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Let me just tell you, Logan, that I think and feel very differently than you describe it in your post
- and I'm very reflective about it.







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     Tracy Chapman - "Behind the Wall"

        Last night I heard the screaming
        Loud voices behind the wall
        Another sleepless night for me
        It won't do no good to call
        The police always come late
        If they come at all
        And when they arrive
        They say they can't interfere
        With domestic affairs
        Between a man and his wife
        And as they walk out the door
        The tears well up in her eyes
     (from the selftitled debut album as well (1988))
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Grumpy wrote:
       Todd Rundgren - "Bag Lady" (1978)

                One day it gets a bit too cold
                Maybe a little too wet, maybe a little too lonely
                Lifelessly she lies amidst her bag world
                But maybe she's only sleeping
Cry                                 


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote A Crimson Mellotron Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2022 at 08:31
Great suggestions from everyone! Thanks to all for the lovely songs, keep 'em coming.
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Do you guys think that Tracy Chapman is referring to Pink Floyd's The Wall with
her song title? Ermm
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


Do you guys think that Tracy Chapman is referring to Pink Floyd's The Wall with
her song title? Ermm

No. Her song treats a different topic in which the "wall" totally makes sense on its own, without any reference.
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On the previous page someone mentioned some Genesis and PC songs. For me I would say "afterglow" and maybe "another day in paradise." "Afterglow" in particular often gets to me.
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Do you guys think that Tracy Chapman is referring to Pink Floyd's The Wall with her song tite
Got your humor David.

Tracy's lyrics are excellent. Even the police don't want to get involved and that's what makes domestic abuse sad. And what is the neighbor who hears the abuse to do? Sure it would be justified if the abuser got a taste of their own medicine but then what?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2022 at 12:51
Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Do you guys think that Tracy Chapman is referring to Pink Floyd's The Wall with
her song title? Ermm

It was also about my referring to something else. Star


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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

can't decide between these 2:

I do certainly find "House with no Door" to be a sad song but this one much sadder:

              Van der Graaf Generator - "Killer" 

              So you live in the bottom of the sea
              And you kill all that come near you
              But you are very lonely
              Because all the other fish fear you
              And you crave companionship
              And someone to call your own
              Because, for the whole of your life
              You've been living alone
              On a black day in a black month
              At the black bottom of the sea
              Your mother gave birth to you
              And died immediately
             'Cause you can't have two killers
              Living in the same pad
              And when your mother knew that her time had come
              She was really rather glad
(it's not all the lyrics of this song, and it's from the album H to He....(1970))


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Just thought of:

The Beatles: "Good Night"!
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after second thought


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I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2022 at 16:14
one from Wyatt's Rock Bottom (take your pick, really)
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Marillion - "Chelsea Monday"

Catalogue princess, apprentice seductress
Hiding in her cellophane world in glitter town
Awaiting the prince in his white Capri
Dynamic young Tarzan courts the bedsit queen
She's playing the actress in this bedroom scene
She's learning her lines from glossy magazines
Stringing all her pearls from her childhood dreams
Auditioning for the leading role on the silver screen

Patience my tinsel angel
Patience my perfumed child
One day they really love you
You'll charm them with that smile
But for now it's just another Chelsea Monday
................
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Hello John, did you see The Standard about four hours ago?
Fished a young chick out of The Old Father
Blond hair, blue eyes. She said she wanted to be an actress or something
Nobody knows where she came from, where she was going
Funny thing was she had a smile on her face
She was smiling, what a waste

(from the album Script for a Jester's Tear (1983))

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Henryk Górecki: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs - 2nd mouvement (Soprano: Zofia Kilanowicz)




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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote chopper Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2022 at 06:12
Originally posted by Steve Wyzard Steve Wyzard wrote:

Just thought of:

The Beatles: "Good Night"!

Hmm, I wouldn't have said that was sad lyrically speaking, it's basically a lullaby.
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Why don't you like me, suitkees?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote suitkees Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 05 2022 at 04:53
^ Why would you say that? If you think that my Górecki suggestion was a reaction to your - very good - Marillion suggestion, then you're mistaken - it was a suggestion like any other (like yours), not a reaction to anyone or any post but the OP.
If it is a general question, then I don't think it has its place here in this thread, but to get to it: I don't know you, so I cannot like or not like you. The only thing I don't like is how you interact - sometimes ! - with other forum members (and some may think the same of me/my interactions!). The best solution in such cases on internet forums, IMO, is to keep interaction to a minimum. But I won't ask you to stop posting or reacting to me or whatever - I think we all have our place here, since we share a passion. It's just that when something disturbs me, I express my opinion about it, sometimes.


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