On the piano was the piece of music (Bennie Gottschalk's great song hit, "Hicky Boola") which she had been playing the night before. She picked it up, tore it straight across, once, placed the pieces back to back, and tore it across again. Then she dropped the pieces to the floor...
“and the prophet sings not of the end of the world but of what has been done and what will be done and what is being done to some but not others, that the world is always ending over and over again in one place but not another and that the end of the world is always a local ...
So love songs weren't always at the top of their list. But on this standout track from their second album, Stills finds happiness in some vague notion of love. Is she woman real? Is the song even about a woman? "She's a joy to know," he sings about someone who may or may not...
“Wait till five years down the road and you’re failing/Keep fucking these regular dudes that are nameless,” Reyez sings in her villain voice on “Gatekeeper,” quoting the powerful producer who threatened to ruin her career if she didn’t hook up with him. After including the song on ...
The lyrics are written like a love poem by a 6th grader, but it doesn’t matter. Sebastian sings these simple words so beautifully and this always was, and always will be, an absolutely incredible and powerful song. My heart flutters every time I hear it. ...
He sings of a romance that seems hallucinatory and not of this earth, but with a perfect attention to details (“tea and oranges that come all the way from China”) that keeps it from ever descending into sentimentality. Threaded through the song are dream-like images and religious metaphors...
She then moved on to Clapton, who played guitar on the Harrison-penned Beatles song “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” in 1968. Boyd noted the two musicians were close friends who played and wrote music together and that she was always aware of Clapton’s attraction to her. It was flattering...
, said Theodora in her grief as she rose from her bed and collapsed into the arms of her servant. Pia started to cry again and said, “I am sorry my beloved Theodora, your sadness is real and your father is dead, but I am with you, now and forever my Lady.” “Sweet Pia, what...
Spring is here. Forget your ground hog day; the real way to welcome the arrival of spring is by sitting on a roof top bar and having a few day time beers. It was a task that three friends and I welcomed with open arms this Saturday, soaking in the sunlight on a decked roof by th...
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