18. Belle and Sebastian, 'The Model' - a tune for 27.1.2011

As friends of A Tune A Day will probably have guessed, a lot of my time recently has been spent filling out job applications or trawling through various websites hoping to find employment.  I always like to have music on when I'm doing such things, and one of the artists I frequently return to is Belle and Sebastian.  They're another band who tell wonderful stories, and I'm always productive when I'm listening to them.  To be honest, selecting just one track of theirs for today's tune was a real task, so I created a playlist of twenty tracks and went for the first song random offered me - 'The Model', from 'Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant'.  I might well have overused the word 'beautiful' (the word itself is another of my obsessions) on this blog already, but I can think of no better way of describing the song, it really is a perfect example of songwriting, as far as I'm concerned, and one that I will never, ever tire of.

 If you think you see with just your eyes, you're mad...