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A song that makes me think of Brokeback Mountain

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mvansand76:
Anybody familiar with the music of Jake Holmes? I love his song 'So Close' and I am trying to find the lyrics now, once I find them I will post them!

mvansand76:
Here it is... kinda... I couldn't find the lyrics online, so I had to take them from the song...

So close - Jake Holmes

Where's that smile
I hope you didn't lose it
Put it on again
Right where it was for me

Sure I know
It's been some time between us

It's alright now
Hold on tight now
I'll be staying
I won't go

Don't you cry now
We can try now
Just takes some distance to know

So close, we almost couldn't make it
So close, but it looks like we're alright
So close, I almost couldn't see you
So close, but it looks like we're alright

What a day
Remember it was even raining
And as soon as I'd said goodbye
I didn't want to leave
One last look
You could see my eyes were asking
I could feel yours pulling at my sleeve

So close, we almost couldn't make it
So close, but it looks like we're alright
So close, I almost couldn't see you
So close, but it looks like we're alright

Katie77:
"So Close"........I agree...beautiful words.......thanks for sharing

moremojo:
I heard this 1975 classic, after God knows how many years, over the weekend, and it instantly shot me into "Brokeback" reverie. The song is "Holdin' On To Yesterday" by Ambrosia, released on their 1975 LP Ambrosia (here is another that fits in chronologically with the boys' story). Haunting and melancholy, this plaintive musical poem suggests the longing that we know gnawed at Ennis's spirit for the remainder of his life after Jack's demise.  This is not the song of the warm refuge of memory (letting the panel of the dream slip forward), but of the wound that will not, perhaps can never heal. Here it is (written by David Pack and Joe Puerta):

Well I keep holdin' on to yesterday
I keep holdin' on enough to say
That I'm wrong

I keep thinkin' that I'm lonely
But it's only missing you inside
Days that we were once together
Seems they'll never come alive

So I keep holdin' on to yesterday
I keep holdin' on enough to say
That it's wrong

Lord I don't know when I'll see you
I can't reach you anymore
If I'd only known I'd need you
Then I'd keep you like before

I keep holdin' on to yesterday
I keep holdin' on enough to say
That I'm wrong, wrong, wrong to keep holdin' on
My yesterdays have all gone by...

mvansand76:
I am downloading the Ambrosia song as we speak! Thanks for posting, I thought this thread was lost...couldn't find it anywhere...

Here's two more:

Dido- My lover's gone

My lover's gone,
his boots no longer by my door,
he left at dawn,
and as I slept I felt him go
Returns no more,
I will not watch the ocean,
my lover's gone,
no earthly ships will ever
Bring him home again,
bring him home again
My lover's gone,
I know that kiss will be my last,
no more his song,
the tune upon his lips has passed
I sing alone,
while I watch the ocean,
my lover's gone,
no earthly ships will ever Bring him home again,
bring him home again
bring him home again
my lover's gone
his boots no longer by my door
he left at dawn
and as i slept i felt him go
returns no more
i will not watch the ocean
my lovers gone
no earthly ships will ever
bring him home again
bring him home again



Dido-White flag

 know you think that I shouldn't still love you
Or tell you that
But if I didn't say it
well I'd still have felt it
where's the sense in that

I promise I'm not trying to make your life harder
Or return to where we were

But I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door,
I'm in love and always will be

I know I left too much mess
and destruction to come back again
And I caused nothing but trouble
I understand if you can't talk to me again
And if you live by the rules of "it's over"
then I'm sure that that makes sense

But I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door,
I'm in love and always will be

And when we meet
Which I'm sure we will
All that was there
will be there still
I'll let it pass
and hold my tongue
And you will think
that I've moved on

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be


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