A song that makes me think of Brokeback Mountain

[mvansand76]

Can't believe I never thought of this one before (or maybe I have, so many pages ago I've lost track...)

Anyway...

Broken Wings ~ Mr. Mister

OOOOOOOOH! I looooooove that song, it's one of my all-time favorite songs!!!!

[Becky]

Me thinks it is time to hear from our old friends Snow Patrol again! I could really just put the whole album on here, but here are a few of my favourites.


"Set The Fire To The Third Bar"
(feat. Martha Wainwright)

I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
The distance from here to where you'd be
It's only finger-lengths that I see
I touch the place where I'd find your face
My finger in creases of distant dark places

I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I've found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science

Their words mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me

I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold gound
I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms

After I have travelled so far
We'd set the fire to the third bar
We'd share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weeping
A joy you can't keep in

I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold gound
And I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms

And miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold gound
and I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms

"It's Beginning To Get To Me"

I want something
That's purer than the water
Like we were

It's not there now
Ineloquence and anger
Are all we have

Like Saturn's rings
An icy loop around me
Too hard to hold

Lash out first
At all the things we don't like
Or understand

And it's beginning to get to me
That I know more of the stars and sea
Than I do of what's in your head
Barely touching in our cold bed

Are you beginning to get get my point
They're always fighting with aching joints
It's doing nothing but tire us out
No one knows what this fight's about

The answer phone
The lonely sound of your voice   
Frozen in time

((it really should be: she answers the phone, the lonely sound of her voice, frozen in time))

I only need
The compass that you gave me
To guide me on

And it's beginning to get to me
That I know more of the stars and sea
Than I do of what's in your head
Barely touching in our cold bed

Are you beginning to get get my point
They're always fighting with aching joints
It's doing nothing but tire us out
No one knows what this fight's about

It's so thrilling but also wrong
Don't have to prove that you are so strong
Cos I can carry you on my back
After our enemies attack


I tried to tell you before I left
But I was screaming under my breath
You are the only thing that makes sense
Just ignore all this present tense

We need to feel breathless with love
And not collapse under its weight
I'm gasping for the air to fill
My lungs with everything I've lost

We need to feel breathless with love
And not collapse under its weight
I'm gasping for the air to fill
My lungs with everything I've lost.

"Shut Your Eyes"

Shut your eyes and think of somewhere
Somewhere cold and caked in snow
By the fire we break the quiet
Learn to wear each other well

And when the worrying starts to hurt
and the world feels like graves of dirt
Just close your eyes until
you can imagine this place, you're our secret space at will

Shut your eyes, I spin the big chair
And you'll feel dizzy, light, and free
And falling gently on the cushion
You can come and sing to me

And when the worrying starts to hurt
and the world feels like graves of dirt
Just close your eyes until
you can imagine this place, you're our secret space at will

Shut your eyes
Shut your eyes
Shut your eyes
Shut your eyes

Shut your eyes and sing to me (Shut your eyes and sing to me)
Shut your eyes and sing to me (Shut your eyes and sing to me)
Shut your eyes and sing to me (Shut your eyes and sing to me)
Shut your eyes and sing to me (Shut your eyes and sing to me)

"You're All I Have"

Strain this chaos turn it into light
I've got to see you one last night
Before the lions take their share
Leave us in pieces, scattered everywhere

Just give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Just give me something to hold onto

It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear cos you are all that I have
It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear cos you are all that I have

You're cinematic razor sharp
A welcome arrow through the heart
Under your skin feels like home
Electric shocks on aching bones

Give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Just give me something to hold onto

It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear cos you are all that I have
It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear cos you are all that I have

There is a darkness deep in you
A frightening magic I cling to

Give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Just give me something to hold onto

It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear now you are all that I have
It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear now you are all that I have

"You Could Be Happy"

You could be happy and I won't know
But you weren't happy the day I watched you go

And all the things that I wished I had not said
Are played on lips 'till it's madness in my head

Is it too late to remind you how we were
But not our last days of silence, screaming, blur

Most of what I remember makes me sure
I should have stopped you from walking out the door

You could be happy, I hope you are
You made me happier than I'd been by far

Somehow everything I own smells of you
And for the tiniest moment it's all not true

Do the things that you always wanted to
Without me there to hold you back, don't think, just do

More than anything I want to see you go
Take a glorious bite out of the whole world

Well  would you look at that, I did end up putting almost the whole album on here!   Anyway: Enjoy! Cause I know I do.

[mvansand76]

I really should look up that band on itunes! I think I already did that when you first mentioned them, but I will again!

[mvansand76]

Alison Krauss - If I didn't know any better...

I turned around
Before I could run
I found you already settled down
In the back of my mind
I know this is just a customary fever
The moon is our deceiver
That will leave you running blind

You're heart is pullin'
If I didn't know any better
I'd be fallin deeper and deeper it's true
I'd hear it callin'
If I didn't know any better
And I'd be in love with you

Didn't want to
The look in the eyes of the one that
I would be drawn too
I'm a moth lost in a fire
And I know this
Is just a beautiful illusion
A case of the confusion
Between love and desire

You're heart is pullin'
If I didn't know any better
I'd be fallin deeper and deeper its true
I'd hear it callin'
If I didn't know any better

And I'd be in love
When the flame burns out
If finally settles down
And you forget
I ever came around

You're heart is pullin'
If I didn't know any better
I'd be fallin deeper and deeper its true
I'd hear it callin'
If I didn't know any better
And I'd be in love with you

I turned around
Before I could run
I found you already settled down
In the back of my mind

[moremojo]

One might imagine either Ennis or Jack sympathizing with the lyrics to this England Dan and John Ford Coley classic, which might mirror many a night when, separated by great distance, they would long for their next fishing trip together. The song also dates from 1976, so it chronologically fits in with their story. Here is the song (written by Parker McGee and performed by England Dan and John Ford Coley):

Lyin' in bed with the radio on
Moonlight falls like rain
Soft summer nights spent thinkin' of you
When will I see you again

Soft and low the music moans
I can't stop thinkin' about you
Thinkin' 'bout you...
I didn't know it would be so strong
Waiting and wondering about you
I didn't know it would last so long
Nights are forever without you

The curtains still dance with the wind and the sky
The sun'll be coming up soon
But I just can't sleep for thinkin' of you
Here alone with the moon

Soft and low the music moans
I can't stop thinkin' about you
Thinkin' 'bout you...
I didn't know it would be so strong
Waiting and wondering about you
I didn't know it would last so long
Nights are forever without you...
Nights are forever without you...
Nights are forever without you...

[Katie77]

Beautiful words....I'm heading to Limewire right now to try and find it......thank you....

[ednbarby]

This part is particularly fitting:

The curtains still dance with the wind and the sky
The sun'll be coming up soon
But I just can't sleep for thinkin' of you
Here alone with the moon

I'll never hear poetic references to the earth, wind or moon quite the same way again.  Another gift (or is it a curse?  ) this movie has given me.

[mvansand76]

This part is particularly fitting:

The curtains still dance with the wind and the sky
The sun'll be coming up soon
But I just can't sleep for thinkin' of you
Here alone with the moon

I'll never hear poetic references to the earth, wind or moon quite the same way again.  Another gift (or is it a curse?  ) this movie has given me.

Wow, that's beautiful. This movie has also made me look at old songs differently, I used to listen to Kate Bush a lot, this one is especially fitting..

It doesn't hurt me.
Do you want to feel how it feels?
Do you want to know, know that it doesn't hurt me?
Do you want to hear about the deal that I'm making?
You, it's you and me.

And if I only could,
I'd make a deal with God,
And I'd get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building.
Say, If I only could, oh...

You don't want to hurt me,
But see how deep the bullet lies.
Unaware I'm tearing you asunder.
Ooh, there is thunder in our hearts.

Is there so much hate for the ones we love?
Tell me, we both matter, don't we?
You, it's you and me.
It's you and me won't be unhappy.

And if I only could,
I'd make a deal with God,
And I'd get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
Be running up that building,
Say, if I only could, oh...

You,
It's you and me,
It's you and me won't be unhappy.

"C'mon, baby, c'mon darling,
Let me steal this moment from you now.
C'mon, angel, c'mon, c'mon, darling,
Let's exchange the experience, oh..."

And if I only could,
I'd make a deal with God,
And I'd get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
With no problems.

say if I only could,
I'd make a deal with God,
And I'd get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
With no problems.

So if I only could,
I'd make a deal with God,
And I'd get him to swap our places,
Be running up that road,
Be running up that hill,
With no problems.

So if I only could
Be running up that hill
With no problems...

"If I only could, I'd be running up that hill.
If I only could, I'd be running up that hill."

[moremojo]

I heard an instrumental piece over the weekend that I knew immediately I would have to cite in our thread here. It is a short guitar composition called 'Cowboy Song', which was written and performed by a man named Brian Keane. It has been featured in two television documentaries by Ric Burns, the 1995 "The Way West" and the 2002 "Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film", respectively, and is available in the soundtrack CD's to both those productions (the former released through Shanachie, and the latter via Green Linnet Records).

Keane's lovely little piece (about two minutes and fifteen seconds in duration, and which should not be confused with the 1976 Thin Lizzy rock classic also titled 'Cowboy Song') reminded me somewhat of Gustavo's work on Brokeback Mountain, but rather than displaying the plangent, melancholy undertone of the Argentinean composer's efforts, possesses a lilting, gentle quality that is no less poignant for evoking a happier mood.

I found an official website for Keane that interested parties may wish to consult, and the CD soundtracks featuring 'Cowboy Song' are available through Amazon. Here is the composer's website:

http://www.briankeanemusic.com/

Happy musical trails to you all,
Scott

[moremojo]

This isn't exactly in keeping with the nature of this thread, as this is a song used in Brokeback Mountain, but it occurred to me that nowhere on our site are the lyrics to this classic rock song reproduced. I think this is an oversight that should be corrected, and this thread is as good a place to share them as any.

'Melissa' is one of my favorite songs, and I was delighted to hear it when first seeing the film on February 18th, 2006. It became my very own BBM soundtrack for those first few traumatized days, when I couldn't get the film's closing image out of my mind, and 'Melissa' somehow ensconced itself as background music to that memory. The song always tugged at my heart-strings, but as mental accompaniment to this devastatingly beautiful closing sequence, it became heartrending. I got a little choked up just transcribing the lyrics for inclusion here. Here they are, courtesy of Gregg Allman and the Allman Brothers Band, on whose 1972 LP, Eat a Peach, the song first appeared:

Crossroads seem to come and go...yeah
The gypsy flies from coast to coast
Knowing many, loving none
Bearing sorrow, having fun
But back home he'll always run
To sweet Melissa

Freight train--each car looks the same, all the same
And no one knows the gypsy's name
No one hears his lonely sighs
There are no blankets where he lies
In his deepest dreams the gypsy flies
To sweet Melissa

Again the morning's come
Again he's on the run
Sunbeams shining through his hair
Appearing not to have a care
Pick up your gear and gypsy, roll on...
Roll on...

Crossroads, will you ever let him go?
Or will you hide the dead man's ghost
Or will he lie beneath the clay
Or will his spirit float away
But I know that he won't stay
Without Melissa

Yes, I know that he won't stay...
Without Melissa