Every once and awhile you get a band so spectacular and so jaw dropping that they just cant hold it together for long. The Stone Roses were that band. The kind of flash in the pan band that would make listeners crazy to hear ANYTHING that the band would put out next. Sadly, The Roses have never put anything out that could quite equal the magnitude that was their debut. However, that seemed to be enough. The album was simultaneously epic and intimate at the same time. Indeed this was an album where any of the songs could have been my favorite but I stand by "Waterfall" as the number one SR track. The song tells the narrative of a girl old enough to live out on her own and undergoes the journey of a lifetime. Even if one were to remove the lyrics from the song completely, it would still be obvious that this is a song of freedom and escape. The guitar riff alone is enough to inspire anyone who has an ounce of a soul to escape their daily life and undergo a journey of their own. "Waterfall" feels like a rush of air, a song that would make the likes of Bruce Springsteen envious of its ability to create the feeling freedom. But above all "Waterfall" feels like dropping the stress and pain that has been accumulated in a lifetime and at last, letting go of it all.
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