Indigo Girls - Closer To Fine Lyrics

Still SO GOOD!

It's only life after all... nice! Chords: G G6 G D4 D D2 D

I have yet to see these incredible women perform live, hoping for a NYC area show

Thanks to the Indigo Girls we're all a little bit closer to fine

These ladies have been great for years

terrible

Jim: closer I am to find
Andy: TUNA ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!

Here and still loving this song!!!!😍😍❤

This song has an amazingly small bridge...then a whole new stanza...Reminds one of the "story within the story" framing of the song "Story in your Eyes" by the Moody Blues...

I'm tryin' to tell you somethin' 'bout my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
And the best thing you've ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously
It's only life after all, yeah

Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety 'til I sank it
I'm crawling on your shores

And I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine, yeah
The closer I am to fine, yeah

And I went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry or see a B-Grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
Got my paper and I was free

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine, yeah
The closer I am to fine, yeah

I stopped by the bar at three A.M.
To seek solace in a bottle, or possibly a friend
And I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before
And I went in seeking clarity

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
We go to the doctor, we go to the mountains
We look to the children, we drink from the fountain
Yeah, we go to the Bible, we go through the work out
We read up on revival, we stand up for the lookout
There's more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine, yeah

I was watching Crosby Stills and Nash and somehow I ended up here...OK. Beautiful song but shit video!!

Excellent Indigo Girls! I’m from Minnesota. Jonny Weiss 🎶

I think I'm the only one here because of DC's Legends of Tomorrow...

Still love this song so very much...

I have the promo vinyl from my college radio days.

too real..to much

Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety 'til I sank it
I'm crawling on your shores...too real to even comment anything

Strange Times In Casablanca. - John Cale from his 7th album Honi Soit -

They sound a bit like K's Choice.

miss you so much

Listening to any song from this album brings me back to the good years of my life when I was a teenager in my purple walled bedroom.
Thank you!

SOLD OUT !!! in Columbia SC - will miss you lovelies !

These girls are my sisters xxO

The Band Played On
Oh' cruel world take my pawn
In this game at the start was you
Take my nights and days
Take my sunlight to change my ways
Take all after the line I lay
Spare my musicians
In the worst a devil can say
Only to know
The band played on
By my will and not by you
I gave my best
without compensation nor worldly increase
all I gathered were nine inch nails
on a path all the world set to decrease
Take my Bi-shops and take my nooks
Take another pawn in the shadow of my rooks
As my band plays on
By my will...
not yours
A poet is my king
Not the lack
of empathy
kindness
loyalty
and love
This empty world worships now
No matter what you do
We, us, our won over I, me, and you
And my band plays on
My BAND plays on
without compensation nor worldly increase
only to witness
Our battles to cease
Oh' Satan your teeth of hate are now gone
As this game was won
Not by a King or Queen
but by a lonely pawn
called WE.
After the defeat?
My band played on
Ready, player One.

Written by Frank Gordon Stoeffler Jr. 11/27/2019

I'm here for the mom jeans.

I am a Republican. I love music. I want gay married couples to be able to protect their marijuana fields with ar-15's. Freedom! Anything else is a crooked line.

This album spoke to me so deeply, I knew every lyric of every song. Closer to Fine inspired me to learn guitar.

The truth is a virus... Jordan Peterson (in one of the episodes of the Joe Rogan podcast) explains the idea of God. With people asking who is God, is God real, does god exist, etc.
MY REPLY
How do I feel about it all? F*ck God, F*ck Religions, F*ck Heaven and Hell, I live here on Earth on the best I was taught and that is by my parents and Jesus as a human in the Gospels. I don't do good for a reward like a Pavlovian dog... I don't do good because I cower from punishment in Hell. If God wants me in heaven, hell, or Earth then who am I to disagree? I do good by example... my parents were very good people who lead me by example and Jesus proved my parents right by being the best example. Atheists are bankrupt and full of nihilism. Does God exist? I really don't care. I commit all my sins in public and do all my good deeds in private to the point that only one besides me knows about them... Think about it. Gordon
"Evil exists when good people do nothing."

Their husbands must be so proud

....There's something you should know.

Thanks to the Bundies I'm here from the Voice

My god! This song is so powerful! Sends such a positive message!

Saw these girls live at the South Shore Music Circus about 13 or so years ago. For a duet of folk singers, they were awesome. Also considering I was the only 13 year old in a crowd of at least people that were at least 70+ years old. They were amazing, though. Would definitely see them again if I had the opportunity.

The predecessor of all 21st century Hipster music is 90s lesbian folk.

Just watched Tig Notaro's special on Netflix and looked these girls up.
I knew of the name many years ago, but never heard their music.
Soothing.

I'm here because it's still the truth, and man that brunette is hot. Fab lead vocal too. Indigo Girls by FAR the most impressive thing to come out of the 80's.

Stacey, Deb didn’t really have the best taste in music. Yawn. I did always love this one, tho!! ❤️👍🏽

just learned to play it on my guitar. Makes me happy just playing the riff.

Good music,keep on rockin

Indigo Girls- Semisonic ROX.

Indigo Girls- “Amazing Music!” I’m from MN. Jonny Weiss “Highway to America.” Email is defunct 😎. Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm so old, I remember when they were "straight"

I can't say that. Tangled Up in Blue marked my outting as a bisexual woman. I remember my first girlfriend telling me I didn't have to listen to every lesbian band. Im glad I did.

so much happiness

This song is simply a masterpiece of music. Upbeat from the first strum. Beautiful voices. Lyrics that stay with you. Every groove and rhythm ... and every time they diverge ever so slightly from what they quickly conditioned you to expect next.

This one, and the rest of this album/CD, hit me at a time in college when I was just realizing that music can be more and other than "just" classical or pop/rock. There aren't many songs where I remember where I was when I first heard it, but this was arresting enough to be one of those few. And I've never been particularly religious, but that never mattered between me and this music -- with these "girls," I don't have to have read The Bible to sing about it, or Heaven, or Canaan. Now, almost 30 years later, I still cannot hear the end of this song without expecting the next (Secure Yourself) and the next (Kid Fears) in CD order.

And when I first heard Micheal Stipe's oh so distinctive R.E.M. voice -- one of the highlights of my high school years -- seemingly creep out of the shadows of my boom box in the emotion-laden Kid Fears, I swear I almost lost bladder control. And just listening to this song on YT now, I got all over body chills/pins&needles/goosebumps ... twice ... which never happens to me in the first place.

This song teleports me to many places across time and space, and I will never be able to thank Emily and Amy (and all the people who put this recording together) enough for voicing the music in them and sharing it with all of us.

Thank you sharing your divine gifts that have, and continue to inspire me when I need something to speak to my soul! Thank you 🌺💝🌊🎶

The funny thing, I learned to play this song before I realized I was gay, LOL! I love the Indigo Girls! Their songs are so beautiful.

Kurt cobain?

I am a strange card turned up rarely in the poker game we call life. I'm a Republican who loves watching Bill Maher for his slant on everything yet we don't agree on the divine things.
I first heard the Indigo Girls about the same time I heard Dishwalla and Thermadore. I really listened to every song on all their albums. I'm kinda pissed off with the connection of homosexuality in media to the music made by Indigo Girls. I liked and connected to the music/lyrics as a middle class white man who has no interest in any artist's sexuality. Good music is just good music. By the way, they and I have a mutual friend: Cooper Tisdale who is one of the best Chess players I have shared the game.
All my love, Gordon

Shut up

Who is here because the Indigo girls are a classic?

Good girls on Netflix lol

Indigo Girls- “Excellent!” ❤️

This is a truly great song

Such profound wisdom at such a young age.

One Fine Day.

I loved this song when I was a teenager and this first came out and I listened to this record over and over and over. And it is amazing - more than almost any song, how well it holds up and how true it rings (truer now - way truer now with decades of life behind me since).

I have a real hard time living without knowing the purpose, the single goal of getting up in the morning, and it has caused me depression and anxiety and despair and worry.

And on those rare days I can wake up and not think about it, and live by instinct, knowing right from wrong without using some kind of flowchart and just letting my conscience guide me through the day like a quiet, reliable voice...how much happier I am. How difficult and painful a search for faith has been. How difficult it has been reading impenetrable text, dealing with the condescension of the advocates of 10 million mutually contradictory worldviews who insist and seethe and rant that the way they see things should be obvious to everyone and you're a moron for not being convinced.

A quiet and receptive mind and kindness - if I can just manage those two things, and nothing else...I can be happy. I wish I'd taken the counsel from this song more seriously when I was young.

This is a better song than we deserved, then and now.

I know about the Indigo Girls. But I'm only here because of Andy. I probably won't be back. Lol

I just heard this for the first time. Holy shit I love this so much.

gay brought me here

Ro do doo do dooo

Indigo Girls- Legendary! Jonny Weiss. “Back to Phoenix.” Music Video. I’m from MN 👋

This has been my life's theme song for a long time.

I’m in love. How come I can’t find a straight gay girl?

Watching an episode of Chicago PD on Halloween 2019 and the Indigo Girls popped into my head. I don't know why but I won't question it. I was 21 when they released "Closer to Fine" and it brings back some pretty good memories of my youth....

Darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable
And light has a call that’s hard to hear...

Man, I used to see guys in Atlanta circuit. Miss ya'll! I love to come back to the songs that turn me on before you made an album. God Bless Be weel hoped to you in FLA.

I forgot how well they dance.

That whole first album , and everything they have done since is amazing.
Some people are just born to make music together

Tig Notaro anyone?
Wow such great lyrics, never heard this song before.

The Hollars?

Just saw these two wonderful women in Sligo. X

Til this day I'm still shocked at how powerful this song actually is, for an acoustic-styled song. 🤘

No acapella Andy

Chattanooga show?!! I LOVE Chattanooga!! Maybe I can make the drive from ChiTown.

I was a teenager growing up in the hood and by all means should not have listened to this song play......but I did. Resonates then. Still does.

just found my new acoustic strumming song!

I am listening to the first couple of bars and right away reminds me to Bob Mould / Sugar - "If I Can Change your Mind" Chorus!!!!
https://youtu.be/bLbxEzXycn0?t=37

Best music video ever.

Ahh the penny whistle, it screams late 80’s awesome.

The first time i heard this song it blew me away. Guess what? It still does. Great music.

"The less I seek my source for some definitive, closer I am to fine..."

I can't believe I've never watched this video. Who knew that AR would age very nicely and still look good in her pants. Or that ES would become an honorary Canadian and a sick fat fuck.

Small talk??
Wait till you read the beginning. You will think I’m crazy!

Got my paper and I was freeeeee!!!

So young and sweet

This album was a wonder. It was hooked into that late 80s zeitgeist, very much of its moment, but it stands up well 30 years(!) later. Takes me back. I tried to like their stuff after this record, but they never seemed to come close again. But once is enough.

...I can not relate to deep people, they are so analytical and deep and they do not get paid for it....they make me puke.
I LOVE BEING SHALLOW.

they playing at stratton vt on sunday October 13th $25-$30 per ticket

I'm here because I discovered these ladies twenty years later, from a continent and a sea away, and found it moving anyway.

I like a point of origaned

.....they are some tall girls.

I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper and I was free. Exactly how I felt in college.

Great tune + fantastic lyrics + phenomenal harmonies = a well crafted timeless classic 👍🏼

great song

no doctor we can all find peace in yourself.and i found me source.

The best in lesbian folk music

I've been a fan since the 80s! Love the Indigo Girls...

Saw the girls in concert in the early 1990s at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. Easily one of best shows I've witnessed.