“Well I can tell your future before it comes to pass And I can do things for you that make your heart feel glad” An interesting – and challenging – theme this week from Helen: Fortune-telling or predicting the future. Didn’t see that one coming. Unless you take a very broad interpretation (and there’s no…
“Gonna make you pay for that great big hole in my heart” ‘Vengeance’ is Helen’s chosen theme this week. Almost too easy: there is no question in my mind that the greatest song about revenge ever written is Bob Dylan’s ‘Positively Fourth Street’. However, Dylan does turn up quite often in these Song Lyric Sunday…
As Helen says, there are plenty of songs about breath and breathing, but the one that came immediately to mind was this version by The Hollies of an Albert Hammond/Mike Hazlewood song. No coincidence that this came out in 1974, the year we got married. A beautiful song for a beautiful woman. If I could…
Helen has set us a tester this week with the theme of ‘Heat’ for Song Lyric Sunday. I struggled to bring to mind many songs with ”heat’ in the title. Resorting, reluctantly, to other-search-engines-are-available to find lyric references to the word produced plenty of allusions, but these seemed to be mostly in the context of…
Helen is looking for a song about gambling for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. Although my own gambling habit extends no further than the occasional lucky dip for the Euromillions Lottery (it’s about thirty yrears since I even had a flutter on the Grand National) I knew straight away what my choice was going to…
When I first saw that this week’s prompt from Helen was ‘Outer Space’ my immediate thought was to recycle the latest instalment in ‘My Music Lexicon’ series with Pink Floyd’s ‘Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun’. Even I’m not that idle, though, so here’s something that predates even that: from the 1967…
‘Lying or Liars’ is this week’s theme for Helen’s Song Lyric Sunday. Two possibilities immediately – but too immediately – sprang to mind: The Eagles’ ‘Lyin’ Eyes’ and that Fleetwood Mac one. If I hadn’t featurd a Dylan song just a couple of weeks ago, I would probably have gone with ‘Most Likely You’ll Go…
‘Colours’ (sorry, but I just can’t bring myself to spell that word without the ‘u’ that belongs there) is the theme for this week. There are certainly plenty to choose from, even if you take out all the blacks, whites and greys. I have options from all of what you could call my usual suspects…
“We thought we could sit forever in fun Our chances really was a million to one” Serendipity can be the strangest thing. Today, Helen has set us the theme of ‘Friendship’ for Song Lyric Sunday – and only yesterday I published a post about my five most-viewed posts, but only specified four of them. The…
This week for the Song Lyric Sunday challenge she hosts at her blog This Thing Called Life One Word At A Time, Helen has invited us to post the lyrics of a duet. My initial thought was the Jagger/Bowie version of ‘Dancin’ In The Streets’ but, let’s be honest, it isn’t that great. More to the…
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