I’ve said it many times before but I’ll say it again, - Stan Rogers Lies.
Is this the face that won for her the man
Whose amazed and clumsy fingers put that ring upon her hand
…
She’ll look up in that weathered face that loves hers line for line
To see that maiden shining in his eyes
And laugh at how her mirror tells her lies
The bolded line is sung so gently but passionately – beautiful.
The whole song, really. But the lines that especially get me describe the oncoming storm:
“The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
As the waves broke over the railing.
And every man knew, as the captain did, too
'Twas the witch of November come stealing…”
“Cat’s Cradle”
When I hung up the phone it occurred to me,
my boy was just like me,
he’d grown up, just like me
“Time”
*Tired of lying in the sunshine,
staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long,
and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find,
ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run,
you missed the starting gun.
*
Alice In Chains “Would”…the part of “having run too far to get home” resonates with me as a teen runaway, plus the song being about the heroin abuse that ultimately killed Lane Staley adds another dimension of…creepiness?
Am I wrong?
Have I run too far to get home?
Have I gone?
And left you here alone?
Am I wrong?
Have I run too far to get home?
Have I gone?
And left you here alone?
If I would, could you?
“Fellows it’s been good to know ya” 
I was a long time before I caught the full significance of the last verse of “Taxi” by Harry Chapin. I guess I’d never listed to it closely enough:
*It’s strange, how you never know
But we’d both gotten what we’d asked for
Such a long, long time ago
You see, she was gonna be an actress
And I was gonna learn to fly
She took off to find the footlights
And I took off for the sky
And here, she’s acting happy
Inside her handsome home
And me, I’m flying in my taxi
Taking tips, and getting stoned
I go flying so high, when I’m stoned.*
Yep, they got it!
If you mean Days of Future Passed, I agree, it’s a great concept album. But IMO an even better one is To Our Children’s Children Children. It doesn’t have mega-hits like Tuesday Afternoon and Nights in White Satin, but it has some really good songs, like Floating, Gypsy, and my favorite, Out and In. And the total is a coherent story about space travel.
Ian Gillan blowing the needle off the record singing Gethsemane (I Only Want To Say) on the Jesus Christ Superstar album.
Try A Little Kindness is just as relevant today than when released it in Oct 1969.
That was after the violence at the Democratic Primary in Chicago, Aug 26-29, 1968. Dr King was assassinated April 4 1968. Kent State occurred May 4, 1970.
Brad Paisley’s updated cover of Glen’s classic hit number 1 hit. It was #1 in Canada too.
I can’t help but think the unrest and violence was on Glenn’s mind.
I always loved Graeme’s description of a rocket launch as having “the power of ten billion butterfly sneezes.”
I was never a fan of Nights in White Satin (and count me in as someone who always thought it was “Knights”), partly because I thought it was overwrought adolescent schlock, but mostly because everyone around me thought it was the deepest, most beautiful song every written, and so I had to hear it all the time. It was the theme of the local public high school’s senior prom the year I graduated; I think that that was the first time I was truly glad my parents had sent me to private school instead of letting me go to high school with all my friends.
ETA: I hope that doesn’t count as thread shitting; I don’t mean it that way. I laugh now to think how strong my opinion was on something as ultimately insignificant as whether I liked the same song everyone else did.
I never, ever, ever thought I’d have something good to say about a Kesha song, but here I am. When she hits that high note in “Praying,” I get goosebumps every time.
I love that album but “Night” had already been overplayed for me by the time I discovered it (the album, I mean), so it was not my favorite. I love “Tuesday Afternoon”.
The titular white satin is what is lining the coffin that one is buried in. So the song is about death.
Nope.
Justin had a bed with white satin sheets, and a girlfriend who he was going through tough times with.
This is all about love and dispair.
And, how the hell could anyone think this was about knights? Do people listen to lyrics?
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Absolutely.
Amazingly good.
I’m always deeply moved by the whole song “Mad World” by Gary Jules (featured in the film ‘Donnie Darko’.)
The Walker Brothers - No Regrets - it means so much more when you have been there - also this qualifies in the great guitar solo of all time starting at 4:05
Moira Kerr - MacIain of Glencoe
The one that does it for me is “Guenevere” from Camelot:
In that dawn, in that gloom
More than love met its doom
In the dying candle’s gleam
Came the sundown of a dream
Guenevere, Guenevere
In that dim, mournful year
Saw the men she held most dear
Go to war for Guenevere
Same feeling I get from Simon & Garfunkel’s “For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her.” They have at least a couple of recordings out there; the one I’m thinking of is a live recording that appeared on (at least) their Greatest Hits album. Garfunkel’s voice and the accompanying guitar both run the range from the most profoundly gentle touch up to almost tearful overwhelming passion.
My mom always listened to this album when I was a kid. I forgot all about that song. It is beautiful and very similar to Nights in White Satin. Thanks for reminding me of this song!
I remember its being misspelled a lot as ‘Knights’ back in the day. Including places like jukeboxes, if memory serves.