What I Want This To Accomplish

I love music. I love all kinds of music. I love a good melody and I love good lyrics. Here's the thing. Too often I have noticed people getting lost in the melodic side of a song and never listen to the lyrics, the message that the songwriter is trying to share with the listener. Words mean things and there are a lot of songs out there with great lyrics. Here you will find love and hurt, pain and longing, emotions and intimate thoughts from songwriters over the years. There will be no commentary from me on the lyrics. Just the words. The words for you to read, process and ponder and hopefully come away with a little more meaning to a song than just a lovely melody. A more complete understanding of where the artist is coming from. - Bill Clark

Friday, May 23, 2014

DIALOGUE - PART ONE

(Speaker 1)
Are you optimistic
'bout the way things are going?

(Speaker 2)
No, I never ever think of it at all

(Speaker 1)
Don't you ever worry
When you see what's going down?

(Speaker 2)
No, I try to mind my business,
that is, no business at all

(Speaker 1)
When it's time to function
as a feeling human being, will your
Bachelor of Arts help you get by?

(Speaker 2)
I hope to study further,
a few more years or so. I also hope
to keep a steady high

(Speaker 1)
Will you try to change
things, use the power that you have,
the power of a million new ideas?

(Speaker 2)
What is this power you
speak of and this need for things to
change? I always thought
that everything was fine

(Speaker 1)
Don't you feel repression just
closing in around?

(Speaker 2)
No, the campus here is very, very free

(Speaker 1)
Does it make you angry
the way war is dragging on?

(Speaker 2)
Well, I hope the President
knows what he's into, I don't know

(Speaker 1)
Don't you ever see the starvation
in the city where you live, all the
needless hunger all the
needless pain?

(Speaker 2)
I haven't been there lately,
the country is so fine, but my
neighbors don't seem hungry 'cause
they haven't got the time

(Speaker 1)
Thank you for the talk,
you know you really eased my mind
I was troubled by the shapes
of things to come.

(Speaker 2)
Well, if you had my
outlook your feelings would be
numb, you'd always think
that everything was fine
Everything is fine....

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