Getaway Car

The song Getaway Car is the weirdest for me because the first time I heard it I started to think about the first time I heard this voice. To explain, I obviously have an affinity for Tali’s voice, both the way it sounds and the layers of intonation, meaning, etc. I hear in it. How deep does this run? Well, some of my most vivid memories, not the earliest but among the most special, are of staying awake long into the night with a light on very low – often covered with a blanket – and playing on the bed. I’d make a landscape and we’d play games that involved one of us coming to rescue or save or run off with, etc. the other. I’d be the one on the motorcycle and I’d ride up to the palace, and often right to her balcony, and she’d jump on – I sometimes had a sidecar! I can’t describe how many times we’d drive over the hills, sometimes crashing, trying to get away, except of course for the times when we didn’t do that and it became another story. And sometimes I’d be the one being rescued: the prince taken by the bad girl. There were endless variations and it was a game every night, deciding what to play, who would do what role … and we’d never get that far because we were limited to the bedspread! I associate that voice with Tali.