The Roches - Losing True

Animal collective has a lot of explaining to do

Yes, ❤ a stunning work. Makes me tear up every time in its beauty. God on the earth. ThNk you ladies….. love, Pt, Chicago

No wonder Fripp wanted to get in this song somehow...his guitar fits perfectly (just like it did with the similarly folky 'I talk to the wind' tune). One of the best mixes of pop/folk & prog ever!

Hearing this song again after almost 40 years takes me back to the intense feelings of adolescent love. There's no love like love at 16.

Agreed…. Pt, Chicago

I'm not gonna cry again. I promised myself I won't cry. There are other people here listening too.

Came here via RadMac ?. 6music strikes again

This is what a Bible Depiction Angel sounds like but in the best way possible

From Gossip Girl discoseverd this song

R. I. P. Maggie Roche.

Great

Who doesn't listen to this song and think about a lost love. Brings me to tears every time. ?

Still astounding!!

39 years I've been listening to this song and it can still make me tear up. Especially with Maggie gone....

I was going out with a guy who introduced me to this album (I'm giving away my age!). I loved it and purchased the vinyl/cassette/CD (at different times) We became very close...and then he lost his job and dumped me. We rarely did expensive things together (at my insistence) and being cast aside devastated me. It took me a long time to stop crying when I heard this song and I really began to enjoy the beautiful harmonies.

Then....

Whilst this was going on I developed a crush on one of my co-workers. He was older, married, not especially handsome and had a daughter. I never told him about it. The crush lasted 28 years, and during that time I moved away from where I grew up and got married.


We kept in touch for many, many years through chat just talking about things, noting really personal. Then I did something dumb and wrote him poem about my feelings for him (again, nothing to be acted upon or that would threaten either of our marriages). He thought it was just wonderful and said he felt the same about me. Over time, I realized that our friendship was more one-sided (I did all the heavy lifting).

Then, one day during chat he pushed me away and told me that was because he just couldn't express his deep feelings about anything, even about what my friendship meant to him. I cried and cried for six months and blamed myself. My therapist called it "separation anxiety.

A year or so later he sent me an email, full of apologies, and promising to be more open. So we went back to chat and he pushed me away. This time I wised up. I wasn't going to be his yo-yo and let him call the tune. I pretty much cut off all contact (fortunately he doesn't have my cell/landline telephone numbers) and got rid of everything he had given me (nothing expensive: a sweater of his that I liked, a small bottle of the cologne he wore, and a novel he wrote with a personalization from him calling me a "true friend". I haven't heard from him in at least four or five years, although he sends me the odd hello email on one of my accounts that I never use. The last one was either this past July or the previous one. I occasionally think of him when I hear this song because of the last two words. It's quite an empowering song to me

Maggie at her finest.

The Roches? Those nerdy girl's school sisters? I always thought of them like the girls in "Animal House" from "Emily Dickenson University." I woulda never heard of them if it wasn't for this nerdy art school girl I knew. She played the album pictured here. Not much until "Losing True," that song was devastating. It's beautifully devastating cause it was a metaphor for my relationship with that nerdy but very cute art school girl I was dating. ' I'm looooooooosiiing you! " So true.