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A song that makes me think of Brokeback Mountain
moremojo:
This is a song I heard in the first week or so after my initial exposure to beautiful Brokeback Mountain in February 2006. The song is "Magic Power", a track from the 1981 LP Allied Forces by Triumph (which I just learned today was Canadian--up to now I had somehow thought they were Swedish!), so I had heard the song before back in my high-school days. But with the film so fresh in my mind, it was colored anew with those swirling emotions engendered thereby. It made me think of Alma Junior (one could imagine this as the song heard on the car radio at the end), and of the hopeful optimism in front of her young life. Conversely, it also made me think of the lost youth of Ennis, of how he no longer had that optimistic promise of that vanished summer of 1963...and no longer had Jack.
At any rate, here are the lyrics to this, my favorite Triumph song:
Something's at the edge of your mind, you don't know what it is
Somethin' you were hopin' to find but you're not sure what it is
Then you hear the music and it all comes crystal clear
The music does the talkin' says the things you want to hear
I'm young, I'm wild and I'm free
I got the magic power of the music in me
I'm young, I'm wild and I'm free
I got the magic power of the music in me
She climbs into bed, pulls the covers overhead and turns her little radio on
She's had a rotten day so she hopes the DJ's gonna play her favorite song
It makes her feel much better, brings her closer to her dreams
A little magic power makes it better than it seems
She's young now, she's wild now, she wants to be free
She gets the magic power of the music in me
If you're thinkin' it over but you just can't sort it out
Do you want someone to tell you what they think it's all about
Are you the one and only who's sad and lonely, reachin' for the top
Well the music keeps you goin' and it's never gonna stop
Never gonna stop
Never gonna, never gonna, never gonna stop
The world is full of compromise, and infinite red tape
But the music's got the magic, it's your one chance for escape
So turn me on - turn me up - it's your turn to dream
A little magic power makes it better than it seems
I'm young, I'm wild and I'm free
I got the magic power of the music in me...
JCinNYC2006:
I'm stealing this song from Rouxby, who noted how perfectly it fit for Ennis. It's Strong Enough by Sheryl Crow:
God, I feel like hell tonight
Tears of rage I cannot fight
I'd be the last to help you understand
Are you strong enough to be my man?
Nothing's true and nothing's right
So let me be alone tonight
Cause you can't change the way I am
Are you strong enough to be my man?
Lie to me
I promise I'll believe
Lie to me
But please don't leave
I have a face I cannot show
I make the rules up as I go
Just try and love me if you can
Are you strong enough to be my man?
When I've shown you that I just don't care
When I'm throwing punches in the air
When I'm broken down and I can't stand
Will you be MAN ENOUGH to be my man?
Lie to me
I promise I'll believe
Lie to me
But please don't leave
Thanks Roux!!
JCinNYC2006:
I'm on a huuuuge Amy Winehouse kick, her album Back To Black is amazing. But this song also stands out for the kind of pain and yearning it conveys, and it makes me think of Ennis, even though I think the chorus relates to him best. The vocals, the ghostly backup, the production, wow. It's called Wake Up Alone:
It’s okay in the day I’m staying busy
Tied up enough so I don’t have to wonder where is he
Got so sick of crying
So just lately
When I catch myself I do a 180
I stay up clean the house
At least I’m not drinking
Run around just so I don’t have to think about thinking
That silent sense of content
That everyone gets
Just disappears soon as the sun sets
This face in my dreams seizes my guts
He floods me with dread
Soaked to the soul
He swims in my eyes by the bed
Pour myself over him
Moon spilling in
And I wake up alone
If I was my heart
I’d rather be restless
The second I stop the sleep catches up and I’m breathless
There's this ache in my tears
As my day is done now
The dark covers me and I can run now
My blood running cold
I stand before him
It’s all I can do to assure him
When he comes to me
I drip for him tonight
Drowning in me we bathe under blue light
His face in my dreams seizes my guts
He floods me with dread
Soaked to the soul
He swims in my eyes by the bed
Pour myself over him
Moon spilling in
And I wake up alone
And I wake up alone
And I wake up alone
And I wake up alone
Ah Amy.....
ednbarby:
The Flame - Cheap Trick
Another night slowly closes in,
And I feel so lonely.
Touching heat freezing on my skin,
I pretend you still hold me.
I'm going crazy, I'm losing sleep.
I'm in too far, I'm in way too deep over you.
I can't believe you're gone.
You were the first, you'll be the last.
Wherever you go, I'll be with you.
Whatever you want, I'll give it to you.
Whenever you need someone to lay your heart and head upon -
Remember: After the fire, after all the rain,
I will be the flame -
I will be the flame.
Watching shadows move across the wall,
I feel so frightened.
I wanna run to you, I wanna crawl,
But I've been hit by lightning.
Just can't stand up for fallin' apart.
Can't see through this veil across my heart
over you.
You'll always be The One.
You were the first, you'll be the last.
moremojo:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on August 06, 2007, 09:44:27 pm ---You were the first, you'll be the last.
--- End quote ---
This says it all in a nutshell, doesn't it?
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