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A song that makes me think of Brokeback Mountain
ednbarby:
Try this one: (Used to be Ed and I thought of it as our theme song - I see Jack and Ennis in it, too.)
Captain Fantastic (and the Brown Dirt Cowboy)
Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Captain Fantastic, raised and regimented, hardly a hero
Just someone his mother might know
Very clearly a case for corn flakes and classics
"Two teas both with sugar, please"
In the back of an alley.
While little Dirt Cowboys turned brown in their saddles
Sweet chocolate biscuits and red rosy apples in summer
For it's hay make and "Hey mom, do the papers say anything good?
Are there chances in life for little Dirt Cowboys?
Should I make my way out of my home in the woods?"
Brown Dirt Cowboy, still green and growing
City slick Captain
Fantastic the feedback
The honey the hive could be holding
For there's weak-winged young sparrows that starve in the winter
Broken young children on the wheels of the winners
And the sixty-eight summer festival wallflowers are thinning
For cheap easy meals and hardly a home on the range
Too hot for the band with a desperate desire for change
We've thrown in the towel too many times
Out for the count and when we're down
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
From the end of the world to your town
And all this talk of Jesus coming back to see us
Couldn't fool us.
For we were spinning out our lines walking on the wire
Hand in hand went music and the rhyme
The Captain and the Kid stepping in the ring
From here on, sonny, sonny, sonny, it's a long and lonely climb.
ednbarby:
Sigh. Or this one I'm listening to right now on my iPod:
If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
'bout a ghost from a wishin well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free
As long as Im a ghost that you cant see
If I could read your mind love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel
The kind that drugstores sell
When you reach the part where the heartaches come
The hero would be me
But heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take
I'd walk away like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three way script
Enter number two
A movie queen to play the scene
Of bringing all the good things out in me
But for now love, lets be real
* I never thought I could act this way *
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelins gone
And I just cant get it back.
If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
'bout a ghost from a wishin well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
But stories always end
And if you read between the lines
You'll know that Im just tryin to understand
The feelin's that you lack
I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got to say that I just to get it
I dont know where we went wrong
But the feelin's gone
And I just can't get it back.
:'(
(Gordon Lightfoot)
Anya_Angie:
This song makes me think of Jack and Ennis. It's a duet, so I'm going to fill in who would sing which part. Might seem cheesy but I can't help it!
If I Never Knew You
Music: Alan Menken
Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
[:Jack:]
If I never knew you
If I never felt this love
I would have no inkling of
How precious life can be
And if I never held you
I would never have a clue
How at last I'd find in you
The missing part of me
In this world so full of fear
Full of rage and lies
I can see the truth so clear
In your eyes
So dry your eyes
And I'm so grateful to you
I'd have lived my whole life through
Lost forever
If I never knew you
[:Ennis:]
If I never knew you
I'd be safe but half as real
Never knowing I could feel
A love so strong and true
I'm so grateful to you
I'd have lived my whole life through
Lost forever
If I never knew you
[:Jack:]
I thought our love would be so beautiful
[:Ennis:]
Somehow we made the whole world bright
[:Both:]
I never knew that fear and hate could be so strong
All they'd leave us where these whispers in the night
But still my heart is singing
We were right
[:Ennis:]
If I never knew you
If I never knew this love
I would have no inkling of
How precious life can be
[:Jack:] (together during the previous stanza)
There's no moment I regret
Since the moment that we met
If our time has gone too fast
I've lived at last...
[:Both:]
I thought our love would be so beautiful
Somehow we'd make the whole world bright
[:Ennis:]
I thought our love would be so beautiful
We'd turn the darkness into light
[:Both:]
And still my heart is singing
We were right
[:Jack:]
We were right
And If I never knew you
I'd have lived my whole life through
[:Ennis:]
Empty as the sky
[:Both:]
Never knowing why
Lost forever
If I never knew you
ednbarby:
Anye - WOW.
Anya_Angie:
Amazing how fitting it is isn't it? :)
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