The first time I heard this track was, unexpectedly, in Short Circuit 2. Upon hearing his composition, even the first time, I knew Erik Satie was my homie. It was a perfectly eloquent, delightful and tinged track which seems to capture both beauty, loss and the final realisation that, no matter how careful you are, you cannot control your fate.
Somehow Johnny Five was able to convey the sense of loss ... but somehow miss the point in the process. This is not a sonata which can merely be short-hand for sad. This is a track which starts out predictably with a basic chord progression; simple and predictable - and then the choral lead leads in with a childlike innocence. This is the common thread of the track while the backing plays a predictable and plodding chord progression.
At no point does this lead vary in its aim to be harmonious. And yet, the lead breaks harmony. It's surpising, and yet, it continues. Satie leans in and begins to completely break any sense of harmony. The choral line blindly continues forward against the backing's dissonance. This composition, to me, speaks of a desire to move towards normality while the starkness of reality says otherwise.
To me, Erik was never able to reconcile this desire for normality amongst the throes of a crumbling society. This composition is his acceptance that he will always be the outsider and that he has come to peace with, what I would humbly deem, his magnum opus.
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