Not the longest or most profound set of lyrics this week, but this song by David Bowie from the ‘Low’ album definitely meets Helen’s theme for this week. This song is said to have prompted Nick Lowe to write the much more widely known ‘I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass’. Baby, I’ve been breaking…
“Preserve your memories/They’re all that’s left you” Usually, for Helen’s Song Lyric Sunday challenges I end up going with the first or second title that comes to mind. However, for this week’s theme of ‘picture/photograph’ I had to delve down to number four on my list. Number one was ‘Photograph’ by Ringo Starr; if that’s…
This week for her Song Lyric Sunday challenge, Helen is looking for something on the theme of ‘Car/Cars’. Obviously – as with ‘driving’, which came up about a month ago – there’s no shortage of potential candidates. There’s always Gary Numan’s ‘Cars’, of course, but my first thought was Dylan’s ‘From A Buick 6’. However,…
Helen’s theme of ‘Plan’ for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday didn’t turn out to be as tricky as I feared it might on first glance. That’s because this song, from Carole King’s ‘Rhymes and Reasons’ album, is all about having a plan. And it means a lot to the lovely Madame and me. On the…
A lot of people seem to have found Helen’s theme of ‘Fear’ for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday pretty straightforward. I confess that I had to think about it for a while, having eschewed the perhaps too obvious ‘Don’t Fear The Reaper’. However, this Pink Floyd song eventually came to me, and famously has the…
So many songs to meet Helen’s theme for this week of ‘Drive/Driving’. Well, The Beatles were snapped up almost immediately and it was never, ever going to be the abysmal ‘Driving Home For Christmas’. But here’s a typically cheery ditty from those high priests of Manchester miserabilism, The Smiths. Take me out tonight Where there’s…
There’s no end of songs about ‘drink’ as potential candidates to match Helen’s theme this week, including more than several from what you might call my ‘usual suspects’ rota of artistes. This time, however, I’m going for somebody who hasn’t featured here before: Elton John. This song – which comes from the album ‘Goodbye Yellow…
“Magic is what we do, music is how we do it” – Jerry Garcia (born 1 August 1942) – – – – – – – Okay, I freely admit to having lifted this from the official Grateful Dead website, but hey. One-Liner Wednesday 1 August 2018
So what if it is Bob Dylan for a second consecutive week? This is one of my Top Five Dylan pieces and bang on trend for Helen’s theme this week: You’ve got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend When I was down you just stood there grinnin’ You’ve got a lotta nerve…
“And you want somebody you don’t have to speak to” Pink Floyd’s ‘Speak To Me’ – the beginning of ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ – was my knee-jerk response to Helen’s theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. However, it’s a bit of a stretch to describe those few spoken lines as ‘lyrics’, so I…
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