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The final question. I've been avoiding this one, as it's the most uncomfortable one so far. Question 30: A song that reminds you of yourself. I really don't think that I would want to listen to that song. I certainly wouldn't want to inflict it on the rest of you! It wouldn't be very harmonious, that's for sure. So, once again, I'm coming at this one from a slight angle.
My brain and I have not always been very good friends. We have a long, complex history together, although age seems to have brought a slightly better understanding. Or at least, I hope it has. Bruce Springsteen has written very eloquently on the subject of depression, and although he writes very much from his own perspective, there is one of his songs that feels quite appropriate at the moment. He wrote it when his life had just taken a turn for the better, due to his relationship with Patti Scialfa, so obviously that bit of it doesn't apply. There are lines, though: It's a sad man, my friend, who's living in his own skin, and can't stand the company, for example, which have great resonance. It also has a great line which very accurately describes how it feels when you're on the up, but you're hyper-aware of the hole you've just got out of: Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven, and just a mile out of hell...
So here's Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band doing Better Days - which are things that everybody ought to have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c75TcDgRoPY
My brain and I have not always been very good friends. We have a long, complex history together, although age seems to have brought a slightly better understanding. Or at least, I hope it has. Bruce Springsteen has written very eloquently on the subject of depression, and although he writes very much from his own perspective, there is one of his songs that feels quite appropriate at the moment. He wrote it when his life had just taken a turn for the better, due to his relationship with Patti Scialfa, so obviously that bit of it doesn't apply. There are lines, though: It's a sad man, my friend, who's living in his own skin, and can't stand the company, for example, which have great resonance. It also has a great line which very accurately describes how it feels when you're on the up, but you're hyper-aware of the hole you've just got out of: Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven, and just a mile out of hell...
So here's Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band doing Better Days - which are things that everybody ought to have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c75TcDgRoPY
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Aw, a song of you would be great! Better than a soup, quite cannibalistic.
Thanks for linking and I hope things keep on the up (and don't think I didn't notice the mention of pirates in the lyrics):)
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I'm definitely not doing Me Soup. I'm vegetarian anyway, even if there weren't some extensive logistical issues involved with eating yourself. I suppose there's this song though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERrVDGASA5I. (But I'm not really a palaeontologist. I just pretend to be when I'm digging in the garden.)
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And thank you. But it's only a brain. It's not like it's a bit that I actually use. :)
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Not bad going!!
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Ouch. I hear you.
I hope many of your days are better. ♥
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