Thursday, September 25, 2008

How are things in gloccamora?


How are things in Glocca Mora?


Is that willow tree still weeping there?


Does that lassie with the twinklin' eyeCome smilin' by


and does she walk away,


Sad and dreamy there not to see me there?
"How Are Things in Gloccomora?"
-written by Yip Harburg sung by Julie Andrew

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Don't You?


You're so vain


I'll bet you think this song is about you


Don't you?


Don't you?


"You're So Vain"- Carly Simon

Saturday, September 20, 2008

If a Tree Falls in the Forest


Rain forest

Mist and mystery

Teeming green

Green brain facing labotomy

Climate control centre for the world

Ancient cord of coexistence

Hacked by parasitic greedhead scam

-From Sarawak to AmazonasCosta Rica

to mangy B.C. hills -

Cortege rhythm of falling timber.

What kind of currency grows in these new deserts,

These brand new flood plains?
If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?


"If a Tree Falls in the Forest" - Bruce Cockburn

Friday, September 19, 2008

How many years?


Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist


Before they're allowed to be free?
"Blowing in the Wind" by Bob Dylan

Thursday, September 18, 2008

will you remember me?


But I will remember you


Will you remember me?


Don’t let your life pass you by


Weep not for the memories


"I Will Remember You"


-Sarah McLachlan


Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Why do the stars glow above?


Why do the birds go on singing?


Why do the stars glow above?


Don't they know


It's the end of the world


It ended when you said goodbye


"The End of the World" by Skeeter Davis

Monday, September 15, 2008

Why can't I?


Anyone can whistle,


any old day-easy.


It's all so simple.


Relax, let go, let fly.


So someone tell me,


why can't I?


"anyone can whistle"


-Steven Sondheim

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Are You Warm, are you real,...?


Do you smile to tempt a lover, mona lisa?


Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?


Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep


They just lie there and they die there


Are you warm, are you real, mona lisa?


Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?


-Mona Lisa by Nat King Cole

Thursday, September 11, 2008

How Can I Keep from Singing?



"My life goes on in endless song

above earth's lamentations,

I hear the real, though far-off hymn


How can I keep from singing?"


"How Can I Keep from Singing?" or "My Life Flows On"

an old Quaker abolitionist hymn by Robert Lowry

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Why did we quarrel?




Why did we quarrel,

why did we fight?

Why did I leave her alone tonight?

That's why her footsteps ran into the sea

That's why my baby has gone from me.

from "Endless Sleep" by Jody Reynolds

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Who Killed...


"I hit him, yes, it's true,

But that's what I am paid to do.

Don't say 'murder,' don't say 'kill.

'It was destiny, it was God's will."
Who killed Davey Moore,

Why an' what's the reason for?


"Who Killed Davey Moore"- Bob Dylan

Thursday, September 4, 2008

How hard?


We laid ourselves the best of plans

Forty years go by with someone laying in your bed

Forty years of things you say you wish you'd never said

How hard would it have been to say some kinder words instead?


from "Long Ride Home" by Patty Griffin

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

How Can We Sleep?


"How can we sleep when our beds are burning?"


-Midnight Oil 1988