Open Thread WE 14 JUL 21 ~ Lyrics
Rolling Stones
Have you a few lyrics that run thru your mind? Seems this life is a constant montage of lyrical ditties rolling around the brain. Experience one thing, then a song comes to mind. And again in another situation. Always accompanied by the melody caring it. Not a musical genius, but a good recorder.
Do you have a few lines in the brain's background from songs which are associated with a tune. Have noticed musicians borrow others lyrics, so there may be more than one answer. Let's play name that tune..
1. peace, freedom, happiness
2. people changing partners like they change their underwear
3. if we could see thru other peoples eyes
4. now you've got me dreaming
5. take these broken wings and learn to fly
6. I'd like to look to you with hope
7. catfish are jumping and the weather is fine
8. move along, move along
9. gone are the dark clouds
There seems to be and endless stream of these lyrics, so I will halt here.
Share yours, and anything else which strikes your mind.
Cheers!
Credits:
diagram of musical notes: https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/NetworkOfMusicalInstrumentsForRhythmA...
Comments
Rhythm is gonna get you
Yes! I recognize most of yours.
Many of my comment titles here are lifted directly from the popular music of my youth and bits of lyrics are often buried like little easter eggs inside a longer comment. My brain is a jukebox. Lately it's been rolling the Stones' Tumbling Dice on repeat but this is among the more pleasant of its earworms, the Stones were my mama's favorite band so I heard a lot of them growing up.
The deuce is still wild, too, baby.
Wishing everyone well during these hard and stressful times, remember to take good care of yourselves and each other.
taking care of each other
good advice rev!
and your own self as well
Hey, ringing changes, as they say
hey sister, go sister, soul sister, go sister
be weli and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Learning to live together
A Joe Cocker cover as only Tedeschi and Trucks can do.
Somewhere over the rainbow ...
[video:https://youtu.be/V1bFr2SWP1I]
Some day I wish upon a star. You find me somewhere over the rainbow.
[video:https://youtu.be/8IJzYAda1wA]
This is la vie en roses ... angels sing from above.
Definitely.
I find that my brain continually churns through oldish lyrics, and through chunks of oldish science fiction dialog as well. If I didn't have those, I'd have nothing whatsoever to say, I think.
It's funny, though, because "oldish" is the key. I can identify a definite dividing line, after which I simply stopped absorbing new brainworms. For both music and SF, that was about 1995. Why, I don't know- but nothing seems to have gotten its hooks in me since then, and not for lack of listening or reading. I somehow feel like the apocryphal guy from the patent office back in 1899, stating that "everything that can be invented has already been invented".
They say that new languages are much easier to learn when young and the brain is still plastic, and I completely missed out on that due to my small-town upbringing. And then, of course, I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side. I guess that ossification of the intellect has set in. Why? Dunno. That's nobody's business but the Turks...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
heh, might also have to do with the quality of modern lyrics
or the likelihood that you listen to any
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
True, dat.
I like big boats and I cannot lie...
From Thomas Dolby's immortal "Aliens Ate My Buick", the chorus to "Pulp Culture":
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Happy Bastille Day!
I'm all for celebrating the start of a revolution.
célébrer la Révolution française
Speaking of "brainworms".....
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqnb_nU7RBE]
Exactly!
A snippet of a favorite Pete Townshend work, from a tune most unreasonably entitled "Misunderstood Lyrics":
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Speaking of earworms
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I am cursed with a weird mental tic such that
innumerable phrases and words remind me of a song title or lyric, which, I'n proper company I spew out.
borrowing lyrics is the standard practice in blues and a lot of folk music. lyrics, specific highways, towns and trains, for that matter.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Me too
My wife and I both do this. We must have the same affliction. Maybe it is something from the era? An era when music was so important and often as not the social message it carried was as much so. Instead of pablum.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Hi all,
Hi QMS! I see you got Blackbird and Black Water. A couple great ones there...
If I had to pick one lyric I have far too often thought to myself over my life it would be: "I wish that for just one minute, you could stand inside my shoes..."
Rev. Bob of course. 
best all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Heh. There is a local short cut we take a lot,
also one of our many routes sneaking through and around Santa Rosa and Hwy 12 and a few others, including downtown Sonoma. All the same, unforgettable, turn at (positively) 4th st.
I can see clearly now, btw
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
The lyrics rambling round the noggin
seem to cycle thru a vast panorama of tunes from the 60's and 70's
just never know which will show up on any particular time or event.
Also threw in an obscure Bread line there.
Cheers!
Heh and oh my
Spanish lady come to me, she lays on me this rose.
***
But the heat came round and busted me
For smilin on a cloudy day
be all well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --