ATF: Realizing the Dream

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) 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 you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Joe Walsh]

Life’s Been Good

Joe Walsh

I have a mansion

Forget the price

Ain't never been there

They tell me it's nice

I live in hotels

Tear out the walls

I have accountants

Pay for it all

They say I'm crazy

But I have a good time

I'm just lookin’ for clues

At the scene of the crime

Life's been good to me

So far

My Maserati

Does 185

I lost my license

Now I don't drive

I have a limo

Ride in the back

I lock the doors

In case I'm attacked

I make hit records

My fans they can't wait

They write me letters

Tell me I'm great

So I got me an office

Gold records on the wall

Just leave a message

Maybe I'll call

Lucky I'm sane

After all I've been through

Everybody says

I'm cool

He's cool

I can't complain

But sometimes I still do

Life's been good to me

So far

I go to parties

Sometimes until four

It's hard to leave

When you can't find the door

It's tough to handle

This fortune and fame

Everybody's so different

I haven't changed

They say I'm lazy

But it takes all my time

Everybody says

Oh yeah

Oh yeah

I keep on goin’

Guess I'll never know why

Life's been good to me

So far

Yeah yeah yeah

Link: [Irene Cara]

What a Feeling

Irene Cara

First

When there's nothing

But a slow

Glowin’ dream

That your fear

Seems to hide

Deep inside

Your mind

All alone

I have cried

Silent tears

Full of pride

In a world

Made of steel

Made of stone

Well

I

Hear the music

Close my eyes

Feel the rhythm

Wrap around

Take ahold

Of my heart

What a feelin’

Beats believin'

I can have it all

Now I'm dancin’ for

My life

Take your passion

And make it happen

Pictures come alive

You can dance right through

Your life

Now

I

Hear the music

Close my eyes

I am rhythm

In a flash

It takes hold

Of my heart

What a feelin’

Beats believin'

I can have it all

Now I'm dancin’ for

My life

What a feelin’

What a feelin’

I am music now

Beats believin’

I am rhythm now

It just comes on back

You can dance right through

Your life

What a feelin’

I can really have it all

What a feelin’

Pictures come alive when I call

I can have it all

I can really have it all

Have it all

Pictures come alive when I call

Call

Call

Call

Call…

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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