Thursday, May 2, 2013

ATF: Why?


This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make.  I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.



The Times They Are a-Changin’
Bob Dylan
Come gather around people
Wherever you roam
And admit
That the waters around you
Have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times
They are
A-changin'

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin'
Who that it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times
They are
A-changin'

Come senators
Congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle
Outside
Ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And vibrate your walls
For the times
They are
A-changin'

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road
Is rapidly
Aging
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times
They are
A-changin'

The line
It is drawn
And the curse
It is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order
Is rapidly
Fading
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times
They are
A-changin'



Days Go By
Keith Urban
I’m changin' lanes
And talkin' on the phone
And drivin' way too fast
The interstate's jammed
With gunners like me
Afraid of comin' in last
But somewhere in the race we run
We're comin' undone

And days go by
I can feel them flyin'
Like a hand
Out the window
In the wind
The cars go by
Yeah it's all we've been given
So you’d better start livin'
Right now
'Cause days go by

Out on the roof
Just the other night
I watched the world flash by
Headlights
Taillights
And runnin' through the river
Of neon signs
But somewhere in the rush I felt
We're losin' ourselves

And days go by
I can feel them flyin'
Like a hand
Out the window
In the wind
The cars go by
Yeah it's all we've been given
So you’d better start livin'
Right now
'Cause days go by

Yeah
The days go by

We think about tomorrow
Then it slips away
Oh yes it does
We talk about forever
But we've only got today

And the days go by
I can feel them flyin'
Like a hand
Out the window
As the cars go by
Yeah it's all we've been given
So you'd better start livin'
You’d better start livin'
Better start livin'
Right now

‘Cause days go by
I can feel them flyin'
Like a hand
Out the window
In the wind
The cars go by
Yeah it's all we've been given
So you’d better start livin'
Right now
'Cause days go by

Yeah
These days go by


Oh
So take them by the hand
They're yours and mine
Take them by the hand
And live your life
Take them by the hand
Don't let them all fly by
Come on
Come on now

Come on now

Don't you know
The days go by

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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10 comments:

  1. Times may be a-changing, but the song remains a great song.

    And there's a good old Aussie boy...doing his thing - and doing it well! :)

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  2. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Lee!!! Doing it very well!

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  3. Ah Bob Dylan, i loved Shelter From The Storm, used to play it in my teens whilst drinking 'Home Brew' with my mates. The best performance of a Dylan song was Neil Young at Bobfest performing "All Along the Watchtower." I love Dylan certainly knew how to write.

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  4. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Alan!!! Oh, but his voice often gets in the way of the song. (LOL?)

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  5. Both are great but, I am quite the fan of Bobby, as he is a Minnesota boy, all the way !

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  6. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Karen!!! So, you wouldn't mind if I include a few more of his songs later on?

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  7. there's just no other voice like dylan's. very distinctive. my sis discovered him when she was about 19 and felt his angst. :)

    thanks, always for your visits!

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  8. Dylan blocked by the greedy music companies!!!!!!
    Tell the plonker there to keep both his hands on the wheel!

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  9. Thanks for stopping by, my dear TexWisGirl!!! He was indeed given a great sensitivity to what was (and still is) going on.

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  10. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Adullamite!!! I don't remember the particulars, but I seem to recall reading some things about Dylan learning a thing or two about copyright infringement from the record companies that he sought to enforce with great determination against up and coming music acts later on in his career.

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