Sheet Music: Lispector, ‘Apollo Bay’

New series! Maybe / hopefully. Learning to play songs can be such a good way to absorb and understand them. I thought I knew this one pretty well, but there are clever things going on with the chords I hadn’t appreciated until writing it down today: not just the extended sequence which starts with the instrumental section, but also the move from C / E / F / C at the beginning to C / E / Am / F, the A minor making the key line of the song that much more poignant. There’s something of the sentiment of Lawrence / Felt’s ‘We might as well all stay in our rooms until we die’ here, which I’ve always thought was partially in celebration of one’s own curated world, the books and all the records of your lifetime. Lispector bring a wanderlust to it which refuses to entertain a distinction between travel, and travel in the mind. You can grow beyond a loss with either. Beautiful song.