• Amity
    5.1k
    Just a playful ouroboros.180 Proof

    I am dizzy enough already, merci beaucoup.
    Circling around your sinuous, subtle sensuosity...
    https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/529244

    Even worse now - you edited the post :brow:
    https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/529281
  • Amity
    5.1k

    Selection brilliant - all 3 :fire: :heart: :100:
    Also love the quotes - dancing with your pen tonight ?

    I'm acquiring a taste for F.N.
    Never thought such parole would pass my lips...
  • 180 Proof
    15.4k
    :flower: You quoted Goethe, who was perhaps Nietzsche's favorite German poet and exemplar, so Nietzsche's music (esp.contra the Wagnerian style – e.g. Brahms, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, Bizet), etc came to mind. Then I just ran with riffin' on Carmen (though personally I'm not a fan of opera or any 'musical theatre' at all).
  • Amity
    5.1k

    Ah - thanks for explanation - seems Nietzsche has good taste too :sparkle:
  • Amity
    5.1k
    'Isn't Life Strange' - The Moody Blues (6:04)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESER7DFXWiI

    "Isn't Life Strange" is from the album "Seventh Sojourn"
    (Images are from Michigan's Silver Lake Sand Dunes)

    Isn't life strange
    A turn of the page
    Can read like before
    Can we ask for more?
    Each day passes by
    How hard man will try?
    The sea will not wait
    You know it makes me want to cry, cry, cry -

    Wished I could be in your heart
    To be one with your love
    Wished I could be in your eyes
    Looking back there you were, and here we are.

    Isn't love strange
    A word we arrange
    With no thought or care
    Maker of despair
    Each breath that we breathe
    With love we must weave
    To make us as one
    You know it makes me want to cry, cry, cry -

    Wished I could be in your heart
    To be one with your love
    Wished I could be in your eyes
    Looking back there you were, and here we are.

    Isn't life strange
    A turn of the page
    A book without light
    Unless with love we write;
    To throw it away
    To lose just a day
    The quicksand of time
    You know it makes me want to cry, cry, cry -

    Wished I could be in your heart
    To be one with your love
    Wished I could be in your eyes
    Looking back there you were

    Wished I could be in your heart
    To be one with your love
    Wished I could be in your eyes
    Looking back there you were

    Wished I could be in your heart
    To be one with your love
    Wished I could be in your eyes
    Looking back there you were...

    Songwriters: J Lodge
    For non-commercial use only.
    Data from: Musixmatch

    4 more songs from Justin Hayward, here:
    https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/531659

    1) The Land of Make Believe
    2) This Morning
    3) Nights Winters Years
    4) Nights in White Satin
  • Manuel
    4.1k


    Beautiful lyrics. :smile:

    A deep song, eh? I think I have one. :wink:

    Tangled in Blue - Bob Dylan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKcNyMBw818

    Early one morning, the sun was shining
    I was laying in bed
    Wondering if she'd changed it all
    If her hair was still red

    Her folks, they said our lives together
    Sure was gonna be rough
    They never did like mama's homemade dress
    Papa's bankbook wasn't big enough

    And I was standing on the side of the road
    Rain falling on my shoes
    Heading out for the east coast
    Lord knows I've paid some dues getting through

    Tangled up in blue

    She was married when we first met
    Soon to be divorced
    I helped her out of a jam, I guess
    But I used a little too much force
    We drove that car as far as we could
    Abandoned it out west

    Split up on a dark, sad night
    Both agreeing it was best
    She turned around to look at me
    As I was walking away
    I heard her say over my shoulder
    "We'll meet again someday on the avenue"

    Tangled up in blue

    I had a job in the great north woods
    Working as a cook for a spell
    But I never did like it all that much
    And one day the axe just fell
    So I drifted down to New Orleans
    Where I's lucky for to be employed
    Working for a while on a fishing boat
    Right outside of Delacroix
    But all the while I was alone
    The past was close behind
    I seen a lot of women

    But she never escaped my mind and I just grew
    Tangled up in blue

    She was working in a topless place
    And I stopped in for a beer
    I just kept looking at the sight of her face
    In the spotlight so clear

    And later on when the crowd thinned out
    I's just about to do the same
    She was standing there in back of my chair
    Said, "Tell me, don't I know your name?"
    I muttered something underneath my breath
    She studied the lines on my face

    I must admit I felt a little uneasy
    When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe
    Tangled up in blue

    She lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe
    "I thought you'd never say hello, " she said
    "You look like the silent type"
    Then she opened up a book of poems
    And handed it to me
    Written by an Italian poet
    From the thirteenth century
    And every one of them words rang true

    And glowed like burning coal
    Pouring off of every page
    Like it was written in my soul from me to you
    Tangled up in blue

    I lived with them on Montagüe Street
    In a basement down the stairs
    There was music in the cafés at night
    And revolution in the air

    Then he started into dealing with slaves
    And something inside of him died
    She had to sell everything she owned
    And froze up inside

    And when finally the bottom fell out
    I became withdrawn
    The only thing I knew how to do
    Was to keep on keeping on like a bird that flew
    Tangled up in blue

    So now I'm going back again
    I got to get her somehow
    All the people we used to know
    They're an illusion to me now
    Some are mathematicians
    Some are carpenter's wives
    Don't know how it all got started
    I don't what they do with their lives
    But me, I'm still on the road
    Heading for another joint
    We always did feel the same
    We just saw it from a different point of view

    Tangled up in blue
  • Amity
    5.1k
    A deep song, eh? I think I have one.Manuel
    Now that is deep. What else could it be ?
    Tangled up in blue.
    Never heard this before. Thanks :cool:

    As to my earlier 'pick', so pale pink.
    But the title ain't bad ?
  • Manuel
    4.1k


    I like the title, I think it's true.

    Isn't life strange
    A turn of the page
    A book without light
    Unless with love we write;
    To throw it away
    To lose just a day
    The quicksand of time
    You know it makes me want to cry, cry, cry
    Amity

    I like the type of the music and the lyrics are poetic.

    I think losing a few days is necessary. We pay way too much attention on achievement and not enough on just being and taking in. It is mistake. :)
  • Hanover
    12.9k
    I just heard this this morning and I came to this thread to post just this, but you beat me to it, so here's to synchronicity.

    Not just the lyrics, but the title itself, the imagery of being tangled up in blue, so difficult to get out of, but you know will, you just have to keep trying. I think we've all been there, making not such great decisions along the way.

    And this line I always thought humorous:

    "She was married when we first met
    Soon to be divorced
    I helped her out of a jam, I guess
    But I used a little too much force."
  • Manuel
    4.1k
    I just heard this this morning and I came to this thread to post just this, but you beat me to it, so here's to synchronicity.Hanover

    That just means you have good tastes and we're on the same wavelength. :cool:

    There are many great lines in the song, such as this one. What I like about the song in general is how it manages to mess up with one's notion of time. Lyrically, this one is quite special.

    Not just the lyrics, but the title itself, the imagery of being tangled up in blue, so difficult to get out of, but you know will, you just have to keep trying. I think we've all been there, making not such great decisions along the way.Hanover

    Yes. It's not even clear that we are capable of untangling ourselves. Then again, there are many interpretations that could be given of this song.

    I guess we'll meet again someday on the avenue...
  • Amity
    5.1k
    From: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/533100
    An amazing performance of 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' :fire:
    "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Live (6:22)
    Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2004
    written by George Harrison, 1968
    performed by Dhani Harrison, Jeff Lynn, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood & Prince

    Thanks @180 Proof :cool:

    From p120 of George's autobiography 'I -Me -Mine':

    Around the time of writing...I had a copy of the 'I Ching - the (Chinese) Book of Changes' which seemed to me to be based on the Eastern concept that everything is relative to everything else, as opposed to the Western view that things are merely coincidental.

    This idea was in my head when I visited my parents' house in the North of England. I decided to write a song based on the first thing I saw upon opening any book - as it would be relative to that moment, at that time. I picked up a book at random - opened it - saw 'Gently weeps' - then laid the book down again and started the song. Some of the words to the song were changed before I finally recorded it - as can be seen here:

    I look at the trouble
    and hate that is raging
    While my guitar gently weeps
    While I'm sitting here
    Doing nothing but ageing


    ----
    There follows 3 pages of handwritten lyrics - scrawls and scratchings as he chooses the right words.
    The final lyrics on p 124:
    ----

    I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping
    While my guitar gently weeps
    I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
    Still my guitar gently weeps
    I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love
    I don't know how someone controlled you
    They bought and sold you

    I look at the world and I notice it's turning
    While my guitar gently weeps
    With every mistake we must surely be learning
    Still my guitar gently weeps

    I don't know how you were diverted
    You were perverted too
    I don't know how you were inverted
    No one alerted you

    I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
    While my guitar gently weeps
    I look at you all...
    Still my guitar gently weeps


    I just love this guy :100: :heart: :sparkle:
  • 180 Proof
    15.4k




    I want a love that's right but
    right is only half of what's wrong
    I want a short haired girl who
    sometimes wears it twice as long
    Now I'm stepping out this old brown shoe,
    baby,
    I'm in love with you
    I'm so glad you came here,
    it won't be the same now,
    I'm telling you

    You know you pick me up from
    where some try to drag me down
    And when I see your smile
    replace every thoughtless frown
    Got me escaping from this zoo,
    baby,
    I'm in love with you
    I'm so glad you came here,
    it won't be the same now
    when I'm with you

    If I grow up
    I'll be a singer
    wearing rings on
    every finger
    Not worrying what they or you say
    I'll live and love and
    maybe someday
    Who knows, baby,
    you may comfort
    me

    I may appear to be imperfect,
    my love is something you can't reject
    I'm changing faster than the weather
    if you and me should
    get together
    Who knows, baby,
    you may comfort
    me

    I want that love of yours,
    to miss that love is something I'd hate
    I'll make an early start,
    I'm making sure that I'm not late
    For you sweet top lip
    I'm in the queue,
    baby,
    I'm in love with you
    I'm so glad you came here,
    it won't be the same now
    when I'm with you
    I'm so glad you came here,
    it won't be the same now
    when I'm with you

    "Old Brown Shoe"(3:16)
    B-side ("The Ballad of John and Yoko")*
    written by George Harrison, 1969
    performed by The Beatles


    *I've always thought, instead of a B-side, this song by George should have been on Abbey Road in place of "Maxwell Silver Hammer" which in turn should have been made into a double A-side paired with "Octopus' Garden" (which I'd also remove from the album and replace it with a Beatles-version of the Starr-Harrison hit "It Don't Come Easy" (Ringo still on lead vocal) written in part during "The White Album" sessions in '68), IMO, changes that would have lifted this masterpiece album even higher.

    Back in the '70s, Lennon was my way into The Beatles lyrically (Paul I'd only associated in those days with nonstop repeats of Wings hits on AM radio during summer camp). The first Traveling Wilbury's hit single "Handle Me With Care" almost two decades later for me began a complete reassessment of George and his elemental role in the musical alchemy of The Beatles as if they were (for him too I'm sure) a "past life" memory that PTSD-like (but in a good way for me/us) wouldn't go away. The Beatles' Anthology documentary several years later consummated my "Beatle George" renaissance and deep appreciation of him as a musician, a spiritual seeker, an old "grotty" wit, and a quite admirable person (certainly as global celebrities go).
  • Amity
    5.1k

    Again - big thanks for this song, new to me and much appreciated :sparkle:
    What George says about it in his book, p134:
    OLD BROWN SHOE. I started the chord sequences on the piano ( which I don't really play) and then began writing ideas for the words from various opposites:
    I want a love that's right
    But right is only half of what's wrong.

    Again, it's the duality of things - yes-no, up-down, left-right, right-wrong, etc.

    -----

    The Beatles' Anthology documentary several years later consummated my "Beatle George" renaissance and deep appreciation of him as a musician, a spiritual seeker, an old "grotty" wit, and a quite admirable person (certainly as global celebrities go).180 Proof

    Lovely to hear your story of getting to know George.
    It seems like I have known and loved George forever ! Since the 60's anyway...
    There was a long gap when I didn't listen to music much at all.
    I'm so glad that I am rediscovering him, his music and thoughts...and having this conversation.

    I met him once - I think it was 1991 - you wouldn't believe where. Not gonna tell...
    But our eyes met as he jammed with my ex and friends...playing the ukelele.
    Did I say that I love him....

    I was given a cassette of his 'The Best of Dark Horse 1976 -1989'. Played it to death.
    Later - like you - totally wowed by the magic and chemistry of the Traveling Wilburys.
    'A bunch of friends that just happened to be really good at making music' *

    The first Traveling Wilbury's hit single "Handle Me With Care" almost two decades later for me began a complete reassessment of George and his elemental role in the musical alchemy of The Beatles180 Proof

    -----
    'The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys Documentary' (24:56) *
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUQ_gj-biIc

    ... filmed in the spring of 1988 whilst the band were recording 'Vol. 1' in Los Angeles, and includes footage shot by Nelson Wilbury.

    In trying to explain how the Wilburys originally came together, George Harrison once said, “The thing about the Wilburys for me is—if we’d tried to plan it, or if anybody had said, let’s form this band and get these people in it—it would never happen, it’s impossible. It happened completely, just by magic, just by circumstance. Maybe there was a full moon that night or something like that. It was quite a magical little thing really.”
  • Amity
    5.1k
    'Dignity' - Bob Dylan (6:00)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeeJImmYj0Q

    Fat man lookin' in a blade of steel
    Thin man lookin' at his last meal
    Hollow man lookin' in a cottonfield
    For dignity

    Wise man lookin' in a blade of grass
    Young man lookin' in the shadows that pass
    Poor man lookin' through painted glass
    For dignity

    Somebody got murdered on New Year's Eve
    Somebody said dignity was the first to leave
    I went into the city, went into the town
    Went into the land of the midnight sun

    Searchin' high, searchin' low
    Searchin' everywhere I know
    Askin' the cops wherever I go
    Have you seen dignity?

    Blind man breakin' out of a trance
    Puts both his hands in the pockets of chance
    Hopin' to find one circumstance
    Of dignity

    I went to the wedding of Mary-Lou
    She said "Don't want nobody see me talkin' to you"
    Said she could get killed if she told me what she knew
    About dignity

    I went down where the vultures feed
    I would've got deeper, but there wasn't any need
    Heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men
    Wasn't any difference to me

    Chilly wind sharp as a razor blade
    House on fire, debts unpaid
    Gonna stand at the window, gonna ask the maid
    Have you seen dignity?

    Drinkin' man listens to the voice he hears
    In a crowded room full of covered up mirrors
    Lookin' into the lost forgotten years
    For dignity

    Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues
    Said he'd give me information if his name wasn't used
    He wanted money up front, said he was abused
    By dignity

    Footprints runnin' cross the sliver sand
    Steps goin' down into tattoo land
    I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light
    In the border towns of despair

    Got no place to fade, got no coat
    I'm on the rollin' river in a jerkin' boat
    Tryin' to read a note somebody wrote
    About dignity

    Sick man lookin' for the doctor's cure
    Lookin' at his hands for the lines that were
    And into every masterpiece of literature
    For dignity

    Englishman stranded in the blackheart wind
    Combin' his hair back, his future looks thin
    Bites the bullet and he looks within
    For dignity

    Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed
    Dignity never been photographed
    I went into the red, went into the black
    Into the valley of dry bone dreams

    So many roads, so much at stake
    So many dead ends, I'm at the edge of the lake
    Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take
    To find dignity

    Songwriters: Bob Dylan
    For non-commercial use only.
    Data from: Musixmatch
  • 180 Proof
    15.4k
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P3OFzIYpjwg

    Hey Lordy mama
    I heard you wasn't feeling' good
    They're spreadin' dirty rumors
    All around the neighborhood
    They say you're mean and evil
    And don't know what to do
    That's the reason that he's gone
    And left you black and blue
    Hey yeah
    Tell me what you gonna do now

    They say he's left you all alone
    To weather this old storm
    He's got another woman now
    Hangin' on his arm, yeah yeah yeah
    That old fool's tellin' everybody
    He's sick and tired of you
    Hey Lordy Lordy mama
    What you gonna do
    Hey yeah
    Tell me what you gonna do

    They say you love to fuss and fight
    And bring a good man down
    And don't know how to treat him
    When he takes ya' on the town

    They say you ain't behind him
    And just don't understand
    And think that you're a woman
    But actin' like a man
    Hey Lordy mama
    What you gonna do now?

    Get your nerves together, baby
    And set the record straight
    Set it straight
    Let the whole round world know
    It wasn't you that caused his bitter fate

    All these years you loved him
    And he knows it's true
    'Cause what you're wantin' for your man
    Is what he's wantin', too
    Hey yeah
    Tell me what you gonna do now


    When you love a man enough
    You're bound to disagree
    'Cause ain't nobody perfect
    'Cause ain't nobody free
    Hey Lordy mama
    Tell me what you gonna do
    What you gonna do

    "Blues for Mama" (4:00)
    Nina Simone Sings the Blues, 1967
    written by Nina Simone & Abbey Lincoln
    performed by Nina Simone
  • 180 Proof
    15.4k
    for laurie.


    (w/ lyrics)

    "Linger" (4:34)
    Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, 1993
    written by Dolores O'Riordan & Noel Hogan
    The Cranberries
  • Amity
    5.1k
    for laurie.180 Proof
    Someone special...?

    I haven't listened to the Cranberries in such a long time. I'd forgotten how beautiful the sound.

    Strangely, given recent discussions, the next video started playing:

    'Dreams' - the Cranberries (4:14)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc6ulrb2foQ
  • 180 Proof
    15.4k
    for laurie.
    — 180 Proof
    Someone special...?
    Amity
    Yeah, same special someone who once told me not to linger – one of her favorites from the day it dropped.
  • Manuel
    4.1k
    Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdNnw99-Ic&t=108s

    So, so you think you can tell
    Heaven from hell?
    Blue skies from pain?
    Can you tell a green field
    From a cold steel rail?
    A smile from a veil?
    Do you think you can tell?

    Did they get you to trade
    Your heroes for ghosts?
    Hot ashes for trees?
    Hot air for a cool breeze?
    Cold comfort for change?
    Did you exchange
    A walk-on part in the war
    For a leading role in a cage?

    How I wish, how I wish you were here
    We're just two lost souls
    Swimming in a fish bowl
    Year after year
    Running over the same old ground
    What have we found?
    The same old fears
    Wish you were here


    This song - like most of Pink Floyd's songs, has a fascinating if tragic background. It may seem on first glance that this song is generally about wishing someone we love was here, meaning usually that this person is dead and one is mourning a loss.

    And while that is a perfectly fine interpretation, this song is literally about Syd Barrett, the man responsible for forming Pink Floyd and launching them to some degree of fame in England. Barrett was by all means a promising genius, but he had a delicate psyche. While living the dream of "sex, drugs and rock", he accidently consumed too much LSD one time and from that point onward, ceased to become the Syd Barrett that the band members knew.

    He attempted to continue writing music, but his mind was too far gone and thus Syd retired to tranquility. Literally, this song is about a person who is alive, but gone meaning they're no longer at all the person they once knew, so not "here". This can be seen in the lyrics, with the question it asks. I take it to mean something like Syd traded his sanity for comforting delusion.

    By a strange cosmic coincidence, when Pink Floyd was recording this album, Syd went to visit the band members for the first time in years. They were recording this song when they saw a strange man they did not recognize, it took them several minutes to discover who he was. Once they found out who it was, they cried.

    They showed him some of the songs on this album. It's not clear he could take in what they were dedicating to him. The rest, as they say, is history.

    A beautiful song that should be interpreted however one feels like. :heart:
  • Pinprick
    950


    We Didn’t Start the Fire- Billy Joel

    Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
    South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
    Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
    North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
    Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
    Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"
    Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
    Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye

    We didn't start the fire
    It was always burning, since the world's been turning
    We didn't start the fire
    No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

    Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
    Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
    Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
    Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
    Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
    Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
    Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
    Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

    We didn't start the fire
    It was always burning, since the world's been turning
    We didn't start the fire
    No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

    Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
    Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
    Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
    Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide
    Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, mafia
    Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
    U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy
    Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

    We didn't start the fire
    It was always burning, since the world's been turning
    We didn't start the fire
    No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

    Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
    Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
    "Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
    Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
    Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
    JFK – blown away, what else do I have to say?

    We didn't start the fire
    It was always burning, since the world's been turning
    We didn't start the fire
    No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

    Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
    Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
    Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
    Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
    "Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
    Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
    Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law
    Rock and roller, cola wars, I can't take it anymore

    We didn't start the fire
    It was always burning, since the world's been turning
    We didn't start the fire
    But when we are gone
    It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on

    We didn't start the fire
    It was always burning, since the world's been turning
    We didn't start the fire
    No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

    We didn't start the fire
    It was always burning, since the world's been turning
    We didn't start the fire
    No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

    We didn't start the fire
    It was always burning, since the world's been turning
    We didn't start the fire
    No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
  • 180 Proof
    15.4k
    :naughty: :fire: :point:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rG6b8gjMEkw

    Rumour spreadin' 'round
    In that Texas town
    About that shack outside La Grange
    (And you know what I'm talkin' about)
    Just let me know
    if you wanna go
    To that home out
    on the range
    (They got a lot of nice girls)

    Have mercy!

    A haw, haw, haw, haw, a haw
    A haw, haw, haw

    Well, I hear it's fine
    If you got the time
    And the ten to get yourself in
    A hmm, hmm
    And I hear it's tight
    Most ev'ry night
    But now
    I might be
    mistaken
    Hmm, hmm, hmm

    Have mercy

    "La Grange" (3:51)
    Tres Hombres, 1973
    ZZ Top
  • Manuel
    4.1k


    180, as to be expected from your contributions, awesome tune. Fun lyrics. Pure style. :cool:

    Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N4jf6rtyuw

    I remember when
    I remember, I remember when I lost my mind
    There was something so pleasant about that place
    Even your emotions have an echo in so much space
    And when you're out there without care
    Yeah, I was out of touch
    But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
    I just knew too much

    Does that make me crazy
    Does that make me crazy
    Does that make me crazy
    Possibly

    And I hope that you are having the time of your life
    But think twice, that's my only advice
    Come on now, who do you, who do you, who do you
    Who do you think you are
    Ha ha ha, bless your soul
    You really think you're in control

    I think you're crazy
    I think you're crazy
    I think you're crazy
    Just like me

    My heroes had the heart to lose their lives out on the limb
    And all I remember is thinking I want to be like them
    Ever since I was little
    Ever since I was little it looked like fun
    And it's no coincidence I've come
    And I can die when I'm done

    But maybe I'm crazy
    Maybe you're crazy
    Maybe we're crazy
    Probably
  • 180 Proof
    15.4k
    :fire: :clap: :party: Love that old jam! (but you forgot the link to the song)
  • Pinprick
    950


    :up: Love ZZ Top. Probably the band that got me into rock. Growing up, all I ever heard was country. Literally. Then my dad started playing his old (by my standards) cassette tapes. I used to fall asleep to Eliminator, etc. every night when I was ~11. Good times.
  • Manuel
    4.1k
    Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V_xRb0x9aw

    I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
    I got sunshine in a bag
    I'm useless but not for long
    The future is coming on
    I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
    I got sunshine in a bag
    I'm useless but not for long
    The future is coming on
    It's coming on, it's coming on
    It's coming on, it's coming on

    Finally someone let me out of my cage
    Now time for me is nothin' 'cos I'm counting no age
    Now I couldn't be there now you shouldn't be scared
    I'm good at repairs and I'm under each snare
    Intangible (Ah y'all), bet you didn't think so
    I command you to, panoramic view (You)
    Look I'll make it all manageable
    Pick and choose, sit and lose
    All you different crews
    Chicks and dudes, who you think is really kicking tunes

    Picture you getting down and I'll picture too
    Like you lit the fuse
    You think it's fictional, mystical - maybe
    Spiritual hero who appears on you to clear your view
    When you're too crazy
    Lifeless to those a definition for what life is
    Priceless to you because I put ya on the hype shift
    Did ya like it?
    Gut smokin' righteous but one talkin' psychic
    Among knows possess you with one though

    I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
    I got sunshine in a bag
    I'm useless but not for long
    The future is coming on
    I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
    I got sunshine in a bag
    I'm useless but not for long
    The future (That's right) is coming on
    It's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on

    The essence, the basics without it you make it
    Allow me to make this child like in nature
    Rhythm you have it or you don't
    That's a fallacy, I'm in them
    Every spiralling tree, every child of peace
    Every cloud I see you see with your eyes
    I see destruction and demise
    Corruption in the skies
    From this fucking enterprise that I'm sucked into your lies
    The Russell that is muscles
    But percussion he provides

    For me I say God, y'all can see me now
    'Cos you don't see with your eye
    You perceive with your mind
    That's the end of it
    So I'mma stick around with Russ and be a mentor
    Bust a few rounds on motherfuckers
    Remember what the thought is
    I brought all this so you can survive when law is lawless (Right here)
    Fearless, sensations that you thought was dead
    No squealing, remember that it's all in your head

    I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
    I got sunshine in a bag
    I'm useless but not for long
    The future is coming on

    I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
    I got sunshine in a bag
    I'm useless but not for long
    My future is coming on

    It's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on

    My future
    It's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on
    It's coming on, it's coming on, my future
    It's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on
    It's coming on, it's coming on, my future
    It's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on
  • Olivier5
    6.2k
    We must believe in spring.

  • 180 Proof
    15.4k
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TwkANjTia4Y
    (w/ lyrics)

    "400 Years" (2:45)
    Catch A Fire, 1973
    written & sung by Peter Tosh
    Bob Marley and the Wailers
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