Let's Sing It!

Some days are just musicals days when you want to listen and be touched by music, not really caring to deal with other people, but rather with the voices of the musicians that you can choose via your local MP3 or CD player.

Well, today I choose Peter Gabriel and the Brown Derbies.

I think "In Your Eyes" is one of the best songs ever. Up there with "Galileo" and "Tiny Dancer", it brings together the generations. No one can deny that it's amazing. (And if they try, they can take it up in a round of fisticuffs or bitch-slapping with me.) A lot of people like to associate it with that movie from the '80s. The Cameron Crowe one. Say Anything -- that's it! But I think that's crap. Aside from John Cusack and Lili Taylor (and of course, Cameron Crowe who is amazing), that movie is really just not good. It makes Frasier's dad a corrupt man (even though it is before he did Frasier), and that damn Ione Skye is in it. She's way up there on the overrated list. At any rate, I lose myself...

John Cusack? Yes! (Watch Being John Malkovich.)
Lili Taylor? Yes! (Watch Six Feet Under.)
Frasier's dad? Yes! (Watch The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy.)
Cameron Crowe? A fervent YES! (Watch Almost Famous.)
Say Anything? No! (Leave it on the shelf at Blockbuster.)

Another song that I have of late discovered is Bryan Adams and Sarah McLachlan's "Don't Let Go." Those two canucks did their country proud.

So, enjoy the following lyric by the gifted Gabriel (and while doing so completely block from your mind "Sledgehammer" and all those cartoon/claymation videos **shiver**).

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Love I get so lost, sometimes
Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart
When I want to run away I drive off in my car
But whichever way I choose I come back to the place you are

All my instincts, they return
And the grand facade, so soon will burn
Without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside

In your eyes
The light the heat
In your eyes
I am complete
In your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
In your eyes
The resolution of all the fruitless searches
In your eyes
I see the light and the heat
In your eyes
Oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
The heat I see in your eyes

Love, I don't like to see so much pain
So much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away
I get so tired of working so hard for our survival
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive

And all my instincts, they return
And the grand facade, so soon will burn
Without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside

In your eyes
The light the heat
In your eyes
I am complete
In your eyes
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
In your eyes
The resolution of all the fruitless searches
In your eyes
I see the light and the heat
In your eyes
Oh, I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light,
The heat I see in your eyes