XTC summed up my life about 10 years ago in “One Of The Millions: "
I got so much to say but I’m afraid it’ll come out wrong, I’m not akin to the Eighties thing where you look after number one. But I won’t rock the boat, 'cause I’m scared what might happen. I won’t rock the boat, 'cause I’m one of the millions”
It hurts to hear
And so, it must be true
-Rites of Spring
“wish i didnt know now what i didnt know then” Bob Segers’Against the Wind
When I think of heaven
(Deliver me in a black-winged bird)
I think of dying
Lay me down in a field of flame and heather
Render up my body into the burning heart of God in
The belly of a black-winged bird.
Rain King
Counting Crows
August and Everything After
If everyone was listening, you know
There’d be a chance that we could save the show
Who’ll be the last clown
to bring the house down?
Oh, no, please, no
don’t let the curtain fall.
–Supertramp, If Everyone Was Listening
At the moment:
Sometimes I feel
Like I been tied to the whipping post.
Blue eyes blue; by Eric Clapton
Unforgiven
…
And I wonder when I sing along with you, if everything could ever feel this real
forever,
If anything could ever be this good again.
–Foo Fighters
“Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams / Telling myself it’s not as hard as it seems”
- Led Zeppelin “Going to California”
"Looking in a window on a rainy day.
Thinking about good things that I just threw away.
Looking in the guttter, watching the trash go flowing by.
Thinking it’s Summer, but there are only clouds in the sky.
When I think about what we wasted, makes me sad.
We never appreciated what we had.
Now I’m standing in a doorway with my overcoat on,
It really feels like Summer’s gone.
So alone.
Summer’s gone."
- The Kinks "Summer’s Gone
I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life, I know you’ll be a star
In somebody else’s sky, but why
Why, why can’t it be, why can’t it be mine?
Pearl Jam - “Black”
Actually, I love the entire song, but this particular part of the song always makes me choke up a little.
Shadowfox
“Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with
great ambitions.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Shadowfox
You have a modern day version of an old emotion. Check Paul Whiteman’s “I’m A Dreamer (Aren’t We All?)”
It ends…then I’m a fool. But aren’t we all?"
I’ll second beefymeg’s “Iris”
“and you’ll bleed just to know you’re alive”
LauraRae, I have a correlary to your song. “It’s no use you playing Doctor to my Disease” by Jethro Tull.
Here’s mine:
"Life redirected
in ways unexpected
Sometimes the odd number wins.
-The Big Wheel by Rush
I’ll be there
Where I’ll teach what I’ve been taught
And I’ve been taught…
“Caught between the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender…”
-Jackson Browne
How true.
“And when I die, don’t you bury me a’tall.
Just nail my bones up on the wall.
Beneath these bones let these words be seen,
‘This is the bloody gears of a rockin’ machine.’”
The Cramps
“All hail Uncle Cecil!
Leader of us all!
Stomping out ignorance!
Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! Stomp!”
Constantly, relentlessly, faster and faster, all the stations, all the time, can’t shut it off…
some exerts of lyrics from my favorite band, Pennywise.
“I’ve been used,
been abused.
I’ve been brused,
I’ve been broken,
and Im backed up against the wall.
But my will to survive can’t be stollen
AND YOU CAN’T MAKE ME FALL!”
Pennywise,
“Broken”
from Full Circle, 1997
&
“Tonight I will rage- Against the forces of fate
The tide is turning my way
You should know better than to fuck with me
Tonight I will rage against the forces of fate
You best get outta my way
I’m not gonna fade away slowly
Inside- My mind- Is a clock tick-tocking time
Not gonna stop until my last day’s done
You wanna try me well come get some
Tempt fate- Can’t wait
I gotta get out there’s no time to hesitate
Not gonna waste it with the cynical fools
Can’t bring me down
And if you want to try this disposition
Sacrifice all you knew
Sanitize your religion
Take your life and renew and do what you wanna do”
Pennywise
“Searching”
from About Time, 1995
these songs charge me up and makes me want to got out and kick some ass.
Grrrrr!!
taken from pennywisedom.com - so don’t get pissed for the coptrights, they are available for the public.
Hank Williams’ “I’m So Lonesome, I Could Cry.”
Good night, Hank.
Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to relive it. Georges Santayana
Oh yes, Subdivisions. That kid in the video with the long hair and glasses playing Tempest and being eschewed by cheerleaders was me when I was in high school.
How about anything from Live’s “Selling the Drama”.
Sometimes I think that Ed K. is the Messiah and we’d all better start paying attention.