Share two lines....from a song..

[surprisetech]

On 31/07/2020 at 2:37 PM, Janjuc said:

Hi All,

 

She had a horror of rooms, she was tired, you can't hide beat

When I looked in her eyes, they were blue but nobody home

 

JJ

First Bowie album I ever bought.

 

Seems an appropriate time to have resurrected this thread!

Edited August 3, 2020 by surprisetech

[surprisetech]

21 hours ago, zippi said:

leads to a line from Paul Kelly that I wistfully remember each time I drive up the Kensington road:

 

"Kensington Road runs straight for a while before turning"

 

"We lived on the bend, it was there I was raised and fed"

Yep, that's the song.  Apparently didn't go down too well with some of his relos. 

 

In '82 we'd had Springsteen baring his (& his country's) soul on Nebraska and it was huge.  In '85 Paul Kelly easily reached the same heights with Post and it didn't even chart!  Aussie commercial radio sucks!

A few of the songs on Post, including this one, are better known by the full band versions on Gossip.  I love the Gossip album, but give me the raw energy of Post any day!

[turnthetable]

And who of us can tell what's real and what's fantastic?
You do it right
No-one else could have such grace and be so spastic, yeah

 

Brave use of a word, and obviously not used as a derogative term https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/spastic

 

https://genius.com/Paul-kelly-you-can-put-your-shoes-under-my-bed-lyrics

[keyse1]

Not written by Johnny Cash 

The Night Hank Williams came To Town

The protagonist’s girlfriend is called Mavis and after the show

”while Hank signed Beaulah Rice’s fan

Mavis got acquainted with the Driftin’ Cowboys band

the effect on all our lives was quite profound

[YCC]

"You're my bluesky, you're my sunny day

Lord it makes me high when you turn your love my way..."

 

"Bluesky"...my favourite Allman Brothers band song by Dicky Betts, followed by a really sweet guitar solo...just right for Sunday morning.

[zippi]

"Do you know what you are?
You are what you is"

 

Frank Zappa - You are what you is

 

....and the rest of the verse is golden:

 

"You is what you am
(A cow don't make ham . . . )
You ain't what you're not
So see what you got
You are what you is
An' that's all it 'tis"

[unclekanus]

You take what you get and get what you please
It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees

 

[Powerglide]

Illegitimate son of a rock n roll star

 

Mum meet Dad in the back of a rock n roll car 

[turnthetable]

I was born here and I'll die here, against my will

 

It looks like I'm movin' but I'm standing still

 

Bob Dylan, Not Dark Yet

Edited August 19, 2020 by turnthetable

[keyse1]

I’m listening to protest songs

Its how I escape the madness

singing it loud so to speak

 

solidarity forever

solidarity forever

for the Union makes us strong

written in 1915 by Ralph Chaplin with traditional music as in John Browns Body and the Battle Hymm of The Republic from the civil war I think which is why it’s so familiar

according to Wikipedia 

[2Brix]

I been waiting here, all night

If you're not going to show, then we're not gonna fight

 

song: Do I Wait, from this album

Edited August 13, 2020 by 2Brix

[LHC]

The winter days, they last forever

But the weekends went by so quick

[turnthetable]

Everything comes and goes
Pleasure moves on too early
And trouble leaves too slow

 

Joni Mitchell, Down to You

Edited August 19, 2020 by turnthetable

[turnthetable]

Like the church
Like a cop
Like a mother
You want me to be truthful
Sometimes you turn it on me like a weapon though
And I need your approval

 

Joni Mitchell, Same Situation

[surprisetech]

Make room for my forty-fives,

along beside your seventy-eights, nothing survives,

but the way we live our lives

 

Daddy's Tune - Jackson Browne

from The Pretender

 

I'm finding some time spent with some of the early albums in my collection therapeutic at the moment.

[keyse1]

15 minutes ago, surprisetech said:

Make room for my forty-fives,

along beside your seventy-eights, nothing survives,

but the way we live our lives

 

Daddy's Tune - Jackson Browne

from The Pretender

 

I'm finding some time spent with some of the early albums in my collection therapeutic at the moment.

I’m with ya on that

I spend hours listening to folkie stuff from the 60’s

What they were protesting then is kindergarten compared to today

caught between the longing for love

and the struggle for the legal tender

Great writer Jackson Browne

[turnthetable]

55 minutes ago, surprisetech said:

Daddy's Tune - Jackson Browne

from The Pretender

Just listened to that album

[turnthetable]

Well, I woke up this morning, and I got myself a beer
The future's uncertain, and the end is always near

[Funkster]

I live life like one big carnival

Get drunk and act like an animal

[Ooogh]

Oh they play those token games on Willy Thompson

And give a medal to replace the son of Mrs Annie Johnson.

 

Rodriguz, Cause.

 

I don’t know who Willy Thompson is, but the last line sums up the futility and tragedy of war in twelve words.

[keyse1]

Listening to this now

The Kinks

They’re putting us in little boxes

No character just uniformity

They're trying  to build a computerised society

But they’ll never make a zombie out of me

(I know 4 lines)

[surprisetech]

Smoked ham and peaches, sun tea with lemon peel
When the whole world seems fake, give me something real

 

Written by Mary Gauthier, sung by Shemekia Copeland.

 

Posted because it seems more relevant as every week passes at the moment and also because the song was brought to my attention by Susi Lanagan (What the Folk) on 3PBS, who has recently hung up the boots for a well-earned rest after decades behind the mic. 

If you never heard her marvelous program, you can still stream it from the archive for a few more months.

https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/what-the-folk

 

The new program in that slot is Down By The River, hosted by Lauren Plant and is sounding like a worthy successor so far!

[wasabijim]

On 20/08/2020 at 5:53 PM, turnthetable said:

Well, I woke up this morning, and I got myself a beer
The future's uncertain, and the end is always near

 

Well, I woke up in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts the most
I dream I never know anyone at the party and I'm always the host