Thursday, July 9, 2015

ATF: Voluminous

This 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 your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.



The Sound of Silence
Simon & Garfunkel
Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision
That was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound
Of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash
Of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound
Of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people
Maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs
That voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound
Of silence

Fools
Said I
You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you
But my words
Like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells
Of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said
The words of the prophets are written
On the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds
Of silence



Silent Lucidity
Queensryche
Hush now don't you cry
Wipe away the teardrop from your eye
You're lying safe in bed
It was all a bad dream
Spinning in your head
Your mind tricked you to feel the pain
Of someone close to you leaving the game
Of life
So here it is
Another chance
Wide awake you face the day
Your dream is over
Or has it just begun

There's a place I like to hide
A doorway that I run to in the night
Relax child you were there
But only didn't realize it
And you were scared
It's a place where you will learn
To face your fears
Retrace the tears
And ride the whims of your mind
Commanding in another world
Suddenly you hear and see
This magic new dimension

We’ll be watching over you
I am gonna help you see it through
I will protect you in the night
I am smiling next to you
In silent lucidity

If you open your mind for me
You won't rely on open eyes to see
The walls you built within
Come tumbling down
And a new world will begin
Living twice at once you learn
You're safe from pain
In the dream domain
A soul set free to fly
A round trip journey in your head
Master of illusion
Can you realize
Your dream's alive
You can be the guide but

We’ll be watching over you
I am gonna help you see it through
I will protect you in the night
I am smiling next to you

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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15 comments:

  1. Well, the Sound of Silence is a classic - part of the soundtrack to the 60s. I've never heard of Queensryche - very pleasant!

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Mike!!! Queensyche made a fiairly big splash over here during the grunge period of the 1990s.

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    2. Oh, my dear Mike, I should have added that Silent Lucidity sounds like a Pink Floyd (maybe even a Moody Blues) song to me.

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  2. The lyrics of 'Silent Lucidity', wow........ they don't write songs like this anymore....

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Shadow!!! I thought you might like Silent Lucidity.

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  3. Sound of silence is one of my favorites. I was in chorus back in high school and that was one of the songs that we sang

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Ann!!! Oh, I would have loved to have heard that. I do not remember us ever covering a stage band arrangement of a Simon & Garfunkel song back then, and I am now wondering why.

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  4. I remember liking Sounds of Silence until a high school English teacher spoiled it by making us analyze it as poetry.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Stephen!!! The great depth of meaning to Simon & Garfunkel songs is what makes them so intriguing to me.

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  5. Apart from not being able to hear Simon & Garfunkel I know that was a great LP they produced way back then. before they stopped speaking to one another.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Adullamite!!! I wonder if there were more hard feelings for Paul than Art. For when I went to find images for each as an individual, Paul had several while Art mainly had himself with Paul also in the picture.

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  6. s&g made a great team for a long time.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear TWG!!! They indeed did, and much (if not all) of their music is timeless.

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  7. Simon and Garfunkel...how great they were! I still love their music.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Lee!!! Be assured that they will have several more of their songs included in this series later on.

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