• 180 Proof
    15.3k

    :love:

    You ain't got
    no kind of
    feeling
    inside
    I got something that'll
    sho nuff set yo'
    stuff on
    fire
    You refuse
    to put anything before your
    pride
    What I
    got
    will
    knock
    all your
    pride
    aside
    ...

    Got no time
    is what
    you're known to
    say
    I'll make you wish
    there was 48 hours
    to each
    day
    Your problem is
    you ain't
    been loved
    like you should
    What I got
    to give
    will sho nuff do you good
    ...

    You ain't got no
    kind of feeling
    inside
    I got something that'll
    sho nuff set yo' stuff on
    fire
    You refuse to put
    anything
    before your pride
    What I got
    will knock
    all
    your pride aside

    "Tell Me Something Good" (4:30)
    Rags to Rufus, 1974
    written by Stevie Wonder (& Chaka Khan)
    performed by Rufus & Chaka Khan

    *


    :yum:

    I can see her lying back
    in her satin dress
    In a room where you do
    what you don't confess
    ...

    She's been looking like a queen
    in a sailor's dream
    And she don't always say
    what she really means

    Sometimes I think it's a shame
    When I get feeling better
    when I'm feeling no pain
    Sometimes I think it's a shame
    When I get feeling better
    when I'm feeling no pain

    I can picture every move
    that a man could make
    Getting lost in her loving
    is your first mistake
    ...

    Sometimes I think it's a sin
    When I feel like I'm winning
    when I'm losing again

    I can see her looking fast
    in her faded jeans
    She's a hard loving woman,
    got me feeling mean

    Sometimes I think it's a shame
    When I get feeling better
    when I'm feeling no pain
    ...

    Sometimes I think it's a sin
    When I feel like I'm winning
    when I'm losing again

    "Sundown" (3:34)
    Sundown, 1974
    Gordon Lightfoot

    *


    :fire:

    My friends
    feel it's their appointed duty
    They keep trying to tell me
    All you want to do is use me
    But my answer, yeah
    to all that use me stuff
    I want to spread the news
    That if it feels this good getting used
    You just keep on using me
    Until you use me up
    Until you use me up

    My brother
    sit me right down and he talked to me
    And he told me
    that I ought not to let you just walk on me
    And I'm sure he meant well
    Yeah, but when our talk was through
    I said, brother,
    if you only knew
    You'd wish that you were in my shoes
    You just keep on using me
    Until you use me up
    Until you use me up

    Sometimes,
    it's true
    You really do abuse me
    You get me in a crowd of high-class people
    And then you act real rude to me
    But, oh baby,
    baby,
    baby,
    baby,
    When you love me,
    I can't get enough
    I want to spread the news
    That if it feels this good getting used
    Girl, you just keep on using me
    Until you use me up
    Until you use me up

    Talkin' 'bout you usin' people
    It all depends on what you do
    It ain't too bad the way you're usin' me
    'Cause I sure am usin' you
    to do the things you do'
    to do the things you do

    "Use Me" (3:45)
    Still Bill, 1972
    Bill Withers
  • deletedmemberZKT
    7
    "Birdland" by Patti Smitih

    His father died and left him a little farm in New England.
    All the long black funeral cars left the scene
    And the boy was just standing there alone
    Looking at the shiny red tractor
    Him and his daddy used to sit inside
    And circle the blue fields and grease the night.
    It was if someone had spread butter on all the fine points of the stars
    'Cause when he looked up they started to slip.
    Then he put his head in the crux of his arm
    And he started to drift, drift to the belly of a ship,
    Let the ship slide open, and he went inside of it
    And saw his daddy 'hind the control board streamin' beads of light,
    He saw his daddy 'hind the control board,
    And he was very different tonight
    'Cause he was not human, he was not human.

    And then the little boy's face lit up with such naked joy
    That the sun burned around his lids and his eyes were like two suns,
    White lids, white opals, seeing everything just a little bit too clearly
    And he looked around and there was no black ship in sight,
    No black funeral cars, nothing except for him the raven
    And fell on his knees and looked up and cried out,
    “No, daddy, don't leave me here alone,
    Take me up, daddy, to the belly of your ship,
    Let the ship slide open and I'll go inside of it
    Where you're not human, you are not human.”

    But nobody heard the boy's cry of alarm.
    Nobody there 'cept for the birds around the New England farm
    And they gathered in all directions, like roses they scattered
    And they were like compass grass coming together into the head of a shaman bouquet
    Slit in his nose and all the others went shooting
    And he saw the lights of traffic beckoning like the hands of Blake
    Grabbing at his cheeks, taking out his neck,
    All his limbs, everything was twisted and he said,
    “I won't give up, won't give up, don't let me give up,
    I won't give up, come here, let me go up fast,
    Take me up quick, take me up, up to the belly of a ship
    And the ship slides open and I go inside of it where I am not human.”

    I am helium raven and this movie is mine,
    So he cried out as he stretched the sky,
    Pushing it all out like latex cartoon, am I all alone in this generation?
    We'll just be dreaming of animation night and day
    And won't let up, won't let up and I see them coming in,
    Oh, I couldn't hear them before, but I hear 'em now,
    It's a radar scope in all silver and all platinum lights
    Moving in like black ships, they were moving in, streams of them,
    And he put up his hands and he said, “It's me, it's me,
    I'll give you my eyes, take me up, oh now please take me up,
    I'm helium raven waitin' for you, please take me up,
    Don't let me here,” the son, the sign, the cross,
    Like the shape of a tortured woman, the true shape of a tortured woman,
    The mother standing in the doorway letting her sons
    No longer presidents but prophets
    They're all dreaming they're gonna bear the prophet,
    He's gonna run through the fields dreaming in animation
    It's all gonna split his skull
    It's gonna come out like a black bouquet shining
    Like a fist that's gonna shoot them up
    Like light, like Mohammed Boxer
    Take them up up up up up up
    Oh, let's go up, up, take me up, I'll go up,
    I'm going up, I'm going up
    Take me up, I'm going up, I'll go up there
    Go up go up go up go up up up up up up up
    Up, up to the belly of a ship.
    Let the ship slide open and we'll go inside of it
    Where we are not human, we're not human.

    Well, there was sand, there were tiles,
    The sun had melted the sand and it coagulated
    Like a river of glass
    When it hardened he looked at the surface
    He saw his face
    And where there were eyes were just two white opals, two white opals,
    Where there were eyes there were just two white opals
    And he looked up and the rays shot
    And he saw raven comin' in
    And he crawled on his back and he went up
    Up up up up up up
    Sha da do wop, da shaman do way, sha da do wop, da shaman do way,
    Sha da do wop, da shaman do way, sha da do wop, da shaman do way,
    Sha da do wop, da shaman do way,
    We like birdland.
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    Where's the love song
    To set us free?
    Too many people down
    Everything turning
    The wrong way around

    And I don't know
    What love will be
    But if we start dreaming now
    Lord knows we'll never
    Leave the clouds

    And you've been so busy lately
    That you haven't found the time
    To open up your mind
    And watch the world spinning
    Gently out of time

    Feel the sunshine
    On your face
    It's in a computer now
    Gone to the future
    Way out in space

    And you've been so busy lately, etc...

    Tell me I'm not dreaming but are we out of time?
    (We're) out of time

  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    Hard to come after Patti.
  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    Hard to come after Patti.Olivier5
    https://youtu.be/HTxUrDtoPP0

    Born with the moon in Cancer
    Choose her a name she will answer to
    Call her green and the winters cannot fade her
    Call her green for the children who've made her
    Little green, be a gypsy dancer

    He went to California
    Hearing that everything's warmer there
    So you write him a letter and say, "Her eyes are blue"
    He sends you a poem and she's lost to you
    Little green, he's a non-conformer

    Just a little green
    Like the color when the spring is born
    There'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow
    Just a little green
    Like the nights when the Northern lights perform
    There'll be icicles and birthday clothes
    And sometimes there'll be sorrow

    Child with a child pretending
    Weary of lies you are sending home
    So you sign all the papers in the family name
    You're sad and you're sorry but you're not ashamed
    Little green, have a happy ending

    Just a little green
    Like the color when the spring is born
    There'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow
    Just a little green
    Like the nights when the Northern lights perform
    There'll be icicles and birthday clothes
    And sometimes there'll be sorrow

    "Little Green" (3:28)
    Blue, 1971
    Joni Mitchell
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    Thanks :-)

    I remember we had plans for the Earth
    For people as well as nature
    Break down the barriers, the walls
    Old parapets from the time of Arthur

    Behold
    Imagine our hope
    We surendered our hearts
    To the power of flowers
    Jasmine, lilac...
    Those were our divisions, our soldiers
    To change all that
    To change the world
    To change things
    With bouquets of roses
    To change women
    To change men
    With geraniums

    I remember we had songs, lyrics
    Like petals and corollas
    That the dreamy little girl would listen to
    Like crazy on the record player

    O the frangance...
    Imagine the scent
    Eden, the garden
    Was for tomorrow
    But tomorrow is just the same
    The same desire watching
    There deep in our hearts
    To change everything in a sweet way
    To change souls
    To change hearts
    With bouquets of flowers
    War to the wind
    And love ahead
    Thanks to wildflowers

    Ah, on earth there is so much to do
    For children, people, elephants
    Ah, so much to do
    So to strengthen you heart
    I send you flowers
    You will see
    We shall again wear scarves, shirts
    And bright colors
    And even though love is gone
    It is only a postponement

    By way of colors
    Chords, scents
    To change the old world
    To make a garden
    You will see
    The power of flowers
    There's this pop idea in my song:
    To change souls
    To change hearts
    With bouquets of flowers
    War to the wind
    And love ahead
    Thanks to wildflowers !


    Changer les âmes
    Changer les cœurs
    Avec des bouquets de fleurs
    La guerre au vent
    L'amour devant
    Grâce à des fleurs des champs


  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    Del cielo cae agua
    Lluvia poderosa
    Lávame la mente con agua fria
    Y saca la pena de mi memoria

    Llévame hacia el rio
    Sácame toda la ansiedad
    No me dejes sola quiero más agua
    Y saca la pena de mi memoria

    Del cielo cae agua
    Lluvia poderosa

  • Olivier5
    6.2k


    ...The songs without an ending
    Where do they go?
    Silence
    Who can know?
  • Amity
    5k

    Beautiful. Hypnotic. Soothing.

    I have no idea what the words mean.
    Sometimes you don't need to...
  • Olivier5
    6.2k

    Water falls from the sky
    Powerful rain
    Wash my mind with cold water
    And take the pain out of my memory

    Take me down to the river
    Take away all the anxiety
    Don't leave me alone I want more water
    And take the pain out of my memory

    Water falls from the sky
    Powerfull rain
  • Amity
    5k
    Take me down to the river
    Take away all the anxiety
    Olivier5

    Listening to the song had that effect. Thanks :sparkle:
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    On the same theme:


    It rains, hear how it raining
    Madonna! How it rains
    Feel how it's coming down

    Did you see that it's raining?
    Hear how it comes down
    You who said it wasn't raining anymore
    That you would never fall in love again
    And now look at you, you're all wet
    And it rains
    Madonna! how as it rains
    On your head and the air gets cooler
    And it will rain until the earth is full again
    And then it will clear up

    It rains, hear how it's raining etc.

    Hear the drops hitting on the roof
    Hear the noise, turning in your bed
    It will start again, it's already reborn
    You hear it rains, and the wheat ripens
    And you will get big and you will get strong
    And those leaves that seemed dead to you
    They will repopulate your branches once more
    It is spring that knocks on your door

    And it rains. Madonna how as it rains
    Before the sun comes back for the party
    Hear, feel how it rains
    Feel the drops beating on your head
    And it rains, feel how it rains etc.

    You who believed that now your plants
    Had dried up and would not grow any more
    You waited for a while, but feel how it rains now
    On your head, feel how it's coming down
    Wasn't it you who had resigned yourself by now
    And said you would never fall in love again?
    The earth sometimes needs to be watered with tears
    But then you will see, the rain will return

    Oh, it rains, feel how it rains
    Madonna how it rains
    Feel how it comes down etc.

  • Amity
    5k

    Another hypnotic.
    How come it sounds so much better in Italian ?
    Come mai suona molto meglio in italiano ?

    'piove senti come piove madonna come piove senti come viene giù'

    Piove. Ma non oggi. Per fortuna.
    Domani è un altro giorno...
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    because it's written in Italian.
  • Amity
    5k
    because it's written in Italian.Olivier5

    Ah, naturalmente - the language of music; the words sing :cool:
  • Amity
    5k
    'Rainy Night in Georgia' - Brook Benton
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDRbF80NKDU

    Hoverin' by my suitcase
    Tryin' to find a warm place
    To spend the night
    Heavy rain fallin'
    Seems I hear your voice callin'
    It's all right

    A rainy night in Georgia
    A rainy night in Georgia
    Lord, I believe it's rainin' all over the world
    I feel like it's rainin' all over the world

    Neon signs a-flashin'
    Taxicabs and buses
    Passin' through the night
    A distant moanin' of a train
    Seems to play a sad refrain to the night

    A rainy night in Georgia
    Such a rainy night in Georgia
    Lord I believe it's rainin' all over the world
    I feel like it's rainin' all over the world

    How many times I wondered
    It still comes out the same
    No matter how you look at it or think of it
    Well it's life, and you just got to play the game

    I find me a place in a boxcar
    So I take my guitar
    To pass some time
    Late at night when it's hard to rest
    I hold your picture to my chest
    And I feel fine, I

    But it's a rainy night in Georgia
    Baby, it's a rainy night in Georgia
    I feel it's rainin' all over the world
    Kinda lonely there and it's rainin' all over the world

    Oh have you ever been lonely people
    And you feel that it was raining all over this man's world
    You talkin' 'bout rainin',rainnin', rainin', rainin', rainin'
    A-rainin', a-rainin', rainin' over the world
    I said now rainin',rainnin', rainin', rainin', rainin'

    Songwriters: White Tony Joe
    For non-commercial use only.
    Data from: Musixmatch
  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    Thanks! I've only ever listened to Ray Charles' version.
  • Amity
    5k


    I've only ever listened to Ray Charles' version.180 Proof
    Yeah, that's not bad either :wink:
    So many cover versions of this, but when I found Brook Benton's I thought it sounded 'real'.
    A bit about the songwriter, Tony Joe White:
    When I got out of high school I went to Marietta, Georgia, I had a sister living there. I went down there to get a job and I was playing guitar too at the house and stuff. I drove a dump truck for the highway department and when it would rain you didn't have to go to work. You could stay home and play your guitar and hangout all night. So those thoughts came back to me when I moved on to Texas about three months later. I heard "Ode to Billie Joe" on the radio and I thought, man, how real, because I am Billie Joe, I know that life. I've been in the cotton fields.

    So I thought if I ever tried to write, I'm going to write about something I know about. At that time I was doing a lot of Elvis and John Lee Hooker onstage with my drummer. No original songs and I hadn't really thought about it. But after I heard Bobbie Gentry I sat down and thought ...

    well I know about Polk because I had ate a bunch of it and I knew about rainy nights because I spent a lot of rainy nights in Marietta, Georgia. So I was real lucky with my first tries to write something that was not only real and hit pretty close to the bone, but lasted that long. So it was kind of a guide for me then on through life to always try to write what I know about.[2]
    wiki
    [emphases added]

    Hadn't a clue what 'Polk' was - but now I do.
    Turns out I knew the song but Elvis was...erm... distracting so the lyrics went over my head :scream:
    'Polk Salad Annie' - written by Tony Joe White, performed by Elvis (live)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4csFnpZXek

    Compare songwriter's version:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyXHxh3Sye0

    And performing his own 'Rainy Night In Georgia' with intro, mentioning Brook Benton.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MunWJu1f1-8
    Now this...is real...from the heart... with guitar and harmonica...
    :sparkle:
  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    :cool: (Btw, born & raise in NYC, I've lived in Atlanta on & off over nine years ... though for not much longer, I hope, coronavirus permitting.)
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    The rain does some tap dance
    On the sidewalk at midnight
    Sometimes I just stop there
    I admire her, I applaud
    I follow her hat slap
    Her vertical tailcoat
    Her mother-of-pearl smile
    Her tiny crystal shoes

    As sweet as Marlene,
    As cruel as Dietrich,
    She pierces through my stockings
    Whether I'm rich or not rich
    But when I have had enough
    She wipes up my downsides
    And kisses me, in the puddle,
    With a sun upside down

    With her I embark
    On a river of diamonds
    I roam in the cesspools
    Where she wastes her silver
    I follow her on the window
    Of a sleeping poet,
    His forehead on the title
    Of the enemy poem

    By dint of swipes,
    From one feast to the next
    I float in the water, aplenty
    The rain loses all its juice
    Let's us part I say, it's time
    And here is my islet
    Hey, why are you crying?
    'Cause I love you, asshole / dirty water (pun)

  • Amity
    5k
    The Sun
    'Sunshine on My Shoulders' - John Denver ( Wildlife Concert)
    'Sunshine almost always makes me smile...'
    And that sax :cool:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5sbTHMP0Ig
    Lyrics and background:
    https://genius.com/John-denver-sunshine-on-my-shoulders-lyrics

    OMG, Youtube just kept on playing and I kept on listening and remembering:
    'Annie's Song'...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyJRsp5t9mA

    Lyrics

    You fill up my senses
    Like a night in a forest
    Like the mountains in springtime
    Like a walk in the rain
    Like a storm in the desert
    Like a sleepy blue ocean
    You fill up my senses
    Come fill me again

    Come let me love you
    Let me give my life to you
    Let me drown in your laughter
    Let me die in your arms
    Let me lay down beside you
    Let me always be with you
    Come let me love you
    Come love me again

    Let me give my life to you
    Come let me love you
    Come love me again

    You fill up my senses
    Like a night in a forest
    Like the mountains in springtime
    Like a walk in the rain
    Like a storm in the desert
    Like a sleepy blue ocean
    You fill up my senses
    Come fill me again

    Songwriters: Denver John, Deutschendorf Jr Henry John
    For non-commercial use only.
    Data from: Musixmatch
  • Amity
    5k
    born & raise in NYC, I've lived in Atlanta on & off over nine years ... though for not much longer, I hope, coronavirus permitting.)180 Proof

    Returning to roots? Further away? Foreign parts ?
  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    Portland, Oregon. The move was planned for last year but the pandemic had other plans. Now my finances need time to recover. Family relocated out there in 2019 from Arizona and I miss them (and some semblance of progressive, Canada-like, civilization ... which has long ago gone missing in my native NYC or much of New England.)
  • Amity
    5k
    The move was planned for last year but the pandemic had other plans.180 Proof
    :sad:
    There has to be a song there somewhere...
  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    :sad:
    There has to be a song there somewhere...
    Amity
    Yeah, after a year of quarantine, police killings, political drama, mass shooting and now 'new jim crow' voter suppression, I'm feeling mentally as well as existentially dispossessed here in Atlanta. Everyday feels like an out-of-body experience of longing to be on the other side of the Cascades starting over (again). It won't be paradise, of course, just the ample breathing space of the Pacific Northwest coastline. Here's something on this blue monday of how my days have felt lately (for too long) ...



    Yeah! Oh, yeah! Now!
    Cold ground was my bed last night
    And rock was my pillow, too;
    Cold ground was my bed last night
    And rock was my pillow, too. Yeah!

    I'm saying: talkin' blues (talkin' blues),
    talkin' blues (talkin' blues);
    They say your feet is just too big for your shoes. (shoe-oo-oo-oo-oo)
    Talkin' blues (talkin' blues),
    talkin' blues (talkin' blues):
    Your feet is just too big for your shoes. (shoe-oo-oo-oo-oo)

    Yeah, I've been down on the rock for so long,
    I seem to wear a permanent screw;
    I've been down on the rock for so long,
    I seem to wear a permanent screw.
    But-a I - I'm gonna
    stare
    in the sun,
    Let the rays
    shine
    in my eyes.
    I - I'm a gonna take
    a just-a one step more

    'Cause I feel like bombin' a church -
    Now - now that you know
    that the preacher is lyin'.
    So who's gonna stay at home
    When - when the freedom fighters
    are fighting?


    Talkin' blues (talkin' blues), talkin' blues (talkin' blues):
    They say your feet is just too big for your shoes, woe-oh-oh-oh!
    Talkin' blues (talkin' blues),
    keep on talkin' blues (talkin' blues);
    They say - you hear what they say -
    Didn't you hear?

    Cold ground was my bed,
    Rockstone
    rockstone
    rockstone was my pillow;
    Cold ground was my bed last night (bed last night),
    And rock was my pillow, too.

    Sayin': (talkin' blues, talkin' blues):
    I seem to wear a permanent (screw)
    permanent screw
    Talkin' blues (talkin' blues),
    talkin' blues (talkin' blues):
    Feet is just too big for your shoes.

    "Talkin' Blues" (4:06)
    Natty Dread, 1974
    Bob Marley and the Wailers
  • Amity
    5k
    I'm feeling mentally as well as existentially dispossessed here in Atlanta. Everyday feels like an out-of-body experience of longing to be on the other side of the Cascades starting over (again)180 Proof

    I - I'm a gonna take
    a just-a one step more
    'Cause I feel like bombin' a church -

    I have been watching what has been going with horror but actually to experience it...that is something else altogether. I hope you manage to relocate as soon as you can. It sounds like a place where you can breathe, again...
    Bob Marley - good choice.
    More upbeat:

    'Three Little Birds'
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LanCLS_hIo4

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNBCVM4KbUM

    'Is this Love'

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69RdQFDuYPI

    I wanna love you
    And treat you right
    I wanna love you
    Every day and every night

    We'll be together
    With a roof right over our heads
    We'll share the shelter
    Of my single bed
    We'll share the same room, yeah
    For Jah provide the bread

    Is this love, is this love, is this love
    Is this love that I'm feelin'?
    Is this love, is this love, is this love
    Is this love that I'm feelin'?

    I wanna know, wanna know, wanna know now
    I got to know, got to know, got to know now
    I-I-I-I-I, I'm willing and able
    So I throw my cards on your table

    I wanna love you
    I wanna love and treat
    Love and treat you right
    I wanna love you
    Every day and every night

    We'll be together, yeah
    With a roof right over our heads
    We'll share the shelter, yeah, oh, yeah
    Of my single bed
    We'll share the same room, yeah
    For Jah provide the bread

    Is this love, is this love, is this love
    Is this love that I'm feelin'?
    Is this love, is this love, is this love
    Is this love that I'm feelin'? Whoa

    Oh, yes, I know, yes, I know, yes, I know now
    Oh, yes, I know, yes, I know, yes, I know now

    I-I-I-I-I, I'm willing and able
    So I throw my cards on your table
    See, I wanna love you
    I wanna love and treat ya
    Love and treat ya right

    I wanna love you
    Every day and every night
    We'll be together
    With a roof right over our heads
    We'll share the shelter
    Of my single bed
    We'll share the same room, yeah
    Jah provide the bread
    We'll share the shelter...

    Songwriters: Marley Bob
    For non-commercial use only.
    Data from: Musixmatch
  • Amity
    5k

    Missed this. Will listen to the others later but your link to Gordon Lightfoot...well...I'll play it again..
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JKYRjNAakVc
    :cool:
  • 180 Proof
    15.3k
    Nice♡ Mi irie now ...
  • Amity
    5k

    Everyting is irie mon :cool:

    ( hope I got the accent right :smile: )
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