At last
By neko case
It hit really hard when my primary cat died after a long battle with cancer.
I just listened, inspired by different things which include your post, to The Best Of Alan Parsons Project for the first time in maybe 30 years. I had the album on a cassette back then and “Old And Wise” was one of my favorite songs from it because it has a beautiful melody, but I really never listened really closely to the lyrics and my grasp of English wasn’t as good as now. But yeah, listening to it now and grasping the lyrics brought a little tear to my eye, because a dear uncle of mine died today, and he was a very musical man. He would’ve liked the song.
Utterly beautiful in many ways! I just had to send this to all my friends (old and young).
It’s impossible for me. I don’t know how to play.
Having grown up in Boston in the 1960’s, I always teat up at Camelot, particularly the reprise:
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment
That was known as Camelot.
The deleted verse of Don McLean’s American Pie:
And there I stood alone and afraid
I dropped to my knees and there I prayed
And I promised him everything I could give
If only he would make the music live
And he promised it would live once more
But this time one would equal four
And in five years four had come to mourn
And the music was reborn
“In My Daughter’s Eyes” by Martina McBride catches me every time I hear it
Looks Like Rain by the Grateful Dead can make the room very dusty.
Awoke today, felt your side of the bed;
The covers were still warm where you been layin’.
You were gone, oh gone, my heart was filled with dread;
You might not be sleeping here again.
But it’s alright cause I love you, and that’s not going to change.
Run me around and make me hurt again and again.
But I’ll still sing you love songs, written in the letters of your name.
The rain is gonna come, oh it surely looks like rain…
tsfr