byrdsongs, xlvi

She's the Kind of Girl is the other tune from the 1970 reunion of the original Byrds. It hits all my pop life buttons and is pretty much a perfect song. I typically don't like flute in my music (or any wind instrument, for that matter), but Bud Shank's flute here adds just the right little bit of melancholic goodness. This is another one of those songs that makes me feel a special kinship with Gene Clark. He just has a way of expressing feelings that are so familiar to me. God bless him. Once again, though, it's not just the sentimentality of the She's the Kind of Girl that makes it a great song but the way that sentimentality comes across when you add the chiming magnificence of McGuinn's 12-string and Crosby's angelic harmony. 

She takes the time and understands

She makes no judgements no demands

But she makes you feel the fool

When you wonder how she slipped right through your hands

The song is so sad, but the sadness is so good, so blissful, and it leaves you wanting to hear it again...