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Topic: Funny how things affect you

I have a pretty healthy perspective on life and death, I hope to think anyway.  The other day, someone with whom I am not particularly close, but for whom I had a good deal of respect and affection was killed in a car wreck.  He paddles, fishes, serves at his church and plays guitar.  Sound familiar?  Yeah, it does to me too.  Anyway, I went to his memorial last night and as I saw him laying un-naturally in the coffin with no smile on his face (in the nine years I've known him I don't think I've ever seen him without a broad and genuine smile on his face) it struck me how all our "someday" plans turned into  "never."  And I just can't seem to get my mind past how much "someday" sucks.  Maybe there's a song in it. 

- Zurf

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Re: Funny how things affect you

Monday is coming and soon it has gone
Wednesday is near and soon it's past
No day is named someday
So someday you can kiss my ..... 

Perhaps there are better options for a song.

Perhaps not.  I rather like the concept of this one.  A minor Chicago Blues style would be good.

- Zurf

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Re: Funny how things affect you

Living for later in a state of flux
Dreaming for tomorrow; for more bucks
When the Lord calls my number with any luck
I want do it all today 'cuz someday sucks

There's definitely a song in there

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Re: Funny how things affect you

Start work at dawn, work until night
Working for the man til you get a fright
Realize it'll never stop and no end in sight
Someday never comes.  Someday really bites.

- Zurf

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Re: Funny how things affect you

We need a killer chorus.

Or maybe the first verse above could be a chorus.

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Re: Funny how things affect you

Lots of good things, I can see
as I sit here pondering of what could be.
It is not that I wanted to be a bum
I just keep thinking that someday will come.

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Re: Funny how things affect you

Someday will come and someday will pass,
The inevitable outcome which we can't outlast.
If never we've done or never we've said,
Then someday will win just to find us dead.

Our intuitions serve us well

8 Reply by Zurf (edited by Zurf 2010-02-10 22:36:21)

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Re: Funny how things affect you

This is going great!  Keep it up everyone.  I don't know how to play Chicago Blues on my guitar, just on my bass.  So this is going to quickly become a Country/Folk song - but I am absolutely loving this collaboration! 

How about this - we work out a few more verses and maybe a bridge and a chorus and I will record this and take Detman 101 up on his offer to post a song for me as my "coming out of the closet" playing and singing post. 

It'll take me some time to polish and get the meter and approach consistent between it, but I am absolutely loving what y'all are coming up with.  And it's making me feel a bit better, too. 

No telling how far that long-haired Zimmerman kid might have gotten if he had Chordie to help him along. 

- Zurf



p.s.  Or shoot - we've already got more verses than most Country songs these days.  I'll just repeat one of them six or eight times in a dramatic voice if things get tight.

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Re: Funny how things affect you

'Yeah, I think I'll be alright
I'm workin' so I don't have to try so hard...'
tables they turn sometimes.
Oh Someday...
I aint wastin' no more time...'

  - The Strokes' 'Someday'

    One of my favorite lyric quotes actually. I never have liked 'viewing the body' at funerals, I prefer my final images of people to be of them alive and laughing and looking like themselves. I've always been afraid that it would taint the real picture of them in my mind if I saw them that way.
    Sorry for your loss...
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Re: Funny how things affect you

Zurf wrote:

Start work at dawn, work until night
Working for the man til you get a fright
Realize it'll never stop and no end in sight
Someday never comes.  Someday really bites.

- Zurf

I think that's the chorus!!

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Re: Funny how things affect you

Leave it till tomorrow

Too much on today

Tomorrow's now yesterday

I'm drownin' in sorrow

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Re: Funny how things affect you

Sorry for your loss Zurf.  It sucks... and this is a nice reminder to myself to stop talking about "someday" as well... and try to live in today and enjoy it while it's here.

Art and beauty are in the eyes of the beholder.
What constitutes excellent music is in the ears of the listener.

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Re: Funny how things affect you

Someday these dreams will come true,
and I'll get back to where I came from.
but I know just like you,
that someday never comes.




badeye  cool

one caper after another
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Re: Funny how things affect you

As the end of my life draws near
There is still one thing that I fear.
I never reached that point of fame
And someday never really came.

You can see all my video covers on [url]http://www.youtube.com/bensonp1000[/url]
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Re: Funny how things affect you

For years I have been blowing smoke
Perhaps it is too much to hope
My life at times it seems a waste
Someday is such a distant place

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Re: Funny how things affect you

Carefree days of my youth
Matured into a cold stark truth
All the dreams that I have had
My someday has turned out really bad

BTW: BensonP, I really like your lyrics!

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Re: Funny how things affect you

Thanks, Pigdog.  Yours are good as well.

You can see all my video covers on [url]http://www.youtube.com/bensonp1000[/url]
I have finally found happiness in my life.  Guitars, singing, beer and camping.  And they all intertwine wonderfully.

18 Reply by Russell_Harding (edited by Russell_Harding 2010-02-12 19:06:17)

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Re: Funny how things affect you

Someday is the thief of all dreams,young or old it favors no one it seems
The past and the present will disappear, the future lies waiting the end we all fear
but not yet there's to much living to do, still time for laughing and swilling some brew
time for loving family and friends, live for today because someday it ends.

"Growing old is not for sissies"

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Re: Funny how things affect you

Give thanks, hum a tune, new days will hold no dread       
Be happy your alive to use your feet and head
Paint yourself a rainbow, from the canopy of great trees
Share some love and laughter, your day will be a breeze.


lol

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