After last week’s theme of ‘giving’, I suppose I should have had at least an inkling that the theme for Helen’s Song Lyric Sunday this time would be ‘taking’. Unfortunately, though, I’m not that quick on the uptake. No matter. This is a comparatively obscure Grateful Dead song, with words by Robert Hunter and music…
The summer of 1972. You had to be there. I’m grateful every day that I was. No, I can’t forget this evening Or your face as you were leaving But I guess that’s just the way the story goes You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows Yes, it shows No, I can’t…
I haven’t had too much time to think about Helen’s Song Lyric Sunday this week, and I’ve already deployed Grateful Dead’s ‘Loser’ for another theme, so here’s something from outside my usual gene pool. Let’s have a classic tearjerker from Bread this week. And why not? That doesn’t make it a bad thing. Lost and…
I hadn’t guessed Helen’s theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, desp[ite the clues from the previous two challenges. It’s pretty clear with the wisdom of hindsight, though. It must have been hiding in plain sight. Be that as it may, when I saw that the theme was ‘hiding’, I knew that I had listened…
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…
I’m no great fan of U2, but my God, those first three tracks on ‘The Joshua Tree’ could make you forgive just about anything. Except Bono. However, this song – the second track of the album – was absolutely the first thing that came to mind when I saw Helen’s theme for this week was…
In most cases, my response to Helen’s Song Lyric Sunday theme will contain the keyword in the title, thereby displaying a regrettably typical lack of imagination. Which is why my first thought on seeing this week’s theme of ‘Sleep’ was John Lennon’s ‘How Do You Sleep?’ But then I asked myself why forego an opportunity…
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,…
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