Rows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere, I’ve looked at clouds that way.
(this is Joni Mitchell)
But now they only block the sun, They rain and they snow on everyone So many things I would have done, But clouds got in my way.
I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down and still somehow It’s cloud illusions I recall I really don’t know clouds at all
(i reaally don’t know…what this song is all about 🙂 )
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels, The dizzy dancing way that you feel As every fairy tale comes real, I’ve looked at love that way.
(…but it’s really lyrical)
But now it’s just another show, You leave ’em laughing when you go And if you care, don’t let them know, Don’t give yourself away.
(i think i really get it now…)
I’ve looked at love from both sides now From give and take and still somehow It’s love’s illusions I recall I really don’t know love at all
(she’s talking about…)
Tears and fears and feeling proud, To say “I love you” right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds, I’ve looked at life that way.
Oh but now old friends they’re acting strange, They shake their heads, they say I’ve changed Well something’s lost, but something’s gained In living every day.
I’ve looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It’s life’s illusions I recall I really don’t know life at all
(oh,… go figure on your own 🙂 )
I’ve looked at life from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow It’s life’s illusions I recall I really don’t know life at all
It’s life’s illusions I recall I really don’t know life I really don’t know life at all
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Wordpress Weekly Photo Challenge: Change
Yehey! i’ll be able to use an original Filipino composition by an iconic songwriter, Jose Mari Chan. Here it is; i’ve also embedded the audio of the song (thru Youtube) below…
Constant Change
(words and music by Jose Mari Chan)
(OPM: Original Filipino Music)
[Jose Mari Chan sang this with so much sadness it seemed like he was saying good-bye to something — or someone — or someplace he almost didn’t want to let go.
Jose Mari Chan was one of those famous Filipinos who had to leave the country when martial law was declared, or at the height of martial law. This song was released post-martial law, after the dictatorship had fallen, and “exiled” Filipinos had returned. i get the sense that he wrote parts of it while he was somehow packing, writing to friends, closing doors and windows, preparing to leave what they had known as home for more than a decade to come back to the Philippines … take a look-see. (pls click the audio, too, below… Photo for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Change, by Myra Lambino]
“We’re on the road
We move from place to place
And oftentimes when I’m
about to call it home
We’d have to move along
Life is a constant change…
Photo by Myra Lambino in New York where she attended her College Silver Jubilee Reunion and was asked to deliver an impromptu speech to represent her batch — she found “long-lost friends”.
*** *** ***
“The friends we know
we meet along the way
Too soon the times we share
form part of yesterday
‘Cause life’s a constant change
And nothing stays the same, oh no
Clouds that move across the skies
Are changing form before our very eyes
Why couldn’t we
keep time from movin’ on?
Hold on to all the years
before this moment’s gone?
Why must we live the days
at such a frightening pace?
xxxx
Cause life’s a constant change
And nothing stays the same, oh no” – Jose Mari Chan
