To the best of my knowledge, I haven’t featured Duran Duran in my Song Lyric Sunday contributions before now. Truth be told, they are a little after my time. However, the lyrics of this perfectly respectable song meet Jim’s brief for this week of ‘Aroma/Flav(o)ur’. Dark in the city, night is a wire Steam in…
“Our past, and the physical lesions in which it is recorded, determine our future” – Proust: ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone’ (Albertine Disparue) – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 23 December 2020
Jim’s key words for Song Lyric Sunday this week are geometric shapes. It wasn’t as easy as usual to find something to match the brief, but there is this, the opening track on Bowie’s third studio LP, ‘The Man Who Sold The World’. The title track is by far the best-known song on this album,…
Jim offers us a range of soft fruits as prompts for Song Lyric Sunday this week. There is no more than a handful of songs that I can truly say were life-changing on first hearing. This definitely was and would have been the first. I suspect that I won’t be the only participant in SLS…
“So long as things are possible, we postpone them” – Proust: ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone’ (Albertine Disparue) – – – – – – – – – #1liner Weds 9 December 2020
“I have tried in my way to be free” Jim’s broad theme of ‘domesticated animals’ for Song Lyric Sunday this week gives me an opportunity to post my favourite, most resonating, Leonard Cohen song. Although the title includes ‘bird’, the very last thing that this song is about is domestication, however. Like a bird on…
“There are moments in life when a sort of beauty is created by the multiplicity of the troubles that assail us” – Proust: ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone’ (Albertine Disparue) – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 25 November 2020
Jim’s called his overarching theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday ‘spouse in the house’. However, one of his key words is ‘lover’ (which obviously isn’t mutually exclusive). The highlighted lines in these Bob Dylan lyrics were the first thing that came into my head. Well, I ride on a mailtrain, baby, Can’t buy a…
“the best way for a man to make himself sought-after is to withhold himself” – Proust: The Captive (La Prisonnière) – – – – – – – – – – – #1linerWeds 18 November 2020
Ends and beginnings are the key themes for Jim’s Song Lyric Sunday this week. It’s hard to think of a better show-opener than this Rolling Stones classic If you start me up If you start me up I’ll never stop If you start me up If you start me up I’ll never stop I’ve been…
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