Great lines in a song

I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all

@torunn said
I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all

What a wonderful selection. I've never tired of that song.
Judy Collins' crystalline voice simply amplified Joni's genius; Joni's masterpiece.

YouTube - "Both Sides Now"

Sung by Judy Collins
Written by Joni Mitchell

@hakima said
...She's wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbor
And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love and they wil lean that way forever...

That's incredible Hakima!
I've not been familiar with Cohen.
And I've never heard that song before. It's wonderful with exceptional lyrics.
Thank you for making a bleak day a little brighter.

YouTube - "Suzanne"

by Leonard Cohen

Well I think it's fine, building jumbo planes
Or taking a ride on a cosmic train
Switch on summer from a slot machine
Yes, get what you want to if you want, 'cause you can get anything

I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?

Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass
For your lorry loads pumping petrol gas
And you make them long, and you make them tough
But they just go on and on, and it seems that you can't get off

Oh, I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?

Well you've cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air
But will you keep on building higher
'til there's no more room up there?
Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?

I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?

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tell me please, where do the children play?

You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher

"eleven shadows, way out of place"

@caesar-salad

REM, don't place the song.

Obviously a football team (soccer) 5-0 down after 15 minutes!

@caesar-salad said
"eleven shadows, way out of place"

I've loved that album since 1983.
It's a Michael Stipe masterwork, in lyrics.

Album - "Murmur"
Song - "Perfect Circle" (Stipe's pronunciations are creative and fun.)
Every song's a meaningful gem.

@WOLFE63

Yep, early REM

An ex girlfriend was a huge fan. Thanks

@wolfe63 said
I've loved that album since 1983.
It's a Michael Stipe masterwork, in lyrics.

Album - "Murmur"
Song - "Perfect Circle" (Stipe's pronunciations are creative and fun.)
Every song's a meaningful gem.

Stipe's lyrics, the phrase-making in Gibson's Neuromancer (e.g., "lunar concrete" ), and band flyers in the college town I was living in at the time all helped something click for me about the art of putting words together.

Way back in the day when I was exploring new music, I was a subscriber to Stereo Review (a print magazine) and took a chance on Murmur based on a review by Lincoln Steffens, which was probably only about an inch and a half column inches long.

In the velvet darkness of the blackest night
Burning bright, there's a guiding star
No matter what or who, who you are

(Enter are your own risk)

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A thousand kisses deep - Leonard Cohen

"For the time bombs ticking in the heads that hang"

Kid Rock

@torunn said
I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all

Great song: I haven't heard that one in many years!

-VR

@wolfe63 said
What a wonderful selection. I've never tired of that song.
Judy Collins' crystalline voice simply amplified Joni's genius; Joni's masterpiece.

[youtube]lKzpzzhebsw[/youtube] - "Both Sides Now"

Sung by Judy Collins
Written by Joni Mitchell

Thanks for putting up the Video wolfy!

Great old song haven't heard it in years.

-VR