Love of Mine - Chris Thile | Live from Here

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Chris Thile and our band perform "Love of Mine" on our February 22, 2020 show. Find it on the Nickel Creek Album "A Dotted Line."
Intro: Aoife O'Donovan reads an excerpt from Ovid's "Metamorphoses"
The band: Chris Thile, Aoife O'Donovan, Mike Elizondo, Jon Cowherd, Armand Hirsch, Jeremy Kittel, Nate Smith
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[@sillystrings]

There's like no live videos of this song on youtube, so glad they posted this

[@downriverprod]

I love this song so much. Love the sprinkling of random Nickel Creek and Punch Bros songs on this show.

[@jondoe8889]

Doesn't Aoife make everything better?!! I just discovered this gem... and didn't understand it. I rarely look at those 'what do the song mean' pages, but found this explanation that I understood. It seemed perfect. And the lyrics are just genius! Love of mine, when you're born I tell myself that you'll never die And I throw my arms Around the girl who finds you, 'Cause the world is rosier Through your eyes {So, the "love of mine" here is not the girl. Thile is addressing Love itself, personified. Specifically, the feeling of Love that his brain experiences when he is smitten. He says to Love, "I throw my arms around the girl who finds you, Love," and the rest of him climbs on board because the world is rosier through Love's eyes.} I don't suppose you caught her name? {Clearly, this person isn't someone he's in a relationship with, though. It's a hookup. Something like that. It's someone he really knows nothing about, who turns him on, and conjures Love like a muse, but who he isn't invested in.} Never mind; I'll just name her after you, love of mine And fashion her into A sweet, long-legged icon, Making our prayers holier {Anyway, who she really is, her name and all, isn't important. Just as in PATCHWORK GIRLFRIEND, she is part of the tapestry of the experience of Love that he's having in his life. He'll just call her Love, too, for the time-being. The idea of her (and she can only be an idea to him, because he knows nothing about her, really) and the memory of the encounter is etched like religious imagery. She is an icon of Love. The encounter was so mind-blowing that it was almost transcendent, religious in intensity.} Satisfied, love, that she gave us to each other- The only thing she's done for me That you could never do For it, she'll always be remembered After she discovers I don't love her Half as much as you {But, he tells Love, it's okay that he doesn't really know the girl. Because the girl is the vessel that brought you and I back together, Love. I can't have the chemical experience of being in love without a girl. And the girl finds out the hard way that what Chris loves is the feeling of Love, not her as person.} Love of mine, when she goes, Why can't you stay here with me? {Why can't the existential high of being with someone last after they go? Why can't Love stay without the girl to conjure it?} Love of mine, when you die I tell myself that you never lived Even as I curse the girl Who says she'll find someone worthier Of the gift- Someone who wants to share it with her, Far away from those who take it to have and to horde. Now I'm stuck here trying to not remember; For all these pretty words It wasn't her, but love that I adored It's my love I adore {Once it becomes clear that I don't really want anything to do with her long-term, she is hurt, and decides to take the gift of herself-- the person, not the icon-- elsewhere. Things are awkward. You go, Love, and I curse her for taking you away. But she's off to look for someone who can love her, rather than just love Love.} Love of mine, when you're born I tell myself that you'll never die

[@angiem8112]

To have and to whore ?

[@FolstrimHori]

Dang, it's been a while since I heard a piece from Nickel Creek!

[@magicmike9004]

Beautiful man, just beautiful!

[@KilianSchindler]

This is glorious.

[@45067daddymac]

Aiofe next career - spoken word/book readings recordings. Her voice is perfect for it.

[@josejuandiaz936]

This is one of my favorite songs, and after so many time I'm glad that they finally released a video for it.

[@jordanpoche746]

One of my favorite NC songs so glad they posted this!

[@peatlejville5392]

This is a pure gem of poetry ,music and song.

[@dr05guitar]

I love the little melodies throughout this song...and that powerful outro is superb! Such good songwriting.

[@Sylkenwolf]

He's such a storyteller! ❤❤❤

[@aagames8420]

This channel gives me more chills than DQ

[@124retlksncvlifvlxiu]

Sameeeeeeeee

[@MrRogsmart]

Nice work. Big thanks to Chris and Aoife.

[@Leoh_de_Mesquita]

Amazing. I really love this Song ❤

[@mrjotz]

So good!

[@uncletomsb]

Nice!

[@124retlksncvlifvlxiu]

Can you put up miss Ohio with Jarosz? Please:)

[@robertmizek3315]

Great performance by all. Hey Chris, we know that you lost your comb years ago but have you lost your razor now too? 😉

[@angiem8112]

Who gets the song writing credit for this beauty?

[@45067daddymac]

Love the arrangement but the bass is too heavy.

[@aagames8420]

David McIntosh I respectfully disagree

[@michaelmccue1354]

This is a terrible version and the woman in the beginning ruined it

[@jondoe8889]

To each their own. Spoken word isn't for everyone. I love Aiofe - 'that woman' - but wasn't too impressed with her reading. It went over my head. But understand - she is an incredible singer and writer, and an amazing harmonizer. All sorts of artists get her to back them up - and she always makes the song better!

[@jondoe8889]

A year later, I watched this again. I had forgotten about the opening, and was glad I listened. I liked it a lot better, this time.