“The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white,” Hemingway had written in “Hills Like White Elephants” in 1927. “A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details,” Orwell had written in “Politics and t...
The lyrics in one version of the song (“They took John Henry to the white house/And buried him in the sand”) were somewhat of a mystery until Nelson immersed himself in the research. After discovering an old Virginia Penitentiary postcard, Nelson concluded that the “white house” is a ...
“I’ve got an eclectic music taste, but for my walkout song, I like ’Shutdown’ by Skepta. It takes me back to where all of my family are in the UK, but it is also a good energy song. It gets the crowd up and moving. “The lyrics can be a big thing for me in my walk...
Proposed theme song to boost Net Zero 2030…“James Wimberley says: August 7, 2023 at 6:10 pm“Climate dictatorship and net zero in Australia by 2030, comment 4…“The real difficulty is the collective action / free rider problem” And a wag here provided the lyrics: Ronald Brak says: ...
2) Ukiah, by Robert Francis: Terrific professional production, it sounds like a pop single back when they still recorded pop singles. Semi-intelligible lyrics but I did hear references to both Jonestown and insane asylums in the 1970s. It ends with “For now I’m in Ukiah on the run.”...
As we were writing for the upcoming week, we wanted to include the final cut and at that point, the lyrics had kind of faded out at 8. So, we thought we'd complete the last 4. Thus in order from 12 to 1, we have the complete song as Christie said, bring it home, and home ...
AU COURANT DUDE that I imagine myself to be, I hadn't known there was a black national anthem. But reading the lyrics of it, Lift Every Voice and Sing, it's uplifting and all if you go for uplift, but seems awfully… uh…feyput alongside the martial descriptives of perilous battles ...