SOTD #159
Today’s song is Like A Rock by Bob Seger
Stood there boldly
Sweating in the sun
Felt like a million
Felt like number one
The height of summer
I’d never felt that strong
Like a rock
I was eighteen
Didn’t have a care
Working for peanuts
Not a dime to spare
But I was lean and
Solid everywhere
Like a rock
My hands were steady
My eyes were clear and bright
My walk had purpose
My steps were quick and light
And I held firmly
To what I felt was right
Like a rock
Like a rock, I was strong as I could be
Like a rock, nothing ever got to me
Like a rock, I was something to see
Like a rock
And I stood arrow straight
Unencumbered by the weight
Of all these hustlers and their schemes
I stood proud, I stood tall
High above it all
I still believed in my dreams
Twenty years now
Where’d they go?
Twenty years
I don’t know
I sit and I wonder sometimes
Where they’ve gone
And sometimes late at night
When I’m bathed in the firelight
The moon comes calling a ghostly white
And I recall
I recall
Like a rock. standing arrow straight
Like a rock, charging from the gate
Like a rock, carrying the weight
Like a rock
Like a rock, the sun upon my skin
Like a rock, hard against the wind
Like a rock, I see myself again
Like a rock
Simply brilliant. There’s nothing else I can say about this track, except that if you’ve never heard it you need to go and listen to it now.
I first heard this track years and years ago on a Greatest Hits collection that I’d bought for the fact that it contained We’ve Got Tonight and Against The Wind, but I discovered a bunch of other great tracks that I’d never heard before. This one, for some reason, just struck a deep chord within me - perhaps the introspective nature appealed to me, or the lamenting of things lost; whatever it was, this is a superb track that I find very moving every time I hear it.
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SOTD #158
Today’s song is The Old Apartment by Barenaked Ladies
Broke into the old apartment
This is where we used to live
Broken glass, broke and hungry
Broken hearts and broken bones
This is where we used to live
Why did you paint the walls?
Why did you clean the floor?
Why did you plaster over the hole I punched in the door?
This is where we used to live
Why did you keep the mousetrap?
Why did you keep the dishrack?
These things used to be mine
I guess they still are, I want them back
This just popped up on random and, as I was stuck for today’s SOTD, I thought I’d put it up. It is one of my favourite Barenaked Ladies tracks and shows off their trademark up-tempo music, slightly odd or disturbing lyric combination.
SOTD #157
Today’s song is The River Flow by The Levellers
I met you in ‘82, over a crate of beer and not a few
I cracked a can and so did you, we’re gonna change the world
The ghetto kings of downside town
The estates and parks of our hallowed ground
Doing anything that we found and on the river flowed
You’d take a drink from the Reverend Jimmy Jones
You’d cross the street on the path the gunman roams
Thrown aside and left to waste that was you - you knew your place
Wander round, get off your face, and on the river flowed
From their breakthrough Levelling The Land album, this track is a fast-paced, upbeat sounding little tune that I just love to listen to.
There is no hope
No hope for any of us any more, when we’re producing people who are - pardon my French - just so fucking dumb that they don’t even consider that sending text messages while driving might be just a teensy bit dangerous.
Apparently, there’s no problem with it when you’re doing it in the right conditions. The right conditions would seem to include doing 70mph down the motorway on a November night when the roads are wet.
Unfortunately, Darwin wasn’t paying attention that night and the person that died was an innocent bystander.
SOTD #156
Today’s song is Bad For Good by Jim Steinman
You know I’m onto your scent
We’re near the end of the chase
Take a look out your window and I’ll be there in the night
Your love is so close that I can almost taste it
The icy cold will cut us like a knife in the dark
And we may lose everything in the wind
But the Northern Lights are burning
And they’re giving off sparks
I want to wrap myself around you like a winter skin
You’ve been living your life like a girl in a cage
And you whisper when I want you to shout
And I wonder why you wanna go on sleeping
When there’s nothing left to dream about
But you better remember
If it’s something I want then it’s something I need
I wasn’t built for comfort I was built for speed
If it’s something I want then it’s something I need
I wasn’t built for comfort I was built for speed
And I know that I’m gonna be like this forever
I’m never gonna be what I should
And you think that I’ll be bad for just a little while
But I know that I’ll be bad for good
I know that I’ll be bad for good
I know that I’ll be bad for good
As much as I respect the vocal talents of a certain Mr Loaf, over the years I have come to the realisation that Jim Steinman songs sound best when sung by Jim Steinman. This one is from the album of the same name, which contains a number of tracks later covered by Meat Loaf and all of which are better sung by Mr Steinman.
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