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April 12, 2013 at 6:01 pm #787717
DBPMemberThe movie reference is in The Sixth Sense.
In one of the opening scenes, the character played by Haley Joel Osment is building the “De Profundis” out of Scrabble tiles or something. Since he’s just a little kid, that’s our clew that something very weird is up with him.
It’s Latin: the opening phrase to Psalm (“song”) 130.
It means: From the depths, I cry out to Thee, O Lord.
In other words, it’s a Blues number.
There are many other references to the De Profundis in literature and music. Not being Catholic myself, I don’t know what role it plays in the modern Liturgy.
April 12, 2013 at 6:08 pm #787718
WorldCitizenParticipant“She came sliding on down the alley way like butter dripping off a hot biscuit.
April 12, 2013 at 6:26 pm #787719
DBPMemberHmm.
I can see that some folks around here were “country when country wasn’t cool.”
And they still are.
April 15, 2013 at 1:35 am #787720
DBPMember¡Hola!
Know-It-All here again.
Say, were we trying to go for clever with this?
Or were we trying to go for deep?
You can get clever in one line. You can’t get deep.
And the only reason you can even get clever in one is because people already know the other lines.
Example of a good line . . .
♪ Don’t it always seem to go that ya don’t know what ya got till it’s gone?
That’s clever, but only because we know the rest of the song . . .
♪ They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.
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Don’t bother . . . here it is:
April 15, 2013 at 1:48 am #787721
DBPMemberBeautiful song by John Prine
Yeah, his voice is crap
His musical skill is limited
The tune is pure hillbilly country
And yet . . . it’s one of the most elegant political commentaries ever penned.
The Great Compromise
I knew a girl who was almost a lady
She had a way with all the men in her life
Every inch of her blossomed in beauty
And she was born on the Fourth of July
Well she lived in an aluminum house trailer
And she worked in a juke-box saloon
And she spent all the money I give her
Just to see the old man in the moon
Chorus:
I used to sleep at the foot of old glory
And awake in the dawn’s early light
But much to my surprise
When I opened my eyes
I was a victim of the great compromise
Well we’d go out on Saturday evenings
To the drive-in on Route 41
And it was there that I first suspected
That she was doin’ what she’d already done
She said “Johnny, won’t you get me some popcorn”
And she knew I had to walk pretty far
And as soon as I passed through the moonlight
She hopped into a foreign sports car
(repeat chorus)
Well you know I could have beat up that fella
But it was her that had hopped into his car
Many times I’d fought to protect her
But this time she was goin’ too far
Now some folks they call me a coward
’cause I left her at the drive-in that night
But I’d ruther have names thrown at me
Than to fight for a thing that ain’t right
(repeat chorus)
Now she writes all the fellows love letters
Saying “Greetings, come and see me real soon”
And they go and line up in the barroom
And spend the night in that sick woman’s room
But sometimes I get awful lonesome
And I wish she was my girl instead
But she won’t let me live with her
And she makes me live in my head
I listened to this song maybe a twenty times before I got it.
And then I was like: “Oh.”
April 15, 2013 at 4:14 pm #787722
wakefloodParticipantDBP: I generally agree that clever is easier in one line than deep but ’tis in the eye of the beholder, yes?
Potential example: “…never thought I’d have to pay so dearly, for what was already mine, for such a long, long time.”
Or maybe you prefer? “…I’m just a mere shadow of my former selfishness…”
April 15, 2013 at 4:20 pm #787723
wakefloodParticipantCan’t stop myself!
“…who’s nerves are always on a knife edge, who’s up late polishing the blade…”
April 15, 2013 at 5:23 pm #787724
DBPMemberMr. Flood, in case you hadn’t heard, I’m an ass. And I know it.
If you should ever have cause to doubt this, please reference the following statement:
“I, DBP, do solemnly swear that I’m an ass.”
Signed and witnessed this 15th Day of April, 2013:
–DBP (ass)
April 15, 2013 at 5:25 pm #787725
DBPMemberApril 15, 2013 at 5:39 pm #787726
wakefloodParticipantDude, let’s not even go there. I’ve gotta’ be Exhibit A regarding being an ass on this site. For godsakes, you apologized ON MY BEHALF to another poster recently. That’s gotta’ outrank your assness. ;-)
April 15, 2013 at 6:36 pm #787727
DBPMemberNo . . . so sorry to have contradict you again, sir, but apologizing on behalf of others actually makes one MORE of an ass, not less, because it implies that the person for whom one is apologizing is somehow more of an ass even than oneself, thereby making oneself look rather good by comparison.
Which is the very Everest of Assiness.
April 15, 2013 at 10:56 pm #787728
waynsterParticipanthmmmmmm…DPB your arssness over flows with happyness so with that lets sing the happy happy joy joy song…..
http://nicktoons.nick.com/videos/clip/happy-happy-joy-joy.html
sing along….
Hello, boys and girls
This is your old pal stinky wizzleteats
This is a song about a whale
No, this is a song about being happy
That’s right, it’s the happy, happy, joy, joy, song
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy, joy
I don’t think you’re happy enough
That’s right, I’ll teach you to be happy
I’ll teach your grandmother to suck eggs
Now, boys and girls, let’s try it again
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy, joy
If’n you ain’t the granddaddy of all liars
Think of the little critters of nature
They don’t know that they’re ugly
That’s very funny, a fly marrying a bumblebee
I told you, ‘I’d shoot’, but you didn’t believe me
Why didn’t you believe me?
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy
Happy, happy, joy, joy, joy
April 16, 2013 at 1:25 pm #787729
wakefloodParticipantYou just want my ice cream bar!!!
“It rolls down stairs,
alone or in pairs,
and over your neighbors dog.
It fits on your back,
it’s great as a snack,
it’s log, log, log!
It’s log, it’s log,
it’s big,
it’s heavy,
it’s wood!
It’s log,
it’s log,
it’s better than bad,
it’s good!
April 16, 2013 at 11:19 pm #787730
waynsterParticipanthere we go wakeflood now we can all sing along one for boys and girls …lmao
April 16, 2013 at 11:25 pm #787731
wakefloodParticipantI’ve taught the log song to dozens of kids who have no idea what I’m blathering on about. But they love it anyway…
…c’mon kids, let’s sing it now!
Thanks waynster! But you still can’t have my creamy, delicious ice cream bar.
April 16, 2013 at 11:53 pm #787732
waynsterParticipantdang it all I tried……lmao
April 17, 2013 at 1:11 am #787733
BonnieParticipantDon’t worry about a thing…cause every little thing is gonna be alright.
April 17, 2013 at 2:56 am #787734
twobottlesParticipantThelonious, my old friend,
Step on in and let me shake your hand.
So glad that you’re here again.
For one more time, let your madness run with mine.
Streets still unseen we’ll find somehow,
No time is better than now.
April 17, 2013 at 3:22 am #787735
wakefloodParticipantAnd only a fool would say that, tb. :-)
April 17, 2013 at 3:57 am #787736
DBPMember♫ That’s the way (uh-huh uh-huh) I like it (uh-huh uh-huh) ♫
Picking up the word “that,” the last word from Mr. Flood’s inane post.
Would you like to know the rest of the lyrics, boys and girls?
Very well then. I shall tell you:
Oh, that’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh.
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh.
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh.
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh.
Oh, that’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh.
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh.
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh.
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh,
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh.
I forgot the actual name of the song, but I’d have to say that it is one of my all-time favorite tunes by KC and the Sunshine Band.
In the top 10 definitely.
April 17, 2013 at 3:28 pm #787737
wakefloodParticipantHey DBP, my inane post was actually code to twobottles. Song from the same album, which I suspect we both wore out a few times over back in the early/mid seventies.
No time is better than now, indeed!
April 17, 2013 at 4:15 pm #787738
DBPMemberDon’t use words like “indeed.” How can I riff off that?
Who ever wrote a song with the word “indeed”?
April 17, 2013 at 4:20 pm #787739
wakefloodParticipantFine…
“I’ve been talking to the wall
and it’s been answering me…”
Underhand softball for ya.
April 17, 2013 at 5:04 pm #787740
DBPMemberApril 17, 2013 at 10:19 pm #787741
wakefloodParticipantFunny you should post this particular album. It captures Mick Taylor’s initial live contributions to the band. And I know it’s heretical to the Brian Jones supporters, but as far as the guitar interplay between Keith and Mick, it’s some of the finest in all of rock. Keith had the memorable short riffs and laid down the melody and Mick knew how to craft the longer tasty leads and kick ass slide work.
“Can’t you hear me knockin’,
down the gaslight street now.
Can’t you hear me knockin’, yeah,
throw me down the keys….alright now”
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