Lodestar

 Lodestar

Sarah Harmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyMONDo3zNc

Out of the night, into the water
We push the boat from shore
Breaking the air in the stillness of the bay

Intensity of stars reflected in the harbour
Silently ignite
The oar dips in to oil like water and we
Are away

Your hand won't write, not tonight
But your mind may wander
Into those deep lagoons that you know

And your boat will go, by starlight alone
"Da da da da da da da da"
You sang to the moon
In the great black night with no lodestar
In sight

Out in the night, out on the water
We pull the boat back to shore
Breathing the air in the stillness of the bay
Intensity of stars reflected in the water
Silently ignite
The oar dips in to oil like water and we
Are away
Under the moon
In the great black night with no lodestar
In sight

And wait for it
There are only two things now
This great black night
And the fire glow
Listen, the darkness reigns
The darkness, listen, the darkness reigns
And wait for it
There are only two of us now
This great black night swoops down
And this fire glows
Listen, the darkess reigns
The darkness
Listen, the darkness reigns
Take off your things
And listen, the darkness reigns

Cheers

Jeanne

Across the Universe

 Across the Universe 

The Beatles Written by John Lennon credited to John Lennon and Paul McCartney

this is one of those songs that I have been singing the wrong lyrics to ever since i first heard it (which is an embarrassingly long time to not look up something that doesn't make sense)

The actual refrain is "Jai guru deva" followed by Om

After some reading on the internet I chose this interpretation out of many similar ones:

"An Offer of Gratitude
Jai = “joy, hail, glory to”
Guru = “remover of darkness”

Deva = “a shining one”, source of English word “divine”.
Thus, the meaning of “Jai Guru Deva” is literally “Glory to the shining remover of darkness.” Who is “Guru Deva” to the individual user of the phrase, is almost beside the point.
The phrase, “Jai Guru Deva,” has become a universal salutation, blessing, greeting, and opening and closing phrase used by Vedic meditators for millennia.
“Jai Guru Deva” is a way of reminding oneself regularly and acknowledging with others the truth that the knowledge we enjoy so freely came from a source other than one’s small self and offers gratitude to that source."
from:  https://thomknoles.com/what-does-jai-guru-deva-mean/

What I have been singing  for all this time is "Like a ru-ude neighbour" OMG how ridiculous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfVOmE1yoRo

Words are flowing out like
endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly
as they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
are drifting through my opened mind
Possessing and caressing me

Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Images of broken light which
dance before me like a million eyes
They call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a
restless wind inside a letter box
they tumble blindly as
they make their way across the universe

Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world

Sounds of laughter shades of life
are ringing through my opened ears
inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
And calls me on and on across the universe

Jai guru deva om
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva

Cheers

Jeanne

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Bernie Taupin and Elton John

"I've finally decided my future lies

Beyond the yellow brick road"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ3Bb4UsXhU

When are you gonna come down
When are you going to land
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man

You know you can't hold me forever
I didn't sign up with you
I'm not a present for your friends to open
This boy's too young to be singing the blues

So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough

Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road

What do you think you'll do then
I bet that'll shoot down your plane
It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again

Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground

So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough

Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road

Life is a Highway

 Life is a Highway 

Tom Cochran

"Life's like a road that you travel on

There's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend and sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind"

Started thinking about songs as feelings... 

this one brings a sense of freedom, and anticipation of adventure and fun, speeding past the cares of the world we carry on our shoulders sometimes

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3sMjm9Eloo

Life's like a road that you travel on
There's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend and sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There's a world outside ev'ry darkened door
Where blues won't haunt you anymore
Where the brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore
We won't hesitate
Break down the garden's gate
There's not much time left today

Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long

Through all these cities and all these towns
It's in my blood and it's all around
I love you now like I loved you then
This is the road and these are the hands
From Mozambique to those Memphis nights
The Khyber Pass to Vancouver's lights

Knock me down, back up again
You're in my blood
I'm not a lonely man
There's no load I can't hold
Road so rough this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell 'em we're survivors

Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long

Mmm, life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
(Gimme gimme gimme gimme yeah)
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long

There was a distance between you and I
A misunderstanding once
But now we look in the eye

There ain't no load that I can't hold
Road so rough this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Just tell 'em we're survivors

Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long
(Gimme gimme gimme gimme yeah)

Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long
(Gimme gimme gimme gimme yeah)

Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I wanna drive it all night long
(Gimme gimme gimme gimme yeah)

Tom Cochran