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ChavWivaLawDegree Wrote:

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> I am just a poor boy (or whatever it's called!) -

> Simon and Garfunkle




The Boxer - it's a lovely song, as are most of theirs.


I am just a poor boy

Though my story's seldom told

I have squandered my resistance

For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises

All lies and jests

Still a man hears what he wants to hear

And disregards the rest

When I left my home and my family

I was no more than a boy

In the company of strangers

In the quiet of the railway station running scared

Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters

Where the ragged people go

Looking for the places only they would know

Lie la lie ...


Asking only workman's wages

I come looking for a job

But I get no offers,

Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue

I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome

I took some comfort there

Lie la lie ...


Then I'm laying out my winter clothes

And wishing I was gone

Going home

Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me

Bleeding me, going home

In the clearing stands a boxer

And a fighter by his trade

And he carries the reminders

Of ev'ry glove that layed him down

Or cut him till he cried out

In his anger and his shame

"I am leaving, I am leaving"

But the fighter still remains

Lie la lie ...

The following get me, for a variety of reasons:-

Sparky's Dream - Teenage Fanclub

Standing Here - Stone Roses

Last Night I Dreamt - Smiths/Morrissey (I prefer Morrissey's live versions)and

"Say nighty-night and kiss me

Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me

While I'm alone and blue as can be

Dream a little dream of me" (which my mum used to sing to get me off to sleep)


To stem the flow of tears I think of Phil Collins - mentioned above - as my good friend Tom marked his best porno vid "Phil Collins" safe in the knowledge that no one would ever bother remove it from his shelf.

Atila, you have just gone up hugely in my estimation. Sweet Lady Mary (from Long Player - 1971) is an absolutely gorgeous song and one of my all time favourite tracks from The Faces. Lovely bit of pedal steel by Ronnie Wood by the way and this is from the time when Rod was great. I can forgive him the rest of his career after the Faces because he was just so bloody good then but once he went all Hollywood - forget it.


The Faces - Sweet Lady Mary

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Atila, you have just gone up hugely in my

> estimation. Sweet Lady Mary (from Long Player -

> 1971) is an absolutely gorgeous song and one of my

> all time favourite tracks from The Faces. Lovely

> bit of pedal steel by Ronnie Wood by the way and

> this is from the time when Rod was great. I can

> forgive him the rest of his career after the Faces

> because he was just so bloody good then but once

> he went all Hollywood - forget it.

>

> The Faces - Sweet Lady Mary


Jah, you're not wrong. I loved this band in my teens, and was lucky enough to catch them live in 1974 at the Lewisham Odeon (RIP) They were a treat live, they weren't the tightest band in the world, but they made you feel good!!! Weird how we share a great taste in music, but are poles apart on the football front!! (Only joshing!!!!)

Bastard Radio 2 played In the living Years as I was driving home for lunch yesterday and caused me to drive through ED bawling my little eyes out! Pathetic!


Exit Music for a Film (Radiohead) always gets me and "I Try" by Macey Gray (only cos I listened to it every day driving down to hospital to see my dying dad! Kind of apt some of the lyrics in that tune - like "Goodybye and I choke" amd "My world crumbles when you are not here"


Jeees I need to cheer up ffs!

This is slightly embarassing but the episode of ER where Mark Green dies in Hawaii (sorry if that's ruined it for anyone but it was years ago, where have you been?) has this song - it was one of the most powerful bits of television drama I had seen and always brings a small lump to my throat despite being a really cheery song:


Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow

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