'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life
Tryna make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
You know, the one that takes you to the place where all the veins meet

No change
I can change
But I'm here in my mold
But I'm a million different people
From one day to the next
I can't change my mold
No, no, no, no, no

Well, I've never prayed but tonight I'm on my knees
I need to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me
I let the melody shine, let it cleanse my mind, I feel free now
But the airwaves are clean and there's nobody singin' to me now

No change etc.

'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life
Tryna make ends meet, tryna find somebody then you die
It's just sex and violence, melody and silence
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down

:fire:

:-)


The world was on fire
And no one could save me but you
It's strange what desire
Will make foolish people do
I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you
And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you

No, I... don't wanna fall in love
(This world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I don't wanna fall in love
(This world is only gonna break your heart)
With you
(This world is only gonna break your heart)

What a wicked game you play,
To make me feel this way
What a wicked thing to do,
To let me dream of you
What a wicked thing to say,
You never felt this way
What a wicked thing to do,
To make me dream of you

And I... wanna fall in love
etc.

The world was on fire
And no one could save me but you
Strange what desire
Will make foolish people do
I never dreamed that I'd love somebody like you
And I never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you

No, I... wanna fall in love
(this world is only gonna break your heart)
Nobody loves no one

All this talk of getting old
It's getting me down, my love
Like a cat in a bag waiting to drown
This time I'm coming down
And I hope you're thinking of me
As you lay down on your side

Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

But I know I'm on a losing streak
As I pass down by your street
And if you wanna show,
Then just let me know
And I'll sing in your ear again

Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

'Cause baby, oh
If heaven falls,
I'm coming too
Just like you said
You leave my life,
I'm better off dead

All this talk of getting old
It's getting me down, my Lord
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
This time I'm coming down

Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

Etc.

How Deep Is Your Love by Bee Gees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpqqjU7u5Yc

This is dedicated to @SophistiCat and @Kenosha Kid, posters who seem to know their way around a particle accelerator.


In 2015, three graduate students and a communications officer made a CERN-themed parody of Howie Day’s hit song “Collide”. Howie Day saw the parody on Twitter, and asked to visit CERN. We said yes, but only if he covered our parody of his song and let us make a music video with him during the visit. We were joking. He wasn’t.


The beam is starting
The power is on
This is our parting
Goodbye my baryon

We counter-rotate
I see you pass by
Till we make argon and lead tungstate
Light up again

Out of the depths of space and time
Even the bosons cannot hide
As the momentum starts to climb
I somehow find
You and I
Collide

The theories you know
We test their ground; I wonder
Is there another Higgs?
Can SUSY still be found?

Out of the depths of space and time
Even the gluons cannot hide
As the momentum starts to climb
I somehow find
You and I
Collide

Dark matter
2HDM
And gravitons, yeah

Out in the depths of space and time
Even the sea-quarks cannot hide
Out of the mess we leave behind
What will they find
When you and I
Collide
What will they find
When you and I
Collide

What will they find
When you and I
Collide

I love my parents
I love my children
Boring, I know...
I don't like war or misery,
It's annoying...
You may find it
Too politically correct
But then, fuck you!

I am no racist
I am all for human rights
I don't wear fur
I don't regret the guillotine
I'm not a misogynist
I sort my rubbish
I am, I repeat
Politically correct
But then, fuck you!

I have nothing against mosques
I don't feel threatened by minarets
I don't believe gay people
Are abnormal
Or necessarily coquet
See? I'm a snowflake
Politically correct
But then, fuck you!

Victim of the consensus, I am,
I admit, secular, now that I think of it
I specify that I do not believe
That there are too many Jews
In the media or finance
At the risk of appearing
Politically correct
But then, fuck you!

It will sound like demagoguery to you
But I advise against drugs
Even for minors
I don't militate (hold on tight)
For the extinction of dolphins
I don't want them to die!
You may find it naïve and
Politically correct
But then, fuck you!

I don't treat the concierge
Nor to the cleaning lady
As if they were dogs
We must respect everyone
I teach it to my children
So that they too may become
One day, as I wish
Politically correct
And then, fuck you!

:-)

A great song. :up: :smile: :pray:

'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother' - The Hollies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl5vi9ir49g

The road is long
With a many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where
Who knows where

But I'm strong
Strong enough to carry him
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

So on we go
His welfare is of my concern
No burden is he to bear
We'll get there

For I know
He would not encumber me
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

If I'm laden at all
I'm laden with sadness
That everyone's heart
Isn't filled with the gladness
Of love for one another

It's a long, long road
From which there is no return
While we're on the way to there
Why not share

And the load
Doesn't weigh me down at all
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

He's my brother

He ain't heavy, he's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

Songwriters: B. Russell, B. Scott
For non-commercial use only.
Data from: Musixmatch

"Never Can Say Goodbye" (2:58)
A-side single, 1971
writer Clifton Davis, 1970
The Jackson 5

The Smiths: Vicar in a Tutu



a Vicar in a tutu
He's not strange
He just wants to live his life this way

https://genius.com/The-smiths-vicar-in-a-tutu-lyrics

... Weapons not food,
not homes,
not shoes
Not need,
just feed the war cannibal
animal
I
walk tha corner
to tha rubble
that used to be a library
Line up to tha mind cemetery
now
What we don't know
keeps tha contracts alive an movin'
They don't gotta burn tha books
they just remove 'em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as tha cells
Rally round tha family,
pockets full of shells ...

"Bulls on Parade" (3:53)
Evil Empire, 1996
RatM

When the kids were young and at the beach I'd pull out my pockets and sing the hook to this song while revealing my collection of sea shells.

Good times.

Uh huh :rofl:

'Something Inside So Strong' - Labi Siffre

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

Wiki - Siffre came out of self-imposed retirement from music in 1985, when he saw a television film from Apartheid South Africa showing a white soldier shooting at black children.[7] He wrote "(Something Inside) So Strong" (No. 4, 1987)[6] and released four more albums between 1988 and 1998.

The higher you build your barriers
The taller I become
The further you take my rights away
The faster I will run
You can deny me
You can decide to turn your face away
No matter, cos there's

Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Tho' you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone
Oh no, something inside so strong
Oh oh oh oh oh something inside so strong

The more you refuse to hear my voice
The louder I will sing
You hide behind walls of Jericho
Your lies will come tumbling
Deny my place in time
You squander wealth that's mine
My light will shine so brightly
It will blind you
Cos there's

Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Tho' you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone
Oh no, something inside so strong
Oh oh oh oh oh something inside so strong

Brothers and sisters
When they insist we're just not good enough
When we know better
Just look 'em in the eyes and say
We're gonna do it anyway 2x

Something inside so strong
And I know that I can make it
Tho' you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone
Oh no, something inside so strong
Oh oh oh oh oh something inside so strong

Brothers and sisters
When they insist we're just not enough
When we know better
Just look 'em in the eyes and say
We're gonna do it anyway 4x

Because there's something inside so strong
And I know that I can make it
Tho' you're doing me, so wrong
Oh no, something inside so strong
Oh oh oh oh oh something inside so strong

Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Labi Siffre
(Something Inside) So Strong lyrics © Xavier Music Ltd.

But all the songs
Tell the same story
There's always a boy
And a girl in despair
She calls him out
But he doesn't hear
He sees only her
But she doesn't see him

Films were made
And divine tragedies
Out of this situation
Rocks and spleen
Melodies that we hear everywhere:
[in English] Oh I need you baby
Baby yes I do

It's always "toujours"
That rhymes with... oh oh
This thing you have to guess:
My first is desire
My second, pleasure
My third is to suffer
And my whole you'll remember

She paints up her face
With pencils
He puts on earrings
To give himself a look
We want to please
We want to date
Then one day it's war
This game drives us mad

There's danger, there are victims
An assassin assassinates
This assassin you have to guess:
His first is desire
His second, pleasure
His third is to suffer, oh oh
And his whole, you'll remember

It's a teenager's blues
Nights spent dying of desire
Hanging on the hook of one's soul mate
In constant suspire

But all the songs
Tell the same story
This story you have to guess:
My first is desire
My second, pleasure
My third is to suffer oh oh ...

The Waters of March (Portuguese: "Águas de Março" is a Brazilian song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim in 1972. He wrote the lyrics both in Portuguese and in English. He sang the Portuguese version in a duo with Elis Regina. The English version was covered by Simon and Garfunkel.

In a 2001 poll by the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo , Águas de Março was voted the best Brazilian song of all time by more than 200 Brazilian journalists, musicians and artists.

The inspiration for Águas de Março comes from the rainiest month in Rio de Janeiro with its sudden storms with heavy rains and floods.

The lyrics do not tell a story, but show a sequence of images as a collage ; almost every sentence begins with "É ..." ("It is ...").

The text and the music allude impressionistically on streams of rain that run down the gutter and pull things like the sticks, stones and broken glass mentioned with them.



It's a stick, a stone, it's the end of the road
It's the rest of a stump, it's a little alone
It's a sliver of glass, it is life, it's the sun
It is night, it is death, it's a trap, it's a gun

The oak when it blooms, a fox in the brush
The nod of the wood, the song of a thrush
The wood of the wind, a cliff, a fall
A scratch, a lump, it is nothing at all

It's the wind blowing free, it's the end of a slope
It's a beam, it's a void, it's a hunch, it's a hope
And the riverbank talks of the Waters of March
It's the end of the strain, it's the joy in your heart

The foot, the ground, the flesh and the bone
The beat of the road, a sling-shot stone
A truckload of bricks in the soft morning light
The shot of a gun in the dead of the night

A mile, a must, a thrust, a bump
It's a girl, it's a rhyme, it's a cold, it's the mumps
The plan of the house, the body in bed
And the car that got stuck, it's the mud, it's the mud

Afloat, adrift, a flight, a wing
A cock, a quail, the promise of spring
And the riverbank talks of the Waters of March
It's the promise of life, it's the joy in your heart

A point, a grain, a bee, a bite
A blink, a buzzard, a sudden stroke of night
A pin, a needle, a sting, a pain
A snail, a riddle, a wasp, a stain

A snake, a stick, it is John, it is Joe
A fish, a flash, a silvery glow
And the riverbank talks of the Waters of March
It's the promise of life in your heart, in your heart

A stick, a stone, the end of the load
The rest of a stump, a lonesome road
A sliver of glass, a life, the sun
A night, a death, the end of the run

And the riverbank talks of the Waters of March
It's the end of all strain, it's the joy in your heart

'Man Alive' - Deep Purple

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

With “Man Alive”, Deep Purple delivers a perfect example for the versatility of their new album. The band explores their progressive-rock side while, once again, Ian Gillan shows his passion for storytelling.

After exploring the boundaries of time and space with the video for “Throw My Bones”, the first single of “Whoosh!”, Deep Purple step into the next chapter on their way to the release of the new album and again keep their fingers on the pulse time. The new video is both, a declaration of love to Mother Earth as well as a concerned look into the future.

'Man Alive'

Sun sets in the West
The boy has gone to rest
Mama clutch her breast

All creatures great and small
Graze on blood red soil
And grass that grows on city streets
It's been a quiet town
Since the juice went down
Now something's washed up on the beach
A man alive

After some thousands of years
Fewer than the smallest imaginable intake of breath
The wisest guys in the evolution of humanity became extinct
Mother Nature loves a vacuum
And so, the earth was cleansed
In no time at all

All creatures great and small
Graze on blood red soil
And grass that grows on city streets
It's been a quiet town
Until the word got round
And something washed up on the beach
A man alive

A man alone
Washed up on the beach
Just a man
Whoosh

I haven't been commenting on all the contributions here. But all are great finds; some new and welcome to my ears. Sometimes you just can't find the words...but here's a few anyway :wink:



This one. Stuck in my head for years as the most sexy evah :cool:

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So very different, amazing really and yet familiar. Love it. Looks like they are having fun with this - and the guy at the end as he 'collapses' in a heap after the quick pace and keeping apace :smile:

Thanks to all who share the music. All's well with the world - sometimes :sparkle:

Thank you Amity for your great spirit and entries.

The guy singing is Antônio Carlos Jobim himself, a very successful composer of popular Brazilian music. He wrote many songs, including some which you might be familiar with, such as the Girl From Ipanema, believed to be the second most recorded pop song in history (the first being "Yesterday" by The Beatles). It was a feature in that famous Getz/Gilberto bossa nova jazz album and was later covered by Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and countless others.

Here is the original version by Jobim.

...some which you might be familiar with, such as the Girl From Ipanema, believed to be the second most recorded pop song in history (the first being "Yesterday" by The Beatles). It was a feature in that famous Getz/Gilberto bossa nova jazz album — Olivier5

You know what I find amazing about this song thread...and the information...is that it never fails to open my ears, eyes, whatever...and makes me feel more...'alive' perhaps.

Yes, you are right - the song is a familiar one, perhaps so much so that it has become a bit 'background'.
Until now.

Everything about this original version is simply so...cool, sensual...

...Getz/Gilberto bossa nova jazz album — Olivier5

Again, something I haven't heard, even if it is famous.
Might have to listen to a few tracks...any ideas ?
Love sax :cool:

It's a very cool album, Getz plays it super smooth and breezy. One of the most widely sold jazz album ever, it reached far beyond the usual jazz audience. It's been criticized as facile elevator music, but to me that is a bit unfair. I find it unpretentious but quite lovable.

Here is "Desafinado", meaning "Out of Tune", or as "Off Key". It was (again) composed by Antônio Jobim with lyrics (in Portuguese) by Newton Mendonça, and included in the Getz/Gilberto album:

This one hit me differently today for some reason…



[Intro: Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge & Trent Reznor]
I'm— I'm limited by— by time, by— by gravity
Um, by all these physical forces
When really I just uh, I wish my consciousness would be liberated completely free
To go everywhere, to be everywhere
To do everything, to be— to be everyone that I ever dreamed of being
Only thing I've ever done
Closest I have ever come

[Verse 1: Trent Reznor with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge]
Only thing I've ever done
Ticking time is running out
Closest I have ever come
Ticking time is running out
Oh, so tired on my own
Ticking time is running out
Best days I have ever known
Ticking time is running out

[Pre-Chorus: Trent Reznor]
Yesterday I found out the world was ending
Yesterday I found out the world was ending

[Chorus 1: Trent Reznor]
A little more
Every day
Falls apart and
Slips away
I don't mind
I'm okay
Wish it didn't have to end this way

[Verse 2: Trent Reznor with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge]
These four walls are closing in
Ticking time is running out
Oh, all the things that might have been
Ticking time is running out
Watch young lovers walking by
Ticking time is running out
God forgive me if I cry
Ticking time is running out

[Chorus 2: Trent Reznor]
A little more
Every day
Falls apart and
Slips away
I don't mind
I'm okay
Nothing ever
Stays the same
While we can
Remember when
Always were, yeah
Even then
Stay with me
Hold me near
While I'm still here

[Interlude: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge]
We do not believe in human feelings
Nor in human senses
Nor human needs, human values, human fears or even human hopes
The only purpose or believe is the path from the mind to the brain
Path from the mind to the brain
Mind to the brain

[Outro: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge]
This is a preset world, there are no secrets
I feel as though I found my soulmate
Um, I never feel— I never feel alone or lonely
That's just something I don't experience— kind of feeling of alienation
No matter how strange the world outside gets
I know that there is someone that understands me

Radiohead - Just

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIFLtNYI3Ls

Radiohead - Daydreaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTAU7lLDZYU

Radiohead - Lift

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBGaO89cBMI

... A new heart is what I need
Oh God,
make it bleed
Is there nothing left?

"Like a song ..." (4:48)
War, 1983
U2

*

conjuring the ghost of my Catholic guilt :eyes:



"40" (2:35)
War, 1983
U2

Deep Purple - Soldier of Fortune Lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9hmm6MZ3GY