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A song that makes me think of Brokeback Mountain
mvansand76:
I have more... STOP ME!!!!!
Can't depend on love - Gordon Lightfoot
I spent most of my life outside in the drivin' rain
I was only trying to get by with some of life's amenities
Well nothin's free
I got more than I bargained for
Now it's plain to see
I can't depend on love to defend me
It took most of my time to do what never was done
I was only outside of an inside kind of love that now is gone
U2 - Original of the Species
I’ll give you everything you want
Except the thing that you want
You are the first one of your kind
And you feel like no-one before
You steal right under my door
And I kneel ‘cos I want you some more
I want the lot of what you got
And I want nothing that you’re not
Everywhere you go you shout it
You don’t have to be shy about it
Bruce Springsteen - Blood Brothers
We played king of the mountain out on the end
The world come chargin' up the hill, and we were women and men
Now there's so much that time, time and memory fade away
We got our own roads to ride and chances we gotta take
We stood side by side each one fightin' for the other
We said until we died we'd always be blood brothers
ednbarby:
Without You (Sorry - couldn't find the lyricist's name)
No I can't forget this evening
Or your face as you were leaving
But I guess that's just the way
The story goes
You always smile but in your eyes
Your sorrow shows
Yes it shows
No I can't forget tomorrow
When I think of all my sorrow
When I had you there
But then I let you go
And now it's only fair
That I should let you know
What you should know
I can't live
If living is without you
I can't live
I can't give anymore
I can't live
If living is without you
I can't give
I can't give anymore
moremojo:
--- Quote from: mvansand76 on July 01, 2006, 04:27:09 am ---And another one, Landslide
I took my love, I took it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
till the landslide brought me down
Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love
Can the child within my heart rise above
Can I sail thru the changing ocean tides
Can I handle the seasons of my life
Well, Ive been afraid of changing
cause Ive built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Children get older
Im getting older too
Oh, take my love, take it down
Climb a mountain and turn around
If you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well the landslide will bring it down
If you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well maybe the landslide will bring it down
--- End quote ---
Oh, I love "Landslide"...it's probably my favorite Fleetwood Mac song. I had never thought of it in regard to BBM before, but now that you mention it, it's very evocatively appropriate. Thanks!
Another song, penned and performed by Stevie Nicks, which seems less apposite in connection to Brokeback but which nevertheless conveys some of the same wistful beauty in "Landslide", is "After the Glitter Fades". I don't have the lyrics on me right now, but one line is permanently embedded in my memory: "The loneliness of a one-night stand is hard to take"...that could sum up so much of Jack's experience right there.
Scott
Becky:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on July 05, 2006, 12:03:31 pm ---Without You (Sorry - couldn't find the lyricist's name)
No I can't forget this evening
Or your face as you were leaving
But I guess that's just the way
The story goes
You always smile but in your eyes
Your sorrow shows
Yes it shows
No I can't forget tomorrow
When I think of all my sorrow
When I had you there
But then I let you go
And now it's only fair
That I should let you know
What you should know
I can't live
If living is without you
I can't live
I can't give anymore
I can't live
If living is without you
I can't give
I can't give anymore
--- End quote ---
I'm not sure about the lyricist but I know the original was by nilsson, and I think he wrote and sung it. But it was later covered by Mariah Carrey. But it does fit very well, it seems that great minds think alike Barb cause I was about to post this. ;D
saucycobblers:
--- Quote from: Becky on July 05, 2006, 05:55:30 pm ---I'm not sure about the lyricist but I know the original was by nilsson, and I think he wrote and sung it. But it was later covered by Mariah Carrey. But it does fit very well, it seems that great minds think alike Barb cause I was about to post this. ;D
--- End quote ---
Nilsson's version was a cover. It was written by Pete Ham from British band Badfinger, apparently as an apology after he had let his girlfriend down yet again by staying in to work when he'd promised to take her on a long overdue night out. She's still alive but he, alas, committed suicide - unable to recover from the death of fellow band member and lifelong friend Tom Evans. Very sad...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/withoutyou.shtml
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