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A Music Moment - share a lyric line from your favorite song!

Posted by Rubyslippers @triciaot, Aug 15, 2024

Music can be a mood changer and sharing a lyric might bring a laugh, a great memory, or just wax nostalgic!

Pick a line or two from your favorite new or old song!
I’m humming already . . .

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scottbeammeup | @scottbeammeup | 6 days ago
In reply to @scottrl "Here's one that most people won't recognize. From "For a Friend", by The Communards (Richard Coles..." + (show)
@scottrl

Here's one that most people won't recognize.

From "For a Friend", by The Communards (Richard Coles & Jimmy Somerville), 1988.
It's ostensibly about a young man whose friend dies of AIDS.
But it's one of the saddest and most moving songs about love & loss that I have ever heard.

"...As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away,
All the memories of you come rushing back to me.
As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away,
All I want to do is kiss you once goodbye, goodbye..."

You really have to hear it:

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This is one of my favorite songs. I was living in San Francisco and this song came out during the AIDS epidemic in 1988 where friends and acquaintances were dying every week. I was a volunteer at Hospice of San Francisco and helped a lot of guys whose families had completely disowned them or, worse, told them AIDS was God's punishment (if death by disease is God's punishment then I guess we're all going to be punished at some point).

A lot of times, my "help" was just sitting with them so they weren't alone. I would listen to this song and it was very cathartic. Of my core friend group of four people (including me), only two of us lived to see 30. When I first found out I had prostate cancer, my immediate thought was "well, I've been living on borrowed time for almost 40 years."

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scottbeammeup | @scottbeammeup | 6 days ago
In reply to @triciaot "Running’ over the same old ground, what have we found? Sentiment is the same today." + (show)
@triciaot

Running’ over the same old ground, what have we found?

Sentiment is the same today.

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My favorite line from this song is "Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil?"

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adr | @adr | 6 days ago
In reply to @scottrl "Here's one that most people won't recognize. From "For a Friend", by The Communards (Richard Coles..." + (show)
@scottrl

Here's one that most people won't recognize.

From "For a Friend", by The Communards (Richard Coles & Jimmy Somerville), 1988.
It's ostensibly about a young man whose friend dies of AIDS.
But it's one of the saddest and most moving songs about love & loss that I have ever heard.

"...As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away,
All the memories of you come rushing back to me.
As I watch the sun go down, watching the world fade away,
All I want to do is kiss you once goodbye, goodbye..."

You really have to hear it:

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I've not heard this song before. I remember that time and every thing that went along with it.

What I find interesting about this songs is that if you don't listen to the lyrics, the music and tempo seem pretty upbeat to me. It's sad but I feel its also life affirming. Does that make any sense?!

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slarson14 | @slarson14 | 6 days ago

Sailing
Takes me away to where I've always heard it could be
Just a dream and the wind to carry me
And soon I will be free

I use this song for imagery when and if I wake up at night...sailing on soft puffy clouds or the wide open ocean...

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shmerdloff | @shmerdloff | 5 days ago
In reply to @scottbeammeup ""Darkness has a hunger that's insatiable and lightness has a call that's hard to hear." --..." + (show)
@scottbeammeup

"Darkness has a hunger that's insatiable and lightness has a call that's hard to hear." -- Indigo Girls, Closer to Fine

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More Indigo
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sillyblone | @sillyblone | 5 days ago
In reply to @scottbeammeup "This is one of my favorite songs. I was living in San Francisco and this song..." + (show)
@scottbeammeup

This is one of my favorite songs. I was living in San Francisco and this song came out during the AIDS epidemic in 1988 where friends and acquaintances were dying every week. I was a volunteer at Hospice of San Francisco and helped a lot of guys whose families had completely disowned them or, worse, told them AIDS was God's punishment (if death by disease is God's punishment then I guess we're all going to be punished at some point).

A lot of times, my "help" was just sitting with them so they weren't alone. I would listen to this song and it was very cathartic. Of my core friend group of four people (including me), only two of us lived to see 30. When I first found out I had prostate cancer, my immediate thought was "well, I've been living on borrowed time for almost 40 years."

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What a wonderful thing to do. I don't understand why society has to blame people for anything. Especially when they were sick . Kudos to you for letting others knew you cared. ❣️

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scottbeammeup | @scottbeammeup | 5 days ago
In reply to @shmerdloff "More Indigo" + (show)
@shmerdloff

More Indigo

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They have SO many good lyrics. I also really love:

So I know I'm all right
Life will come and life will go
Still I feel it's all right
Cause I just got a letter to my soul
And when my whole life is on the tip of my tongue
Empty pages for the no longer young
The apathy of time laughs in my face
You say "each life has its place"

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