Read this poem every day so you never forget its wisdom!
Author: J.E.M. Wildfire
Writer. Idealist. Romantic. Retired public defender. Crazy, childless, cat lady. Rock 'n' roller forever! Always a work in progress.
The Alliance
Boundaries breached. Tempers testing friendship. Forgiven.
Written in response to Jo’s 6 Word Story July prompts #15 and #16
Song Lyric Sunday – “Bye Bye Love”
Did you really think I’d pass up the opportunity to share a Cars song, sung by Benjamin Orr, and right on point for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday theme: Break? Just as my other Song Lyric Sunday pick is my favorite in Poco’s ouevre, Bye Bye Love is my hands-down favorite Cars song. Written, as are all Cars songs, by Ric Ocasek, this is not your Everly Brothers’ Bye Bye Love. For a special treat, even if only for me and sweetpurplejune, I’ll be giving you two BBL videos. The first is circa 1978 when the Cars were just starting out, garnering national and intenational attention*. The second, a 1995 performance, features Benjamin Orr and his band, some seven years after the Cars’ breakup. Enjoy:
I can’t feel this way much longer
Expecting to survive
With all these hidden innuendoes
Just waiting to arrive
It’s such a wavy midnight
And you slip into insane
Electric angel rock and roller
I hear what you’re playin’
It’s an orangy sky
Always it’s some other guy
It’s just a broken lullaby
Bye bye love
Bye bye love
Bye bye love
Bye bye love
Substitution mass confusion
Clouds inside your head
Involving all my energies
Until you visited
With your eyes of porcelain and of blue
They shock me into sense
You think you’re so illustrious
You call yourself intense
It’s an orangy sky
Always it’s some other guy
It’s just a broken lullaby
Bye bye love
Bye goo’ bye love
bye bye love
Bye bye love
Substitution mass confusion
Clouds inside your head
Well foggin’ all my energies
Until you visited
With your eyes of porcelain and of blue
They shock me into sense
You think you’re so illustrious
You call yourself intense
It’s an orangy sky
Always it’s some other guy
It’s just a broken lullaby
Bye bye love
Bye bye love
Bye bye love
Bye bye loveWriter/s: RIC OCASEK
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind
*Edited 3/23/2019 to note that the first selected video is no longer available.
“Just A Little Bit Of Magic” in Song Lyric Sunday
It’s Sunday and time for one of my favorite prompts/challenges: Helen Vadahti’s Song Lyric Sunday! This week’s theme is “break”. The first thought in my mind was “break up song,” but that’s just too gloomy for the lovely day here in New England. That must be why Poco’s peppy “Pickin’ Up The Pieces” permeated my pate. (OK, I won’t do that again.) Richie Furay created some great songs for Poco. Written fresh off the 1968 breakup of Furay’s prior band, Buffalo Springfield, “Pickin’ Up the Pieces” is rumored to be a reference to that breakup. This is off their 1969 debut album of the same name. In my opinion, it’s one of the best and is my favorite. Lyrics are posted after the video, if you want to sing along.
Well there’s just a little bit of magic
In the country music we’re singin’
So let’s begin
We’re bringin’ you back down home where the folks are happy
Sittin’ pickin’ and a-grinnin’
Casually, you and me
We’ll Pick Up The Pieces, uh-huh
Somebody yelled out at me
Country music and company kind of makes it
On a Sunday afternoon
Picnic lunches of yesterday
Should still have a place in your heart today
Think it over
‘Cause we’ll all be goin’ home so soon
[Repeat first verse]
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/poco/pickinupthepieces.html
Questions & Quizzes
Dear Fellow Bloggers —
Not to be a stick-in-the-mud, but I really don’t like questionnaires, quizzes, and chain-letters. Oh, I suppose they could be a way to get to know someone better. They’re sometimes a pleasant way to while away procrastination time. But, for the most part, I’d rather read someone’s poems, stories, and essays. To me, even the memes someone posts are a better reveal of who they are.
And don’t even get me started on being tagged to participate in one of them! I think I’m basically a polite, caring person, albeit prone to sarcasm & bluntness. Generally, I’m a walking “open mouth, insert foot” meme, if you will. I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings by ignoring their kind invitations to participate in the latest chain-game, so when I’ve been tagged, I soldier on & do my best to play the game. The thought of not doing so & breaking the chain fills me with guilt. But then I have to hand over the burden & tag someone else! Such an agonizing decision! Have they already been tagged in this particular game? Have they been called on to participate in any others? How often? Do they even like playing, or are they just polite, like me?
I like you guys. Like getting to know you & interacting with you. So, it’s with heavy heart that I’m giving you all fair warning. If you tag me, I won’t play. I’ll break the chain. It’s all on you.
J.E.M. Wildfire 