I Need Some Musical Help
1) A couple of years ago I heard about a band on a NPR show. Each of the songs starts out with a historical audio clip and then is about the event - or something like that. I remember liking it, I thinking, "I should look up _____ when I get home." Guess what? I forgot. Does anyone know who they are?
2) Love songs with no despair. I have a great book, 17 Love Poems With No Despair, by BJ Ward. I love the idea and most of the poems. Why pair love and despair so often? It brings us all down. So, not too long ago - right after my sister's wedding, actually - I was trying to think of love songs with no despair that are not mainstream country. Not too much luck. Casey gave me the first two :
- Eight Days a Week, The Beatles
- Love Me Do, The Beatles
- All That Heaven Will Allow, Bruce Springsteen
- For You, Tracy Chapman
- Wedding Song, Tracy Chapman
- The Luckiest, Ben Folds
- Your Charms, Cinerama
- Naked as We Came, Iron and Wine (maybe a tinge of despair here with the death theme and all)
Help me out! I need input! Post a comment or e-mail me (link on profile) and I'll add to the list.
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All sorts of Beatles' songs. But from Tunnel of Love there is Cautious Man no despair. How about All That Heaven will allow.
Okay I just thought of one! A killer!!
No Words
There are no words to say
No words to convey
This feeling inside I have for you
Deep in my heart
Save from the guards
Of intellect and reason
Leaving me at a loss
For words to express my feelings
Deep in my heart
Look at me losing control
Thinking I had a hold
But with feelings this strong
I’m no longer the master
Of my emotions
I don't feel like there is any despair. It makes me feel melancholy so I sometimes just think the song is sad.
"Cautious Man" - no good. See:
"Billy felt a coldness rise up inside him that he couldn't name
Just as the words tattooed 'cross his knuckles he knew would always remain
At their bedside he brushed the hair from his wife's face as the moon shone on her skin so white
Filling their room with the beauty of God's fallen light"
The Luckiest, Ben Folds
Your Charms, Cinerama
Naked as We Came, Iron and Wine
Regarding your first question - could you give me any more details? What was the name of the NPR program, if you remember? Could you give me a specific time frame? They have great archives - not only their website, but through other databases...this sounds like something Madge the Librarian - not Madge the Music Freak - could do.
2) Hmmmm. Good question! I will think on this.
I think Cautious Man is nice, no despair. He feels the coldness and it will always remain, but that to me is some sort of nervousness for his relationship. In the end he goes to his wife and brushes the hair from her face and she is beautiful and he loves her. That is the way I see it.
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