stop your sobbin'

I love how there's nothing in the lyrics about how things are going to better, or how whatever you're sobbin' about isn't worth sobbin' about. It's just a straight-up and direct command to stop, and no reason given other than it's time to stop. now. Which is often all you need to hear. The opening "It is time for you to stop" accapella, and then bom-bom-bom as that tinny little guitar line winds up with a super-basic thump-thwack drumbeat and over it all their voices. Of course the the way he splits the word "now" into "na-ahoww" in the line after "there's one thing you gotta do to make me still want you" is what I'm always waiting for when I hear it, but there's also these great backups - an almost rocksteady oooh-woooh-ooh ghostly voice behind the "gotta stop sobbin na-aoww yeah stopstop" parts. As great as the bigger hits were, this is no bruiser like "all day" or "you realy got me". It must have been a trickier one to make work. It's this perfectly constructed song - every little element clicking into place like a swiss watch, but it's also got this nice early kinks fragility about it too, like cavemen who've somehow built a flying machine out of scraps. They know what they've made, but they're not sure if this thing will really work. But when they somehow get it off the ground, the wind lifts them up further and further & they see the earth recede below them, giddy and confident.