Tuesday, March 1, 2016

ATF: Dreams and Nightmares

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.



Wishes
Jon Butcher
it's late at night in the neighborhood
And the thieves have all gone to bed
They can hear your heartbeat in the distance
As you lay down your weary head
But don't worry
‘Cause the dawn is breaking
In another room halfway around the world
And you can't waste your life wishing upon a star

‘Cause
If wishes were horses
If wishes were horses
If wishes were horses
Then dreamers would ride
Yes they would

A girl lives her life missing
Some things that she never had
Spends too much time
In the unemployment line
You see in her eyes
That it drives her mad
Deep within her constitution
Her pride and her dignity show through
So she works that dream
‘Cause it's all she can do

If wishes were horses
If wishes were horses
She says
If wishes were horses
Then dreamers would ride
Yes they would

Now I'm looking all around me for the answers
And I know you're looking hard too
I know what you're thinking
Maybe wishes come true

If wishes were horses
If wishes were horses
I know
If wishes were horses
Then dreamers would ride



Enter Sandman
Metallica
Say your prayers little one
Don't forget my son
To include everyone
I tuck you in
Warm within
Keep you free from sin
‘Til the sandman he comes

Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We're off to never never land

Something's wrong
Shut the light
Heavy thoughts tonight
And they aren't of snow white
Dreams of war
Dreams of liars
Dreams of dragon’s fire
And of things that will bite ya

Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We're off to never never land

Now I lay me down to sleep
Now I lay me down to sleep
Pray the Lord my soul to keep
Pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
If I die before I wake
Pray the Lord my soul to take
Pray the Lord my soul to take

Hush little baby
Don't say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
It’s just the beasts under your bed
In your closet
In your head

Exit light
Enter night
Grain of sand
Exit light
Enter Night
Take my hand
We're off to never never land

We're off to never never land

Take my hand
We're off to never never land
Take my hand
We're off to never never land

We're off to never never land

We’re off to never never land…

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6 comments:

  1. Interesting reworking of one of my mother's favorite sayings: If wishes were horses beggars would ride.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Stephen!!! I have never heard another version, but I was aware of there being some.

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  2. Jon Butcher made that guitar sing. Loved it.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Susan!!! I think it was in the early 90s when I head the song for the first time while driving my big truck around New Orleans. Be assured that it blew me away.

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  3. Wow! Good job on this thank you

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Martin!!! You are most welcome.

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