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.
Link: [The Kinks]
Living on a Thin Line
The Kinks
All the stories have been told
Of kings and days of old
But there's no England now
There’s no England now
All the wars that were won and lost
Somehow don't seem to matter very much anymore
All the lies we were told
All the lies we were told
All the lies of the people running round
They're castles have burned
Now I see change
But inside we're the same as we ever were
Living on a thin line
Ooh ooh
Tell me now
What are we supposed to do
Living on a thin line
Ooh ooh
Tell me now
What are we supposed to do
Living on a thin line
Living this way
Each day is a dream
What am I
What are we supposed to do
Living on a thin line
Ooh ooh
Tell me now
What are we supposed to do
Now another century nearly gone
What are we gonna leave for the young
What we couldn't do
What we wouldn't do
It's a crime
But does it matter
Does it matter much
Does it matter much to you
Does it ever really matter
Yes it really really matters
Living on a thin line
Ooh ooh
Tell me now
What are we supposed to do
Living on a thin line
Ooh ooh
Tell me now
What are we supposed to do
Now another leader says
Break their hearts and break some heads
Is there nothing we can say or do
Blame the future on the past
Always lost in blood and guts
And when they're gone
It's me and you
Living on a thin line
Ooh ooh
Tell me now
What are we supposed to do
Living on a thin line
Ooh ooh
Tell me now
What are we supposed to do
Living on a thin line
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
I’m Not Like Everybody Else
The Kinks
I won't take all that they hand me down
And make out a smile though I wear a frown
And I won't take it all lying down
'Cause once I get started I go to town
'Cause I'm not like everybody else
And make out a smile though I wear a frown
And I won't take it all lying down
'Cause once I get started I go to town
'Cause I'm not like everybody else
No no
I'm not like everybody else
I'm not like everybody else
I'm not like everybody else
And I don't want to ball about like everybody else
And I don't want to live my life like everybody else
And I don’t want to get a job like everybody else
'Cause I'm not like everybody else
I'm not like everybody else
But darling you know that I love you true
And I’d do anything that you want me to
Confess all my sins like you want me to
But there's one thing that I will can do for you
I'm not like everybody else
I'm not like everybody else
I'm not like everybody else
I'm not like everybody else
I'm not like everybody else
And I don't want to ball about like everybody else
And I don't want to live my life like everybody else
And I don’t want to get a job like everybody else
'Cause I'm not like everybody else
I'm not like everybody else
But darling you know that I love you true
And I’d do anything that you want me to
Confess all my sins like you want me to
But there's one thing that I will can do for you
I'm not like everybody else
I'm not like everybody else
I’m not like everybody else
I’m not like everybody else
Like everybody else
And I don't want to live my life like everybody else
And I don't want to live my life like everybody else
And I don’t want to be destroyed like everybody else
And I don’t want to get a job like everybody else
'Cause I'm not like everybody else
I'm not like everybody else
I'm not like everybody else
Everybody else
Like everybody else
Like everybody else
Everybody else
Like everybody else
Like everybody else
Like everybody else
Everybody else
Like everybody else
Like everybody else
Like everybody else
Everybody else
Everybody
Everybody else
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ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, my dear Karen!!! I sure hope that it did not make you irritating to others. (LOL?)
DeleteSome lyrics don't register with me without the music. I was never a big Kinks fan.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, my dear Stephen!!! I have been surprised at how many good songs they have had over the years besides Louie and Lola.
DeleteI'm not like everybody else either :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, my dear Ann!!! Methinks that is a very good thing. (LOL?)
DeleteAnother good old band. I wish we had more music like that of the the good old bands around these days...but then, we do...we still can play the music of the good old bands! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, my dear Lee!!! Hardly enough--right?
DeleteLove the Kinks. Ray Davies was/is a great songsmith. Never seen the Sopranos - enjoyed the videos; I think.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, my dear Mike!!! I don't have a good excuse for why my wife and I truly love The Sopranos. For we both absolutely abhor that sort of behavior, and yet we find ourselves cheering for Tony and his family of gangsters.
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