If I needed you

"If I needed you
Would you come to me
Would you come to me
For to ease my pain
If you needed me
I would come to you
I would swim the seas
For to ease your pain"
Townes Van Zandt: If I needed you

At the moment grooving to ...
Record: Townes van Zandt: The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
Song: Townes van Zandt: If I needed you

Days up and down they come

If trying to explain "things" in some peculiar way, I guess you could say that most of the lyrics I really like, in books or in songs, are lyrics that capture either thoughts I once thought or maybe wish I would have thought. And put down in a way I never could have done.
There are records by for instance Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne and Bruce Springsteen and books by Klas Östergren or Paul Auster.
Talking about Paul Auster, he has the ability to get me hooked by the first chapter, the first paragraph, or sometimes, like in "Book of illusions", "Man in the dark" or "The music of chance", by the first sentence.

"It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but I did not believe there would ever be a future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened to me when I got there. As it turned out, I nearly did not make it"
Paul Auster: Moon Palace (1989)

"Days up and down they come
Like rain on a conga drum
Forget most, remember some
But don't turn none away

Everything is not enough
Nothin' is too much to bear
Where you been is good and gone
All you keep is the gettin' there

To live is to fly
Low and high
So shake the dust off of your wings
And the sleep out of your eyes"
Townes van Zandt: To live is to fly

At the moment grooving to ...

Record: Townes van Zandt: High low and inbetweens
Song: Townes van Zandt: To live is to fly

To live is to fly

En fantastisk solig vinterlördag följdes av en ... grå och inte lika fantastisk söndag.
Men det gäller att njuta av dom där dagarna.

"To live is to fly, Low and high
So shake the dust off of your wings
And the sleep out of your eyes"

Dagens skiva: Guy Clark: Workbench songs
Dagens låt: Townes van Zandt: To live is to fly

Somewhere up beyond the great devide

You used to say the highway was your home
But we both know that ain't true
It's just the only place a man can go
When he don't know where he's travelin' to

Dagens skiva: Joanna Newsom: Have one on me
Dagens låt: Steve Earle: Ft Worth blues

If I needed you ...

16 dagar kvar

Dagens skiva: Joel Rafael: Thirteen stories high
Dagens låt: Townes van Zandt - If I needed you
(det tar stund innan låten börjar men historien är värd att lyssna på :-)
plus Tarantula Waltz Chains (Live på TV4)

"If I needed you
Would you come to me
Would you come to me
For to ease my pain"

Somtimes I don't know where ...

342

Dagens låt: Townes van Zandt: Waiting around to die
Dagens skiva: Jesse Harris: The secret sun - Betyg 8/10

"Sometimes I don't know where this dirty road is taking me
Sometimes I can't even see the reason why
I guess I keep a-gamblin'lots of booze and lots of ramblin
'it's easier than just waitin' around to die"
Townes van Zandt: Waiting around to die