Joseph Arthur ... IN THE SUN


http://youtu.be/uNF2cbW37mo

Lyrics: http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/53805/

<starry starry night>...sigh...

~ heroes ~ david bowie

This song tells the story of a German couple who are so determined to be together that they meet every day under a gun turret on The Berlin Wall. Bowie, who was living in Berlin at the time, was inspired by an affair between his producer Tony Visconti and backup singer Antonia Maass, who would kiss "by the wall" in front of Bowie as he looked out of the Hansa Studio window.

Bowie said in his Performing Songwriter interview: "I'll never forget that. It was one of the most emotional performances I've ever done. I was in tears. They'd backed up the stage to the wall itself so that the wall was acting as our backdrop. We kind of heard that a few of the East Berliners might actually get the chance to hear the thing, but we didn't realize in what numbers they would. And there were thousands on the other side that had come close to the wall. So it was like a double concert where the wall was the division. And we would hear them cheering and singing along from the other side. God, even now I get choked up. It was breaking my heart. I'd never done anything like that in my life, and I guess I never will again."

<am I supposed to apologize>

<i cant make you love me>

<arms of an angel>

~ i wish it would rain ~ the temptations

~ helpless ~ crosby, stills, nash & young






blue, blue widows behind the stars
the yellow moon on the rise
big birds flying across the sky
throwing shadows on our eyes
leave us helpless....

~ skinny love ~ birdy

carmelita ~ waren zevon

there have been dozens of covers of this song. everyone from linda ronstadt to widespread panic.

~ counting crows version 1999 ~

~ linda ronstadt 1977 ~

songs I cannot listen to ..ever and turn the channel immediately if they come on radio:

Wildfire..whew used to make me cry as a girl
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald..ex husband is a merchant marine on a great lakes vessel and for the past 20 years this song just brings us all the worries of a sailor's wife

standing outside a broken phone booth ~ primitive radio gods ~


"you ride the waves and don't ask where they go
swim like lions through the crest
and bathe yourself in zebra flesh"...

this one can be a sort of anthem for the lonely. something no one is immune from, as it says...

"if i die before i learn to speak,
can money pay for all the days i lived awake
but half asleep?"

lots of fodder in this 90's semi-hit.

~ caruso ~ lucio dalla




"Caruso" is a song written by Italian singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla in 1986. It is dedicated to Enrico Caruso, an Italian tenor.

The song simply tells about the pain and longings of a man who is about to die while he is looking into the eyes of a girl who was very dear to him.

Lucio Dalla's official video of the song was filmed at the Vesuvio Hotel where Enrico Caruso died.

~ a month of sundays ~ don henley