“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…
Even a great wordsmith like Leonard Cohen sometimes ran out of things to say – especially when in want of a chorus. ‘Joan of Arc’ is the final track on ‘Songs of Love and Hate’. With this dialogue between Joan and the fire which is to burn her at the stake it is, in my…
I’ve categorised Jim’s prompts for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday as having the overall theme of ‘Drifters’, as that seems to encompass the specific trigger words of drifter, loner, transient and vagabond Anyway, this is the first song that came into my mind for this time. It’s true that all the men you knew were…
I can see what Jim’s getting at with his prompt words for Song Lyric Sunday this week: ‘Wedding; Marry; Diamond; Ring; Cake’. It must be matrimony, right? Sorry, but I’m not biting on that one – although I have absolutely nothing against the state of matrimony; far from it. However, maybe it says something about…
Well, after Jim let the good times roll last week, this Song Lyric Sunday has a much darker theme – pain and suffering. Which naturally leads us to Leonard Cohen. And, more specifically, me in my room at university, listening to ‘Songs Of Love And Hate’ and wallowing in my teenage angst. Well I stepped…
A pretty broad theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, being hosted by Jim at A Unique Title For Me: ‘Harmony, Melody. Music’. Plenty of possibilities there. If I hadn’t drunk from the almost inexhaustible well that is the Grateful Dead’s songbook only two weeks ago, I would probably have plumped for ‘The Music Never…
Well, this has been fun, hasn’t it? And now the final instalment of the 30-Day Song Challenge. 26 A song that makes you want to fall in love: ‘You Wear It Well’ “You made me feel a millionaire” Personal reasons. Nothing to add….oh, except that this comes from the album ‘Never A Dull Moment’. How…
A few weeks ago (what can I tell you? I’ve been busy), the prolific Fandango posted his answers to 21 questions about musical tastes, set by another blogger. This gave me the idea of doing something similar, if only to relieve the thin and no doubt tedious diet of ‘One-Liner Wednesdays’ and ‘Song Lyric Sundays’…
Looks like I was seven days ahead of the action with a song for this week’s prompt of ‘Find/Found’. Hey ho, I can hardly post the same song two weeks running. After I therefore had to set aside U2’s ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’, the next one that came to mind was…
the only deadhead in the hameau 