Wednesday 5 December 2007
tribute to Roy Orbison- nothing is better
Five years away from a half century
not that I care but it's gettin' to me
Wanted for nothing, but that's not quite true
hey, not for nothing, but I wanted you
and it's okay
I am okay with nothing
nothing is better than something sometimes
and it's okay that I'm needin' nothing
'cuz nothing is better sometimes~
Five years since forty and not wrinkled yet
so maybe my forehead was feeling regret
listened to Kelly who soon got me down
went in for Botox
and now I can't frown
and it's okay
I am okay with nothing
nothing is better than something sometimes
and it's okay that I'm feelin' nothing
'cuz nothing is better sometimes~
Bridge.......(wah wah wah owie owie wah wah)
Somedays are better though I am alone
I eat at the diner and chat on the phone
nobody knows that nobody's there
nobody's lookin', so what do I care!
and it's okay
I am okay with nothing
nothing is better than something sometimes
and it's okay that I'm wantin' for nothing
for nothing is better sometimes~
Rarely.
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hindsight:
something is not better than nothing when that something sucks!
But what do I know? I've not been alone since Tommy was born.
I think you are a very strong, independent woman, Gina.
No long litany of regrets (take the ole Frankie lyrics..."Regrets, I've had a few...but then again, too few to mention.....) But that is all relevant...all subjective. No one can really feel another persons exact pain. We can empathize, though.
Yeah! Gina...think of your life in the context of the classic song:
"My Way"
Ive lived a life thats full.
Ive traveled each and every highway;
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.
Regrets, Ive had a few;
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption.
I planned each charted course;
Each careful step along the byway,
But more, much more than this,
I did it my way.
Yes, there were times, Im sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew.
But through it all, when there was doubt,
I ate it up and spit it out.
I faced it all and I stood tall;
And did it my way.
Ive loved, Ive laughed and cried.
Ive had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
I find it all so amusing.
To think I did all that;
And may I say - not in a shy way,
No, oh no not me,
I did it my way.
For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows -
And did it my way!
And one more observation...
What is with Roy Orbison? I saw a video of him from like the 50's or something...
He looked exactly the same. Like, was he ever young? That black creepy wig, the dark glasses coupled with that falsetto voice. Kinda creepy.
Only the lonely...dow, dow, dow, doobie do wahhhhhh
Thanks Ang. Yeah, that Roy Orbison had a look and presence all his own. Maybe he was going for an Elvis look?
Not that it means anything but I wrote this to the tune of something which had been on my mind for a week or so. The melody, sort of like a dark German marching song mixed with something clearly Celtic, had that rough edge you hear in songs by the Pogues. I actually wrote another set of lyrics I called " I DO" to the same melody after watching "For Whom The Bell Tolls", an old black and white movie about a Nazi war criminal teaching under an assumed identity at an Ivy League University in New England. Weird. Anyway, I am not sure if the melody was written Roy Orbison, but it fits the mood of these songs PERFECTLY. When I found this clip of Springsteen speaking about Orbison's winning combination, I decided to write it the way he would. A loser's song to the 'master of the ballad of lost love'.
Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that.
John Donne
(From, For whom the bell tolls)
HOWEVER....For Whom The Bell Tolls is also a novel by my most fav guy...Ernest Hemingway.
The movie is a win/win. Anything with Gary Cooper AND Ingrid Bergman can't be bad.
Correction: The movie was " The Stranger" with Orson Wells.
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