WCGreen
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Mon Jul-25-05 11:55 PM
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On a morning from a bogart movie |
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In a country where they turn back time You go strolling through the Crowd like Peter Laurie Contemplating a crime....
No one writes songs like this anymore....
Al Stewert, Year of the Cat.....
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Lady Effingbroke
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Mon Jul-25-05 11:59 PM
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Literacy and musicianship!
The fishing boats go out across the evening water Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border The wind whips up the waves so loud The ghost moon sails among the clouds Turns the rifles into silver on the border
On my wall the colours of the maps are running From Africa the winds they talk of changes coming The torches flare up in the night The hand that sets the farms alight Has spread the word to those who're waiting on the border
In the village where I grew up Nothing seems the same Still you never see the change from day to day And no-one notices the customs slip away
Late last night the rain was knocking at my window I moved across the darkened room and in the lampglow I thought I saw down in the street The spirit of the century Telling us that we're all standing on the border
In the islands where I grew up Nothing seems the same It's just the patterns that remain An empty shell But there's a strangeness in the air you feel too well
The fishing boats go out across the evening water Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border The wind whips up the waves so loud The ghost moon sails among the clouds Turns the rifles into silver on the border
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It was late in December, the sky turned to snow All round the day was going down slow Night like a river beginning to flow I felt the beat of my mind go Drifting into time passages Years go falling in the fading light Time passages Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight
Well I'm not the kind to live in the past The years run too short and the days too fast The things you lean on are the things that don't last Well it's just now and then my line gets cast into these Time passages There's something back here that you left behind Oh time passages Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight
Hear the echoes and feel yourself starting to turn Don't know why you should feel That there's something to learn It's just a game that you play
Well the picture is changing Now you're part of a crowd They're laughing at something And the music's loud A girl comes towards you You once used to know You reach out your hand But you're all alone, in these Time passages I know you're in there, you're just out of sight Time passages Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight
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Tue Jul-26-05 12:03 AM
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is Road to Moscow...
Any song that starts....
They crossed over the border the hour before dawn.......
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Tue Jul-26-05 12:10 AM
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4. Also a wonderful song. |
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It's amazing how many of the themes of his songs are apropos regarding current world events. Timeless, classic writing!
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Tue Jul-26-05 12:10 AM
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what I used to do with that song as a soundtrack. :evilgrin:
Tucker
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Tue Jul-26-05 12:34 AM
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5. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress |
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running like a water color in the rain......
Absolutely brilliant, one of my most favorite lines in a song ever.
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Tue Jul-26-05 12:56 AM
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6. Ad I wonder when I 'll be home again |
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And the morning answers never.....
I saw him right when Nirvana came out in a bar here in Cleveland,,,
BTW, he still tours all the time...
So he starts playing this song on his ovation that sound vagely familiar...
Her he is doing a soft version of Smells Like Teen Spirit.
In homage to another great writer.......
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