EnigmaticSun
09-16-2007, 03:47 PM
Hey everybody!
I've been thinking about Elvis' legacy for some time now. All in all, he still touches a sensitive string inside all of us.
Maybe some of you now notice things you didn't pay attention to before - sunsets, dew on a newly formed leaf, stoplights.. All because of Elvis' love for music.
I'm going to ask the people here to tell what their favorite meaningful songs are. It's not to bring 'Burning Love' in discredit, it's just that I like the philosophical depth of some songs.
Here are my favorites:
- Danny Boy; one of the most emotional ever - English you don't hear on the bloody streets nowadays, but it's still here in this song.. For some reason he was able to put spine-chilling emotion in this one. I remember an old Johnny Cash mentioning he loved Elvis' rendition.
- The Last Farewell; Roger Whittaker sang it and the song was taken from a poem, I think - moving story indeed.. If memory serves me correctly, the story is real.
- Life; the rhyme in this song is great and it's theologically correct - although I do know some don't like it..
These songs have some poetic meaning reminding me of literature/poetry. In some other cases I've had a fascination for Johnny Cash's 'Drive On' (great rhyme: "spit in a bamboo's viper's face and I'd be dead but by God's grace..") and 'Flesh and Blood' - too bad Elvis didn't get to co-operate with Johnny..
There was a guy who recorded a song years ago by the name of Glen Campbell. The song's title is 'Gentle On My Mind', which Elvis did record - this song is composed rather intricately, but beautifully. Hartford (the writer) said that he was inspired to write the lyrics after seeing the film Doctor Zhivago and that it took about fifteen minutes to write down.
I just wish Elvis would have taken the chance to work with some poetic artists.
But now I'm looking forward to your new posts, ladies and gentlemen. I know maintaining a forum is a great responsibility, like maintaining the toilets in a Haitian jail, but it's worth the effort. I know meaningful songs may not amount to a hill of beans in this world, but this is our hill and these are our beans.
Thank you.
I've been thinking about Elvis' legacy for some time now. All in all, he still touches a sensitive string inside all of us.
Maybe some of you now notice things you didn't pay attention to before - sunsets, dew on a newly formed leaf, stoplights.. All because of Elvis' love for music.
I'm going to ask the people here to tell what their favorite meaningful songs are. It's not to bring 'Burning Love' in discredit, it's just that I like the philosophical depth of some songs.
Here are my favorites:
- Danny Boy; one of the most emotional ever - English you don't hear on the bloody streets nowadays, but it's still here in this song.. For some reason he was able to put spine-chilling emotion in this one. I remember an old Johnny Cash mentioning he loved Elvis' rendition.
- The Last Farewell; Roger Whittaker sang it and the song was taken from a poem, I think - moving story indeed.. If memory serves me correctly, the story is real.
- Life; the rhyme in this song is great and it's theologically correct - although I do know some don't like it..
These songs have some poetic meaning reminding me of literature/poetry. In some other cases I've had a fascination for Johnny Cash's 'Drive On' (great rhyme: "spit in a bamboo's viper's face and I'd be dead but by God's grace..") and 'Flesh and Blood' - too bad Elvis didn't get to co-operate with Johnny..
There was a guy who recorded a song years ago by the name of Glen Campbell. The song's title is 'Gentle On My Mind', which Elvis did record - this song is composed rather intricately, but beautifully. Hartford (the writer) said that he was inspired to write the lyrics after seeing the film Doctor Zhivago and that it took about fifteen minutes to write down.
I just wish Elvis would have taken the chance to work with some poetic artists.
But now I'm looking forward to your new posts, ladies and gentlemen. I know maintaining a forum is a great responsibility, like maintaining the toilets in a Haitian jail, but it's worth the effort. I know meaningful songs may not amount to a hill of beans in this world, but this is our hill and these are our beans.
Thank you.