"IT ALL COMES BACK TO ME"

TUDOR LODGE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjQIFvV_bpo

Something was lost
Forgotten, left behind
But now it comes to mind
Now the corners they have been swept
And I’ve not slept
For looking around

And it all comes back to me now
You bring it back somehow you do

Something was sleeping
So deep I did not know
Maybe I moved too slow
Now the lights they are all back on
It’s not all gone
I feel it around

And it all comes back to me now
You bring it back somehow you do

You have brought something home to me
You have uncovered a need in me
And now I find you close to me
Old visions reappear to me
Of times gone by
When I could fly
But now I find you’re on my mind
And now I think I’ve woken up again

Something was lost
Forgotten, left behind
Now the corners they have been swept
And I’ve not slept
For looking around

And it all comes back to me now
You bring it back somehow you do

"WINDOW OVER THE BAY"

VASHTI BUNYAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD7mEaFj3d0

I wish i had a window over the bay
And a black horse grazing on the green all day
I wish i had a well to draw my water from
And a warm log fire for when the summer is gone

I wish i had a window over the bay
And a flock of white sheep to watch from where i lay
I wish i had a little boat bobbing on the deep
And a big wooden table all laid out for tea

I wish i had a window over the bay
And a dreamy eyed cow to fill my milking pail
I wish i had a cockerel to raise me at dawn
And a little bed to sleep in when the curtains are drawn

"A STONE"

OKKERVIL RIVER 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me9MAS6ShMQ 

Hot breath
Rought skin,
Warm laughs and smiling,
The lovliest words
Whispered and meant
You like all these things.

But, though you like all these things
You love a stone.
You love a stone,
Because it's smooth and it's cold.
And you'd love most
To be told
That it's all your own.

You love white veins,
You love hard grey,
The heaviest weight,
The clumsiest shape,
The earthiest smell,
The hollowest tone
You love a stone.

And I'm found too fast,
Called too fond of flames,
And then I'm phoning my friends,
And then I'm shouldering the blame,
While you're picking pebbles
Out of the drain,
Miles ago.
You're out singing songs,
And I'm down shouting names
At the flickerless screen,
Going fucking insane.
Am I losing my cool,
Overstating my case?
Well, baby what can I say?

You know I never claimed
That I was a stone.
And you love a stone.
You love white veins,
You love hard grey,
The heaviest weight,
The clumsiest shape,
The earthiest smell,
The hollowest tone
You love a stone.

You love a stone,
Because it's dark and it's old,
And if it could start
Being alive
You'd stop living alone.
And I think I believe that,
If stones could dream,
They'd dream of being laid
Side-by-side,
Piece-by-piece,
And turned into a castle
For some towering queen
They're unable to know.

And when that queen's daughter
Came of age,
I think she'd be lovely
And stubborn and brave,
And suitors would journey
From kingdoms away
Just to make themselves known.

And I think that I know the bitter dismay of a lover who brought
Fresh bouquets every day
When she turned him away
To remember some knave
Who once gave
Just one rose, one day, years ago.

"OUR LIFE IS NOT A MOVIE OR MAYBE"

OKKERVIL RIVER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROlCPlnCIfo

It's just a bad movie where there's no crying
Handing the keys to me in this Red Lion

Where the lock that you locked in the suite
Says there's no prying
When the breath that you breathed in the street
Screams there's no science
When you look how you looked then to me
Then I cease lying and fall into silence

It's just a life story, so there's no climax
No more new territory, so pull away the IMAX

In the slot that you sliced through the scene
There was no shyness
In the plot that you passed through your teeth
There was no pity

No fade in, film begins on a kid in the big city
And no cut to a costly parade, that's for him only
No dissolve to a sliver of gray, that's his new lady
Where she glows just like grain on the flickering pane
Of some great movie
Hey, I didn't watch it

It's just a house burning, but it's not haunted
It was your heart hurting but not for too long, kid

In the socket you spin from with ease
There is no sticking
From the speakers your fake masterpiece
Comes serenely dribbling

And when the air 'round your chair fills with heat
That's the flames licking
Beneath the clock on the clean mantelpiece
It's got a calm clicking
Like a pro at his editing suite takes two weeks stitching
Up some bad movie

"HERE BEFORE"

VASHTI BUNYAN

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCe7e1wxDOU

Once I had a child
He was wilder than moonlight
He could do it all
Like he'd been here before

Once I had a child
She was smiling like sunshine
She could see it all
Like she'd been here before

Then I had a child
Took his while like northern summer
And he knows it all
Like he's been here before

"IF I WERE"

VASHTI BUNYAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oKgGUX2wX0

If I were to go away
Would you follow me /to ends of the earth
To show me what /Your love is worth
Or would you go and buy a car
Shrug your shoulders /Say there you are
She didn't love me /anyway
If she had /she would have stayed

If I were to go away
Would I always look /for your beautiful face
In every crowd /every place
Or would I go/and buy a hat
Turn my shoulders /say that is that
He didn't love me /now its clear
If he had /he would be here

"DAYS"

THE KINKS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2svmUcsKeg

Thank you for the days,
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me.
I'm thinking of the days,
I won't forget a single day, believe me.

I bless the light,
I bless the light that lights on you believe me.
And though you're gone,
You're with me every single day, believe me.

Days I'll remember all my life,
Days when you can't see wrong from right.
You took my life,
But then I knew that very soon you'd leave me,
But it's all right,
Now I'm not frightened of this world, believe me.

I wish today could be tomorrow,
The night is dark,
It just brings sorrow anyway.

Thank you for the days,
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me.
I'm thinking of the days,
I won't forget a single day, believe me.

Days I'll remember all my life,
Days when you can't see wrong from right.
You took my life,
But then I knew that very soon you'd leave me,
But it's all right,
Now I'm not frightened of this world, believe me.
Days.

Thank you for the days,
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me.
I'm thinking of the days,
I won't forget a single day, believe me.

I bless the light,
I bless the light that shines on you believe me.
And though you're gone,
You're with me every single day, believe me.
Days.

"THE BIG SLEEP" (1946)

HOWARD HAWKS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfww9mbZeJw 

Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart

"Philip Marlowe: What's wrong with you?

Vivian Rutledge: Nothing you can't fix"