My Favourite songs - Fast Car

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman, four times Grammy winner made her debut with this wonderful song, that remains one of my favourite till date. Her soulful voice sets a sensitive, thoughtful, pensive and melancholic backdrop and guides the listeners imagination to a vivid visualisation of the storyline.

"Fast Car" climbed on the US charts soon after her performance at the televised Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert in June 1988; it became a number 6 pop hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending August 27, 1988.

Lyrics

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman

You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere
Anyplace is better
Starting from zero got nothing to lose
Maybe we'll make something
Me, myself I got nothing to prove

You got a fast car
I got a plan to get us out of here
I been working at the convenience store
Managed to save just a little bit of money
Won't have to drive too far
Just 'cross the border and into the city
You and I can both get jobs
And finally see what it means to be living

You see my old man's got a problem
He live with the bottle that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
His body's too young to look like his
My mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said somebody's got to take care of him
So I quit school and that's what I did

You got a fast car
Is it fast enough so we can fly away
We gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way

So remember we were driving, driving in your car
Speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
I had a feeling that I belonged
I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You got a fast car
We go cruising to entertain ourselves
You still ain't got a job
I work in a market as a checkout girl
I know things will get better
You'll find work and I'll get promoted
We'll move out of the shelter
Buy a bigger house and live in the suburbs

I remember we were driving, driving in your car
Speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
I had a feeling that I belonged
I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You got a fast car
I got a job that pays all our bills
You stay out drinking late at the bar
See more of your friends than you do of your kids
I'd always hoped for better
Thought maybe together you and me would find it
I got no plans I ain't going nowhere
So take your fast car and keep on driving

I remember we were driving, driving in your car
Speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
I had a feeling that I belonged
I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so you can fly away
You gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way

Songwriters: Tracy L Chapman

Fast Car lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

My Poems - अनचाही

अनचाही

My Poems : थकान

My Expressions - Greed

      Greed

greed

intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food. ( Dictionary meaning)

Intense and selfish is what characterise this fundamental darkness inherent in all sentient beings. Greed is usurping the rights of others for self and crave for seizing more and more.

A person possessed by greed wants to grab everything for himself. Have you ever noticed a host inviting you for a sumptuous dinner and while serving you keeping the best portions of food for himself. Have you ever seen someone while posing for a group photograph along with others taking a over proportioned centrestage for oneself. Have you ever seen someone in a public transport not relinquishing his seat for an elderly person standing. All these example emanate from the underlying tendency of greed which undermines the propriety an occasion demands.

On a larger scale, greed becomes a collective phenomenon where organisations, societies and even States demonstrate a inequitous behaviour. States with the ambitions of expanding their territorial boundaries, societies with a huge rich poor divide and organisations with obsessive compulsions for rapid growth are all examples of manifestations of underlying greed.

Greed is overdoing. It is an antithesis of sacrifice and sharing. People who share and sacrifice are richer in heart with a fulfilled and contented life state while people possessed by greed are never satiated and remain restless to acquire more.

Greed consumes a person from with in and insidiously make a hollow inside. The more you put in this hollow, it enlarges to consume even more.

Some very fine and talented people were ruined as they could not control their greed. Moderation in every act is the key to keep greed under check.

Middle way is the answer. It's about neither swinging to the morbid extreme of self denial and not falling into the pit of greed. 

It is about living a balanced life where sharing gives us joy and enrichment. 

This is what I heard!!

(C) pakhi

My Expressions - Envy

Envy 

Envy - a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck.

The dictionary meaning can hardly convey the destructive power of this feeling. A power that can completely possess one's mind and make him blind to logic and propriety. People possessed with envy do anything to bring other fellow down. They can do the following:

1. Stop greeting you.

2. Spread rumours about you.

3. Showing special liking for things you do not like.

4. Talking big in your presence.

5. Refuse your gifts or offerings.

6. Ignore your good gestures.

7. Praise someone you don't like in your presence.

8. Not giving you your credit.

9. Giving someone undue importance in your presence.

10. Keeping distance from you.

11. Bad mouthing about you behind your back.

12. Trying to size up with you by pulling you down instead of elevating themselves.

13. Showing endearment to your kids and elders and subtly possess their mind with sweet talk.

14. Leaving you out of important communication.

15. Doing opposite of what you suggest.

16. Deliberately spoil your show.

17. Giving you petty gifts.

18. Not including you in conversation, groups etc.

19. Keeping a close watch on who admires you and trying to alienate him immediately.

20. Mimic every action that you take for self improvement.

Etc.

For people possessed with envy, your defeat is more important than their loss. The seeds of envy sprout in one's very close environment; family, extended family, close relations, close friends and colleagues. The actions of envious people are aimed at getting a artificial high and a wicked sense of power. Envy can go to any extent and cause unimaginable harm. It can cause irreversible rifts, ruin lives, destroy value and deface goodness. 

Be aware and check if you are facing any of the above behaviours repeatedly from same person. If so, the relationship is toxic and need to be handled with understanding, composure and compassion albeit from a distance. Nothing can Pierce thru the dark clouds of envy except sincere prayers. 

Pray hard to unshackle the chains of fundamental darkness...

Pray..

(C) pakhi

My Favourite songs- Joan Baez : 500 Miles

My Favourite  songs-  Joan Baez : 500 Miles

In a career spanning over 55 years and over 30 albums, Joan Baez is still touring and still mesmerizing audiences all over the world. Her social activism has provoked and inspired, encouraging many other performers who followed to stand up for their beliefs.

Baez’s ‘We Shall Overcome’  became prominent during the Civil Rights Movement in the 60’s;  she marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and performed the song at rallies. 500 miles is another soulful performance from her with keen sensitivity enveloping every beat and note.

In addition to supporting civil rights as an artist and worker, Baez participated in university free-speech efforts led by students and the antiwar movement, calling for an end to the conflict in Vietnam. Beginning in 1964, she would refuse to pay part of her taxes to protest U.S. military spending for a decade. 

She was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Grammy in 2007.

500 miles lyrics

Peter, Paul and Mary

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If you miss the train I'm on,
You will know that I am gone,
You can hear the whistle blow, a hundred miles.
A hundred miles, a hundred miles,
A hundred miles, a hundred miles.
You can hear the whistle blow, a hundred miles.

Lord, I'm one, Lord I'm two
Lord, I'm three, Lord I'm four,
Lord, I'm five hundred miles away from home.
Not a shirt on my back,
Not a penny to my name,
Lord, I can't go back home this away.
This away, this away, this away, this away.
Lord, I can't go back home, this away.

If you miss the train I'm on, you will know that I am gone,
You can hear the whistle blow, a hundred miles.
A hundred miles, a hundred miles,
A hundred miles, a hundred miles.
You can hear the whistle blow, a hundred miles.

My Favourite songs : Another brick in the wall

My Favourite  songs : Another brick in the wall

Pink Floyd ,a  rock band from London England was formed in 1965 by Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, Richard Wright and Roger Waters. In 1979 they released “Another Brick In the Wall Part 2.” which has been a huge success across the world. 

One of my all time favourites, the songs of Pink Floyd have an intense power to stir the impressions we keep layering our psyche with. The music, the lyrics and the visuals have an intellectual blend creating a captivating, thoughtful, pensive and powerful experience.

In an interview,  Roger Waters explains  the essence of the  concept of The Wall.The "wall" is the self-isolating barrier we build over the course of our lives, and the "bricks in the wall" are the people and events that turn us inward and away from others.” 

Lyrics

Another Brick In the Wall Lyrics 
by Pink Floyd

Another Brick in the Wall Lyrics - Part 1 (Waters) 3:41

Daddy's flown across the ocean
Leaving just a memory
Snapshot in the family album
Daddy what else did you leave for me?
Daddy, what'd'ja leave behind for me?!?
All in all it was just a brick in the wall.
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.

"You! Yes, you! Stand still laddy!

Another Brick in the Wall Lyrics - Part 2
(Waters) 3:56

We don't need no educationÂ
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

"Wrong, Do it again!"
"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"
"You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"

Another Brick in the Wall Lyrics - Part 3 (Waters) 1:17

[Sound of many TV's coming on, all on different channels]
"The Bulls are already out there"
Pink: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgh!"
"This Roman Meal bakery thought you'd like to know."

I don't need no arms around me
And I dont need no drugs to calm me.
I have seen the writing on the wall.
Don't think I need anything at all.
No! Don't think I'll need anything at all.
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.
All in all you were all just bricks in the wall.