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Location: New South Wales, Australia | You're right Canterbury. But it may have been covered somewhere else, I'm not sure. I'm a big fan of Jackson Browne's lyrics. |
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Location: Glendale, AZ | CanterburyStrings: Jackson Browne may have written that. Prelude did several covers on that album. Neal Young's After the Gold Rush and I think the Beatles Here Comes the Sun. I had never looked at the liner notes to see who wrote that one. I just always thought it was one of their own songs. Now I will have to check out the Jackson Browne version on I-Tunes.
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | My misunderstanding. I thought you were saying the song was "Prelude For A Dancer", and that it was on Neil Young's album "After the Goldrush". But now that I know a group called Prelude did a cover of it, I'm going to Youtube to check it out. I love that song! Thanks. |
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Location: NJ | ". . I thought that was from "For a Dancer" by Jackson Browne. It was on the "Late For the Sky" album . ."
th'Lady is c'rect.
There was a local NY FMstation(WNEW) that commemorated that tune to Belushi the night he died. |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Scuse my ignorance Cliff...what was the connection with Belushi and that song? |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by ozwatto:
Scuse my ignorance Cliff...what was the connection with Belushi and that song? Give a listen... You\'ll see.
Keep a fire burning in your eye
Pay attention to the open sky
You never know what will be coming down
I don't remember losing track of you
You were always dancing in and out of view
I must've thought you'd always be around
Always keeping things real by playing the clown
Now you're nowhere to be found
I don't know what happens when people die
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
That I can't sing
I can't help listening
I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round
Crying as they ease you down
(Alt:crying is the easier down)
'Cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing
Dancing our sorrow away
(Right on dancing)
No matter what fate chooses to play
(There's nothing you can do about it anyway)
Just do the steps that you've been shown
By everyone you've ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone
Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know will be coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
And just as easily, it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Don't let the uncertainty turn you around
(The world keeps turning around and around)
Go on and make a joyful sound
Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive but you'll never know
[That is copy/paste off of YouTube, so it mightn't be right]
BTW-- All my life I've thought that Jackson should have longer hair or a beard or something. He just looks like that 'slow' dude off of That 70's Show... Or the young dude on Northern Exposure... :confused: |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Okay... Excuse me. He has a beard Now... (Old Fart!)
(Jackson Browne. No really! It's Jackson Browne!) May 3, 2008
~That caption is from the article where I found this photo.~ |
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Location: NJ | He's got a new album coming out this month (28th,iThink), & that's how he looks on it . . |
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Location: NJ | ***************
Don't Forget Me
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The sun is going down across the great unknown
Lights come on inside the towers made of stone
A muffled drum plays out of sight and all alone
Summer Is Over
The city lies awake and breathes electric air
The sailor in the bar reams of a love affair
Young girls seem to shimmer in fluorescent glare
Summer is over
It's a never ending show
Faces come and go
Like a river
You're a rainbow wrapped in grey
Shake the dust away
Like a river
But don't forget me
Don't forget me now
Summer is Over.
Don't Forget Me
- Al Stewart
It was short, but it was a "Summer".
(cue th'Vivaldi . . ) |
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Location: CA | Don't you know there ain't no devil,
That's just God when he's drunk.
— Tom Waits, "Heartattack and Vine" |
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Location: Central NJ | The Florida Boys
"the choice was all his, but the truth was and is. The cross in the middle should have been mine." |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | ... just heard this one after a long time; "The Younger Years". Me like... |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I wouldn't know where to begin, there are so many great lyrics. "Don't You Forget About Me" by the Simple Minds sticks in my head a lot and stirrs something.
Performance-wise I always get choked up on the line from "Leader of the Band" by Dan Fogelberg "and Papa I don't think I said I love you near enough".
My father passed away the same year Fogelberg did. When I play that song live, I often dedicate it to them both, because Fogelberg wrote that for his father, who was a musician, and my father was also a musician. So in recent years, that song has had a grip on me lyric-wise.
Cats in the Cradle is one that seems to grip the audience lyrically. I've had many people tell me how much they love that I play it, and others ask me not to play it ever again because it depresses them so. It's just such a great reminder to value your time and relationships while you can...but if it's too late for that, I suppose the reminder can feel like salt on a wound. |
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Location: new jersey | one of these days, i'm going to cut you into little pieces.
there is no dark side of the moon really... matter of fact it's all dark.
how i wish you were were.
how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
wow! look at this room. are all these your guitars?
....and the topper.....
i have become comfortably numb. |
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Location: CA | If I don't die by Thursday
I'll be roaring Friday night.
— Jimmy Buffett
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice water mansions...
— Gordon Lightfoot |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | In truth I think these change with time.
At one point "Bridge over Troublrd Watrers" meant a lot to me. Now I can barely stand it.
The one Loriane and I always listened to "back then" was the Boz Sacggs tune "Look what you've done to me" probably not the right title but you know the song.
I find if the lyrics are that moving, very often the music isn't and for me if the music doesn't knock me down, the song doesn't either.
There are some instrumentals by a oneshot band the "Outside men" I think it was, a trio from the midwest. A couple of theirs do it for me. And some of Michelle Cuzon's tunes(from Canada) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Ditto. One would hope we'd change over time. Our neice got married recently and danced with her dad to "I Loved Her First." It's by some country band called Heartland or something like that. Anyway, with 2 single daughters in their 20s, that song really hit me. I wish I could see myself singing it to their grooms, but the lyrics don't fit the reality, at least with the current boyfriends. The second one isn't a drummer, though, so he still has some potential. |
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Location: CA | Meaningful lines and songs do change. No argument there. I used to sing 'Lovin her was easier' (Kristofferson) to girls all the time and they all loved it. Now I hear it and I think, geez, what a cornball thing that was. I'm not saying the lines have to mean anything NOW. Just lines that meant something once. Or that stuck in your head. Such as...
"My daddy said son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin
If you don't stop drivin that hot rod Lincoln."
Come on, admit it, you're all playing the lead part in your heads right now . . . |
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Location: eastern shore Virginia .Walesoriginally | Baby you can sleep while I drive.Melissa Etheridge |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Melissa had some great tunes. |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | Dawn - like an angel - lights on the steps
Muting the morning she heralds.
Dew on the grass - like the tears the night wept
Gone long before the day wears old.
Time stills the singing a child holds so dear...
and I'm just beginning to hear.
Gone are the pathways the child followed home...
Gone like the sand and the foam.
-Dan Fogelberg
When I used to listen to this song I would think of MY life. These days I consider my grown children who, too,have lost their innocence.
John <>{ |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Time waits for no one at all, No not even you.
- The Moody Blues |
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Location: closely held secret | Well good morning Judge, yes I'm back again
I'm in trouble, so it's back to the pen
I found a car but I couldn't pay
I fell in love and I drove it away |
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Location: CA | It's so nice to meet an old friend
and pass the time of day
And talk about the hometown
A million miles away
Is the ice still in the river
Are the old folks still the same
And by the way
Did she mention my name? . . .
— Gordon Lightfoot |
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Location: NJ | just machines t'make big decisions
programmed by fellas w/compassion&vision
we'll be "clean" when their work is done
we'll be eternally "free", yes& eternally young |
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