Saturday, August 24, 2013

"I'll take your sorrows if you want me to..."





Well you say you got no new dreams to touch
You feel like a stranger babe who knows too much
You come home late and get undressed
You lie in bed and feel this emptiness
Janey don't you lose heart...


I love Springsteen's poetry. This song is one of my favorites. And a darn catchy tune.

4 comments:

  1. Might I suggest to you (the late) Rich Mullins?

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    1. Ilion:

      Thanks. I'll check him out.

      Mike

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    2. I think Mullins' lyrics and music will still known a hundred years from now (they certainly ought to be). At the same time, his preachy semi-leftist do-gooder-ism is annoying, especially as it so frequently relies upon strawmanning.

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  2. Here is a YouTube video I discovered just now -- Rich Mullins & A Ragamuffin Band - Live From Studio B, South Bend, Indiana 1997 -- "The original broadcast of Rich Mullins & A Ragamuffin Band's performance on the CCM television program, "Live From Studio B", taped at Lesea studios in South Bend, Indiana in 1997. ..."

    I understand that this was taped a few months before Mullins' death. I also understand that Rich (I can call him that, can't I, having had dinner with him before he was famous?) was converting to Catholicism when he died.

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    South Bend is my hometown (I now live in Ohio). As one might expect, LeSEA (Lester Sumrall Evangelistic Association) was founded by Lester Sumrall -- under whose ministry, the first time he was in South Bend, my parents met and married.

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