Tunes on Tuesday ~ Dire Straits
hot sexy older women love fast sexy older cars
Maybe a lesser known Dire Straits track, but powerfully evocative of a ‘who gives a fuck’ crazy lifestyle.
For me, Heavy Fuel is diesel, but I don’t think this song is really about trucks., big rigs, 18 wheelers, call them what you will. Or boats either. This song is about booze, drugs, and girls.
Please listen without breaking the speed limit.
And I would never, ever drive a Porsche.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
sexy women have always loved a hot car
Songs on Saturday ~ R.E.M.
I’m so in love with you
This is for a friend of mine ~ someone I care about very deeply, especially now, when everybody hurts. Including me.
Please listen with love.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
I would rather be here, with a close friend
Tunes on Tuesday ~ Texas
there are wide open spaces, and then there’s Texas
Maybe I haven’t seen much of the lone star state, but then it’s bigger than most countries.
I don’t think they do English there.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
big wide open spaces
Songs on Saturday ~ Lighthouse Family
no matter how badly your heart is broken,
the world doesn’t stop for your grief
Unlucky are they who have never suffered a broken heart, for only those who have had their life torn asunder by faithless love can know what true love really means.
I guess every one reading this has known a broken heart. I guess everyone reading this knows that it will get better, in time, eventually…… But a broken heart can never really be put back together again, not completely…..
I hope we have all found that very special person who can help us to mend our broken heart.
Please listen reflectively.
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Storm wave
jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
hope for a guiding light, a safe harbour, and a solid foundation for the love you feel
Songs on Saturday ~ Gerry Rafferty
when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life
The very first time I heard this song I was staying in an hotel on Baker Street, which runs from North to South right through the heart of London. For a naive North of England boy it was a very strange place. The allyways and byways just off Baker Street are even stranger. (Writing this brought back some very peculiar interpersonal relationship memories of that time.)
Back then 221B Baker Street was part of the offices of the Pearl Life Assurance Company, now it’s kind of a kitsch Sherlock Holmes store.
Please listen thinking about the bright lights, and not the damp Victorian London smog.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Holmes never did catch Springheeled Jack
Songs on Saturday ~ Lovely Day
any day I’m still alive is a Lovely Day to me
The worst thing about some illnesses is that you can recover and then have a relapse. That’s what happened to me. Right now I’m recovering again, but it’s all a long struggle with weakness, weariness, and confusion. I hope you are well.
Never mind, I’m getting better now, and today is going to be a lovely day.
Please listen in good health and happiness.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
this was a lovely day
Unspoken Love
how can I tell her that I love her?
The world goes around and around, time passes, people come into my life and then disappear. And now there is someone, a Lady, maybe.
They say that faint heart never won fair lady.
Please listen with hope
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
now is not the right time for a bottle of red
Songs on Saturday ~ A Whiter Shade of Pale
white is not an absence of colour, white is all the colours
Obviously, most of us like the Procul Harum version of this song, but I find this Annie Lennox cover quite intriguing. Maybe it’s just the video I like.
Please listen responsibly.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
that’s white light deconstructed
We’ll Meet Again
and there’ll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover
During WWII the Germans had the overtly sexual Marlene Dietrich singing Lili Marlene, which was the unofficial anthem of the Afrika Korps. We had the wholesome Forces Sweetheart, Vera Lynn. Kind of says a lot about out differing national characteristics.
Dame Vera Lynn is now 103, and she is still almost as big an inspiration to Englishmen of a certain age as is the Queen.
Please listen with respect.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
after a girl has pushed an ambulance up a sand dune, she deserves a cold beer
Tunes on Tuesday ~ Message In A Bottle
I’ll send an S.O.S. to the world
Alone, trapped, scared of being alone, at least I can walk on the beach.
If you too are trapped, write to me, put your message in a bottle, chuck your message to me into the sea, or a river, or a stream ~ the Cosmos will see that it’s delivered.
Please listen without despair.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
just don’t empty your bottle too quickly
