What are your favourite lyrics or songlines?

[2020hindsight]

popular music in Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Germany

P!nk - Dear Mr. President Offical Video

same song, different video - P!nk - Dear Mr. President Offical Video

PINK LYRICS "Dear Mr. President" (feat. Indigo Girls)

Dear Mr. President,
Come take a walk with me.
Let's pretend we're just two people and
You're not better than me.
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly.

What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?
What do you feel when you look in the mirror?
Are you proud?

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye
And tell me why?

Dear Mr. President,
Were you a lonely boy?
Are you a lonely boy?
Are you a lonely boy?
How can you say
No child is left behind?
We're not dumb and we're not blind.
They're all sitting in your cells
While you pave the road to hell.

What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine.

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye?

Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
You don't know nothing 'bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
Oh

How do you sleep at night?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Dear Mr. President,
You'd never take a walk with me.
Would you?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Mr._President

The song was written by Pink and billymann. Pink came up with the idea to ask the Indigo Girls to join the recording of the song. According to an interview, they "...believe in the song. An open letter to the president, that's what we needed."

The song's format is a series of rhetorical questions for the President; specifically pertaining to how he really feels about controversial issues such as war ("Let me tell you about hard work/Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away"), homosexuality ("What kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?"), the homeless ("What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street"), and drug abuse ("You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine."), and asks "when you look in the mirror are you proud?", and the attempted ban of abortion "What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?".

....
In an interview with an Australian radiostation the Australian girlgroup Young Divas asked P!nk what she was thinking when she wrote Dear Mr. President. P!nk stated that she wrote the song on Martin Luther King Day in 2005. "I read the New York Times every day, and watch the news. And I was completely disgusted with it. I just felt like....I just needed to write a song. I really wanted to write a song to piss my dad off because he is a Bush supporter."

After her loss in the Georgia 4th District Democratic primary on August 8, 2006, Cynthia McKinney played the song to her supporters in lieu of a concession speech and sang along.[6] (video)

After several U.S. television shows denied Pink the opportunity to perform the song live, she performed it on Jimmy Kimmel Live on April 11, 2007. She thanked Kimmel for letting her sing the song.

[edit] Release
In Belgium an acoustic version of the song was released as a downloadable single in late 2006. The single was recorded at a showcase for Q-music, a Belgian radiostation. It held the number one-spot on the Ultratop 50 Chart for four weeks,[7] becoming the first download-only song to reach number one, and it charted at number 14 on the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles.[8] It also reached number 1 in Luxembourg in May 2007 and in Austria in June 2007. It was also top ten in Switzerland and Germany. In the Netherlands it reached #37.

In February 2007 Pink's official UK website reported that "Dear Mr. President" and "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)" would be released as a download single in the UK.[9] However in June 2007 is was announced that the song would be released as a full single in the UK. Mostly due the success of the song in Europe. Subsequently, release dates were for countries such as the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Germany.

In June 2007, Sony BMG music in Australia announced that Dear Mr. President will be the 6th single in that country. It will hit the radio on 11th of June but a released is yet to be announced.[10]

Dear Mr. President will be released in Australia on July 7, 2007; this is according to sonybmg.com.au

.... video... It is from the performance of the song during Pink's I'm Not Dead Tour in London at Wembley Stadium. This performance was also featured on the tour DVD. Pink is in front of the stage with her backing vocalists and an acoustic guitar, singing the song. On the big screens images are shown of George W. Bush, coffins with American flags over them (pointing to the soldiers that died during the War in Iraq) and more. Those images are also shown on the left and right side of Pink's head during the song.

The video debuted at number four on the German version of MTV's Total Request Live on May 3, 2007. It also one of the most viewed video of P!nk on Youtube. An estimated 5 million people have seen the video

 

[chops_a_must]

Ask by The Smiths:

Shyness is nice and
Shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life
You'd like to

Shyness is nice and
Shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life
You'd like to

So, if there's something you'd like to try
If there's something you'd like to try
Ask me I wont say no, how could I?

Coyness is nice, and
Coyness can stop you
From saying all the things in
Life you'd like to

So, if there's something you'd like to try
If there's something you'd like to try
Ask me I wont say no, how could I?

Spending warm Summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse
To a BUCKTOOTHED girl in Luxembourg

Ask me, ask me, ask me
Ask me, ask me, ask me

Because if it's not Love
Then it's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb,
the bond, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb
That will bring us together

Nature is a language - can't you read ?
Nature is a language - can't you read ?

So, ask me, ask me, ask me,
Ask me, ask me, ask me

Because if it's not Love
Then it's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb,
the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb
That will bring us together

If it's not Love
Then it's the bomb
Then it's the bomb
That will bring us together

So, ask me, ask me, ask me,
Ask me, ask me, ask me
Oh, la la la la la la...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=D8l1ilxT5Ys

Interestingly, The Smiths are used as the Motif for a lot of shoegazer european films, for obvious reasons. Which is something the Yanks aren't good at making. Maybe with the exception of Thumbsucker, but that didn't have The Smiths in it, just a Smith.

In summation, more shoegazer films would be nice. /rant.

 

[wayneL]

popular music in Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Germany

P!nk - Dear Mr. President Offical Video

same song, different video - P!nk - Dear Mr. President Offical Video

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Mr._President

She's not my preferred genre', but I reckon Pink is just great.

 

[2020hindsight]

She's not my preferred genre', but I reckon Pink is just great.

She has plenty of courage that one - Lol - such a pleasant change after the dumb blonde image that Britney and Paris seem so determined to portray.

Bit like Dixie Chicks - prepared to make a moral statement

 

[wayneL]

Hey, I hope I'm as cool as these folks at their age!

The Zimmers - My Generation LOL

 

[2020hindsight]

Lol
like the comedian on TV a while back speculating on what the latest generation would be singing when it's their turn to get old - huddled around the piano ...
" F*** you I won't do what you tell me ", etc etc )

 

[2020hindsight]

Invincible

the person who posted this on youtube explains that Hitler is a pukeworthy character to base the song on - but his/her message hits home - those who think they're invincible by rule of force usually come unstuck

INVINCIBLE (Pat Benatar)

This bloody road remains a mystery.
This sudden darkness fills the air.
What are we waiting for ?
Won't anybody help us ?
What are we waiting for ?
We can't afford to be innocent
stand up and face the enemy.
It's a do or die situation - we will be invincible.

This shattered dream you cannot justify.
We're gonna scream until we're satisfied.
What are we running for ? We've got the right to be angry.
What are we running for when there's nowhere we can run to anymore ?
We can't afford to be innocent
stand up and face the enemy.
It's a do or die situation - we will be invincible.
And with the power of conviction there is no sacrifice.
It's a do or die situation - we will be invincible.

Won't anybody help us ?
What are we running for when there's nowhere

nowhere we can run to anymore ?
We can't afford to be innocent
stand up and face the enemy.
It's a do or die situation - we will be invincible.
And with the power of conviction there is no sacrifice.
It's a do or die situation - we will be invincible.

We can't afford to be innocent
stand up and face the enemy.
It's a do or die situation - we will be invincible.
We can't afford to be innocent
stand up and face the enemy.
It's a do or die situation - we will be invincible.

 

[2020hindsight]

seekers kumbaya
Judith Durham's tonsils in full flight
ok the lyrics can be learnt in 10 seconds lol - but she sure can sing that girl.

 

[2020hindsight]

http://www.topsynergy.com/famous/Pink.asp
pink , stupid girls
pink, nobody knows

Nobody knows
Nobody knows but me
That I sometimes cry
If I could pretend that I'm asleep
When my tears start to fall
I peek out from behind these walls
I think nobody knows
Nobody knows no

Nobody likes
Nobody likes to lose their inner voice
The one I used to hear before my life
Made a choice
But I think nobody knows
No no
Nobody knows
No

Baby
Oh the secret's safe with me
There's nowhere else in the world that I could ever be
And baby don't it feel like I'm all alone
Who's gonna be there after the last angel has flown
And I've lost my way back home
I think nobody knows no
I said nobody knows
Nobody cares

It's win or lose not how you play the game
And the road to darkness has a way
Of always knowing my name
But I think nobody knows
No no
Nobody knows no no no no

Baby
Oh the secret's safe with me
There's nowhere else in the world that I could ever be
And baby don't it feel like I'm all alone
Who's gonna be there after the last angel has flown
And I've lost my way back home
And oh no no no no
Nobody knows
No no no no no no

Tomorrow I'll be there my friend
I'll wake up and start all over again
When everybody else is gone
No no no

Nobody knows
Nobody knows the rhythem of my heart
The way I do when I'm lying in the dark
And the world is asleep
I think nobody knows
Nobody knows
Nobody knows but me
Me

 

[2020hindsight]

lol - what a load of bs those astrology websites are (sorry yogi )

http://www.topsynergy.com/famous/Steve_Martin.asp
Steve Martin has a need for calm and peaceful surrounding,

http://www.topsynergy.com/famous/Bill_Murray.asp
Bill Murray is timid about expressing too much sentiment or emotion

steve martin , bill murray , dentist
Steve Martin - Michael Jackson impersonation
Steve Martin, a wild and crazy guy

 

[2020hindsight]

Peter Gunn
Perry Mason (nearly as bad a tony abbott lol)
Have Gun Will Travel, paladin

Roy Rogers, Dale Evans & Perry Como: Happy Trails

 

[2020hindsight]

Peter Dawson, baritone 1935 "Old Kettledrum"

Peter Dawson (31 January 1882 - 27 September 1961) was an Australian bass-baritone who gained worldwide renown and popularity through his recitals and recordings of concert song, in a career spanning nearly sixty years.

Although his repertoire included a great deal of popular and light music, Dawson possessed a very remarkable and perfect vocal technique with an attractive dark timbre, an ideal balance of diction and vocal placing, a strong but integrated vocal attack without intrusive aspirates, and a near-perfect ability to manage ornaments and roulades. These qualities probably derived from his studies with Sir Charles Santley. If his interpretations were not profound, they were nonetheless masterful, and in his chosen field of English concert repertoire of the vigorous, seagoing kind he was unequalled.

In 1984 he was chosen by the Guinness Book of Recorded Sound as one of the top ten singers of all time, alongside such luminaries as Elvis Presley and Enrico Caruso.

 

[2020hindsight]

the poem (John Gillespie Magee) and excerpts from the song (John Denver)
Scene from For the Moment (1993). Russell Crowe recites the poem, "High Flight", by John Gillespie McGee, Jr.

brief extracts from Denver's song

https://www.aussiestockforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=83871&highlight=magee#post83871 more details as previously posted - great poem

a really outdated hangglider design

 

[2020hindsight]

I hope I mentioned the highest I've been is about 85 feet - not pretending "I've weally sawed and swung, etc " (although I plan to take it up again "one of these days")

HIGH FLIGHT - by John Gillespie Magee, Jr (and 2020)

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, ”” and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of ”” wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

Oh I have swooped off silly bunds of earth
And danced and cried (with laughter in the wings)
Upward I’ve climbed the full stepladder’s worth
With side-split crowds, and done a dozen dings
Few have not dreamed of – got caught in swings that swung
High in the playground silence. Hollering there -
I've ceased to shout at passers by, and flung
My meagre craft through ten foot falls of air….

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew ””
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

Gave up the bong's mysterious burning brew
I've trimmed the skin-swept treetops of our place
And for a lark, I maybe had a few
And like with silent lifting shoes I’ve trod
The roof, no guest pass – sank a half a case
Put up my hand, and grabbed the toe of God.

............
One day I'll cash my sleeping bonds on Earth
And dance the skies on laughter-silvered wing;
Okker and soul, and Icarus rebirth
And bum-sit clouds, ”” and go to choir and sing
songs you've not dreamed of ”” and REALLY poorly sung
High in the sunlit silence. Hoovering there,
I'll boost the shouting wind along, in lung
fulls eager craft below can deal and share..

 

[2020hindsight]

.... oft quoted of course

gee wouldn't you love to be up these with this bloke (Yosemite)
Yosemite
some bloke "playing around and landing Stanwell" - these days Seacliff bridge in background

 

[2020hindsight]

.........
hang gliding pioneers- An interview with Francis Rogallo (NASA), John Dickenson (Aus) , and Bill Moyes (Aus) in 1988

 

[2020hindsight]

Just heard this one by Rufus Wainwright on radio
Tired of America (Rufus Wainwright)
Strange background (understatement), - including spending some time with Bush's daughter ) but not a bad singer .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Wainwright . He lived in Montreal with his mother for most of his childhood .....He came out as gay while still a teen. .... He released the self-titled Rufus Wainwright album in the spring of 1998; the record received much critical acclaim, and was recognized by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the best albums of the year. He was also named by Rolling Stone magazine "Best New Artist" of the year. ...

Addiction. In the early 2000s, Wainwright became addicted to crystal meth, during which time he went temporarily blind from his usage of the drug. By 2002, his addiction had reached its height. In what he deemed "the most surreal week of his life", the singer played a cameo role as a drug addict in Absolutely Fabulous; spent several nights partying with Barbara Bush (the President's daughter); ....Upon realizing that he needed some sort of guidance in his life, he telephoned friend Elton John, who convinced him to check in to rehab at the Hazelden Foundation in Minnesota. There he detoxed and underwent therapy. He has not confirmed or denied if he has stuck with sobriety.

His talent has been widely recognized and praised by such artists as Elton John, Morrissey,.. Leonard Cohen], and Sting

 

[2020hindsight]

Emmylou Harris - Two More Bottles of Wine

 

[2020hindsight]

Here are two versions - both ANZACs
In each case you have to get to at leat the half way mark - think it's the loudest Forte I've heard Judy Durham blasting out
Judith Durham - Climb Ev'ry Mountain

Kiri Te Kanawa - Sound Of Music - Climb Every

Fellow climbs Lovers Leap CA

 

[2020hindsight]

Here's the story behind one posted back there a coupla posts back. Delbert McKlinton wrote it apparently.
Two More Bottles Of Wine
"Martina with Delbert McKlinton. Very good song, and both having alot of fun with it."