So it’s the laughter
We will remember
Whenever we remember
The way we were
-Bergman Alan / Bergman Marilyn / Hamlisch Marvin
I love that closing chord – I think it’s A major 9.
Some Leonard Cohen wonderfulness:
I don’t mean to suggest that I loved you the best,
I can’t keep track of each fallen robin.
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,
that’s all, I don’t even think of you that often.
-Chelsea Hotel #2
If you are the dealer, let me out of the game
If you are the healer, I’m broken and lame
If thine is the glory, mine must be the shame
You want it darker
-You Want It Darker
And everybody knows that you’re in trouble
Everybody knows what you’ve been through
From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
To the beach of Malibu
Everybody knows it’s coming apart
Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
Before it blows
And everybody knows
-Everybody Knows
Yeah, could be. The new job’s probably not even a hassle, damn liar. Never shoulda let him borrow the car keys.
The Big Bopper’s Wedding, after the singer declines to cooperate at his “shotgun wedding”, closes with the sound of a shotgun blast.
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop