In between years and years of film scores Randy Newman released a studio album 'Bad Love' in 1999. The album was more of an outlet for his personal songs that didn't have to relate to a film script and he had a lot of subject material to cover... from American culture, old rock stars (including himself) and older guys with younger girls to name a few. He mocks everyone and everything in his path and usually with his wry sense of humour but at other times with a cynical venom. The one song that gets me every time I hear this album is "I Miss You" but not only because it is possibly the best ballad he has ever written but who the song was for. He made it clear at the time the album was released that it was a love song for his first wife... while he was married to his second wife. He says he was married to her for 18 years and he had never written her a love song so this could be his redemption... but it was probably more unnerving than anything else for all past and present family members. This time the satire is not in the song itself but all around the song.
(Lyrics)
Still in my heart after all these years
Separated by time now by distance
I couldn't allow myself to feel the loss that I feel right now
You're far away and happy I know
It's a little bit late... twenty years or so
It's a little bit cold for all those concerned
But I'd sell my soul and your soul for a song
So I'll pour my heart out
I miss you
I miss you, I'm sorry but I do
I want to thank you for the good years
And apologize for the rough ones
You must be laughing yourself sick
But I wanted to write you one before I quit
And this one's it
I miss you, I wanted you to know
I miss you, and I still love you so.
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