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Post by martinrowe on Mar 2, 2020 22:00:38 GMT
Imagine writing this:
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters Mathematical I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news With many cheerful facts about the square of the Hypotenuse With many cheerful facts about the square of the Hypotenuse With many cheerful facts about the square of the Hypotenuse With many cheerful facts about the square of the Hypotepotenuse
Major General's song - Gilbert and Sullivan
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Post by Riverman on Mar 2, 2020 22:17:58 GMT
The preacher asked her, and she said “I do” The preacher asked me, and she said “yes he does too”
She’s No Lady - Lyle Lovett
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Post by fatfingerjohn on Mar 18, 2020 12:43:25 GMT
One which is a bit appropriate to how many are feeling at the moment ...
'Oh it's like a storm at sea, and everything is lost, And the fretful sailors calling out their woes, As to the waves they're tossed.'
Sandy Denny. It'll Take a Long Long Time
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Post by geddarby on Mar 19, 2020 16:21:24 GMT
We hoped for a scientist and not some mop-haired onanist Well said Leo
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Post by colins on Mar 20, 2020 12:01:30 GMT
A couple of lines from the Shakespeare of lyric writing, Leonard Cohen, from his Chelsea Hotel No.2.
"You told me again you preferred handsome men, but for me you would make an exception."
"Never mind, we are ugly, but we have the music."
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Post by Onechordtrick on Mar 20, 2020 12:11:18 GMT
DJ Random has just thrown this topical gem from R.E.M. : "it's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine"
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Post by colins on Apr 8, 2020 11:56:54 GMT
I've just listened again after a long time to Eric Bogle's song about Gallipoli, 'The Band Played Waltzing Matilda', one line stood out to me.
'And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay, I looked at the place where my legs used to be.'
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Post by jangarrack on Apr 8, 2020 13:47:36 GMT
I've just listened again after a long time to Eric Bogle's song about Gallipoli, 'The Band Played Waltzing Matilda', one line stood out to me. 'And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay, I looked at the place where my legs used to be.' 'The Band Played Waltzing Matilda' was the first Eric Bogle song I heard and I distinctly remember this particular line. It's an extremely profound and moving song that I think really gets its message across. Again, I think Eric Bogle was another discovery I made through this forum.
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Post by walkingdecay on Apr 15, 2020 7:42:45 GMT
Just a few from Robert Hunter, one of the Grateful Dead's two half-tamed poets, who died recently. Robert combined his sensibilities as a poet with comprehension of what makes a song tick in a way that would have made William Blake envious.
Let my inspiration flow in token lines suggesting rhythm that will not forsake me till my tale is told and done
Don't cry now, don't you cry, don't you cry anymore Sleep in the stars, don't you cry, dry your eyes on the wind.
All I know is something like a bird within her sang, All I know she sang a little while and then flew off, Tell me all that you know, I'll show you snow and rain
Ruben was strumming his painted mandolin The breeze would pause to listen in Before going on its way again Masquerade began when nightfall finally woke Like waves against the bandstand, dancers broke To the painted mandolin
I see you've got your fists out, say your piece and get out Yes I get the gist of it but it's alright Sorry that you feel that way, the only thing there is to say Is every silver lining's got a touch of grey
Standing on the moon with nothing left to do A lovely view of heaven but I’d rather be with you
This verse, from The Eleven, can only be transcribed complete as it's like awareness spilling over. It seems to me to be Ginsberg's Howl repurposed for the succeeding generation:
No more time to tell how, this is the season of what, Now is the time of returning with our thought Jewels polished and gleaming Now is the time past believing the child has relinquished the rein, Now is the test of the boomerang tossed in the night of redeeming Seven faced marble eyed transitory dream doll, Six proud walkers on the jingle bell rainbow, Five men writing with fingers of gold, Four men tracking down the great white sperm whale, Three girls waiting in a foreign dominion Riding in the whale belly, fade away in moonlight, Sink beneath the waters to the coral sands below.
When I awoke, the Dire Wolf, six hundred pounds of sin Was grinning at my window, all I said was come on in Don't murder me, I beg of you, don't murder me Please, don't murder me
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Post by fatfingerjohn on Jul 9, 2021 7:18:22 GMT
Just came across this song which has a great couple of lines ...
'I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you Take me back to the night we met'
From 'The Night We Met' Lord Huron
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Post by andyhowell on Jul 10, 2021 9:55:49 GMT
I've always been fond of this lyric from Paul Simon:
And after it rains, there's a rainbow And all of the colors are black It's not that the colors aren't there It's just imagination they lack Everything's the same back in my little town
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Post by ocarolan on Jul 10, 2021 16:43:25 GMT
And Miss, you don't know me, but can't we pretend that we care for each other till the band reach the end?
Richard Thompson - Waltzing's for Dreamers
And they say her flower is faded now, hard weather and hard booze But maybe that's just the price you pay for the chains you refuse.
Richard Thompson - Beeswing
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Post by andyhowell on Jul 11, 2021 13:16:39 GMT
Inspired by Ged I'm going to have to post the whole lyric of what is probably my favourite song, 'Last Fare of the Day' by Richard Shindell. Check out the song if you can.
I saw them standing in the rain Out on 7th Avenue He held her tight, like she might fall If he let go
He helped her in, he shut the door Our eyes met in the mirror To Englewood, just take it slow Was all he said
Into the stream, we pulled away I know it well, this old ballet Finding the flow, minding the sway Catching green lights all the way
Up Amsterdam, the meter dark, I turned off the radio She said, Thanks, I could not bear another word.
Out the bridge, the traffic slowed In the brakelights and the wash Of all those truckers heading south On 95
Into the stream, we pulled away I know it well, this old ballet Finding the flow, minding the sway Catching green lights all the way I brought them home, I brought them home I brought them home in that cruel, cruel rain
And now it s spring, and where s the rain? All the wells are running dry And the reservoir has reached An all-time low
And if this red light ever turns If I can make it through the park I ll head uptown For the last fare of the day
And turn it does, I pull away I know it well, this old ballet Finding the flow, minding the sway Catching green lights all the way
And there they are, outside St. Luke s With their flowers and balloons All amazement at the baby In her arms
As Amsterdam makes us a place I ask about her name We all laugh when he says Hope And she says Grace
And then it starts, the heavens give I know it well, this old ballet Finding the flow, minding the sway Catching green lights all the way I brought them home, I brought them home I brought them home in that sweet, sweet rain I brought them home in the sweet, sweet rain
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Post by leoroberts on Jul 11, 2021 13:57:32 GMT
“Time heals wounds”, they say “Time takes the pain away” I wonder why It never happened for me.
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Post by Phil Taylor on Jul 11, 2021 15:45:55 GMT
Life's a long song, But the tune ends to soon for us all.
Life's a Long Song - Jethro Tull
Played at a friend's funeral I attended last week. He had just turned 50.
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