@jeridansky You're right, I've heard those first two a lot -- and you're right about the latter two as well. I kept on listening after Comin' Back to Me and heard that song Triad. That was a pretty free-spirited idea. ✌️ 😎 ✌️
@jeridansky I've never heard this. I should prob listen while reading all the lyrics. One jumped out: "All the red tape is mechanical rape of the TV program waste."
@jeridansky I don't trust online lyrics sites. I was just talking with someone this morning about how there will be a mistake in the lyrics to something, and then that mistake will be perpetuated through dozens of sites till everything you see has that same mistake. I more often just trust my own ears.
I guess this would be a cover, as the first recording of this song was by Dion, released in Sept 1968. (MLK Jr was assassinated in Apr 1968 -- and Bobby Kennedy in June 1968). But Dick Holler actually wrote the song, and he recorded this version of it in 1970.
I always thought this song was kind of odd because the only one who actually freed a lot of people was Abraham (Lincoln). But maybe I'm interpreting that lyric too narrowly or concretely.
@jeridansky@augieray@bicmay@Barbramon1 Yuck! How could it possibly protect anybody to be scanned? And what's in it for Wegman's unless they can somehow profit from the data? It must cost them something to do it. This sounds really malign to me.
Omg, reading about Bari Weiss's "tour" around America with her new flunky that she's put in charge of CBS Evening News is my last straw for right now. Reading my book, which is making me anxious, might be preferable to reading the news.
EDIT: I wasn't going to put in a link, but I'll let you judge what I'm talking about. So many "ugh'" moments, I could barely keep reading.
1. Woodstock / Crosby, Stills & Nash "And I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes Riding shotgun in the sky Turning into butterflies Above our nation" https://song.link/rqcwrhfzprnjp
2. Peace Train / Cat Stevens "Oh I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one And I believe it could be, some day it's going to come" https://song.link/pcsx8rkrggnqb
3. Beautiful / Carole King "I have often asked myself the reason for the sadness In a world where tears are just a lullaby If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness Maybe not, oh, but we can only try" https://song.link/ktrvhqkhtd02h
3. I Fought the Law / The Clash Lots of people have covered this song, but might as well stick with The Clash; they did it as well as anybody. https://song.link/ppvv838xbqh2s
BONUS Brick House / The Commodores I heard this song yesterday and particularly enjoyed singing along with "Shake it down, shake it down, shake it, shake it." And of course there's "Sure enough can KNOCK a strong man to his knees." https://song.link/j3bxbvbzhsdd4
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