Let's hear it for the music! (reprise)

[Dutch Uncle]

Golden Oldie (for me at least: heard it first while in high-school, 30 odd years back) (The song is quite a bit older than that)

Something for Nothing - Rush

Waiting for the winds of change
To sweep the clouds away
Waiting for the rainbow's end
To cast its gold your way
Countless ways
You pass the days

Waiting for someone to call
And turn your world around
Looking for an answer
To the question you have found
Looking for
An open door

You don't get something for nothing
You can't have freedom for free
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dreams might be

What you own is your own kingdom
What you do is your own glory
What you love is your own power
What you live is your own story
In your head is the answer
Let it guide you along
Let your heart be the anchor
And the beat of your own song

You don't get something for nothing
You can't have freedom for free
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dreams might be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhIB-edOhvY

[Dutch Uncle]

I learned of this song 20-odd-years ago. Hot of the press at the time.
Through a girlfriend of my then girlfriend.
Saw the band in concert, the four of us.
GF turned out to be a disaster. (for me at least  )
I only added the album a few years back to my collection. Too many nasty memories I guess. To the GF.
Loved the song, and the album.
My love of the music won out over my resentment (?) to the breakup with GF in the end.

So with no further ado: Great song by a female rocker 'settling the score' with 'mom'. (I suppose)

Mother, Mother - Tracy Bonham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xi8NvSetZc

Mother mother, how's the family?
I'm just calling to say hello
How's the weather, how's my father?
Am I lonely? Heavens no...
Mother mother, are you listening?
Just a phone call to ease your mind
Life is perfect, never better, distance making the heart grow blind

When you sent me off to see the world,
Were you scared that I might get hurt
Would I try a little tobacco?
Would I keep on hiking up my skirt?

I'm hungry, I'm dirty, I'm losing my mind
Everything's fine
I'm freezing, I'm starving, I'm bleeding to death
Everything's fine

Yeah, I'm working, making money
I'm just starting to build a name
I can feel it around the corner,
I could make it any day
Mother mother can you hear me,
Sure I'm sober, sure I'm sane
Life is perfect never better
Still your daughter, still the same

If I tell you what you want to hear
Will it help you to sleep well at night
Are you sure that I'm your perfect dear?
Now just cuddle up and sleep tight

I'm hungry, I'm dirty, I'm losing my mind
Everything's fine
I'm freezing, I'm starving, I'm bleeding to death
Everything's fine

I miss you
I love you.

(I have a hunch the last two lines are sarcastic in nature. Could be wrong though.)

[JohnnyBoy]

Anybody remember Big Country?

[Dutch Uncle]

The Ploy...

You Know What I Mean - Phil Collins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lltT85Wz5R8

Just as I thought I'd make it
You walk back into my life
Just like you never left

Just as I'd learned to be lonely
You call up to tell me
You're not sure if you're ready
But ready or not, you'll take what you've got and leave

Leave me alone with my heart
I'm putting the pieces back together again
Just leave, leave me alone with my dreams
I can do without you, know what I mean...

I wish I could write a love song,
To show you the way I feel
Seems you don't like to listen
Oh but like it or not, take what you've got and leave

Leave me alone with my heart
It's broken in two and I'm not thinking too straight
Just leave, leave me alone with my dreams
You've taken everything else, you know what I mean

Writer(s): Phil Collins
Copyright: Phil Collins Ltd., Imagem Music LLC O.B.O. Phil Collins, Imagem Music Nl

[Dutch Uncle]

This song of Frank Zappa has been with me all from the 'ripe' age of 16-17.

I love the music (nowadays even more than then) and the lyrics. It always seemed to me to have profound depth. As I have been delving into codependency and its role in intra-human relationships, I have come to view the lyrics as describing codependency quite well: "Saving the world...". My 'rescuer' trait. (And that of many others, particularly my FOO. Everybody in my FOO (including me) have (had) this huge desire to be the rescuer of... well, whatever... it doesn't really matter, to a large degree, as long as somebody or something is there to 'rescue'.) Well, it's high time I ditch that trait.
Which is not to say I couldn't be of 'aid' now and then, here and there. Nor does it mean I shouldn't, ever.
But to be the 'lifeguard' of anybody but me? Nah.

So here is: Son of Orange County - Frank Zappa
(a.k.a. The Codependency Song ) (bonus track: More Trouble Every Day)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa1JR-TgPfU

And in your dreams
You can see yourself
As a prophet
Saving the world
The words from you lips
(I am not a crook) [In this live-version Zappa says something different]
I just can't believe you are such
A fool

I just can't believe
You are such a fool
I just can't believe
You are such a fool

I just can't believe
You are such a fool
I just can't believe
You are such a fool

Hahaha... haha...

[instrumental]

More Trouble Every Day
Well I'm about to get sick
From watchin' my TV
Been checkin' out the news
Till my eyeballs fail to see
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess
(Sure 'nuff!)
And when it's gonna change, my friend
Is anybody's guess (Well!) (Woa!)
So I'm
Watchin' and I'm a-waitin'
I'm hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Every time I hear 'em sayin'
There's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
There's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

Wednesday I watched the riot
I seen the cops out on the street
I watched 'em throwin' rocks & stuff & chokin'
In the heat
I listen to reports
'Bout the whisky passin' around
I seen the smoke & fire
And the market burnin' down
I watched while everybody
On his street would take a turn
To stomp & smash & bash & crash & slash & bust & burn
I'm a-watchin' and I'm a-waitin'
But I'm hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Every time I hear 'em sayin'
There's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
There's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

Watchin' and I'm a-waitin'
I'm hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin'
Every time I hear 'em sayin', oh, yeah . . .

[tuathanas]

Here's a couple you might not have heard.

A happy song about being depressed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijkosmjjWRk

And something completely different

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYoINidnLRQ

Starts off slow.

Thanks for the music

Dan

[Dutch Uncle]

 

and welcome to the site, Dan/tuathanas

[Dutch Uncle]

A song I listened to a lot when I lived abroad for a year, my first full year totally detached from my FOO.
Met some great people there, and related mostly with many other ex-pats. Due to a language barrier: Arabic. Went to school though: "Arabic or ex-pats", which was fun. One hour every day.
Though I suspect (now) the ex-pats I befriended had more in common with me than I realized then. What "kind of" single person decides to "run of" to a completely alien culture where they know nobody? Granted, a couple of them had arabic roots, but still they were there all by themselves. I guess the ones who travel to (extended) family won't turn up in "Arabic for foreigners" classes...
One of them, a Canadian guy (Hi Mr. Olive  , in case you read this. (not his real name, but he'll know what I mean)) had this "brand new" album on tape, and we played it frequently when touring around on our days off work.

Listening to the song now, I think Miss(es) Morisette has had her own 'pile of dung' stacked up against her at some point in her life...
All I Really Want - Alanis Morissette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPqGOtgvHrk

Do I stress you out
My sweater is on backwards and inside out
And you say how appropriate
I don't want to dissect everything today
I don't mean to pick you apart you see
But I can't help it
There I go jumping before the gunshot has gone off
Slap me with a splintered ruler
And it would knock me to the floor if I wasn't there already
If only I could hunt the hunter

And all I really want is some patience
A way to calm the angry voice
And all I really want is deliverance
Do I wear you out
You must wonder why I'm so relentless and all strung out
I'm consumed by the chill of solitary
I'm like Estella
I like to reel it in and then spit it out
I'm frustrated by your apathy
And I am frightened by the corrupted ways of this land
If only I could meet the Maker

And I am fascinated by the spiritual man
I am humbled by his humble nature
What I wouldn't give to find a soulmate
Someone else to catch this drift
And what I wouldn't give to meet a kindred
Enough about me, let's talk about you for a minute
Enough about you, let's talk about life for a while
The conflicts, the craziness and the sound of pretenses
Falling all around...all around
Why are you so petrified of silence
Here can you handle this?

Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines
Or when you think you're gonna die
Or did you long for the next distraction
And all I need know is intellectual intercourse
A soul to dig the hole much deeper
And I have no concept of time other than it is flying
If only I could kill the killer

All I really want is some peace man
a place to find a common ground
And all I really want is a wavelength
All I really want is some comfort
A way to get my hands untied
And all I really want is some justice...

Writer(s): Alanis Nadine Morissette, Glen Ballard
Copyright: Penny Farthing Music O.B.O. Arlovol Music, Songs Of Universal Inc., Songs Of Universal Inc. O.B.O. Vanhurst Place Music, Vanhurst Place Music, Arlovol Music

[Dutch Uncle]

Well, the 'tape' of Alanis has brought back plenty of memories (even though I bought the CD afterwards and it's now a 'music file' on my PC. Boy, how times fly and things change. I bet some posters here don't even know (from experience) what a cassette-tape is.  For those: it sucks, but it was the best thing to have at some point in time  )

You Learn - Alanis Morissette

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_zEudwZfNQ
(lyrics in the video as well)

I recommend getting your heart trampled on to anyone
I recommend walking around naked in your living room
Swallow it down (what a jagged little pill)
It feels so good (swimming in your stomach)
Wait until the dust settles

You live you learn
You love you learn
You cry you learn
You lose you learn
You bleed you learn
You scream you learn

I recommend biting off more then you can chew to anyone
I certainly do
I recommend sticking your foot in your mouth at any time
Feel free
Throw it down (the caution blocks you from the wind)
Hold it up (to the rays)
You wait and see when the smoke clears

You live you learn
You love you learn
You cry you learn
You lose you learn
You bleed you learn
You scream you learn

Wear it out (the way a three-year-old would do)
Melt it down (you're gonna have to eventually anyway)
The fire trucks are coming up around the bend

You live you learn
You love you learn
You cry you learn
You lose you learn
You bleed you learn
You scream you learn

You grieve you learn
You choke you learn
You laugh you learn
You choose you learn
You pray you learn
You ask you learn
You live you learn

[Dutch Uncle]

In an interesting twist of fate (some people call this "Synchronicity" I believe) I read today's newspaper with this piece on Alanis Morissette:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/11/isnt-it-ironic-alanis-morissette-vaping-uber-netflix-new-version-song
exerpt:

In an interview with the Guardian she revealed mixed feelings about that time of her life: "Fame became a great tool. But I still have PTSD from the Jagged Little Pill era. It was a profound violation.

"It felt like every millisecond I was attempting to set a boundary and say no and people were breaking into my hotel rooms and going through my suitcase and pulling my hair and jumping on my car."

You go Girl!

(If I'm right about the origins of the songs on that album (as I surmised in the first post on 'her') she probably has cPTSD with all the added abuse she suffered because of the success.
Perhaps we should invite her over  )

[woodsgnome]

I never felt love from my mother...something I probably share with many on this site. Never stopped me from dreaming, though, wondering what it might have been like. So that's what this song represents; just a part of that dream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHGgWOSTyDs

Backward, turn backward, Time in your flight
Make me a child again, just for tonight
Mother, come back from the echoless shore
Take me again to your heart like before

Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care
Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair
Over my slumber your loving watch keep,
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep

Backward, flow backward, tide of the years
I am so weary of toil and of tears
Toil without recompense, tears all in vain,
Take them and give me my childhood again;

For I have grown weary of dust and decay,
Weary of flinging my soul wealth away,
Weary of sowing for others to reap,
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep

Bridge:
Mother, oh mother, my heart calls for you
Tired of the hollow, the base, the untrue
Manys a summer the grass has grown green
Blossomed and faded, our faces between

Backward, oh backward, Time in your flight
Make me a child again, just for tonight.
Come from the silence so long and so deep,
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep
Rock me to sleep

From a poem by Elizabeth Akers Allen, ca. 1860
Music by Cathie Ryan, early 2000's

[arpy1]

oh my...

[Dutch Uncle]

Thank you so much Woodsgnome. The song made me cry, and it's just what I need. 

I've long known I don't love my mother either. I have an inclination for/towards her, is the best fitting English translation I can find for the word I have used to describe what I do feel for her, to a dear friend.

[Dutch Uncle]

Today, I sing this song for, and to, me.

***compulsory trigger warning: references to the male anatomy in the on-stage introduction of this song***

"Not While I'm Around" - JAMIE CULLUM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CWexVsa2ok

Nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around.
No one's gonna hurt you, not while I'm around.

Demons are prowling everywhere, nowadays,
I'll send 'em howling,
I got ways.

No one's gonna hurt you,
No one's gonna dare.
Others can desert you,
Not to worry,
whistle, I'll be there.

Demons'll charm you with a smile, for a while,
But in time...
Nothing can harm you
Not while I'm around...

...

Demons'll charm you with a smile, for a while
But in time...
Nothing can harm you
Not while I'm around...


Writer(s): Stephen Sondheim
Copyright: Rilting Music Inc.

[JohnnyBoy]

heres one all I can remember is the chorus and the title

Ball and Chain (chorus)

Take it away
Take it away
Take away this ball and chain
Cause I'm Lonely and I'm tired
and I cant take anymore pain
So take it away
Take it away
Never to return again
Take it away
Take it away
Take away this ball and chain