This week Helen’s taken ‘Angel’ as her theme for Song Lyric Sunday. Hmmm – schmaltz alert. There are certainly hundreds, and probably thousands, of songs about angels. Indeed, there are quite a few simply titled ‘Angel’. All the ones that I can think of are, to varying degrees, saccharine-coated. Except this, by the Velvet Underground.…
‘Siblings’ is the theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, set by Helen at This Thing Called Life One Word At A Time. This song isn’t about actual sisters but it still fits the brief – as well as transporting me straight back to my 1970 university bedsit. Oh the sisters of mercy, they are…
This week for my response to Helen’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge of ‘Stay’, I’ve strayed a little further from my usual modus operandi. My first, instinctive, thought was the raucous ‘Stay With Me’ by Rod Stewart and The Faces. However, they featured in this category not so long ago. The second tune that came to…
“There was not another soul in sight Only you, only you” This week’s theme for Helen’s ‘Song Lyric Sunday’ is Lights. That gave me a little pause for thought, but I soon remembered this little beauty from 1972 (a great year for little beauties, by the way). Todd Rundgren goes pop – and none the…
“I won’t forget a single day, believe me” Talk about sticking to the brief. For this week, Helen has set the theme of ‘Days’ for Song Lyric Sunday. So here is ‘Days’ by The Kinks. Which was also – not really surprisingly – the first thing that came to mind. Plus it’s a wonderful song.…
This week, Sarah at On The Way To The Barre has provided the theme of ‘Seeing’ for Helen’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge. No problem this time; I’m going with my first, instinctive, idea – a song that, if Genius is to be believed, was described by Andrew Motion, the former Poet Laureate, as having the…
This week’s Song Lyric Sunday, as set by Helen at ‘This Thing Called Life One Word At A Time’, required a bit of thought. The theme is ‘shadow’. Nothing immediately sprang to mind, I must confess, so I went away and did something else until the brain came up with something while I wasn’t expecting…
We have to thank Felicia Denise for coming up with this week’s theme of ‘Unity’ for Helen’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge. This time I’ve followed my preferred route of going with the first song that came to mind when I saw the prompt. In this case it’s the opening track on Jefferson Airplane’s 1969 album…
Last week, I proudly asserted that, as a general rule, I try to go with my first instincts when responding to Song Lyric Sunday prompts. This time, though, it may be a case of all the best rules being more honoured in the breach than the observance. That’s because Helen has chosen the theme of…
As I’ve noted before, I try as a matter of principle to go with the song that first comes into my head when I see Helen’s ‘Song Lyric Sunday’ prompt. Sometimes that’s easy, other times it’s much more difficult. This was one of the easiest ones ever. It’s four in the morning, the end of…
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