‘New Beginnings’ is surely an appropriate theme for Song Lyric Sunday on New Year’s Day and this is a song worth listening to any day of the year. Yes, this is about new beginnings, but it’s also about continuity and that’s equally important. “(Just Like) Starting Over” Our life together is so precious together, We…
‘Post a Holiday song that best describes you during the holiday season’ is this week’s challenge for Song Lyric Sunday. Not easy: I can’t think of any songs about relaxing, eating well and watching the box. Or even a bracing country walk. Or getting over a heavy cold. I have to say that this was…
“You take the grey skies out of my way You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day” Bet you didn’t see this one coming. After a steady diet of late sixties and early seventies teenage angst, just for a change I thought to hell with the street cred, lets go Top Twenty and bang…
This week’s Song Lyric Sunday theme of ‘needing someone’ is certainly open to interpretation: needing help, needing love….or just needing: and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s time for some Leonard Cohen: Many men have loved the bells You fastened to the rein And everyone who wanted you They found what they will always want…
Honestly, you wait weeks on end for a new post, and then they all come along together… It has to be said that waste management is pretty well organised here in France. As a matter of course everyone recycles their plastic, glass and paper into the relevant coloured bins at the local déchetterie – and…
Does it not strike you as odd that the expression ‘He’d be late for his own funeral’ is used as a criticism of somebody’s timekeeping? It mean, it’s hardly fair to criticise the stiff in question, since presumably by that stage all matters relating to punctuality will be out of their own hands and down…
“And I can break away to the better life Where the shackles never hold me down” Who doesn’t like the Beach Boys? It’s almost impossible not to buy into the feelgood that comes from those matchless harmonies. So here’s ‘Break Away’: an upbeat song about changing life for the better, to help Helen with her…
Like most people, pretty much all my musical tastes were formed in my teenage years. And since, as is well known, teenagers know everything, it was a bit of a challenge to come up with something that matches this week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday: “post a song that helped teach you something new (something…
“Thank you, for a real good time” For this week’s Song Lyrics Sunday, Helen at This Thing Called Life One Word At A Time would like us to explore the theme of gratitude. Well, I’m not sure about the spiritual path of gratitude she refers to, but I know what I like: and what I’m…
Tough week alright, and who could blame Helen for not feeling able to come up with a specific theme for this Sunday? Much as I am a huge fan of Leonard Cohen, we perhaps need something a little more uplifting in these times. Besides, if I hear another strangulated version of ‘Hallelujah’ any time in…
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