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What song describes your life at this moment?

Asked by nir17 (371points) March 20th, 2011

Here’s mine – Vertical Horizon, Everything You Want
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZoD8JEFjAE

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john65pennington's avatar

Lucy, my man John Lee Hooker. I love this song.

My choice today is: I Can See Clearly Now (the rain has gone).

Its rained for five days straight, but Mr. Sunshine has taken over and I love it.

12Oaks's avatar

I don’t care anymore.

zenvelo's avatar

This is how it’s been for a while

gravity's avatar

walk away
christina aguilera

Scooby's avatar

This little ditty! :-/

syz's avatar

Right now, this

marinelife's avatar

I’m waiting for my husband. He’s on a plane coming home. This song is on my mind.

Facade's avatar

“Ordinary People”– John Legend

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

Hillbillies from Outerspace, SRV & JV

WasCy's avatar

I’m not sure, but I’m guessing that Chuck Brodsky, Stan Rogers or Richard Schindell has written it.

TexasDude's avatar

In a Sweater Poorly Knit by mewithoutYou.

I can relate to every line, specifically the ones I’ve bolded below…

———-

In a sweater poorly knit, and an unsuspecting smile
Little Moses drifts downstream in the Nile
A fumbling reply—an awkward, rigid laugh
I’m carried helpless by my floating basket raft

Your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between sweeter than any wine, and bitter as mustard greens
Light and dark as honeydew and pumpernickle bread

The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead

As you plow some other field and try and forget my name, see what harvest yields, and, supposing I’d do the same
I planted rows of peas, but by the first week of july—they should have come up to my knees but they were maybe ankle high

Take the fingers from your flute to weave your colored yarns, and boil down your fruit to preserves in mason jars

But now books are overdue and the goats are underfed… the trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead

You’re a door-without-a-key, a field-without-a-fence
You made a holy fool of me, and I’ve thanked you ever since
If she comes circling back, we’ll end where we’d begun
Like two pennies on the train track the train crushed into one

Or if I’m a crown without a king, if I’m a broken, open seed
If I come without a thing, I come with all I need
No boat out in the blue, no place to rest your head
The trap I set for you seems to have caught my leg instead

—————-

Make of that what you will.

WasCy's avatar

… or Tom Rush, John Prine or Judy Collins.

Rarebear's avatar

Thick as a Brick.

Cruiser's avatar

Crazy Train All aboard! XO

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

“Time” Pink Floyd

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I’d something more to say

BREATHE REPRISE
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

Written by: Waters, Roger

MilkyWay's avatar

I think this one…just turn the sex around to female ; ) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbzMsIcp6fI

stardust's avatar

Way over yonder in the minor key. Billy Bragg
“Ain’t nobody that can sing like me”:-)

incendiary_dan's avatar

“Take the Power Back” by Rage Against the Machine or “Cut the Power” by Resident Anti-Hero. Apparently I’m quite concerned with “Power”.

WasCy's avatar

Then you might like Stealing Electricity by Tom Russell, @incendiary_dan.

jca's avatar

at this moment? hmmm. I’m quite horny right now, and I’m a little freaky, so i would say “Can we get freaky tonight?” by SWV with Missy Elliott.

WasCy's avatar

Iris DeMent, Our Town.

Good night.

ducky_dnl's avatar

Jar of hearts by Christina Perri

tedd's avatar

No song could fit it I think.

harple's avatar

Need you now – Lady Antebellum

“And I wonder if I ever cross your mind
for me it happens all the time…”

Palindrome's avatar

Ahhh can’t it be two? lol
I’m in between these two songs that convey my feelings towards two key points of my life.
Dear God 2.0 by The Roots
and
Next Lifetime by Erykah Badu

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