This absolute jam.

s'alright... I guess...

[Refrain]
Do you like me or do you just like your old picture of me?
Don't say it, because otherwise it will definitely break my young heart
Do I like you or do I just like my old picture of you?
Don't say it, because otherwise it will definitely break my young heart

Men are Pigs

Hello, darling, I love you.
You're the only one for me.
It think the others are all dumb.
That's why I'm courting you.
You're so different, totally special.
I always notice such a thing quickly.
Now undress and lie down.
Soon it'll be dark, soon it'll be nighttime.
A word of warning is advisable:

Men are pigs,
Don't trust them, my child,
They all want just one thing,
'Cuz that's just how men are.

A man doesn't feel like a man until
he can take care of you.
He lies like a trooper,
just to get you in bed.
And then in the morning,
he has no idea what your name is.
Reckless and uninhibited,
Feelings are alien to him,
For him, love is the same as a loss of semen.
Girl, that's why you need to be aware:

Men are pigs,
Don't ask for sunlight,
Sadly, there are no exceptions.
There's a pig hidden in every man.
Men are sows,
don't belief a single word they say.
They swear they will always be true,
Then are gone the next morning [yeah, yeah, yeah]

And, in case you make a mistake,
And catch a husband,
your noble suitor mutates
into an animal right after the wedding.
He then shows you his true self,
completely unshaven and rank,
drinks beer, watches TV and quickly becomes fat.
And burps and farts in the marriage bed.
Then you've got King Kong as your husband.
That's why I'm telling you, please always think about:

Men are pigs,
Don't trust them, my child,
They all want just one thing,
They are blind to true love.
Men are rats,
Approach them only with cunning,
They want to copulate with everything.
That with three it's not in the trees.
Men are pigs,
Don't ask for sunlight,
Sadly, there are no exceptions.
There's a pig hidden in every man.
Men are cars,
Only without a spare tire.

"Soaking in the sweetest summer rain
Denial, you win again
And I'll happily lose to you"

You're too warm, I'm too cold
You're too young, i'm too old
You're too poor, I'm too rich
You're too hard, I'm too soft

you're too high, I'm too down.
You're too serious, I'm a clown.
I'll take you down, you take me up
I won't go on but you won't give up

All rubble and ashes.
All smoke and dust.
Everything trick and
scam Everything withered leaves.
Ahaaaaa ...
I'm tired.


You think ahead, I think back.
I'm picking up bad luck, you're just lucky.
You're the greatest, I'm bankrupt
I'm a devil, you're a god.
You bring in the money, I'll throw it out.
You go through the fire, I'm going home.

All rubble and ashes.
All smoke and dust.
Everything trick and
scam Everything withered leaves.
Ahaaaaa ...
I'm tired.

You know the truth, I don't even know you.
You are love, I only love me.
I'm tense, you're so free
You come 2:30 p.m., I'll be at half past two.

All rubble and ashes.
All smoke and dust.
All trick and scam
All smoke and dust.
Ahaaaaa ...
I'm tired.

Almost deep...



I think positive
Because I am alive because I am alive
I think positive
Because I am alive and as long as I am alive
Nothing and no one in the world
Will be able to stop me from thinking
Nothing and no one in the world
Will be able to stop, stop, stop, stop
This wave that goes
This wave that goes it comes and goes
This wave that goes
This wave that comes and goes
I think positive
But it doesn't mean that I don't see it
I think positive because I believe
I do n't believe in uniforms
Nor in sacred clothes
That more than once
They were ready to bless massacres
I don't believe in fraternal hugs
That are confused with chains
I believe only
that between evil and good Good
is stronger
Good, good, good, good
I think positive
Because I am alive, because I am alive
I think positive
Because I am alive and as long as I am alive
And nothing and no one in the world
Will be able to stop me from thinking
Nothing and no one in the world
Will be able to stop, stop, stop, stop
This wave that goes
This wave that comes and goes
This wave that goes
This wave that comes and goes
Positive
Leaving the square meter
Where everything seems to have to
Look inside things
There is an unknown reality
That asks only for one way
To come out to see the stars
And live the experiences
On my skin, on my skin
I think positive
Because I am alive, because I am alive
I think positive
Because I am alive and as long as I am alive
Nothing and no one in the world
Will be able to stop me from thinking
Nothing and no one in the world
Will be able to stop, stop, stop, stop
This wave that goes
This wave that comes and goes
This wave that goes
This wave that comes and goes
This wave that goes
This wave that comes and goes
This wave that goes
This wave that comes and goes
Positive
History, mathematics
Italian, geometry
Music, music
Fantasy
I believe that in this world there is
only one great church
That goes from Che Guevara
And reaches Mother Teresa
Passing through Malcolm X
Through Gandhi and San Patrignano
Comes from a priest in the suburbs
That goes on despite the Vatican
I think positive
Because I am alive, because I am alive
I think positive
Because I am alive and as long as I am alive
Nothing and no one in the world
Will be able to stop me from thinking
Nothing and no one in the world
Will be able to stop, stop, stop, stop
This wave that goes
This wave that comes and goes
This wave that goes
This wave that comes and goes
This wave that goes
This wave that comes and goes
This wave that goes
This wave that comes and goes
This wave that goes
This wave that comes and goes
This wave that goes
This wave that comes and goes
This wave that goes
This wave that comes and goes
This wave that goes
This wave
History, mathematics
Italian, geometry
Music, music
Fantasy
History, mathematics
Italian, geometry
Music, music
Fantasy

... and even better LIVE.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7JBHyE18L3o

“[ ... ] I was born here, and I'll die here
Against my will
I know it looks like I'm moving
But I'm standing still
Every nerve in my body
Is so vacant and numb
I can't even remember what it was
I came here to get away from
Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer

It's not dark yet
But it's getting there.”

"It's Not Dark Yet" - 6:29
Time Out of Mind (1997)
Bob Dylan

Seems somehow appropriate...

... and this too.

I have no words for this piece by Messiaen, I am overwhelmed with intensity when I listen to it.

It's great. Interestingly, it's based on an earlier piece composed for ondes martenot, an early electronic instrument:



It doesn't have the same power as the version in the Quartet for the End of Time, but it's quite amazing: ethereal and pleasingly strange.

To listen with headphones infront of the ocean would be wonderful, ethereal describes it very well.

:cool:

"Got To Get You Into My Life" - 4:03
written by Lennon-McCartney (1966)
performed by Earth Wind & Fire (1978)

Glad to see Messiaen appreciation.

The look on the other guy's face is saying more than the trumpette. :rofl:

Man! Just now discovering this thread. Jovanotti!!!!!! Live!!!!

Much great stuff here.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrpyDacBCh7CtSVA-XbsiLbMK6KU9zhCI

How can you say that you're not responsible?
What does it have to do with me?
What is my reaction,
what should it be?
Confronted by this latest atrocity

...

Hide my face in my hands,
shame wells in my throat
My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party
Seems that when some innocent die
All we can offer them is a page in a some magazine
Too many cameras and not enough food
'Cause this is what we've seen

...

Protest is futile,
nothing seems to get through
What's to become of our world,
who knows what to do — Driven to Tears

*

Don't think me unkind
Words are hard to find
The only cheques I've left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind
And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me

...

Poets, priests and politicians
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no one's jamming their transmission
'Cos when their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you ... — De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

*

I woke up in my clothes again this morning
I don't know exactly where I am
And I should heed my doctor's warning
He does the best with me he can

He claims I suffer from delusion
But I'm so confident I'm sane
It can't be an optical illusion
So how can you explain

...

And if you see us on the corner
We're just dancing in the rain
I tell my friends there when I see them
Outside my window pane ... — Shadows in the Rain

Zenyatta Mondatta (38:16)
The Police
released October 3, 1980
(fall, senior year, high school :sweat: )

This is about as close to a 'religious experience' as I get.

Add in a bit of Peter Hook/Joy Division and The Cure and you got me.

Eddie Van Halen 1955-2020

https://youtu.be/sI7XiJgt0vY (just a sample)

With the 'pending' collapse of 'Merica... (like that didn't start over 40 years ago, but whatever...), this is basically my personal funeral march for the 'Merican Dream...



Oh, fuck it
I'm gonna have a party
Oh, fuck it
I'm gonna have a party

I had the blankest year
I saw life turn into a T.V. show
It was totally weird
The person I knew I didn't really know

Time don't move
We're the only ones who do
Bending reason
Cause its all we hold on to

I had the blankest year
I saw life turn into a T.V. show
It was totally weird
The person I knew I didn't really know

And I was lonely
Thank god the band's doing well
But you don't own me
I'd like to return this spell
Cause it's not my size
And your lies are so much bigger than my lies
And your ties are made of things that shouldn't make ties

Oh, fuck it (fuck it)
I'm gonna have a party
Oh, fuck it (fuck it)
I'm gonna have a party
Oh, fuck it (fuck it)
I'm gonna have a party

Bob hasn't screamed this much in decades...
... cool!

"but this world is a broken home
just enough for the memory to feel right"

OTD 80 years ago John Lennon was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK.

More than missing him (his lively presence on this dying planet - I didn't know him personally even though we both lived in NYC), like many others have I've occasionally wondered what more JL might have done and given and found in the last four decades had he not been murdered.

Today I remember him by "singing" along with some of his music. Here are 9, mostly confessional, songs queued up so far this morning:

9.

"Mother" (5:34)
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, 1970
John Lennon

8.

"God" (4:09)
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, 1970
John Lennon



7. "Because" (2:45)
Abbey Road 1969
The Beatles

6.

"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" (7:47)
Abbey Road 1969
The Beatles

5.

"Julia" (2:54)
The Beatles, 1968
The Beatles

4.

"A Day In The Life" (5:35)
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967
The Beatles

3.

"In My Life" (2:28)
Rubber Soul, 1965
The Beatles

2.

"Girl" (2:32)
Rubber Soul, 1965
The Beatles

1.

"Rock and Roll Music" (2:30)
Beatles For Sale, 1964
performed by The Beatles
written by Chuck Berry, 1957

Live as you like
Everybody dies
Pray if you must
But try to love the ones who loved us

No lies
No blood
We've worried long enough
No lies
No ghosts
The dirt will call us home
x2

Live as you like
It's hard to know what's right
Pray if you want
But try to love the ones who don't