Profound and Timeless Lyrics

[casimira]

Every once in awhile I find myself listening to a classic rock radio station and often times am struck by the lyrics accompanying the music.
There are many standouts.
Many of them are enhanced when "covered" by other musicians.

This a.m. I tuned into a local station by chance that I had the fortunate ears open to one of my all time favorites which although authored by another favorite musician of mine certainly covered "all the bases"

[casimira]

[mickthecactus]

What was the track and who were the artists Casi?

[casimira]

Sorry Mick. Tech F up.

I guess I could maybe say it was Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence"

Instead, I was trying to post Jimi Hendrix's cover of (Bob Dylan's) "All Along the Watchtower" because the lyrics are as the OP states is to me profound and timeless.

Add to that Hendrix's ever so brilliant musicianship.

[mickthecactus]

I could go with that.

[bixaorellana]

Maybe not the most profound, but lyrics that have struck a chord over several generations would be The Platters' "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes". Along the same lines would be "Crazy", brilliantly written by Willie Nelson and immortally performed by Patsy Cline.

"American Pie" never gets old for me. *sniffle*

There are some songs that it's hard to judge whether they're really excellent lyrics or if it's the singer who makes them seem so. Really, after Otis Redding's version, is there any point in listening to any other version of "Try a Little Tenderness"?)

Yes, Casimira, of course lyrics by Paul Simon. And then there is Leonard Cohen and *genuflect* Bob Dylan.

[mickthecactus]

Cole Porter, Irving Berlin?

Lennon and Macartney- She's Leaving Home, Eleanor Rigby, Yesterday?

[casimira]

I think the reason why I chose "All Along the Watchtower" is because the lyrics (I had just heard the song on the radio before posting) is it seemed to be so in keeping with current events most especially the political climate her in the US.


I could go on and on about Leonard Cohen's lyrics. He was like a prophet in so very many ways.


(_{P.S. I remedied the tech F up and the video now appears or at least it did a few minutes ago...)}

[mickthecactus]

I hadn’t thought of it in that way. See what you mean.

[kerouac2]

There was a time when the group Yes seemed to speak directly to my soul, one of the reasons being that their lyrics were ambiguous enough for a person to interpret whatever felt necessary at the time.

[casimira]

I had a roommate my freshman year of college in Boston. She was a huge YES fan and would play them all the time. I really burned out on them fast.
She also was big into Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

[lagatta]

The original stars in "American Pie" meant nothing to me; cohort or region? The subsequent stanzas speak to me much more.

Leonard Cohen died about the same time as the orange turd was elected and many of us hung around at the little park across from his house here "Parc du Portugal" and sang and recited poetry in several languages.

[kerouac2]

In France, if there were a poll on the subject, I suspect that Léo Ferré's Avec le temps would be selected hands down.



Here is the translation of the song:

With time
With time, goes, everything goes away
We forget the face and we forget the voice
The heart, when it doesn't beat anymore, there is no point looking further
You have to let things go and it's fine

With time...
With time, goes, everything goes away
The other whom we adored, we looked for under the rain
The other we were making out at the bend of a glance
between the words, between the lines and under the blusher
Of a disguised oath which goes away to sleep
With time everything vanishes

With time...
With time, goes, everything goes away
Even the best memories it pulls one of those faces
like at the mall I rummage around the death's shelves
the saturday evening when the tenderness goes away on its own

With time...
With time, goes, everything goes away
The other in whom we believed for a cold, for a little something
The other to whom we gave wind and jewels
For whom we'd have sold our soul for a few pennies
In front of whom we dragged like the dogs drag
With time, goes, everything goes fine.

With time...
With time, goes, everything goes away
We forget about the passions and we forget the voices
that told you very low the words of the poor people
Don't come back too late, take care not to get cold

With time...
With time, goes, everything goes away
And we feel ourselves whitened like an exhausted horse
And we feel ourselves iced in a bed of fortune
And we feel ourselves alone maybe but cushy
And we feel ourselves swindled by the lost years
Then really...with time...we do not love anymore

[lugg]

Sept 4, 2020 15:24:47 GMT kerouac2 said:

And we feel ourselves whitened like an exhausted horse

...that pulls a heart string for me

The last line though , I think many would disagree.

[casimira]

Sept 4, 2020 14:45:33 GMT lagatta said:

Leonard Cohen died about the same time as the orange turd was elected and many of us hung around at the little park across from his house here "Parc du Portugal" and sang and recited poetry in several languages.

The Estate of Leonard Cohen is suing the RNC for using Hallaleuliah during the Republican Convention.

[lagatta]

Yes, a top news story up here. Oddly the Trumpians have suddenly lost their great faith in private property...

[kerouac2]

They have no respect for foreign things anyway. Didn't Neil Young and Mick Jagger also have a problem with them?

[bixaorellana]

They are just the tip of the iceberg ~ www.insider.com/artists-who-dont-want-trump-using-their-music-2018-11#earth-wind-and-fire-said-their-song-september-was-played-at-the-2016-republican-convention-against-their-wishes-13

[kerouac2]

American Pie struck a chord with millions of Americans. Here it is again 50 years later.