Hot or cold is the overarching theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week, so here is a hot version of a ‘cold’ song. What a live performer is Bruce Springsteen. Teardrops on the city Bad Scooter searching for his groove Seem like the whole world walking pretty And you can’t find the room to move…
In much the same way as last week’s Song Lyric Sunday threw up a multitude of possibilities for John or Jack, this week’s prompt of Mary and its various derivatives offers no shortage of potential offerings. I toyed with The Who’s ‘Mary Ann With The Shaky Hands’ ‘and Hendrix’ ‘The Wind Cries Mary’, but finally…
Unusually, I was almost spoilt for choice this week in finding a song to fit Jim’s latest Song Lyric Sunday prompt. There are quite a few titles featuring ‘John’ or its diminutive ‘Jack’. My first choice – ‘Jack straw’ by the Grateful Dead – had to be ruled out because I used it for another…
One of the many great things about Song Lyric Sunday is that you learn something new every week, whether from researching your own contribution or looking at other submissions. This time, for example, I decided quite quickly that in response to Jim’s prompt this week relating to ‘size’ I would go with ‘Big River’, a…
After having to dig a little deper than usual for inspiration last week, on this occasion I’m going with my first thought for Jim’s latest, flavour-packed, Song Lyric Sunday prompt. Anyway, we must be overdue another Neil Young song by now. I hadn’t realised until I hit Youtube that Lana del Rey had also performed…
It’s not often I have to go down as far as my fourth choice to find a suitable song in response to Jim’s Song Lyric Sunday, but this is one of those times. The theme this week is looking ahead to better times (‘This too shall pass’), but I’ve already used ‘The End’, ‘It’s Over’…
There’s no shortage of songs featuring numbers to meet Jim’s criteria for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday. When spoilt for choice I’m particularly likely to go for the first thing that popped into my head… ….but ‘Revolution #9′ off the Beatles’ White Album doesn’t really have lyrics. However, John Lennon’s ‘#9 Dream’ is much more…
‘Relating is what brings together Jim’s key words for this week’s ‘Song Lyric Sunday’. Well, if there is an ‘Us’ it almost goes without saying that there’ll be a ‘Them’ as well – as in this song by Pink Floyd Us and them And after all we’re only ordinary men Me and you God only…
I must admit I was almost stumped by Jim’s Mexican-themed, Day-of-the-dead marking prompts for Song Lyric Sunday this week. The Eagles’ ‘Tequila Sunrise’ was what came immediately to mind, but I suspect there will be a few posts featuring that. Accordingly, I did a bit of research and was pleased to find this, which –…
This week’s prompts for Song Lyric Sunday are suitably downbeat signs of the times, relating to confinement, isolation and loneliness. Which reminded me of this ultra-heavy blues from The Beatles’ white album. Somewhat ironically, it was recorded with all four Beatles together in a very small room at Abbey Road: confinement perhaps, but certainly no…
