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How nice to bring up this thread, Iuv. I have stil mmmaaaannnnyyyyyy "old" threads to read on this forum. I'm afraid I never will be able to catch up with you guys...
About Drew, then. The strings still get to me too. For some weeks now, I consider Drew to be the best track on TOU, together with Clay. The sudden ending of Clay leaves me literally breathless.
There is an ABBA track in The Visitors album called with a name that has a similar string arrangement, you know the cellos when Alison's going down the stairs and the phantoms appear.
Definition › an idea or expression that has been used too often and is often considered a sign of bad writing or old-fashioned thinking: The story is shamelessly corny, and grownups will groan at its clichés.
[cfr. Cambridge Online Dictionary of American English.]