Re: One single line of lyrics makes the song much better
I love this thread too, and BILLW, I too like that side of the total package as you say well of Gord, in the "tougher", he "ain't no lightweight to be kicked around" side of him that, I think is what the reviewer meant that spoke of Gord's "Broad-brimmed" read: "Cowboy-tuff hand" to me - side of Gord. I love that song Watchman's (Gone) - I think as has been said many times it could have been a good single.
Similarly - yes - in Baby Step Back , same idea, and I would add: Endless Wire - "so don't go foolin' around" et al. I here more and more on that song the more I read corfid. I did not like it when I first bought EW in '77 I believe, because it represented to me at the time the transition from the *great* introduction of new (electric) instrumentation of Summertime Dream LP fame in change, pushing further into "plugged in" and much less acoustic near-rock of many EW songs. But... I love several of the songs on that album, not surprisingly the more traditional Gord (of earlier 70's) sounding:
Tatto
Whispers of The North
I'd add to this thread a some lines I like a lot:
-I'm committing blaspheme by going by memory, not checking lyrics boards, but it adds to my enjoyment of thinking of his songs in my mind.....thanks for indulging my poor memory. :
as was said - you know the songs - here are the lines:
"If you get a tip than you better tell it to an Eskimo"
"If you make a mistake don't ya (ya better not?) make it twice"
"you got that feelin in your soul"
"like any wandering minstrel, I've gone in the house of a thousand delights" (forgive me)
"I've been around for a half a hundred days"
"soon I will go forth...to that wild and barren land, where nature takes its course"
"Out on the road, like a low-down Joe, and the bar where we are is so cool I'd.like to stay...Misunderstood, like I knew I would be.."
"anybody with a wish to wander could not fail but to be aroused""
"its red and its blue, and its more than one colour, it goes on forever, for just a few dollars, good night.."
"so she took herself in to her room, and she turned the bedsheets down, and cried into the silken folds, upon her wedding gown"
"you are like a wish come true.. I'm counting on you"
"to the sunset through the blue light of a fiery autumn haze"
"and we saw leaves had fallen on the beds where trees are born.."
"through two shipwrecked eyes I come to see you"
"fortune will not find you in your mansion turned to gold"
"love alone will keep me breathing.... all through the night"
"nesting like two eagles in the trees"
" this rented car never went so far but with each passing mile one more dream had turned to clay"
"everybody's in step with the season"
"Christmas dawns and the snow lets up and the sun hits the handle on her heirloom cup"
"anyone inside know my name"
"In think I heard....someone stirrin'.... I think I heard, someone stirrin'.. think I heard..."
"turn around dont look down there's a man behind you with a gun"
"there's a light around you, i've come to switch it on"
"dont be ashamed if you feel a lot warmer in your heart, you got that feelin in your soul"
"everything I had to give, I've given to you"
" laughing eyes and smiling face..it seems so lucky just to have the right of telling you with all my might....your beautiful tonight"
".... she lies....forgotten......"
".....I'm telling you that you're beautiful................[violins]......"
Holy God his music gets to me..... I miss Merry so much.......... I am sorry to wax on,,,,,
geo steve out
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