My Favourite songs : Papa

Papa

Paul Anka 1974

One of the sensitive songs
and
one of my favorites!!

My Favourite songs : Lady

Lady

A super hit of 1980's and one of my most favorite song, 'Lady' was written by Lionel Richie and performed by Kenny Rogers. After 'Island in the streams' superb success, 'Lady' took Kenny Rogers to the peaks of popularity and this song was acclaimed to be most romantic song of the times. 

My Favourite songs : Forever Sensei

Forever Sensei

One of my most favorite songs that always lift the spirits. A song filled with deep gratitude to our mentor!! 

Sensei is new age, progressive, compassionate and ever inspiring. Sensei is a role model to live a life for helping others and bring them happiness. Sensei is about winning in life - an eternal victory!  

My Favourite songs: wo jahan

wo jahan

Beautiful lyrics bringing about the longing in every human heart to have a world free of mystery,  unhappiness, violence,  greed, war,  and grief: utopian though but not impossible ..

I like the music of both Rock-on 1 and Rock-on 2 for their lovely lyrics,  lively music and magical performance!! Here is one of my favorite:

My Favourite songs: Send my love

Send my love

This song  from Adele is yet another of my favourite.

Exquisite and elegant performance!!

 The rhythmic musical notes perfectly blend with the delicately expressive movements !! 

My Favourite songs - Buy me a rose

My Favourite  songs - Buy me a rose

"Buy Me a Rose"  song is recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It became number one in Billboard hot country singles charts making Kenny Rogers the oldest number one  hit singer at the age of 61.

The song beautifully narrates how futile material gifts from a husband to wife could be and how his simple gestures can win her heart.

LYRICS

He works hard to give her all he thinks she wants
A three car garage, her own credit cards
He pulls in late to wake her up with a kiss good night
If he could only read her mind, she'd say:

Buy me a rose, call me from work
Open a door for me, what would it hurt
Show me you love me by the look in your eyes
These are the little things I need the most in my life

Now the days have grown to years of feeling all alone
And she can't help but wonder what she's doing wrong
Cause lately she'd try anything to turn his head
Would it make a difference if she said:

Buy me a rose, call me from work
Open a door for me, what would it hurt
Show me you love me by the look in your eyes
These are the little things I need the most in my life

And the more that he lives the less that he tries
To show her the love that he hold inside
And the more that she gives the more that he sees
This is a story of you and me

So I bought you a rose on the way home from work
Opened the door to a heart that I hurt
And I hope you notice this look in my eyes
Cause I'm gonna make things right
I'm gonna hold you tonight
Do all those little things
For the rest of your life.

Songwriters: Erik W Hickenlooper / Jim Funk

Buy Me a Rose lyrics © BMG Rights Management

My Favourite songs - Stand By Me

Stand By Me

An American soul and R&B singer, Benjamin Earl King (September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015), was the singer and composer of "Stand by Me".  A US Top 10 hit, both in 1961 and later in 1986, a number one hit in the UK in 1987, and no. 25 on the RIAA's list of Songs of the Century, this song has been performed, recorded and released by many singers including Sir John Lennon.

This song has a soulful and piercing voice filling each word with an 'ask' - a natural craving of the loving hearts to lean on each other and draw strength. 

Beautiful and captivating!! 

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 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.

 

My Favourite songs, : Tum ek Gorakh dhandha ho

Tum ek Gorakh dhandha ho 

Oh lord, you are incomprehensible 

Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan at his best, hailing god, incomprehensible & mystic presence despite non- substantiality and subtlety!! 

One of my favourite Performance of Ustaad! His range is unmatched, flow is captivating and music is divine!!

Tribute !!

My Favorite songs : Islands in the stream

Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers : Unmistakable chemistry, perfect rhythm ... Joyful !!

Islands in the Stream 

Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers

Baby, when I met you there was peace unknown
I set out to get you with a fine tooth comb
I was soft inside, there was somethin' going on
You do something to me that I can't explain
Hold me closer and I feel no pain
Every beat of my heart
We got somethin' goin' on
Tender love is blind
It requires a dedication
All this love we feel
Needs no conversation
We ride it together, ah-ah
Makin' love with each other, ah-ah

Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in-between
How can we be wrong
Sail away with me to another world
And we rely on each other, ah-ah
From one lover to another, ah-ah

I can't live without you if the love was gone
Everything is nothin' if you got no one
And you did walk in tonight
Slowly losing sight of the real thing

But that won't happen to us and we got no doubt
Too deep in love and we got no way out
And the message is clear
This could be the year for the real thing

No more will you cry
Baby, I will hurt you never
We start and end as one, in love forever
We can ride it together, ah-ah
Makin' love with each other, ah-ah
Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in-between
How can we be wrong
Sail away with me to another world
And we rely on each other, ah-ah
From one lover to another, ah-ah

Sail away
Oh, come sail away with me

Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in-between
How can we be wrong
Sail away with me to another world
And we rely on each other, ah-ah
From one lover to another, ah-ah

Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in-between
How can we be wrong
Sail away with me to another world
And we rely on each other, ah-ah
From one lover to another, ah-ah

Songwriters: Barry Gibb / Maurice Ernest Gibb / Robin Hugh Gibb

My Favorite songs: They don't care about us

Michael Jackson's most colorful, bright & invigorating performance !!

"They Don't Care About Us"

Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, aggravation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Bang bang, shot dead
Everybody's gone mad

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us

Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me
Jew me, sue me
Everybody do me
Kick me, kike me
Don't you black or white me

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us

Tell me what has become of my life
I have a wife and two children who love me
I am the victim of police brutality, no
I'm tired of being the victim of hate
You're raping me of my pride
Oh, for God's sake
I look to heaven to fulfill its prophecy...
Set me free

Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Trepidation, speculation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Black man, blackmail
Throw the brother in jail

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us

Tell me what has become of my rights
Am I invisible because you ignore me?
Your proclamation promised me free liberty, no
I'm tired of being the victim of shame
They're throwing me in a class with a bad name
I can't believe this is the land from which I came
You know I really do hate to say it
The government don't wanna see
But if Roosevelt was living
He wouldn't let this be, no, no

Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, speculation
Everybody litigation
Beat me, bash me
You can never trash me
Hit me, kick me
You can never get me

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us

Some things in life they just don't wanna see
But if Martin Luther was living
He wouldn't let this be, no, no

Skin head, dead head
Everybody's gone bad
Situation, segregation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Kick me, kike me
Don't you wrong or right me

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us

My Favourite song : Farewell to my little bit of something blue by Neil Diamond

Farewell to my little bit of something blue

Starting the new year with one of my favorite song from Neil Diamond:For someone who showed me what a little bit of love can do!!

I came with a little bit of sorrow

Was maybe a bit too sad
But one day rolled into tomorrow
And you gave me the best you had
That's how we started together
And how together we're gonna stay

You taught me a little 'bout good times
I fought through a little bit of rain
You brought me a part of your sunshine
You took in the heart of my pain
It wasn't supposed to happen
But then you happened to come my way

Every night, every day
Every word that you say made it so
Every thought that I had
Said I ought to be glad, now I know

You showed what a little bit of love can do
You opened my eyes and a light came through
Took me to a place that I never knew
Goodbye to my little bit of something blue

You came and you found me wanting
And I'm saying that I'm in your debt
Some days were a little bit daunting
Some days I'd rather forget
You changed my life for the better
And I know I'd better be good to you

Every night, every day
Every word that you say made it so
Every thought that I had
Said I ought to be glad, now I know

You showed what a little bit of love can do
You opened my eyes and a light came through
Took me to a place that I never knew
So long to my little bit of something blue

It wasn't supposed to happen
But then you happened to come my way

Every night, every day
Every word that you say made it so
Every thought that I had
Said I ought to be glad. Now I know

You showed what a little bit of love can do
You opened my eyes and a light came through
Took me to a place that I never knew
Goodbye to my little bit of something blue

Farewell to my little bit of something blue.

My Favorite Song : Goodnight Angel

 Goodnight Angel  - Billy Joel 

A Lullaby- with notes & beats- some lost, some stolen, some playing with prayer under the lips..

My favourite Song ( Symphony) - Beethoven 9th Symphony - " Ode to Joy "

Beethoven's  9th Symphony -  For me it was a realisation of a Joyful spirit  Transcending time..

ODE TO JOY (Friedrich Schiller)

BARITONE, QUARTET, AND CHORUS

Joy, beautiful spark of the gods, 
Daughter of Elysium, 
We enter fire imbibed, 
Heavenly, thy sanctuary.

Thy magic reunites those
Whom stern custom has parted; 
All men will become brothers
Under thy gentle wing.

May he who has had the fortune
To gain a true friend
And he who has won a noble wife
Join in our jubilation! 

Yes, even if he calls but one soul
His own in all the world.
But he who has failed in this
Must steal away alone and in tears.

All the world's creatures
Draw joy from nature's breast; 
Both the good and the evil
Follow her rose-strewn path.

She gave us kisses and wine
And a friend loyal unto death; 
She gave lust for life to the lowliest, 
And the Cherub stands before God.

TENOR SOLO AND CHORUS

Joyously, as his suns speed
Through Heaven's glorious order, 
Hasten, Brothers, on your way, 
Exulting as a knight in victory.

CHORUS

Joy, beautiful spark of the gods, 
Daughter of Elysium, 
We enter fire imbibed, 
Heavenly, thy sanctuary.

Be embraced, Millions! 
This kiss for all the world! 
Brothers!, above the starry canopy
A loving father must dwell.

Can you sense the Creator, world? 
Seek him above the starry canopy.
Above the stars He must dwell.

Be embraced, Millions! 
This kiss for all the world! 
Brothers!, above the starry canopy
A loving father must dwell.

Can you sense the Creator, world? 
Seek him above the starry canopy.
Above the stars He must dwell.

Joy, beautiful spark of the gods, 
Daughter of Elysium, 
We enter fire imbibed, 
Heavenly, thy sanctuary.

Be embraced, Millions! 
This kiss for all the world! 
Brothers!, above the starry canopy
A loving father must dwell.

Can you sense the Creator, world? 
Seek him above the starry canopy.
Above the stars He must dwell.

Be embraced, Millions! 
This kiss for all the world! 
Brothers!, above the starry canopy
A loving father must dwell.

Can you sense the Creator, world? 
Seek him above the starry canopy.
Above the stars He must dwell.

Joy, daughter of Elysium
Thy magic reunites those
Whom stern custom has parted; 
All men will become brothers
Under thy gentle wing.

Be embraced, Millions! 
This kiss for all the world! 
Brothers!, above the starry canopy
A loving father must dwell.

Joy, beautiful spark of Gods!, 
Daughter of Elysium, 
Joy, beatiful spark of Gods!.

My Favourite songs, - "Rise UP "

Welcome to the world of Yves Larock. Writer and producer of Rise Up, 

Yves has become a prolific force in Electronic Dance Music.In 2007, Yves , this time smashing all expectations. Collaborating with vocalist Jaba, his track ‘Rise Up’ was the kind of smash hit most other DJs can only dream of. 

Signed to Universal, Ministry of Sound and 27 other labels worldwide it devastated the charts, securing the number 1 slot across 20 countries .

My Favourite songs - Mother - Chalo chalen Maa

With the soul stirring music of Hemant Kumar from an Indian Movie  “Jaagriti” (1954) this song every time I listen to it, makes the child in me come alive .. 

not in the sense of a forlorn childhood and craving for the careless times 

but  in the sense of the very soft, innate element of purity and virtue we are all born with ...

of the bewilderment of a growing child seeing the absurdities of the world run by adults..

of seeing the inhuman behavior of humans driven by doubt, greed, anger ...

of the sad, sullen yet hope-filled urge every child has when he sees ..

Hate , envy and jealousy all around instead of Love..

Children are the best teachers  for human behavior..

My Favourite songs - Imagine

My Favourite songs - Imagine

.....Imagine all the people living life in peace...You may say i am a dreamer, but not the only one...

On October 9th, Lennon's life was celebrated in a brief ceremony, called Imagine All the People, at the United Nations. After being welcomed to the UN — "this House of Peace" — by Marcella Pérez de Cuéllar, the wife of UN secretary general Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Yoko Ono read a prepared statement, played a tape recording of Lennon, in which he urged the world to recognize "the choice we have in front of us: war or peace" and then broadcast the song "Imagine" over more than 1000 radio stations in 130 countries to an audience of approximately a billion listeners

My Favourite songs - One Moment in Time

My Favourite songs - One Moment in Time

Whitney Houston's unforgettable song....A day to give , the best of me...I am only one but not alone, My finest day is yet unknown..Give me one moment in time.....and all my dreams are a heartbeat away and the answers are all upto me.. 

What more can be said for the fighting spirit and moments of Glory