Posted by spoc on May 17, 2004, at 7:06:45
In reply to What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong, posted by partlycloudy on May 17, 2004, at 4:40:36
.... with any music, I am always much more affected by the tune than the words. To tell you the truth, as much as I love music, sometimes I hardly even listen to the words, even if I've been playing and loving the album (what DO we call these things now??) for 10 years... (Yes, you would be correct in assuming I'm not a big shower singer, might be the next American Idol and not even know it...tragic...and please excuse the colonic excess problem I appear to be having today...)
Anyway, thus, I always thought of the aforementioned song as a happy happy tune, but just surfed the lyrics and... well... Now I guess you could say it's even more relevant because it acknowledges both the yin and the yang, right? And the happiness and brave front on the outside; or afforded by the cheery melody; yet the bittersweet struggles remain beneath... (Do you think that category title for a thread would fit on one line?)
The more I see
The less I know
About all the things I thought were wrong or right
& carved in stoneSo, don't ask me about
War, Religion, or God
Love, Sex, or Death
Because....Everybody knows what's going wrong with the world
But I don't even know what's going on in myself.You've gotta work out your own salvation.
With no explanation to this Earth we fall
On hands & knees we crawl
And we look up to the stars
And we reach out & pray
To a deaf, dumb & blind God who never explains.Every body knows what's going wrong with the world
But I don't even know what's going on in myself.Lord, I've been here for so long
I can feel it coming down on me
I'm just a slow emotion replay of somebody I used to be.
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