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Re: A song that makes me think of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #310 on: January 05, 2007, 01:43:49 pm »
There's a new song called "Home" that is just being released, by the country/pop duo "Somebody's Darling". I don't have the lyrics but Here is a link to the musicvideo for the song, and if you watch it you'll probably realize why it reminds me of BBM!  :)


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Re: A song that makes me think of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #311 on: January 05, 2007, 11:27:37 pm »

Wish You Were Here

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.


That is a beautiful song!! Thanks!!
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Re: A song that makes me think of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #312 on: January 11, 2007, 08:58:37 am »
There's a new song called "Home" that is just being released, by the country/pop duo "Somebody's Darling". I don't have the lyrics but Here is a link to the musicvideo for the song, and if you watch it you'll probably realize why it reminds me of BBM!  :)



I googled for the lyrics. I didn't find them, but the second result google offered was Larry McMurtry  :o!
I was quite surpised. He wrote a novel called Somebody's Darling, that's why he came up as a result. Everything keeps coming back to our boys... 8).

Oh, and the video: If only...

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Re: A song that makes me think of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #313 on: January 11, 2007, 09:31:18 am »
Today a line from a song on the radio caught my attention:

Watch my life,
Pass me by,
In the rear-view mirror


Immediately this came to my mind:

   

The song is What's Left of Me by Nick Lachey and here are the lyrics:

Watch my life,
Pass me by,
In the rear view mirror
Pictures frozen in time
Are becoming clearer
I don't wanna waste another day
Stuck in the shadow of my mistakes

Yeah...

[Chorus]
Cause I want you,
And I feel you,
Crawling underneath my skin
Like a hunger,
Like a burning,
To find a place I've never been
Now I'm broken,
And I'm faded,
I'm half the man I thought I would be:
But you can have what's left of me

I've been dying inside,
Little by little,
No where to go,
But going out of my mind
In endless circles,
Running from my self until,
You gave me a reason for standing still

[Chorus]

It's falling faster,
Barely breathing,
Give me something,
To believe in
Tell me: It's not all in my head

Take what's left
Of this man
Make me whole
Once again

[Chorus]

I've been dying inside you see
I'm going out of my mind
Out of my mind
I'm just running in circles all the time
Will you take what's left
Will you take what's left
Will you take what's left of me?
Just running in circles in my mind
Will you take what's left
Will you take what's left
Will you take what's left of me?



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Re: A song that makes me think of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #314 on: January 11, 2007, 09:34:41 am »
The only song that ever really made me think of the film (and wasn't in it) is Desperado by the Eagles.  It's on the play list of BBM radio, which if you're not listening to, you should be...you will get your fill of songs that remind you of BBM.

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You been out ridin' fences for so long now
Oh, you're a hard one
I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow

Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She'll beat you if she's able
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet

Now it seems to me, some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can't get

Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no younger
Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home
And freedom, oh freedom well, that's just some people talkin'
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don't your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
You're losin' all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, before it's too late

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Re: A song that makes me think of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #315 on: January 11, 2007, 11:20:45 am »
The only song that ever really made me think of the film (and wasn't in it) is Desperado by the Eagles.  It's on the play list of BBM radio, which if you're not listening to, you should be...you will get your fill of songs that remind you of BBM.

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You been out ridin' fences for so long now
Oh, you're a hard one
I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow

Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She'll beat you if she's able
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet

Now it seems to me, some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can't get

Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no younger
Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home
And freedom, oh freedom well, that's just some people talkin'
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don't your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
You're losin' all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, before it's too late


This has always been one of my favorite songs..  its goes perfect with Brokeback Mountain.
Its all about Ennis and Jack.  Ya know why?  Because it was too late for Ennis.  Why couldnt he just let himself be who is was...a man deeply in love with another man.  'Riding fences'
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Re: A song that makes me think of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #316 on: January 11, 2007, 03:49:34 pm »
The only song that ever really made me think of the film (and wasn't in it) is Desperado by the Eagles.  It's on the play list of BBM radio, which if you're not listening to, you should be...you will get your fill of songs that remind you of BBM.

Desperado is surely THE classic in this department. It bears repeating.

There's even a good German version of it, sung by Udo Lindenberg. Mostly I dislike German versions of songs in a foreign language. And I'm not much of a Lindenberg fan, but he made some good songs in his younger times and his Desperado is worth listening.

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Re: A song that makes me think of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #317 on: January 11, 2007, 05:23:25 pm »
The following is a traditional Irish song, I decided to post both the original lyrics in Irish and the English translation after each stanza. This is actually one of my favourite songs ever.


Tá mé mo shuí (I am sitting)

Tá mé mo shuí ó d`éirigh`n ghealach aréir
Ag cur tein-e síos-go buan is á fadó go géar
Tá bunadh a` tí `na luí is tá mise liom féin
Tá na coiligh ag glaoch `san saol `na gcodladh ach mé

I am sitting up since the moon arose last night
Putting down a fire again and again and keeping it lit
The family is in bed and here am I by myself,
The cocks are crowing and the country is asleep but me.


`Sheacht mh`anam déag do bhéal do mhala is do ghrua
Do shúil ghorm ghlé-gheal fár thréig mé sionnach na lúb
Le cumha do dhiaidh ní léir dom an bealach a shiúil
Is a charaid mo chléibh tá na sléibhte `dul idir mé`s tú

I love your mouth, your eyebrows and your cheeks
Your bright blue eyes for whose sake I stopped hunting the wily fox
In longing for you I cannot see to walk the road
Friend of my bosom, the mountains lie between me and you.


Deiridh lucht léinn gur claoite an galar an grá
Char admhaigh mé é is é `ndiaidh mo chroí istigh a chrá
Aicid ró-ghéar, faraor nár sheachain mé í
Is go gcuireann sí arraing is céad go géar trí cheart-lár mo chroí

Learned men say that love is a fatal sickness
I never admitted it until now that my heart is broken:
It's a very painful illness, alas, I have not avoided it,
And it sends a hundred arrows through the core of my heart.


Casadh bean-tsí dom thíos ag Lios Bhéal Ath
D`fhiafraigh mé di an scaoilfeadh glas ar bith grá
Is é dúirt sí gos íseal i mbriathra soineannta sáimh
An grá a théid fán chroí ní scaoiltear as é go bráth

I met a fairy woman by the Faityrath near Ballina
I asked her would any key unlock the love in my heart
And she said in soft simple language
When love enters the heart it will never be driven from it

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Re: A song that makes me think of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #318 on: January 11, 2007, 07:23:51 pm »
The song by nickelback on the radio now, "Far Away" fits perfectly. I'll try and post the lyrics. ;)
Some say the world is getting too small, I say with kindness there's room for us all. Our world is always changing, everyday's a surprise. Love can open up your eyes in our world.
When night lays sad upon you go watch a laughing sunrise. Love can open up your eyes in our world.

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Re: A song that makes me think of Brokeback Mountain
« Reply #319 on: January 12, 2007, 03:05:55 am »
The following is a traditional Irish song, I decided to post both the original lyrics in Irish and the English translation after each stanza. This is actually one of my favourite songs ever.



Oh WOW!

That song is beautiful Michela! Thanks so much for posting it.  :)
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