Thursday, March 13, 2014

ATF: Claptonesque

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.

Link: [Cream]


White Room
Cream
In the white room
With black curtains
Near the station
Black roof country
No gold pavements
Tired starlings
Silver horses
Ran down moonbeams
In your dark eyes
Dawn light smiles
On you leaving
My contentment

I'll wait
In this place
Where the sun
Never shines
Wait
In this place
Where the shadows run
From themselves

You said no strings
Could secure you
At the station
Platform ticket
Restless diesels
Goodbye windows
I walked into
Such a sad time
At the station
As I walked out
Felt my own need
Just beginning

I'll wait
In the queue
When the trains
Come back
Lie
With you
Where the shadows run
From themselves

At the party
She was kindness
In the hard crowd
Consolation
For the old wound
Now forgotten
Yellow tigers
Crouched in jungles
In her dark eyes
She's just dressing
Goodbye windows
Tired starlings

I'll sleep
In this place
With the lonely
Crowd
Lie
In the dark
Where the shadows run
From themselves



Layla
Derek and the Dominos
What'll you do when you get lonely
But nobody's waitin’ by your side
You've been runnin’
And hidin’ much too long
You know it's just your foolish pride

Layla
You've got me on my knees
Layla
I'm beggin’
Darlin’ please
Layla
Darlin’
Won't you ease my worried mind

I tried to give you consolation
When your old man had let you down
Like a fool
I fell in love with you
You turned my whole world upside down

Layla
You've got me on my knees
Layla
I'm beggin’
Darlin’ please
Layla
Darlin’
Won't you ease my worried mind

Let's make the best of the situation
Before I finally go insane
Please don't say
We'll never find a way
And tell me all my love's in vain

Layla
Layla
You've got me on my knees
Layla
I'm beggin’
Darlin’ please
Layla
Darlin’
Won't you ease my worried mind
Layla
Layla
You've got me on my knees
Layla
I'm beggin’
Darlin’ please
Layla
Darlin’
Won't you ease my worried mind

Lyrics From: [elyrics.net]

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10 comments:

  1. There's a couple of songs I haven't heard in a very long time.

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  2. You always bring back memories with the music. Ahhh and sigghhh. ;)

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  3. I said to a young man yesterday when I was out shopping..."I have proof that I'm getting older...am older...it's because of the music that was around in the Sixties and Seventies...and it's because I was around then to appreciate it. And I'm glad I was! There is little of like quality around today!"

    He smiled and nodded. Obviously, he'd been brought up to respect his elders! (And to know they're always right)! ;)

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  4. PROPER MUSIC AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  5. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Ann!!! I hope you and Duke enjoyed them.

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  6. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Julie!!! I am really glad you enjoyed this.

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  7. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Lee!!! The young man did good!

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  8. Thanks for stopping by again, my dear Adullamite!!! It won't be long before Eric can qualify as a museum exhibit like you.

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  9. I absolutely love this Cream song. On my drumming list!

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  10. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Shadow!!! I love it when the drums become truly part of a song instead of just as a means of keeping time, and Ginger Baker is absolutely awesome! Oh how I wish I was coordinated enough to be a drummer. Sigh.

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