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1	[[quoteright:600:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bringyou_cover_2.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:600:"You oughta hear my long snake...moan!"]]
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4	''To Bring You My Love'' is the third studio album by Music/PJHarvey, released in 1995. Widely seen as one of her best albums, "Down By The Water" and "C'mon Billy" were released as singles and helped her break to the mainstream. The album takes a lot of its inspiration from American {{Blues}} music, particularly in its subject matter about rivers, religion and lovers who left. Musically many tracks mimick the intimate sound of these 1920s and 1930s recordings.
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6	[[AC:Tracklist:]]
7	# "To Bring You My Love" (5:32)
8	# "Meet Ze Monsta" (3:29)
9	# "Working for the Man" (4:45)
10	# "C'mon Billy" (2:47)
11	# "Teclo" (4:57)
12	# "Long Snake Moan" (5:17)
13	# "Down by the Water" (3:14)
14	# "I Think I'm a Mother" (4:00)
15	# "Send His Love to Me" (4:20)
16	# "The Dancer" (4:06)
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19	!! ''I'm... just...troping... for the man:''
20	* AGodAmI: "The Dancer" has the male protagonist boast about this:
21	--> ''Stay with me, touch the face of the true God''
22	* AlliterativeTitle: "'''M'''eet Ze '''M'''onsta."
23	%% * AsTheGoodBookSays:
24	%% ** "To Bring You My Love"
25	%%--> ''Jesus come closer, I think my time is near''
26	%%** "The Dancer"
27	%%--> ''Cause I've prayed days, I've prayed nights, for the Lord just to send me off some sign''
28	%%** "Down By The Water"
29	%%--> ''Oh help me, Jesus''
30	%%--> ''Come through the storm''
31	%%** "Send His Love To Me"
32	%%--> ''Calling Jesus, please, send his love to me''
33	%%** "Long Snake Moan"
34	%%--> ''Raise me up, Lord''
35	%%--> ''Call me "Lazarus"''
36	%%--> ''Hey Lord, help me''
37	%%--> ''Make me marvel''
38	* BlasphemousBoast: "To Bring You My Love"
39	--> ''I've laid with the devil''
40	--> ''Cursed God above''
41	--> ''Forsaken heaven''
42	--> ''To bring you my love''
43	* {{Blues}}: The songs and atmosphere are inspired by 1920s and 1930s blues music.
44	* CarefulWithThatAxe: Several songs, for example "Long Snake Moan," have Harvey sing pretty darn loud. And then there are her high moans in "The Dancer".
45	* CreepyMonotone: "Working For The Man" is a hypnotic track where P.J. whispers and moans her vocals very low and close into the mike. Another song in this vein is "I Think I'm A Mother."
46	* DisappearedDad: "C'mon Billy," where P.J. sings Billy to come home and meet "his only son", whom she is pregnant with.
47	* EverythingIsAnInstrument: In "Meet Ze Monsta" right before the instrumental break and right when the song ends we hear somebody blow into a police whistle.
48	* FaceOnTheCover: P.J. floating on water.
49	* GratuitousItalian: "The Dancer"
50	--> ''He said: "Dance for me, fanciulla gentile."''
51	* IWillWaitForYou:
52	** "C'mon Billy"
53	--> ''C'mon Billy''
54	--> ''Come to me''
55	--> ''You know i'm waiting''
56	--> ''I love you endlessly''
57	--> ''C'mon Billy''
58	--> ''You're the only one''
59	--> ''Don't you think it's time now''
60	--> ''You met your only son?''
61	** "Send His Love To Me"
62	--> ''Lover had to leave me''
63	--> ''Cross the desert plain''
64	--> ''Turned to me his lady''
65	--> ''Tell me "lover wait"''
66	--> ''Calling Jesus, please''
67	--> ''Send his love to me''
68	** "The Dancer"
69	--> '' 'Cause I've cried days, I've cried nights''
70	--> ''For the lord just to send me home some sign''
71	--> ''Is he near ? is he far ?''
72	--> ''Bring peace to my black and empty heart''
73	* JumpScare: At the start of "Long Snake Moan" P.J. briefly says "Hmm-hmm," whereupon the song bursts out in all of its loudness. Every first time listener will be startled by this.
74	* NewSoundAlbum: The album didn't make use of many traditional basslines, but used mostly rumbling organ tones.
75	* ObsessionSong: The woman in "To Bring You My Love" describes she travelled a long way, over dry earth, floods, Hell,high water, mountains, the sea, heaven,... to bring "you my love". She even "laid with the devil, cursed god above and forsake Heaven" for it.
76	* OffingTheOffspring: It is implied in "Down By The Water" that a mother drowned her child and wants it to be brought back to her by the fishes.
77	* OneWordTitle: "Teclo."
78	* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: This is a dark album, where Harvey often sings in a CreepyMonotone and with harsh sounds. "Working For The Man" is almost whispered, while "Down By The Water" has her sing to fishes in the water to "come back here and give me my daughter."
79	* RecordProducer: Flood, John Parish and PJ Harvey.
80	* SelfBackingVocalist: "Working For The Man" has P.J. backing herself.
81	* ShoutOut: The album references Music/CaptainBeefheart three times. The TitleTrack opens with the line "Well, I was born in the desert, came on up from New Orleans", which is similar to Beefheart's opening line on "Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do" from ''Music/SafeAsMilk'' (1967). The title of "Meet Ze Monsta" is inspired by the line "I'm playing this music/ so the young girls would come out/ to meet the monster tonight" from "Tropical Hot Dog Night" from Beefheart's ''Music/ShinyBeast'' (1978). "I Think I'm a Mother" uses the lines "You told her you love her/ so bring her to mother/ You love her, adapt her/ you love her, adapt her/ Adapt her, adapter/ adapt her, adapter" from Beefheart's "Drop-Out Boogie" from ''Music/SafeAsMilk'' (1967). Harvey's vocal melody at the end of "Teclo" also mirrors Beefheart's melody in "Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles."
82	* SwallowedWhole: "Working For The Man" ends with P.J. making this kind of sound.
83	* TitleTrack: "To Bring You My Love."
84	--> ''I've travelled over, dry Earth and fleds''
85	--> ''Hell and high water''
86	--> ''To bring you my love''

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