Here are the lyrics:
Why does the sun go on shining?
Why does the sea rush to shore?
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world
‘Cause you don’t love me anymore?
Why do the birds go on singing?
Why do the stars glow above?
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world?
It ended when I lost your love.
I wake up in the morning and I wonder
Why everything’s the same as it was.
I can’t understand, no, I can’t understand
How life goes on the way it does.
Why does my hear go on beating?
Why do these eyes of mine cry?
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world?
It ended when you said goodbye.
I gave the link to John Mellencamp's version, but let's not leave poor little Skeeter out in the cold. And her voice is very pleasing. To me, anyway, and you can't understand why anyone would stop loving her.
Kinda partial to the Sharon Van Etten version myself but there are about a thousand covers of this excellent sad song and I can't find the one I'm looking for so I guess I'll just love the one I'm with.
ReplyDeleteOK, Mr. Donut, I tag you for the Lyric Challenge. Only I will not bore you with details and rules. Do with it what you may.
ReplyDeleteLook, here's a pretty sad of-a-sort love song, since we're dealing in those things, and I favor the Johnny Cash comeback version circa 1994 because no one sings about killing a person better than the Man in Black and he just gets better and sadder with age. But it's the history I like, disturbing and all too real. And it's all the different versions, each changed a tiny little bit to suit the player and the times.
ReplyDeleteBackstory: http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2010/03/delias-gone-one-more-round.html
Delia's Gone
Delia, oh Delia
Delia all my life
If I hadn't of shot poor Delia
I'd have had her for my wife
Delia's gone
One more round
Delia's gone
I went up to Memphis
I met Delia there
Found her in her parlour
And I tied her to her chair
Delia's gone
One more round
Delia's gone
She was low-down and trifling
She was cold and mean
Kind of woman that make me
Want to grab my sub-machine
Delia's gone
One more round
Delia's gone
First time I shot her
Shot her in the side
Hard to watch her suffer
But with the second shot she died
Delia's gone
One more round
Delia's gone
But jailer, oh, jailer
Jailer I can't sleep
Cause all around my bedside
I hear the patter of Delia's feet
Delia's gone
One more round
Delia's gone
So if your woman's devilish
You can let her run
Or you can bring her down and do her
Like Delia got done
Delia's gone
One more round
Delia's gone
Delia's gone
One more round
Delia's gone
*My other choice was Bowie's Life on Mars.
The Other said I should post my other choice lyrics so as not to appear too alienated and affected so here goes. I like Life on Mars it because it's so alienated and affected. Doh! Also, it's the title of a really great little British TV series that ran far under the radar about ten years ago and is worth a watch.
ReplyDeleteLife on Mars?
David Bowie
It's a God-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling no
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
For she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man, look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
'Cause Lennon's on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It's about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man, look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?
Still working out the sinister implications of You Are My Sunshine, but Delilah is good.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the American version of Life on Mars, but never watched the British one. Should I watch it anyway, having seen the American?
I do(nut) know, Roy, since I only saw the UK version. I would guess it's more or less verbatim, in the way of these remakes, but I really don't know. There's already so much incredible TV stuff that I'm already not watching that I can't afford to be anything other than ultra-choosy, so if you're like the rest of us, deluged and mildly guilty for missing so much but overwhelmed and also conflicted at considering TV something to be missed rather than to be avoided, then there is unquestionably something else more deserving of your precious remaining time on earth.
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That’s a really beautiful, bittersweet song, Roy.
ReplyDeleteMr. Donut, I thought I knew all of JC’s stuff, but that’s a new one on me!