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03-24-2004, 10:55 AM | #1 |
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Dedicated to Stapp and all celebrities...
TIGHT ROPE
Leon Russell I'm up on the tightrope , one sides hate and one is hope It's a circus game with you and me. I'm up on the tightwire , flanked by life and the funeral pyre But the tophat on my head is all you see. And the wire seems to be the only place for me A comedy of errors and I'm falling Like a rubber neck giraffe, you look into my past Well, baby you're just too blind to see. I'm up in the spotlight, oh does it feel right The altitude seems to really get to me. I'm up on the tightwire linked by life and the funeral pyre Putting on a show for you to see. So loving Leon lately. Also makes me think of The Thorn Within, how the celebrities are sort of "focal points" for ordinary human experience, I do your time I take your fall I'm branded guilty For us all So point your fingers Point right at me For I am shadows and will follow you One and the same are we Metallica. Another line, "forgive me Father, for I have sinned"...well according to the scriptures God has forgiven men, but it's getting men to reconcile with one another that's such hell. |
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Thanks for that, shunammite. I think people sometimes forget that these people are human, make the same mistakes as we do and just want what everybody else wants -- a little happiness.
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Well said, Dogstar. And thank you for your post, shunammite.
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In Thee
(Blue Oyster Cult) Maybe I'll see you again baby And maybe I won't Maybe you've bought your ticket Gone back to Detroit Airplanes make strangers of us all Give us distance Much too easily. Jim says some destinies Should not be delivered But you and I seen now baby That still they are Winning it makes losers of us all 'Cause the dice roll So indifferently. Well, I'll wrap myself in cities I travel I'll wrap myself in dreams I'll wrap myself in solitude But I wish I could wrap myself In thee. Tonight it's hot, without you Tomorrow'll be cold Winter will come along Driven by snow Love it makes strangers of us all When we part Oh so thoughtlessly Once we breathed the breath Of sweet surrender Pure, pure Arab air filled our Atmosphere But pride it makes stars of us all Until we fall For everyone to see. Well, I'll wrap myself in cities I travel I'll wrap myself in dreams I'll wrap myself stranger's arms But I wish I could wrap myself In thee. A Blue Oyster Cult song, I never listened to them back in the day, it was Metallica's cover of Astronomy that turned me on to them, and this song esp, and the boldface line esp, so obvious about "celebrities" but also the experience of every person, on a smaller scale. Still feeling for Stapp, and wanting to say whatever his personal faults may be, his artistic output was very good, to me, he was/is real, in his art. I think it must be very hard to be a celebrity, I read a line from Jimi Hendrix, that every song is a personal dairy, to lay yourself so open...ego maybe, but it takes courage too. And I think when others bare their inner struggles it helps the less courageous to face themselves, that is what "art" does for me, helps me know myself...and other people, so we aren't so far apart after all. |
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thats good to know
it good to know that people understand that their people to and not just an attraction for the entertainment world.
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I agree and I know Scott's words have helped me with some of my inner struggles and has helped me to face them as well.
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To Whom It May Concern also seems to deal with these issues although it also seems to be about a relationship falling apart as well. |
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Another take on what many think is just a glamor-filled existence...From Jerry Cantrell:
Dying Inside Long fat green, love what you do, so young must be nice Roll first class, limousine drool, packed house every night Hey rock star, got a cold beer? Sure you don't mind do you? Ain't life sweet. party non-stop, 24/7 - cool So proud would be your mother Anything you want, pick you lover From here loos so fine My god how your star shines... Dying inside Live your dream, walk in those shoes, trade with you any time Worldwide name, freedom much fame, spinning gold song and rhyme So proud would be your mother Anything you want, pick you lover From here loos so fine My god how your star shines... Dying inside My god how your star shines... Dying inside Play, get paid, couple sports cars, sure you done paid your dues Big house own, no boss fun, lucky fuck I wish I was you So proud would be your mother Anything you want, pick you lover From here loos so fine My god how your star shines... Dying inside My god how your star shines... Dying inside
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Here's one more, pretty famous, but it still touches me every time:
TURN THE PAGE (Bob Seger) on a long and lonely highway east of omaha you can listen to the engine, moanin out as one long song you can think about the woman, or the girl you knew the night before and your thoughts will soon be wandering the way they always do when you're riding sixteen hours and there's nothing much to do you don't feel much like travelin', you just wish the trip was through CHORUS: but here I am, on the road again here I am, up on the stage here I go, playing the star again there I go, turn the page you walk into a restaraunt, strung out from the road and you feel the eyes upon you, as you're shaking off the cold you pretend it doesn't bother you, but you just want to explode sometimes you can here 'em talk, other times you can't all the same 'ole cliches: is that a woman or a man? and you always seem outnumbered, you dare not make a stand CHORUS but here I am, on the road again here I am, up on the stage here I go, playing the star again there I go, turn the page out there in the spotlight, your a million miles away every ounce of energy, you try to give away and the sweat pours from your body, like the music that you play later in the evening, as you lie awake in bed echos of the amplifiers, ringin' in your head as you smoke the days last cigarette, remembering what she said Metallica's cover version, of course...and I highlighted the part that made me think of Stapp...but I'm sure it all speaks to any performer...a great life but very hard too...so many crash and burn. |
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I'm pretty sure Scott wrote TWIMC about his relationship with the audience. Here are some of the lyrics:
Your eyes stare at me in the dark And I hope those eyes Don't steal my freedom My freedom Oh, If I didn't give it all When I stood you made me crawl And oh, if you never heard the song Then I could still hide down behind the wall I feel the same way. Since we're on the subject; (how about the relationship part of it) 3DD - Here Without You A hundred days have made me older Since the last time that I saw your pretty face A thousand lies have made me colder And I don't think I can look at this the same All the miles that separate Disappear now when I'm dreamin' of your face I'm here without you baby But you're still on my lonely mind I think about you baby and I dream about you all the time I'm here without you baby But you're still with me in my dreams And tonight, there's only you and me The miles just keep rollin' As the people leave their way to say hello I've heard this life is overrated But I hope that this gets better as we go I'm here without you baby But you're still on my lonely mind I think about you baby and I dream about you all the time I'm here without you baby But you're still with me in my dreams And tonight, there's only you and me And when the last one falls, when it's all said and done It gets hard but it won't take away my love
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nice thread
interesting thread, I think Elvis said It Best when he did it his way, And, Your Were Always on my mind, And Kid Rock, Only God Knows Why,
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That was pretty cool
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Just a note: To Whom It May Concern is rumored to have been written about his wife (or ex now).
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i think that is probably right but you could see it from the point of view of fame taking away your privacy. Perhaps Inside Us All could deal with a lack of privacy taking away one's peace? |
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I had heard it was written about the audience You're probably right Steve.
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