Did You See Lisa?
the most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or touched
Back in the day, when I was an insanely overpaid guy in international finance, I guess I had one friend. This was his favourite song.
Neither of us had ever known a Lisa, nor ever hoped to meet a woman by that name.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
this was our imaginary Lisa
Songs on Saturday ~ The Chain
lies, damn lies, and the whispered words of love
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This song’s lyrics holds some brutal truths
jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
if you don’t love me now
you’ve never loved me at all
Witch’s Promise
you were kissed one night by a witch in the woods
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A wise man will never kiss a witch in the pale moonlight on All Hallows Eve.
Please listen responsibly.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
and she wore a tree on her back
Dire Straits
lately I haven’t been doing so much of walking the walk
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
that’s just about how I feel today
Tunes on Tuesday ~ Londonbeat
I can change the world, but I can’t change me
These days you can’t buy Londonbeat’s albums in any store I know of ~ very rare just doesn’t describe it.
As you would expect this song is for a woman I know ~ someone I’ve wronged in the past. But that’s a much longer story than I can tell here. (My one temptation was not another woman.)
jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
this is Tower Bridge
not London Bridge
Songs on Saturday ~ Bette Davis Eyes
the key to life is accepting challenges
once someone stops doing this, he’s dead
I was always a precocious child; I developed abilities and inclinations at a much earlier age that was usual or expected of me.
Everybody has kindness in their eyes. Except some people.
Please listen responsibly.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
life is a sexual jest
and her eyes show it
Desert Journey
the immense desert, empty and inspired with spiritual promises
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Like many Englishmen, from that green and pleasant land, I have a strong personal affinity for the desert. I like the high plains and the heat of Red Rock Country in the late summer. There is a simplicity about the desert, you are either right or you’re in deep trouble, and there’s little ground in-between.
And now, when England cowers cold beneath our autumn mists and morning frost, I yearn to be back in the blazing sunshine and heat of California, New Mexico, Arizona, or Nevada. Preferably on a long spontaneous road trip, driving a Mustang convertible with a cool lady riding shotgun.
Sweetheart, yes it’s true, I’m so happy to be stuck with you
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
deep in red rock country
in that desert we pray to God
but we trust in ourselves as men
Tunes on Tuesday ~ Ladyhawke
a very sensual, strange, physically beautiful, dangerous place
Back in the day I spent a lot of time à Paris, la ville lumière. I learned that, while Parisienne women look chic, they often smell of Galoises overlaid with a lot of Chanel #5.
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Love Paris and you’re hung up on something that’s never going to love you back.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
when good Americans die they go to Paris
Songs on Saturday ~ The Way It Is
it’s OK to have a life that nobody else understands
There’s something poignant about a solitary piano. There’s something tragic about a man on his own, doing the best he can, and not always winning.
And so they said that to me; ‘hey little boy, you can’t do what they do, you will never make anything of yourself, you’ll never grow up to be anything, get a job…..’
I’d like to say that I showed them. But sometimes they were right. BPD can do that to you.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
hey little boy, that’s just the way it is
Tunes on Tuesday ~ the Wolf
whether you’re a vampire or a werewolf, love is still love
They may be better known for taking their name from the cult movie Barbarella, but I still like this Duran Duran track. It speaks to me.
In the past, my hunger for love has been far, far darker than the clean-cut, heroic, Indiana Jones image shown here. Less Duran Duran, more MeatLoaf ~ but then, I once had a significantly dangerous side to my psyche. BPD can do that to you.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
so will you give your heart to the wolf?
