Living in the Past - London Calling (25)

Hi, fellow bloggers...

Today's song is London Calling by The Clash.
Is this the best Clash song among all? I guess it is impossible for me to answer accurately - since I don't know this band all to well - but this is certainly the most well known one.
So why am I posting this song you may ask. Well, I think that even if you don't like their kind of music at least you have to respect the fact that they acctually stood up for something, they played passionate music about things they beleived in.
Plus, I really like this song's intro, how it builds up and then Joe comes in - the singer's voice fits quite perfectly. My other favourite part is the guitar solos, when they're sort of playing on top of each other, it sets a great mood.
Also I found very interesting the use of morse code at the very end of the song - from the feedback from the guitar which's tapping out S.O.S.
Concerning the lyrics, it's undoubtdly about war, since the title came from the BBC World Service's radio station identification: "This is London calling..." used by BBC during World War II.
Another thing I feel I must clear out is the following verse: 'All that phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust'. While many took this line as a slam against The Beatles, I have another likely interpretation.
The critic may be directionated to the production itself, the 'Beatlemania', for it's lack of substance, the materialism, the consumption associated with it, not the Beatles themselves. Maybe I'm wrong, this is just an opinion.
Well, I guess this is it for today, see you tomorrow ;)


P.S: The line, "London is drowning and I live by the river" came from a saying in England that if the Thames river ever flooded, all of London would be under water.

London Calling - The Clash

London calling to the faraway towns

Now that war is declared and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, all you boys and girls

London calling, now don't look at us
All that phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
Except for the ring of that truncheon thing

The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
Because London is drowning and I, I live by the river

London calling to the imitation zone
Forget it, brother, and go it alone
London calling upon the zombies of death
Quit holding out and draw another breath

London calling and I don't want to shout
But when we were talking I saw you nodding out
London calling, see we ain't got no highs
Except for that one with the yellowy eyes

The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
Because London is drowning and I, I live by the river

Now get this
London calling, yeah, I was there, too
And you know what they said?
Well, some of it was true!
London calling at the top of the dial
After all this, won't you give me a smile?

I never felt so much alike
 

xoxo, Lucy and Lovely Rita

Living in the Past - Clint Eastwood (24)

Hello, guys!

Today's song iiiiis: Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz!

 I guess that regarding the contemporary musical scene, we can enhance this band as one of the best. Not only concerning the band members musical abilities or their frontman's (Damon Albarn) compositional skills, but also their originality regarding their performances levels (their use of the technologies, and the creation of the characters, which was very inovative). This particular music video introduced most of the world to the four animated band members of Gorillaz (2-D, Noodle, Russel and Murdoc) - created by comic illustrator Jamie Hewlett.
The reason the song is called Clint Eastwood is because of the strange harmonica-like instrument (called melodica which is a keyboard instrument that is played by blowing a tube and pressing it's keys) used in the background. The Same instrument was used in Eastwood's movie A Fistful of Dollars.
As for the lyric's interpretation , I always thought that maybe something bad happened to him but he can't do nothing about it so he puts on a "fake smile" that he always uses - "sunshine in a bag".
But then, as I got to do some research, I found a more likely interpretation: the video and song is a reference to the famous western starring actor Clint Eastwood, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", arguably Clint Eastwood's greatest film. The yell from the film's theme song can even be heard at the beginning of the video. Closeups of the bandmember's faces are featured throughout the video (something that is often used in spaghetti westerns). Midway through the film, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien summons a graveyard from the ground, which is a reference to the ending of this Eastwood's film. Although often mistaken for referring to drugs such as marijuana, LSD, or shrooms, the song's famous chorus, "I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad. I got sunshine in a bag", is a reference to the gold in the bag Clint Eastwood's character rides off with at the end of the film. I guess this view is taken in a more literal sense. I never saw it that way but it sounds pretty right. 

Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz

I ain't happy. I'm feeling glad.

I got sunshine in a bag.
I'm useless, but not for long.
The future is coming on.

I ain't happy. I'm feeling glad.
I got sunshine in a bag.
I'm useless, but not for long.
The future is coming on.
It's coming on, it's coming on,
It's coming on, it's coming on.

Yeah, ha ha.
Finally someone let me out of my cage.
Now time for me is nothing 'cause I'm counting no age.
No, I couldn't be there. No, you shouldn't be scared.
I'm good at repairs and I'm under each snare.
Intangible, bet you didn't think, so I command you to.
Panoramic view, look I'll make it all manageable.
Pick and choose, sit and lose, all you different crews.
Chicks and dudes, who you think is really kicking tunes?
Picture you getting down in a picture tube,
Like you lit the fuse.
You think it's fictional? Mystical, maybe.
Spiritual hero who appears in you to clear your view when you're too crazy.
Lifeless, to those the definition for what life is.
Priceless to you because I put you on the hype shit.
You like it? Gun smoking, righteous, with one token psychic
Among those, possess you with one go.

I ain't happy. I'm feeling glad.
I got sunshine in a bag.
I'm useless, but not for long.
The future is coming on.

I ain't happy. I'm feeling glad.
I got sunshine in a bag.
I'm useless, but not for long.
The future is coming on.

The essence, the basics, without it, you make it.
Allow me to make this childlike in nature.
Rhythm, you have it or you don't, that's a fallacy.
I'm in them, every sprouting tree, every child apiece,
Every cloud at sea, you see with your eye.
You see destruction and demise, corruption in disguise,
From this fucking enterprise, now I'm sucking to your lies
Through Russel, not his muscles, but percussion he provides
With me as a guide.
Y'all can see me now 'cause you don't see with your eye.
You perceive with your mind. That's the inner.
So I'm-a stick around with Russ and be a mentor,
Bust a few rhymes so motherfuckers remember
Where the thought is. I brought all this
So you can survive when law is lawless.
Feelings, sensations that you thought was dead.
No squealing, remember that it's all in your head.

I ain't happy. I'm feeling glad.
I got sunshine in a bag.
I'm useless, but not for long.
The future is coming on.

I ain't happy. I'm feeling glad.
I got sunshine in a bag.
I'm useless, but not for long.
My future is coming on.
It's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on.
My future is coming on.
It's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on.
My future is coming on.
It's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on.
My future is coming on.
It's coming on, it's coming on.
My future is coming on.
It's coming on, it's coming on.
My future is coming on.
It's coming on, it's coming on.
My future

xoxo, Lucy

Living in the Past - Feeling Good (23)

Hi, Nina lovers!

Today's song is the classic: Feeling Good, by Nina Simone!

Altough this is not the original version of the song, Nina's cover was the one that created the amount of popularity of the tune. And nowadays, when the song is performed it is usually performed in the manner she covered it (e.g. Muse or Michael Bublé).
The original song was written by song writers Lesley Bricusse and Anthony Newley for the 1965 premiere of the musical titled The Roar of the Grease Paint - The Smell of the Crowd.
As for the build of this song, it is done incredibly well. It gets you so high, emotionally, and then just drops off again. A very emotional song sang with a damn lot of feeling. This song leaves me speachless.
I've always thought that when Nina sings this song she doesn't realy sound like she's feeling good. Sounds like a contradiction, it could be coming from an 'ironic' angle. Maybe even be seen an sinister approach, 'cause of the way it is being sung.
Either way, concerning it's lyrics interpretation, I think that there are very different interpreatations depending on the way the song is sung. Like per example in Muse's version, I see it as being about a man who's just broken off a long lasting relationship, and is feeling liberated - "Freedom is mine, You know how I feel" - however, he is also feeling slightly cynical about the whole thing. But in Nina's particular case it's like the singer is singing it to an ex lover who's moved on - trying to convince the lover and herself that she's "feeling good" but really she's not. She's feeling tormented by the fact that he was able to move on, and that she is stuck with a whole lot of thoughts of him in her head. She still loves him.
And wasn't this originally a blues song? Do they ever sing happy songs a majority of the time? No. So, that hences my thoughts. You know when people ask if you're okay and you just reply "Yeah, sure, I'm fine.." but you're really not? I think that's the case.
Simple things like "Birds flying high" don't make her happy anymore.
It's a new dawn/It's a new day/Its a new life - Could be the first day after a relationship break up (or even a death of a loved one).
Sleep in peace when the day is done - Sounds like she's glad the day is over and she can try to sleep and forget all her problems.
It's an old world/It's a new world/It's a bold world, for me - Just a mess. Her world is just a complete disgrace. Her past. Her future. It's hard for her, having to face all this changes. It musn't be easy to deal with the loss of a past she aimed and also with a future she loathes, because she can't be with him anymore.
There's fish in the sea, river running free - kind of conjures up the idea of "plenty of fish in the sea" to date, she has the freedom to do anything she'd like to.
Oh, freedom is mine, and I know how I feel - All through the song the singer is saying "You know how I feel" and here, at the end, she says "I" know how I feel, I guess it's like: "Well, you think I'm fine, everyone thinks I'm handling this just great, but really I am not, and I'm the only one who really knows that fact, I know how I feel and you think you know how I feel".
To sum up, she has this sarcastic tone all over the song. But, of course it should be sarcastic, because just about everyone will get screwed over at some point in their life. And she has reached this point.

Feeling Good - Nina Simone

Birds flying high, you know how I feel

Sun in the sky, you know how I feel
Reeds drifting on by, you know how I feel

It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good

Fish in the sea, you know how I feel
River running free, you know how I feel
Blossom in the tree, you know how I feel

It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good

Dragonfly out in the sun, you know what I mean, don't you know
Butterflies all having fun, you know what I mean
Sleep in peace when day is done
That's what I mean

And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me

Stars, when you shine, you know how I feel
Scent of the pine, you know how I feel
Oh, freedom is mine
And I know how I feel

And I'm feeling good

xoxo, Lucy and Lovely Rita

Living in the Past - Yer Blues (22)

Today's song is Yer Blues by The Beatles.

I've chosen this song is credited to Lennon/McCartney (written by John Lennon) mainly because of it's lyrics.

This blues-rock ballad was written in Rishikesh, India. Lennon said in a Rolling Stone interview that the title was a result of his defense mechanism. He opted for the humorous side so that if anyone criticised the song, he could write it off as a parody. This is by far the most emotionally-revealing moment on the White Album.
Just another example of the versatility of The Beatles - I really like John's screaming vocals, they're so fuckin' powerful, just shattering. For me, this is a very good song to listen to when you feel like what the lyrics say, depressed, down, even suicidal. It has an almost therapeuthic effect. At least this is how I feel.
Though this song isn't really "blues" in the traditional sense, it still does use basically the same blues chord progression as any blues song. And I dare you to say that John Lennon doesn't convey the viscreral feeling of suicidal depression as powerfuly as any "authetnic" blues artist.
The funny thing about the [Maharishi's] camp was that although it was very beautiful and I was meditating about eight hours a day, I was writing the most miserable songs on earth. In Yer Blues, when I wrote, 'I'm so lonely I want to die,' I'm not kidding. That's how I felt. - John Lennon / Anthology
A cause of his anguish may have been Yoko Ono. Although their relationship had yet to begin, Ono wrote regularly to Lennon, and it is likely that she is the one the song is addressed to.
It's almost impossible to make an accurate and detailed analysis of the whole lyrics, but I always wondered what this 2 parts meant:
My mother was of the sky/My father was of the earth/But I am of the universe - I think those lines mean his mother is dead, his father left him, and now he is famous.
Feel so suicidal, just like Dylan's Mr. Jones - here we have a reference to Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man", which well-document psychological battles - in the original demo of the song, Lennon sings 'I feel so insecure now, just like Dylan's Mr. Jones', as opposed to suicidal.
To sum up, this song is obviously about depression, and it has a confessional spirit conveyed. I understand completly John's point of view, concerning the insecurity behind all this soul exposing lyrics. I would feel as self concious as him. And that's why I hide my identity through this pseudonym and expose myself. So, I guess I can really identify myself with the lyric's message and the feelings behind the written process, especially at the moment, this last period has been really hard, I'm so lonely. I can't stop thinking of you. I feel emotionaly dead, for sure. Thus - I know I shouldn't - but I have a secret hope that everything will be fixed up. And that's why I don't break down, 'cause of you. 'cause of the love I feel towards you. I can't stand watching or thinking of you with her. Do you love her? Do you really love her? I don't think so, I sure hope not. I think you're choosing the easier way out. We could work it out. Won't you think of that? In the meantime.. I love you.


Yer Blues

Yes I'm lonely wanna die.
If I ain't dead already.
Ooh girl you know the reason why.
In the morning wanna die.
In the evening wanna die.
If I ain't dead already.
Ooh girl you know the reason why.
My mother was of the sky.
My father was of the earth.
But I am of the universe
And you know what it's worth.
I'm lonely wanna die.
If I ain't dead already.
Ooh girl you know the reason why.
The eagle picks my eye.
The worm he licks my bone.
I feel so suicidal
Just like Dylan's Mr. Jones,
Lonely wanna die.
If I ain't dead already.
Ooh girl you know the reason why.
Black cloud crossed my mind.
Blue mist round my soul.
Feel so suicidal
Even hate my rock and roll.
Wanna die yeah wanna die.
If I ain't dead already.
Ooh girl you know the reason why

xoxo, Lucy

Living in the Past - I Shot the Sheriff (21)

Bob Marley

Eric Clapton

Hi, fellow bloggers!

Today's song is I Shot the Sheriff, by Bob Marley (original) and Eric Clapton (cover).

This song was written by Bob Marley, and afterwards covered by Eric Clapton. I have to admite that I prefer Clapton's approach to the song, though I relly like Bob's interpretation. Acctually, it was Eric's version of the song that came out to be the most succesful, peaking at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
As for it's lyrics meaning I think that Bob uses the analogy of weed being illegal to show the oppression we are under. I don't get why people always assume that Bob's songs have to be all about drugs. Bob Marley was so much than that. Yes, he smoked the pot every day, and admited himself had never written a song sober, he was a Rastafarian prophet, come on!
Marley's profound lyrics shouldn't be reduced to a plea for the legalization of cannabis or the likes (not that I disagree with legalization, au contraire, just that I think he is sometimes miss interpretend for his habits and for the fact that cannabis is central for Rastafarians in their beliefs).
Anyway, this song is reffering to the blantant injustice, its about planting seeds of though and ideas into people, not weed (however I do believe it can be a double entry, him being talking about pot as a cover up but meaning political ideas).
Ev'ry time I plant a seed/He said, "Kill it before it grows."/He said, "Kill them before they grow." - the "seed" can be the belief or idea that he was trying to plant. To get people to uprise and stand for their rights. One of them being the right to smoke marijuana. Or perhaps this song is about racism in the police force. Sheriff John Brown comes after him using the excuse that he shot the deputy, but really he doesn't want him to settle down (hence the metaphor of the seed/plant/having roots).
I don't know if I'm right, but I guess there can be many meanings and that's another beauty of Bob's music.

I Shot the Sheriff

I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy

Oh, no, oh
I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy
Ooh, ooh, ooh Yeah

All around in my hometown
They're tryin' to track me down, yeah
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy, for the life of a deputy
But I say, oh, now, now...

Oh, I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self defense
Ooh, ooh, ooh
I said, I shot the sheriff, Oh Lord
And they say it is a capital offense
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Hear this

Sheriff John Brown always hated me
For what I don't know
Ev'ry time I plant a seed
He said, "Kill it before it grows."
He said, "Kill them before they grow."

And so, oh, now, now,
Read it in the news

I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self defense
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Where was the deputy?
I said I shot the sheriff but I swear it was in self defense

Freedom came my way one day
And I started out of town, yeah!
All of a sudden I saw Sheriff John Brown
Aiming to shoot me down
So I shot, I shot, I shot him down
And I say, if I am guilty I will pay

I shot the sheriff, but I say, but I didn't shoot no deputy
Ooh, no, oh
I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy
Ooo, ooo, ooh

Reflexes had the better of me
And what is to be must be
Ev'ry day the bucket a-go-a well
One day the bottom a-go drop out
One day the bottom a-go drop out
I say, I, I, ...

I, I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy, oh no

"I wanted to say 'I shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I shot the Sheriff' instead... but it's the same idea: justice." — Bob Marley

xoxo, Lucy

Living in the Past - Sledgehammer (20)

Hey there, friends..

So, today's song is Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel.

Brilliant song. The video is also great, especially for that time.
First off: I don't really know exactly what this song is about, but I have came out with some theorys (after making some research)...
1 - Most of the interpretations I saw defended that this song was about (drum rolls) sex. Yes, about sex. That's it. According to this point of view the arguments are the following: he's saying he'll use his sledgehammer (penis) to nail down her tracks (he wants to 'nail' her). But there's more sexual double-entendre allusion in the song: You could have a steam train/If you'd just lay down your tracks - ooooh, okay..
You could have a big dipper/Going up and down, all around the bends/You could have a bumper car, bumping/This amusement never ends - well, guess it really does sound like it!)
Show me round your fruitcage/'Cause I will be your honey bee/Open up your fruitcage/Where the fruit is as sweet as can be - no comments needed, LOL
You've been coming through/Going to build that powerr/Build, build up that power, hey I've been feeding the rhythm/I've been feeding the rhythm/Going to feel that power, build in you/Come on, come on, help me do/Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you/I've been feeding the rhythm/I've been feeding the rhythm/It's what we're doing, doing/All day and night - ok I think I've made my point!
2 - One common interpretation can be that this song is about heroin addiction. Or dropping a bad habit (wether it is drugs or smoking, for instance) and the celebration of the power that comes from taking control of your life.
You could have a big dipper/Going up and down, all around the bends/You could have a bumper car, bumping/This amusement never ends - A big dipper as a reference to a spoon and bumper cars bumping. The sledgehammer is the needle. And heroin is taking on a personality here.
I've kicked the habit/Shed my skin/This is the new stuff/I go dancing in, we go dancing in - More drug references.
I guess this one is harder to visualize. Forced, maybe. But possible.
3 - One other possible meaning could be that this song meant that he would become the driving force to totally change some girl's life. Like a sledgehammer, he would break up and shake up her personality and view on life. A more profound to look at it, I think.
As for me, well, call me naïve, but, I thought this song was about him wanting someone back, or wanting them in the first place. He's promising her anything, if she's just 'call my name' and he'd change for her. Though, the sexual innuendo meaning (that I somewhow missed) is a good one, it kinda makes sense, I suppose, it's whatever it means to you...

Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel

You could have a steam train

If you'd just lay down your tracks
You could have an aeroplane flying
If you bring your blue sky back

All you do is call me
I'll be anything you need

You could have a big dipper
Going up and down, all around the bends
You could have a bumper car, bumping
This amusement never ends

I want to be your sledgehammer
Why don't you call my name
Oh let me be your sledgehammer
This will be my testimony
Show me round your fruitcage
'Cause I will be your honey bee
Open up your fruitcage
Where the fruit is as sweet as can be

I want to be your sledgehammer
Why don't you call my name
You'd better call the sledgehammer
Put your mind at rest
I'm gonna be - the sledgehammer
This can be my testimony
I'm your sledgehammer
Let there be no doubt about it

Sledge sledge sledgehammer

I've kicked the habit
Shed my skin
This is the new stuff
I go dancing in, we go dancing in
Oh won't you show for me
And I will show for you
Show for me, I will show for you
Yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do mean you
Only you
You've been coming through
Going to build that powerr
Build, build up that power, hey
I've been feeding the rhythm
I've been feeding the rhythm
Going to feel that power, build in you
Come on, come on, help me do
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you
I've been feeding the rhythm
I've been feeding the rhythm
It's what we're doing, doing
All day and night

xoxo, Lucy and Lovely Rita

Living in the Past - Cross-Eyed Mary (19)

Hi, fellas...

Today's song is Cross-Eyed Mary by Jethro Tull.

Jethro Tull.. what can I say.. A very underrated band, but nonetheless, one of my all time favourites, gotta love Ian Anderson's originality and flute work!
This song, musically, is one of their best, not just on the album, but ever, it expresses their greatness and amazing compositions in an indescribible way. I adore the intro flute part. It makes me visualize a forest setting or some sort of peaceful atmosphere, and then suddenly "boom" society's cynicism at is best.. Am I being clear? I guess not.
As for the lyrics: This song is simply about a young lady borne of crossed-eyes of lowest income and self esteem. "Mary is a a child prostitute" - to quote Anderson - basicaly, she is an underage girl, (which fact is quite explicite in the lyrics, like: Mary is with her peers "in the playground", she isn't interested in "little boys", and the children are being watched by Aqualung "as they play) who is presented to us as the predator rather
than the prey, I think that she may be young but she's not innocent.
And the jack knife barber drops her off at school - Jackknife barbers were common during the American era of Anti-abortion (when abortion was illegal). People would go to abortion barbers to do it illegally. Hense the name. What does this mean? Well, perhaps the men that Mary was "seeing" would have paid to arrange an abortion because otherwise, the girl becoming visibly pregnant and giving birth would have exposed at least one of them as a pedophile. Or she wasn't having an abortion, and this man's job was just there as a kind of comment about him or society.
The fact that Anderson named her "Mary" was always made me wonder, and I think, not without meaning. It may have a powerful connotation, as a reference to the Virgin Mary, and thus an allegory for the Catolic Church. So how do Christians treat "Mary" today? They buy her, sell her, use and abuse her! She's "cross-eyed" because the church has lost its focus. Whether we're talking about TV evangelists or Catholic churches... they often don't spend as much time practicing Christianity as they do making money from selling "Mary".
Therefore, this song is definitly more than just the story of a little child. It is about how the modern religions end up being "prostitutes" taking mon2ey and favors from his followers.
To sum up, this is another of Ian's attemptes to cricticyse the society.

Cross-Eyed Mary - Jethro Tull

Who would be a poor man, a beggarman, a thief -

If he had a rich man in his hand.

And who would steal the candy from a laughing baby's mouth
If he could take it from thw money man.

Cross-eyed Mary goes jumping in again.
She signs no contract but she always plays the game.
She dines in Hampstead village on expense acconted gruel,
and the jack-knife barberdrops her off at school.

Laughing in the playground-gets no kicks from little boys:
would rather it wich a letching grey.

Or maybe her attencion is draw by Aqualung
who watches through the railing as they play.

Cross-eyed Mary finds hard to get along.
She's a poor man's rich girl and she'll do it for a a song.
She's the rich man stealer but her favour's good and strong:
She's the Robin Hood of Highgate-helps the poor man get along.

xoxo, Lucy

Livng in the Past - Paint It, Black (18)

Hello, mates..

Today's song is Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones.
My fascination with The Rolling Stones is quite recent and I particullary like this one song. Maybe because of my interpretation of it's lyrics and it's sonority.. I am craaaazy about sitars!
I don't know if any of you lost someone that you loved very deeply. I have, (physically or not) and the beat and the words in this song feel exactly like that feeling.
Sort of a spinning, sinking, helpless feeling. You feel numb, you watch everything happening as if it is on a movie screen. You go home, you want to be alone, you think about all the good times you shared with that person, you just want to shut down, to sleep, you can't, you start getting angry - towards the end of the song it seems to be more out of control. Makes me think of broken bottles, smeared mascara, tears and cries and screams and wishing you could die. You just hope you be together in a way. Dying? Losing Sanity? Or just going to the place you used to be together, doing what you did together...
Guess this song's it's written about the despair and depression that follows the loss of a loved one, wether it is a botfriend/girlfriend or a husband/wife.
I see a red door and I want it painted black/No colours anymore, I want them to turn black - The red door that he wants to turn black could represent pain(red) that he is trying to kill(black).
Furthermore, the choice of a door as the object he wants to paint quite is curious. In symbolism, doors often represent a pathway to another REALM, in this case perhaps death. The 'red door' reference could also mean the following: in the bible, Moses and the Jews had to paint red above their doors so the plague wouldn't kill their first born sons. It's in Exodus. Keith is the first born child, so 'I see a red door and I want it painted black' could be a metaphor for wanting to kill himself.
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes/I have to turn my head until my darkness goes - With summer representing the prime of life, if winter is death. He sees girls in their prime but has to turn his head because he knows death is only going to take them as well. Additionally, he has no interest in other women, he's greaving, he's still hurting, there's still a hollow within him. Not even seeing pretty girls can break his feeling of guilt and desparity from within. And until he can feel less depressed, he won't even put forth the effort to be with someone. He did have a love once, a great love, but she's gone now and he just feels lower than ever because he has no one to share his feelings with. Her absence is much like a death to him inside.
I see a line of cars and they're all painted black/With flowers and my love both never to come back - The 'line of cars' could be a (symbolic) funeral procession. The flowers could be reffering to the funeral, or to the flowers he once gave her.
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away/Like a new born baby it just happens ev'ry day - if you've ever "lost" a loved one, it's strange how people can act around you. They don't know what to say or do, wanting to help but afraid to upset.. that's one possible interpretation, though maybe not the most accurate one.
I look inside myself and see my heart is black/I see my red door and it has been painted black - The repeating of the first lyric reaffirms how low he's feeling. He knows that he has a problem. It has even turned his heart a darker shade. It's kind of an acceptance of his darker side, since he can't do nothing about it, to get better.
Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts/It's not easy facin' up when your whole world is black - He talks about fading away and not having to face the facts. I think that refers to him dying and not having to face up to the fact that his lover is dead. It's not ease getting up and living your life when everything is black and depressing. Or it can mean a more "softer" path, than commiting suicide, like isolating himself from the world, 'until his darkness goes'.
No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue/I could not foresee this thing happening to you - The green colour can represent the envy he feels when he sees the 'girls wearing their summer clothes' or couples together, and the blue the inevitable depression that results. As to the second verse, hes saying that he didnt even see it coming, which is also a reason for his deep depression the shock he's feeling. Or it could also mean: "This thing" might be suicide and the "you" could stand for himself as he ponders doing it. He never imagined that he would be in a situation where he might commit suicide. Nor that she could abandone him/die all of a sudden.
If I look hard enough into the settin' sun/My love will laugh with me before the mornin' comes - The setting sun could be double meaning, I imagine him looking out a window at his last sunset.. as the sun fades on his life. Before the sun rises again, he will be dead and they will be reunited in the afterlife. Or it could simply mean that he still yearns for the happiness from the old times (those old memories are what is left of who he once was, what they were together) and hopes he can get that felling again.
Therefore, there are several things that make me connect to this song: the funk i'm in; the disinterest in other relationships; the memories that haunt and torment me; the toughts of disability and impotence; the hopes and desires to disappear and not having to think more about this subject; the envy towards the people that surround me; cause I'm really down; cause I wasn't forseing the recent events, I never thought he would opt for the easier way out, without giving it another try; the hopes of reliving those great times with him; and the fact that everything in life is just a precursor to your own death and the depression and disillusionment that follows.

Lyrics:

I see a red door and I want it painted black

No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

I see a line of cars and they're all painted black
With flowers and my love both never to come back

I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a newborn baby it just happens every day

I look inside myself and see my heart is black
I see my red door and it has been painted black

Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts
It's not easy facing up when your whole world is black

No more will my green seagull turn a deeper blue
I could not foresee this thing happening to you

If I look hard enough into the setting sun
My love will laugh with me before the morning comes

I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black

I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

I wanna see it painted, painted black
Black as night, black as coal
I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black

Yeah!

xoxo, Lucy

Living in the Past - Behind Blue Eyes (17)

Hey, fellow mods..

Today's song is Behind Blue Eyes by The Who.

This song was written for the 1971 album Who's Next and although this is not my favourite by The Who, I adore this song. If you wanna hear how a guitar should be played listen to this song, it's fuckin' amazing. Also cudos for Roger Daltrey, Pete admited that though he wrote this song, Roger made it his in the way he sung it.
BBE is a description of the villain form the aborted Lifehouse project, whose name was "Brick"or "Jumbo". He is seemingly a bad person that doesn't like being bad - "but my dreams, they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be". "Brick" may suffer from mental illness that doesn't allow for himself to control his actions, he may even be schyzophrenic but since Lifehouse was never completed Pete carried the idea over to Quadrophenia with Jimmy.
Pete Townshend has always been a man obssessed with finding himself. He was always confused about his life's own meaning and significance, and this song reflects that perfectly.
So, with that in mind, my interpretation of this song is the following: maybe, this song is about depression. The word "blue" might not mean just the literal word for the color blue, but can also mean "sad". It can reflect a depressed individual, who feels that he has limited control of his future. "No-one knows what it's like to be hated, to be fated to telling only lies". But he does have dreams and desires. His conscience only "seems" empty. He has "only lonely hours" and has feelings of vengence to others. In his anger and frustration ("if my fist clenches") he may do harm to others or himself ("crack it open before I use it and lose my cool"). Maybe he is even concerned that he may attempt suicide ("if I swallow anything evil, put your fingers down my throat") and asks for help to save him. He does have the insight to know that he may need help from others "if I shiver please give me a blanket, keep me warm let me wear your coat". And than, the piece closes in a quite perfect way, by repeating the quiet depressed refrain.
I acctualy can relate it to my own life, and maybe that's why I really love this song. I am a different person on the outside than I am on the inside, when I'm sad. That's why I seem empty, without a soul, nobody knows that deep down there's a broken heart, a crushed soul, a great love. Then again there is a great anger and someone who feels better depressed than happy within me. I think that anyone could relate to this song at some point on their life.. the lamenting of the narrator, for the fact that he is misunderstood and the apologising to the people he has hurt through his actions wich he feels he has no control over. I feel so many regrets. I love you so much, wish you could forgive me and make another try.
If it is truly about the villain from Lifehouse, then I would have liked the character, because it would have been me.

xoxo, Lucy

Living in the Past - Psycho Killer (16)

Hello, bloggers..

Today's song is Psycho Killer by Talking Heads. Sorry about the delay, this was supposed to be the 20th of July song of the day..
My personal interpretation of the song is that: this must be David Byrne's attempt to explain psychosis. 'Cause of the switches from english to conversational french. I believe it is an indication of a personal duality, or even the voices in his head.
Apparently the "fa fa fa..." was a nod to Otis Redding's "Sad Song (Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa, Fa Fa, Fa Fa)", so, I guess Byrne was simply portraying the "psycho killer" as being sad in a kinda bizarre way.
I don't know if this is really true but, I've heard that "Psycho Killer", was inspired by a phrase used by his art school friend Barbara Conway. She used the phrase "psycho killer" to describe things she thought were cool(and she was murdered by a female stalker in the 1980s).

Psycho Killer - Talking Heads

I can't seem to face up to the facts

I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax
I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire
Don't touch me, I'm a real live wire

Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away

You start a conversation you can't even finish it
You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed
Say something once, why say it again?

Psycho Killer,
Qu'est-ce que c'est
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away

Ce que j'ai fais, ce soir la
Ce qu'elle a dit, ce soir la
Realisant mon espoir
Je me lance, vers la gloire ... OK
We are vain and we are blind
I hate people when they're not polite

Psycho Killer,
Qu'est-ce que c'est
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho Killer,
Qu'est-ce que c'est
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh....

xoxo, Lovely Rita

Living in the Past - Coming into Los Angeles (15)

Hey guys...

Today's song is Coming into Los Angeles by Arlo Guthrie. 

Truely a great song. Not only musically, but the lyrics are great. I think this song captures a darker aspect of the City well and also of its energy and its distinct character.
Really love hearing Arlo. Heard it on the Woodstock movie (wish I coulda been there!), and fell in love with this song, though I don't really like folk music..

Coming into Los Angeles - Arlo Guthrie

Coming in from London

From over the pole
Flying in a big airliner
Chickens flying everywhere around the plane
Could we ever feel much finer?

Coming into Los Angeles
Bringing in a couple of keys
Don't touch my bags if you please
Mister Customs Man

There's a guy with a ticket to Mexico
No, he couldn't look much stranger
Walking in the hall with his things and all
Smiling, said he was the Lone Ranger

Coming into Los Angeles
Bringing in a couple of keys
Don't touch my bags if you please
Mister Customs Man

Hip woman walking on a moving floor
Tripping on the escalator
There's a man in the line
And she's blowing his mind
Thinking that he's already made her

Coming into Los Angeles
Bringing in a couple of keys
Don't touch my bags if you please
Mister Customs Man

Coming in from London
From over the pole
Flying in a big airliner
Chickens flying everywhere around the plane
Could we ever feel much finer?
Coming into Los Angeles
Bringing in a couple of keys
Don't touch my bags if you please
Mister Customs Man

xoxo, Lucy

Living in the Past - What is Life (14)

Hello, lads...

Today's song is What is Life by George Harrison.

I think he's my favourite Beatle, guess I have a thing for the underdogs. A very spiritual man, and quite down to earth, don't you think? And very talented as well, to bad John and Paul didn't recognise that fact. But while in a solo career he had the chance to proove them wrong. 

"What is Life?" is one of George's best. I know this song means many things to many people, but doesn't this song make you feel like you are ment for something in someones life?

I guess this song was written to intenionally have a possible dual meaning - love of the Lord and/or love of another person (whether it can reffer to a positive, lovely, feel-good kind of feeling or to a depressing and sad, break-up feel). It works on both levels, although George probably approached it from the religious side.

What Is Life - George Harrison

What I feel, I can't say

But my love is there for you anytime of day
But if it's not love that you need
Then I'll try my best to make everything succeed

Tell me, what is my life without your love
Tell me, who am I without you, by my side

What I know, I can do
If I give my love now to everyone like you
But if it's not love that you need
Then I'll try my best to make ev'rything succeed

Tell me, what is my life without your love
Tell me, who am I without you, by my side
Tell me, what is my life without your love
Tell me, who am I without you, by my side

What I feel, I can't say
But my love is there for you any time of day
But if it's not love that you need
Then I'll try my best to make everything succeed

Tell me, what is my life without your love
Tell me, who am I without you, by my side
Oh tell me, what is my life without your love
Tell me, who am I without you, by my side

What is my life without your love
Tell me, who am I without you, by my side

Oh tell me, what is my life without your love
Tell me who am I without you by my side

I'm nothing without your love.

xoxo, Lucy

Living in the Past - Another John Doe (13)

Hello, mates...

Today's song is Another John Doe by Thenewno2.

I am aware that most of you probably never heard of this band..

It is an Alternative/Electro/Indie/Psychedelic Rock band originally composed by George Harrison's son, Dhani and Oliver Hecks, with Harrison playing lead guitar and singing lead vocals, and Hecks playing drums and synthesizer - as of mid 2009, the live band features Harrison, Jon Sadoff, Jeremy Faccone, Nick Fyffe, and Frank Zummo.

This particular song, was released as a single, and when I heard it for the first time I imediately liked it, it is dazzling. A very nice piece, indeed, it has an hypnotic feel, the distance between the very intimate vocal and the haze of instrumentation is great. I also really like the subtleness of the composition and the thoughtfulness of the lyrics. 

Dhani really sounds like his dad, and you can tell George's influence with the use of the slide, but that's where the similarities end. I really like the fact that it isn't kinda Beatles like, he's got a unique style all his own that in all honesty would've snowballed into a quite successful career whether he was George's son or not.

He looks more like George Harrison than I do

- George Harrison

Olivia said that with Dhani up on stage, it looks like George stayed young and we all got old

- Before the finale, of the Concert for George 

McCartney relayed to the audience

xoxo, Lucy

Living in the Past - Creep (12)

Hey, guys...

Today's song is: Creep by Radiohead.

I absolutely adore this song. The vocals just seem nonchalant while the actual music emphasizes it. Don't you love the way his voice sounds so voulnerable? It simply makes me cry and feel so empathetic towards him.

The song is sad, and hurtful, and just truly the epitome of the humanity of teenagers. Doesn't it seem to apply to anyone who aches for someone they deem out of their league? All of the self-loathing, insecurity and feelings of not being worthy are something to which most of us can relate. We just feel like creeps when we love someone we know we will never be able to reach (not anymore).

Whenever I see him, I feel dirty, like shit, hopeless, pathetic, a loser, an outcast... a creep. I still carry on loving him. I can't seem to be able to go on with my life, knowing we won't be there to support me, he won't need me anymore.

In a personal interpretation, I would say that this song is about someone who has serious confidence problems. He is clearly in love, or rather infactuated, with a girl who he fears is too good for him. He displays these feelings by describing her as pefect, and angel and above all special, (everything he considers to be perfect in today's world lies in this one girl who he is completely in love with).

He is so bedazzled by this girl that it makes him want to be more, he doesn't feel good enough cause he idolizes her in a way, that he loves her so much, he'd be happy with whatever makes her happy even if its not to be with him and that makes her special.
I feel quite the same.
I feel like crap when I see him with her, but in a way, I also feel happy for him, because at least he's happy. I just wished I could have another chance to prove him that I could make an effort and make up all the things I did.
I know I'm not good enough for him, he deserves best, but he loved me, he really, really loved me, like no one will love me again. I've screwed things up. The end is near, what can I do?
 
Radiohead - Creep
 
When you were here before
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
And I wish I was special
You're so very special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here

I don't care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice
When I'm not around
You're so very special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here

She's running out the door
She's running out
She's run, run, run, running out

Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so very special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here

I don't belong here
 
P.S: In this particular version, I've posted in the blog, the word fucking is substituted by the word very.
and, due to technical difficulties, this song wasn't posted yesterday - 16th July - like it was supposed to.

Living in the Past - Owner Of a Lonely Heart (11)

Hey, everyone...

So, for today's song, I've chosen Owner Of a Lonely Heart by Yes.

I really love this music, although it cost them the title of "one hit wonder". The guitar background/solo are pretty sweet. From a musical perspective, it's rather technically solid.

The song meaning is pretty much clarified by the video. Which is an adaption of the Franz Kafka novel "The Trial". The script remains faithful to the novel till the very last scene, where in typical Yes fashion we have a happy ending (this is not a betrayal of the novel as Kafka postulates the alternative ending anyway and Yes have simply taken him up on it).

The novel starts with an ordinary guy with an ordinary job leading an ordinary life being arrested. He is told that he is on trial and , to cut a long story short, his sentence is death. In other words, this guy "goes with the flow" and does not question the world around him.
The first couple of verses have Yes admonishing this bloke and urging him to make up his own mind about things and take control of his life. Following verses do much the same thing (Give your free will a chance...)
Sufficient to say that the song is a great piece of music and the lyrics open up worlds to those who care to follow it through. See the clip, read the book and the lyrics will have another level of meaning.
In a more personal interpretation we may say that the song is addressing the owner of a lonely heart and saying that the reason for it is that he's too afraid to get his heart broken: Say, you don't want to chance it, you've been hurt so before. But it's actually saying you should chance it and there's no reason to be lonely: in the end, you've go to go.... it will excite, it will delight.
I think that if you really love someone, it doesn't matter how hurt you felt, you should always give it another try (if you think it's worth it) and if the other person envolved is willing to comit and make sacrifices for the benefit of the relationship. Look before you leap owner of a lonely heart/And don't you hesitate at all - no no, won't you please give it another try?

xoxo, Lucy

Living in the Past - Smoke on the Water (10)

Hey, bloggers!

So, today's song is (drum rooooooolls...) SMOKE ON THE WATER by Deep Purple.

I've posted this song because this english band is going to perform today in Lisbon! This particullar song was chosen because of it's iconic, magnificent, extraordinary, marvelous, crunching four-tone chromatic progression that is perhaps the single most famous riff in heavy metal music history!

Among all the Deep Purple songs, this one stands out, it's so genious! It's one of the biggest hits of one of the heavy metal pioneer bands (along with Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath)!

This is about a fire in the Casino at Montreux, Switzerland. The band was going to record Machine Head there right after a Frank Zappa concert, but someone fired a flare gun at the ceiling which set the place on fire. The band was relocated to another hotel and recorded the album in the Rolling Stones mobile studio.

I simply love this masterpiece!

xoxo, Lovely Rita

Living in the Past - Jealous Guy (9)

Hey, fellas..

So, for today's post of the Living in the Past column, I've chosen the song Jealous Guy by John Lennon, because I really wanted to chose a song by him when I reached the ninth post, I'm assuming that everyone knows that he was obsessed  with the number 9 (because it was a number that kept popping up in his life - The Beatles were together for nine years; His son was born on his birthday, the 9th of October; John met Yoko on 9 November 1966 (9 years after he met Paul McCartney, and 9 years before the birth of Sean); His mother’s home adress was: 9 Newcastle(nine letters) Road, Wavertree (nine letters), Liverpool(nine letters).. just to name a few)

The reason why I've chosen this song is because I really adore it, and because it is the song that plays in my head when feel that I mess up something good (and that's what has been happening lately).

It's such a moving, beautiful song. It's about how you hurt someone and then try to make it up. After all, we're all human, we make mistakes, and we regret them.

This is one of the few songs that never fails to make me cry. Such pure honesty. Such simplicity. The whistle solo is so delicious.

Jealous Guy - John Lennon (1971)

I was dreaming of the past

And my heart was beating fast
I began to lose control
I began to lose control

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy

I was feeling insecure
You might not love me anymore
I was shivering inside
I was shivering inside

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy

I was trying to catch your eyes
Thought that you was trying to hide
I was swallowing my pain
I was swallowing my pain

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't want to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy, watch out
I'm just a jealous guy, look out babe
I'm just a jealous guy
 
I was so afraid, so insecure, because we started fighting all the time and instead of trying to fix things up, I gave up. I didn't mean to hurt you, I'm sorry that I made you cry, now I know just how you felt, I shouldn't have given up. I love you, I messed up, I know you'll never forgive me. I just have to swallow my pain, and let you be happy.
 
P.S: Once again, sorry about the pseudo journal this is turning into. The main thing about this blog is disclosing this magnificent master pieces of our musical culture.
 
Here you have some pictures of John Lennon, as an homage to this great man.
 

A Hard Day's Night  (1)

A Hard Day's Night (2)

Magical Mystery Tour

John and May Pang

John, Let it Be Session

John

Sgt Pepper

John plus Yoko

"Love" music video

Help!

Guitar

xoxo. Lucy

Living in the Past - Somebody to Love (8)

(this is the studio version.. I couldn't find the Woodstock performance with HQ, sorry)

Hey, fellow bloggers...

Today's song is Somebody to Love, by Jefferson Airplane, from the Surrealistic Pillow Album.

I simply love the energy of this song, one of my personal favourites of the band! Grace Slick's powerful interpretation, the composition, so harmonious, so catchy and party like, so contrasting with the lyrics.

I can really relate to the message coneveyed in these lyrics.. I think that like in my case, they reflect a journey towards a downward spiral..

When the truth is found to be lies/And all the joys within you dies. Found her lover doesn't love her like he said he did. All the good memories, all the good feelings she had for this person therefore 'dies' because he lied, he played with her heart. All the happiness she used to feel is replaced by toughts of what she did wrong in the relationship, what were her faults. She can't shake the blues.
When the garden flowers, baby, are dead, yes/And your mind is full of red. All positive feelings and thoughts are gone, she feels terribly bad with herself (again with the 'dead/dying' reference, like she feels that they'll never return, unfortunaly) and the only thoughts left are seething ones of hatred (in my case, not towards him, but directed to myself).
Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his/But in your head, baby, I'm afraid you don't know where it is. She feels like she sould go out with someone new, as a retaliation, maybe, to test him, so that she could see if it would hurt him, if he still loves her or not. But she knows, that, he may remind her or him in a way, cushioning the hurt that comes with being alone - your eyes may look like his - but he can never be what he was.
Tears are running, ah, running down your breast/And your friends, baby, they treat you like a guest. She comes to realize that her friends.. the ones she depended on to be her real support in this whole mess, the ones she thought would truely love her and never lie.. are more distant than she thought - she feels really blue and she just wanted some support, and nobody seems to help her. She's panicking because she doesn't know what to do and noone will tell her.
Don't you want somebody to love/Don't you need somebody to love/Wouldn't you love somebody to love/You better find somebody to love. She needs somebody to be there for her, someone she can rely on, someone who honestly cares about her. She just wants to get back with him, to feel complete again, to be able to make up her mistakes, to start over again, because he is really important to her.
You better find somebody to love, because it's hard to get through in this world without someone to support you.

P.S: My interpretation of the lyrics are kinda of auto biographical, but based on what I think is the message conveyed by the author.

Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane (1966)

When the truth is found to be lies,
and all the joys within you dies.
Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You better find somebody to love.

When the garden flowers baby are dead, yes
and your mind is full of red.
Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You better find somebody to love.

Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his,
but in your head baby I'm afraid you don't know where it is!
Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You better find somebody to love?

Tears are running ah running down your breast,
and your friends baby they treat you like a guest!
Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You better find somebody to love!

xoxo, Lucy

Living in the Past - Waiting for the Sun (7)

Hello, hello..

So, for today, I've chosen the song: Waiting for the Sun by The Doors!

Why this song? Because I found it very myterious and profound. I simply feel very intrigued by it's lyrics meaning. If I was making a soundtrack to my life, this would be definitly part of it (it reminds me of that strange sultriness of dusk on the beach in the summer evenings)!
I think that the lyrics symbolize someone who's really coward, waiting for someone else to make sense of his life! That someone lacks responsabillity and maturity, and needs to stop blaming everyone else for how pathetic his whole life has become.
It represents somebody who's waiting to find out what this whole shit heap life is really about. But with a relatively postive insight, because the "sun" typically represents life. I can really relate to the message Jim's trying to put across the poem, I should begin standing up for myself and just grow up! I screwed up a lot, now I just have to think: should I try to mend it? Should I just move along? Is it worth it? Sure! It's something to think about, I have to analyse what my chances are.. (null or negative?) There's only one thing I am positive about (whether I chose to give it a try or to "set him free" to be happy with someone else) I love him, and my decision will only concern that.
Morrison Hotel is a just freakishly brilliant album (although I think LA Woman is slightly better). Compositionaly, this song is insanely brilliant, touching, mezmerising (though it is not my favourite song by this band) but the lyrics make the song, without them the track would be sooo incomplete.

Waiting For The Sun - The Doors (1968)
At first flash of Eden,
We race down to the sea.
Standing there on freedom shore.

Waiting for the sun.
Waiting for the sun.
Waiting for the sun.

Can't you feel it,
Now that spring has come.
That it's time to live
In the scattered sun.

Waiting for the sun.
Waiting for the sun.
Waiting for the sun.
Waiting for the sun.
Waiting.
Waiting.

Waiting.
Waiting.
Waiting.
Waiting.
Waiting.

Waiting for you to
Come along.
Waiting for you to
Hear my song.

Waiting for you to
Come along.
Waiting for you to
Tell me what went wrong.

This is the strangest life
I've ever known.

Yeah!

Can't you feel it,
Now that spring has come.
That it's time to live
In the scattered sun.

Waiting for the sun.
Waiting for the sun.
Waiting for the sun.
Waiting for the sun.

xoxo, Lucy

Living in the Past - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (6)

As you may or may not know, today (10h July) is the third annual celebration of the Beatles Day!

This event marks the 46th anniversary of the Fab Four’s triumphant homecoming to Liverpool after they conquered America in 1964. This initiative (which previously was only concentrated in Liverpool) is slowly going global and is a great way of celebrating our musical heritage and at the same time, generate funds for Alder Hey children’s hospital.
So, to solemnize this occasion, I've chosen the title track from the album: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Why this particular track? Because it is iconic and because it symbolizes the beginning of the "Greatest album of all time" (on my book and according to the top made by the Rolling Stone Magazine).
For a more accurate and excepcionaly written analysis (it translates all my wildest thoughts about the album) I recomend the following link: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/6862/35223/35225!

xoxo, Lucy