It always ends the same

Television – You Won’t

So simple, so warm, so great.  There almost couldn’t be less going on here musically.  It’s the same simple refrain sung again and again – wafting above a slow round of handclaps and a line of nine piano chords on repeat.  Really, after the first ten seconds, there is nothing new to discover musically in the rest of the song.

But that’s precisely what makes it so great.  This is one of those short little songs that somehow manages to feel like it’s been going on for decades.  it’s folk music in the old sense – you can imagine it begin sung around campfires on the frontier, or dancing around a maypole in the old world.