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Songs That Tell Stories

 
 
panzade
 
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Reply Fri 13 May, 2011 07:54 am
@jim1987,
Linkin Park

What I've Done

In this farewell
There’s no blood
There’s no alibi
‘Cause I’ve drawn regret
From the truth
Of a thousand lies


So let mercy come
And wash away
What I’ve done

I'll face myself
To cross out what i’ve become
Erase myself
And let go of what i’ve done

Put to rest
What you thought of me
While I clean this slate
With the hands of uncertainty
Linkin Park

What I've Done

For what I’ve done
I start again
And whatever pain may come
Today this ends
I’m forgiving what I’ve done!!!

I also see it as a man turning over a new leaf and leaving the past behind
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 15 May, 2011 11:38 am
plainoldme
 
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Reply Sun 15 May, 2011 11:44 am
@edgarblythe,
Ah, a real oldie
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panzade
 
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Reply Sun 15 May, 2011 01:42 pm
Miranda Lambert got married today. Her latest song is a lovely , haunting, and sad look back.

The House That Built Me

I know they say you can’t go home again
I just had to come back one last time
Ma’am I know you don’t know me from Adam
But these handprints on the front steps are mine

Up those stairs in that little back bedroom
Is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar
I bet you didn’t know under that live oak
My favorite dog is buried in the yard

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
This brokenness inside me might start healing
Out here it’s like I’m someone else
I thought that maybe I could find myself
If I could just come in I swear I’ll leave
Won’t take nothing but a memory
From the house that built me

Mama cut out pictures of houses for you
From Better Homes and Gardens magazine
Plans were drawn and concrete poured
Nail by nail and board by board
Daddy gave life to mama’s dream

You leave home and you move on and you do the best you can
I got lost in this old world and forgot who I am

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
This brokenness inside me might start healing
Out here it’s like I’m someone else
I thought that maybe I could find myself
If I could just come in I swear I’ll leave
Won’t take nothing but a memory
From the house that built me
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 15 May, 2011 01:59 pm
Great lyrics, panz
panzade
 
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Reply Sun 15 May, 2011 02:01 pm
@edgarblythe,
Thanks 'gar.
It's always a pleasure to contribute to your thread.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 15 May, 2011 09:04 pm
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plainoldme
 
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Reply Mon 16 May, 2011 09:47 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndRyCe2Ffds&feature=autoplay&list=PL8C3B1EC2442CAB96&index=6&playnext=6

This a delicately told story of a war widow, mourning her husband. It features the incomparable voice of June Tabor, still singing well in her 60s, accompanied only by piano.
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plainoldme
 
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Reply Mon 16 May, 2011 09:53 am
Alright, I am playing my June and Maddie playlist on youtube.

Here's the story of my favorite English king, Henry V. Thank heaven, I get to teach a little Shakespeare, a man I would have boinked had I been there then.

The Agincourt Carol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK16e-Emrms&feature=autoplay&list=PL8C3B1EC2442CAB96&index=8&playnext=8
plainoldme
 
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Reply Mon 16 May, 2011 09:54 am
@plainoldme,
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers . . .
panzade
 
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Reply Mon 16 May, 2011 10:08 am
good stuff
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 17 May, 2011 04:29 pm
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 17 May, 2011 08:33 pm
@plainoldme,
Those are good songs. I just now listened to them.
plainoldme
 
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Reply Tue 17 May, 2011 08:36 pm
@edgarblythe,
Those women have taste as well as musicianship.
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 17 May, 2011 08:41 pm
@plainoldme,
Yup.
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plainoldme
 
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Reply Tue 17 May, 2011 08:50 pm
A beautiful and ancient story told by a very modern neo-Celtic band from Holland (I believe).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ZCil_-sVM&feature=autoplay&list=PLDD20F2B43521A982&index=5&playnext=2

The song is Twa Corbies and the group is Omnia.
Letty
 
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Reply Fri 20 May, 2011 01:21 pm
@plainoldme,
Plainoldme, that Twa Corbies always gives me the creeps, but so does this one

http://www.oberlin.edu/library/special/images/robinson.jpg

another song that tells a poem.


Richard Cory





Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean-favoured and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good Morning!" and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich, yes, richer than a king,
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine -- we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked and waited for the light,
And went without the meat and cursed the bread,
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet in his head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy4qAFsaVzI&NR=1
panzade
 
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Reply Fri 20 May, 2011 04:36 pm
@Letty,
Great pick letty. I first heard it by Simon & Garfunkle.
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panzade
 
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Reply Fri 20 May, 2011 04:51 pm
I don't know if you've posted this one edgar, but it sure is a hell of a story.

The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll.

William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll
With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger
At a Baltimore hotel society gath'rin'
And the cops were called in and his weapon took from him
As they rode him in custody down to the station
And booked William Zanzinger for first-degree murder
But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Take the rag away from your face
Now ain't the time for your tears.

William Zanzinger who at twenty-four years
Owns a tobacco farm of six hundred acres
With rich wealthy parents who provide and protect him
And high office relations in the politics of Maryland
Reacted to his deed with a shrug of his shoulders
And swear words and sneering and his tongue it was snarling
In a matter of minutes on bail was out walking
But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Take the rag away from your face
Now ain't the time for your tears.

Hattie Carroll was a maid in the kitchen
She was fifty-one years old and gave birth to ten children
Who carried the dishes and took out the garbage
And never sat once at the head of the table
And didn't even talk to the people at the table
Who just cleaned up all the food from the table
And emptied the ashtrays on a whole other level
Got killed by a blow, lay slain by a cane
That sailed through the air and came down through the room
Doomed and determined to destroy all the gentle
And she never done nothing to William Zanzinger
And you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Take the rag away from your face
Now ain't the time for your tears.

In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavel
To show that all's equal and that the courts are on the level
And that the strings in the books ain't pulled and persuaded
And that even the nobles get properly handled
Once that the cops have chased after and caught 'em
And that ladder of law has no top and no bottom
Stared at the person who killed for no reason
Who just happened to be feelin' that way witout warnin'
And he spoke through his cloak, most deep and distinguished
And handed out strongly, for penalty and repentance
William Zanzinger with a six-month sentence
Oh, but you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Bury the rag deep in your face
For now's the time for your tears.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonesome_Death_of_Hattie_Carroll

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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 20 May, 2011 07:26 pm
The song about Hattie Carrol was likely posted early on, when there was no youtube. Repetition is good, when it involves such an important song.
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