Friday, March 23, 2012

Help!



Ever hear a song out of the blue, that you haven't heard in a while, and it's like you've just heard it again for the first time?

This certainly isn't the best Beatles song ever... I wouldn't have even put it in my top 20. But for some reason, it must have been a right place, right time situation, it just connected with me perfectly, and I had to listen to it again. And then again. And then I had to get out my headphones, and plug them into the stereo, and put on the vinyl, just to hear all of it.
The layers of music. The harmonies. The power of the opening, no intro, no lead up. Just BAM right into the song, right into the album.

I just had to share this. Maybe someone else will hear it again for the first time...

Thursday, March 15, 2012

The Pretender

I want to know what became of the changes
We waited for love to bring
Were they only the fitful dreams
Of some greater awakening?

I've been aware of the time going by
They say in the end it's the wink of an eye
When the morning light comes streaming in
You'll get up and do it again
Amen.

Caught between the longing for love
And the struggle for the legal tender

Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring
And the junk man pounds his fender.
Where the veterans dream of the fight
Fast asleep at the traffic light
And the children solemnly wait
For the ice cream vendor

Out into the cool of the evening
Strolls the Pretender
He knows that all his hopes and dreams
Begin and end there

Jackson Browne