, and as opposed to general popular opinion, I actually like Darren&#8217;s later albums better than the earlier albums. I like REM&#8217;s later albums better than the earlier ones; I like Bruce&#8217;s albums, roughly from <i>Nebraska<\/i> onward, better than his earlier ones. For Darren Hayes, I prefer his albums <i>The Tension and the Spark<\/i>, <i>This Delicate Thing We&#8217;ve Made<\/i>, and <i>Secret Codes and Battleships<\/i>, over any of the earlier pop-catchy Savage Garden albums. <\/p>\n<p>Though this particular Savage Garden album, <i>Affirmation<\/i>, displays a pattern I&#8217;ve noticed in more than one REM album: the last three songs on the album are the best; they raise the bar for the entire album, even if the songs are the least catchy. (Think REM&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automatic_for_the_People\">Automatic for the People<\/a>: &#8220;Man on the Moon&#8221;, &#8220;Nightswimming&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KIJGlTu5sEI\">&#8220;Find the River&#8221;<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>On Savage Garden&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Affirmation_%28Savage_Garden_album%29\">Affirmation<\/a>, it&#8217;s the song linked above, and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rKzHRVGexWk\">Gunning Down Romance<\/a> &#8212;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLove and other moments are just chemical reactions in your brain, in your brain<\/p>\n<p>And feelings of aggression are the absence of the love drug in your veins, in your veins&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kawc6quaSSE\">I Don&#8217;t Know You Anymore<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI would like to visit you for a while<br \/>\nGet away and out of this city<br \/>\nMaybe I shouldn&#8217;t have called but someone had to be the first to break<br \/>\nWe can go sit on your back porch<br \/>\nRelax<br \/>\nTalk about anything<br \/>\nIt don&#8217;t matter<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be courageous if you can pretend that you&#8217;ve forgiven me\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A gentle, cautious, loving song about trying to make up after a break up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guilty Pleasure: the Australian group Savage Garden and its lead singer Darren Hayes, who&#8217;s gone on to a solo career. Here is one of Savage Garden&#8217;s best songs: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dtQ7n_wG_pE. 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