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Re: Still more songs that remind us of Ennis and Jack
« Reply #60 on: January 07, 2011, 01:06:53 pm »
Jack Johnson's Better Together:

There's no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard,
No song that I could sing
But I can try for your heart,
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things,
Like a shoebox of photographs,
With sepiatone loving,
Love is the answer
At least for most of the questions in my heart ,
Like why are we here? And where do we go?
And how come it's so hard?
It's not always easy,
And sometimes life can be deceiving,
I'll tell you one thing, its always better when we're together

[Chorus:]
MMM, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, we'll look at the stars when we're together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together

[Verse 2:]
And all of these moments
Just might find their way into my dreams tonight
But I know that they'll be gone,
When the morning light sings
And brings new things,
But tomorrow night you see
That they'll be gone too,
Too many things I have to do,
But if all of these dreams might find their way
Into my day to day scene
I'll be under the impression,
I was somewhere in-between
With only two,
Just me and you
Not so many things we got to do,
Or places we got to be
We'll sit beneath the mango tree now

Yeah, it's always better when we're together
MMM, We're somewhere in-between together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together

MmMMmm MmMMm MmMMm
I believe in memories
They look so, so pretty when I sleep
Hey now, and when, and when I wake up,
You look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is not enough time,
And there is no, no song I could sing
And there is no combination of words I could say
But I will still tell you one thing,
We're better together
"chewing gum and duct tape"

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Re: Still more songs that remind us of Ennis and Jack
« Reply #61 on: April 30, 2011, 06:27:07 am »
"Time Passes Slowly"

Time passes slowly up here in the mountain
We sit beside the bridges and walk beside the fountains
Catch the wild fishes that float though the stream
Time passes slowly when you're lost in a dream.

Once I had a sweetheart, she was fine and good-looking
She sat in the kitchen while her mama was cooking
Stared on out the window to the stars high above
Time passes slowly when you're searching for love.

Ain't no reason to go in a wagon to town
Ain't no reason to go to the fair
Ain't no reason to go up, ain't no reason to go down
Ain't no reason to go anywhere.

Time passes slowly up here in the daylight
We stare straight ahead and try so hard to stay right
Like the red rose of summer that blooms in the day
Time passes slowly and fades away.
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Re: Still more songs that remind us of Ennis and Jack
« Reply #62 on: August 05, 2011, 09:33:25 am »

"Soul Meets Body"

I want to live where soul meets body
And let the sun wrap its arms around me
And bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing
And feel, feel what its like to be new

Cause in my head there’s a greyhound station
Where I send my thoughts to far off destinations
So they may have a chance of finding a place
where they’re far more suited than here

And I cannot guess what we'll discover
When we turn the dirt with our palms cupped like shovels
But I know our filthy hands can wash one another’s
And not one speck will remain

And I do believe it’s true
That there are roads left in both of our shoes
But if the silence takes you
Then I hope it takes me too
So brown eyes I hold you near
Cause you’re the only song I want to hear
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere

Where soul meets body
Where soul meets body
Where soul meets body

And I do believe it’s true
That there are roads left in both of our shoes
But if the silence takes you
Then I hope it takes me too
So brown eyes I hold you near
Cause you’re the only song I want to hear
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere
"chewing gum and duct tape"

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Re: Still more songs that remind us of Ennis and Jack
« Reply #63 on: December 05, 2014, 12:24:15 am »
Zombie thread alert.  ;D

Finally! A thread for non-Brokeback music that reminds us of our boys.....as someone who relates music to just about everything else in my life, I find myself thinking about how this song or that would fit into some aspect of their separate and difficult lives. (And *HOW* I wish the Allman Brothers' 'Melissa' had made it onto the BBM soundtrack. That song was written for Ennis Del Mar.)

Anyway, this is not a terribly existential song, but can't you just imagine Jack having it playing at the Siesta Motel as Ennis walks in the door after they've gone in separately to keep people from suspecting? (Me either, but I have to imagine things that make me smile every now and then...not to mention it was recorded a few years after they jounced the bed there....details, details.)


On a slightly sadder note, I always think Jack personifies air/wind. Though I can't see either of them being into Jimi, this is my favorite song of his and think it represents well the melancholia each carried with him for every moment they were apart.  :'(
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Re: Still more songs that remind us of Ennis and Jack
« Reply #64 on: December 05, 2014, 01:33:38 am »
On a slightly sadder note, I always think Jack personifies air/wind.


Look what the wind blew in! ;)
We have a whole thread about this. You might be interested:
"I was supposed to control the weather..." Jack and the Wind
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,1097.0.html

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Re: Still more songs that remind us of Ennis and Jack
« Reply #65 on: December 05, 2014, 12:26:47 pm »
"not really sure how to feel about it......."

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AafXmrsiDIQ[/youtube]
"It was only you in my life, and it will always be only you, Jack, I swear."

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Re: Still more songs that remind us of Ennis and Jack
« Reply #66 on: December 05, 2014, 12:28:16 pm »
All along it was a fever
A cold sweat hot-headed believer
I threw my hands in the air, said, "Show me something,"
He said, "If you dare, come a little closer."

Round and around and around and around we go
Oh now, tell me now, tell me now, tell me now you know.

Not really sure how to feel about it.
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you.
It takes me all the way.
I want you to stay

It's not much of a life you're living
It's not just something you take–it's given

Round and around and around and around we go
Oh now, tell me now, tell me now, tell me now you know.

Not really sure how to feel about it.
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you.
It takes me all the way.
I want you to stay.

Ooh, ooh, ooh, the reason I hold on
Ooh, ooh, ooh, 'cause I need this hole gone
Funny you're the broken one but I'm the only one who needed saving
'Cause when you never see the light it's hard to know which one of us is caving.

Not really sure how to feel about it.
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you.
It takes me all the way.
I want you to stay, stay.
I want you to stay, oh.
"It was only you in my life, and it will always be only you, Jack, I swear."

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Re: Still more songs that remind us of Ennis and Jack
« Reply #67 on: December 05, 2014, 03:47:52 pm »
What a wonderful song! Thank you for posting it, friend. I'm glad Brokeback Radio is back on the air.
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Re: Still more songs that remind us of Ennis and Jack
« Reply #68 on: January 13, 2015, 08:14:03 pm »
Oceansize- Long forgotten

I think it was a soundtrack to one of the fanfics I've read some time ago. It's quite beautifully fitting and so very sad. I can just picture Ennis's grief, longing and a lifetime of regret when I listen to it... and it's not just the lyrics, the melody chills me to the bone.
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These are the secrets you will share
These are the words you can not bare
This is the sight you’ll never see
And that you have forgotten me
The voice that tempted you away
The deepest hole in which I stay
I miss you most my darkest hour
I’m wondering where the hell you are

Too late to tell you you were wrong
Another word to dwell upon
You could have waited for me
Like I was waiting just for you

The fuse is flicker in his eye
Her touch to blow me open wide
I could have run a million times
But I was waiting for you

And did you ever stop to think
About how low that you could sink
And down the low, our deepest sigh
Within yourself you can not hide

Do photographs and faces lie?
Why did I never wonder why?
Why I was waiting for you?
Why I was waiting for you?
Waiting for you..

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Re: Still more songs that remind us of Ennis and Jack
« Reply #69 on: January 14, 2015, 04:39:40 pm »
by the way, I don't know if this topic's been discussed elsewhere or whether it's fitting in this thread but: what do you guys think about Hozier's song "Take me to church"? You can check out the music vid here: