Showing posts with label Songs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Songs. Show all posts
Friday, October 27, 2023
Monday, September 4, 2023
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Poets of the Fall: "Choir of Cicadas"
It's the season of dust trailing old pick up trucks
Seashells washed ashore down by the docks
So baby pull on your blue jeans turn the radio loud
Don't wait for the hour to give birth to doubt.
In the peak harvest of snakebites and wasted hindsight
When trivial truths sit next to the taillights
When fenders of chrome they rattle and hum
All carved in the shape of freedom
...
So I'll be your lover now, brazen & bright
Like the flare of a match you struck in the night
Though what does a stray know 'bout holy & true
But I'll always come to your rescue.
Oh Lord won't you hear your children cry
Singing their praise & their hallelujahs
I have no more words to describe
An empty sky of hollow blue, yeah
So where is my lover, my firelight
The line on the edge of truth & rumour
We took our vows in the heart of the night
We were brazen & bright, when we were brazen & bright
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Sunday, March 21, 2021
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Monday, August 24, 2020
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Gordon Lightfoot (1938) : If You Could Read My Mind
If you could read my mind, love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
'Bout a ghost from a wishing well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free
As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see.
If I could read your mind, love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel
The kind the drugstores sell
Then you reach the part where the heartaches come
The hero would be me
But heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take!
I'd walk away like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three way script
Enter number two:
A movie queen to play the scene
Of bringing all the good things out in me
. . .
"If You Could Read My Mind" by Gordon Lightfoot
written 1969 - recorded 1970
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