:up: Yeah, sistren!

Life is a masquerade.

If I understand well, this is a mash up of two songs... one by Cindy Lauper, the other by Whitney Houston.

Here's a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry, be happy
In every life we have some trouble
But when you worry you make it double

Don't worry, be happy

Ain't got no place to lay your head
Somebody came and took your bed
Don't worry, be happy
The landlord say your rent is late
He may have to litigate
Don't worry, be happy

Oh, ooh ooh ooh oo-ooh ooh oo-ooh don't worry, be happy

Here I give you my phone number, when you worry, call me, I'll make you happy.

Ain't got no cash, ain't got no style
Ain't got no gal to make you smile
Don't worry, be happy
'Cause when you worry your face will frown
And that will bring everybody down

So don't worry, be happy

Now there, is this song I wrote
I hope you learned note for note
Like good little children, don't worry, be happy
Now listen to what I said, in your life expect some trouble
When you worry you make it double
But don't worry, be happy, be happy now

Wonderful find.
And then this came along - their cover of Supertramp's 'The Logical Song'.
Love it :cool:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U8TYyG6QPQE

When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical
And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily
Oh joyfully, playfully watching me
But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible
Logical, oh responsible, practical
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable
Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical

There are times when all the world's asleep
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
Please tell me who I am

I said, watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical
Liberal, oh fanatical, criminal
Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're acceptable
Respectable, oh presentable,…

Source: LyricFind

Brilliant. You can pick 'em :starstruck:
And if you can't be happy, wear a smile, even if it is a mask :mask:
Unfortunately - with covid restrictions we can only see smiling eyes, if we are lucky.

Cause when you worry your face will frown
And that will bring everybody down — Olivier5

Not to mention you'll get a deep track line in the middle of your forehead :angry:

Another one
'Dreams' - Fleetwood Mac // Sam Wilkes ft. POMPLAMOOSE
Wow !

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ztWQm577Q

Now here you go again, you say you want your freedom
Well, who am I to keep you down?
It's only right that you should play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound of your loneliness

Like a heartbeat drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost
And what you had
And what you lost

Oh, thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
Say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know
You'll know

Now here I go again, I see the crystal visions
I keep my visions to myself
It's only me who wants to wrap around your dreams
And have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Dreams of loneliness

Like a heartbeat drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost
And what you had
Oh, what you lost

Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
Women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know

Oh, thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
Say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know
You'll know
You will know
Oh, you'll know

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Stevie Nicks

Dreams lyrics © Welsh Witch Music

[ D ]

Long distance runner,
what you standin' there for?
Get up, get out,
get out of the door
Your playin' cold music
on the barroom floor
Drowned in your laughter
and dead to the core.
There's a dragon with matches
that's loose on the town
Takes a whole pail of water
just to cool him down.

Fire! Fire on the mountain!

Almost ablaze
still you don't feel the heat
It takes all you got
just to stay on the beat.
You say it's a livin',
we all gotta eat
But you're here alone,
there's no one to compete.
If Mercy's a bus'ness,
I wish it for you
More than just ashes
when your dreams come true.

Fire! Fire on the mountain!

Long distance runner,
what you holdin' out for?
Caught in slow motion
in a dash for the door.
The flame from your stage
has now spread to the floor
You gave all you had.
Why you wanna give more?
The more that you give,
the more it will take
To the thin line beyond which
you really can't fake.

Fire! Fire on the mountain!

"Fire on the Mountain" (3:46)
Shakedown Street, 1978
written by M. Hart & R. Hunter, 1977
The Greatful Dead

*

There's a natural mystic blowing
through the air
If you listen carefully now
you will hear

This could be the first trumpet,
might as well be the last
Many more will have to suffer
Many more will have to die
Don't ask me why
Things are not the way they used to be
I won't tell no lie

One and all got to face
reality now
Though I've tried to find the answer
to all the questions they ask
Though I know it's impossible
to go living through the past
Don't tell no lie

There's a natural mystic blowing
through the air
Can't keep them down
If you listen carefully now
you will hear

Such a natural mystic,
blowing through the air

This could be the first trumpet,
might as well be the last
Many more will have to suffer
Many more will have to die
Don't ask me why

There's a natural mystic blowing through the air
I won't tell no lie
If you listen carefully now
you will hear
There's a natural mystic blowing through the air

Such a natural mystic
blowing through the air
There's a natural mystic
blowing through the air
Such a natural mystic
blowing through the air
Such a natural mystic
blowing through the air
Such a natural mystic
blowing through the air

"Natural Mystic" (3:28)
Exodus, 1977
Bob Marley & the Wailers

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[ L ]

We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill
As the day begs the night for mercy love
The sun so bright it leaves no shadows
Only scars
carved into stone
On the face of earth
The moon is up and
over One Tree Hill
We see the sun
go down
in your eyes

You run like river,
on like a sea
You run like a river runs to the sea

And in the world a heart of darkness
A fire zone
Where poets speak their heart
Then bleed for it
Jara sang, his song a weapon
In the hands of love
You know his blood
still
cries
From the ground

It runs like a river runs to the sea
It runs like a river to the sea

I don't believe in painted roses
Or bleeding hearts
While bullets rape the night
of the merciful
I'll see you again
When the stars fall from the sky
And the moon has turned red
Over One Tree Hill

We run like a river
Runs to the sea
We run
like a river
to the sea
And when it's raining
Raining hard
That's when the rain will
Break my heart

Raining...raining in the heart
Raining in your heart
Raining...raining to your heart
Raining, raining...raining
Raining to your heart
Raining...raining in your heart
Raining in your heart..
To the sea

Oh great ocean
Oh great sea
Run to the ocean
Run to the sea

"One Tree Hill" (5:23)
The Joshua Tree, 1987
U2

*

[ for Laurie & Desiree, back in the day, who broke each other's heart on the way to both breaking off a heavy piece of mine ]

Listening to this - on the other music thread :scream:
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/523208

'Wind of Change' - Scorpions (with the Berliner Philharmoniker )

Thanks to @Ying :sparkle:

U2 :cool:

[ for Laurie & Desiree, back in the day, who broke each other's heart on the way to both breaking off a heavy piece of mine ] — 180 Proof

:broken:
???

Yeah, reminiscences from the '80s that wouldn't let me sleep off my buzz last weekend. Between day hikes (flâneurie), my exorcist recommends ... Bartók & Ellington :smirk:

Me, myself and I
Are all in love with you
We all think you're wonderful
We do

Me, myself and I
Have just one point of view
We're convinced
There's no one else like you

It can't be denied dear
You brought the sun to us
We'd be satisfied dear
If you'd belong to one of us

So if you pass me by
Three hearts will break in two
'Cause me, myself and I
Are all in love with you
We all think you're wonderful
We do

:clap: :fire:

Thanks. This posting was prompted by

How did Descartes know that he was alone in his mind? Why not "We think, therefore we are."? ... How much confusion in philosophy results from reifying the 'I' which we learn to use in ordinary life? — j0e

Me, myself and I do like Lady Day: we always use the "royal we".

'We all think you're wonderful. We do' :cool:

'Me, myself and I' - reminds me of George Harrison's autobiography 'I - Me- Mine'.
I bought it some time ago and think a revisit is in order *
I didn't realise that the book title was also one of his songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seqaTuXkqFI

...it was the last new track recorded by the band before their break-up in April 1970. The song originated from their January 1969 rehearsals at Twickenham Film Studios when they were considering making a return to live performance. Written at a time of acrimony within the group, the lyrics lament humankind's propensity for self-centredness and serve as a comment on the discord that led to Harrison temporarily leaving the Beatles. The musical arrangement alternates between waltz-time verses and choruses played in the hard rock style. — wiki

* as well as his story, it includes photographs, lists of songs, some with handwritten lyrics and a paragraph of explanation.

I, ME, MINE is the 'ego' problem...suddenly I looked around and everything I could see was relative to my ego...I hated everything about my ego...it was a flash of everything false and impermanent which I disliked. But later, I learned from it: to realise that there is somebody else in there apart from old blabbermouth. Who am 'I' became the order of the day.

Anyway, that's what came out of it: I Me Mine..
Allen Klein thought it was an Italian song - you know, Cara Mia Mine but it's about the ego: the eternal problem... (p158). — George Harrison

OK, so i couldn't resist the look-up:

'Cara Mia' - Jay & The Americans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sFy5_kmEi4

Me, myself and I do like Lady Day: we always use the "royal we". — Olivier5

:grin: :grin: :grin:

I Me Mine is a great entry on the subject, thanks.


All through the day
I me mine, I me mine, I me mine
All through the night
I me mine, I me mine, I me mine
Now they're frightened of leaving it
Everyone's weaving it
Coming on strong all the time
All through the day

I me mine
I me me mine, etc.

All I can hear
I me mine, I me mine, I me mine
Even those tears
I me mine, I me mine, I me mine
No-one's frightened of playing it
Everyone's saying it
Flowing more freely than wine
All through the day

I me mine
I me me mine, etc.

All I can hear
I me mine, I me mine, I me mine
Even those tears
I me mine, I me mine, I me mine
No-one's frightened of playing it
Everyone's saying it
Flowing more freely than wine
All through your life
I me mine

Thanks for providing the lyrics. And for the theme as inspired by @j0e :sparkle:

'See Yourself' - George Harrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6byTftvSQyo

"See Yourself"

It's easier to tell a lie than it is to tell the truth
It's easier to kill a fly than it is to turn it loose
It's easier to criticize somebody else
Than to see yourself

It's easier to give a sigh and be like all the rest
Who stand around and crucify you while you do your best
It's easier to see the books upon the shelf
Than to see yourself

It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry
Than it is to dry their eyes
I got tired of fooling around with other people's lies
Rather I'd find someone that's true

It's easier to say you won't than it is to feel you can
It's easier to drag your feet than it is to be a man
It's easier to look at someone else's wealth
Than to see yourself

Now that is deep.

As an aside, note that the use of 'they', speaking of oneself, is spreading in the language, which points to the idea that the unity of the mind is not always a given.

As an aside, note that the use of 'they', speaking of oneself, is spreading in the language, which points to the idea that the unity of the mind is not always a given. — Olivier5

While the intention is seemingly to avoid gender, it does accidentally work against the unity of the mind in a subtle way. I should clarify that I'm not against the unity of the mind or for the plurality of mind in a spiritual/ethical sense. For me it's just a good example, maybe the best, of a metaphysical presupposition, if we even want to call something so typically automatic a presupposition. In the Blue Book thread, there's a killer Wittgenstein passage about this. Locke also thought about this in a less radical but related way. What is a person, and how does this connect with memory and language?

Ah, but no link to the last track, finished at the last session, on the last album:

:victory:

"I, Me, Mine" (2:26)
Let It Be, 1970
written by George Harrison, 1969
The Beatles

(Fab, gear! Not the least bit grotty :smirk:)

but no link to the last track, — 180 Proof

? I did enter a link - not quite as cool as yours :cool:
... and then found this one:
look out for John and Yoko waltzing - from film 'Let It Be' *
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnwmrAMqA6c

finished at the last session, on the last album: — 180 Proof

Yes, I didn't realise that at the time...
but did remember the roof top - apparently it was an unannounced concert - the last public performance of the Beatles,1970.

'All Those Years Ago' - George Harrison ( dedicated to John Lennon )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBpvLTM1LK8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UI0mWnh_zk

"All Those Years Ago"

I'm shouting all about love
While they treated you like a dog
When you were the one who had made it so clear
All those years ago

I'm talking all about how to give
They don't act with much honesty
But you point the way to the truth when you say
All you need is love

Living with good and bad
I've always looked up to you
Now we're left cold and sad
By someone the devil's best friend
Someone who offended all

We're living in a bad dream
They've forgotten all about mankind
And you were the one they backed up to the wall
All those years ago
You were the one who Imagined it all
All those years ago

Deep in the darkest night
I send out a prayer to you
Now in the world of light
Where the spirit free of the lies
And all else that we despised

They've forgotten all about God
He's the only reason we exist
Yet you were the one that they said was so weird
All those years ago
You said it all though not many had ears
All those years ago
You had control of our smiles and our tears
All those years ago

'Imagine' - John Lennon (with lyrics)

https://vimeo.com/421928389

'All You Need is Love'- The Beatles ( written by John Lennon)

https://vimeo.com/252765355

The song was Britain's contribution to Our World, the first live global television link, for which the band were filmed performing it at EMI Studios in London on 25 June [1967].The programme was broadcast via satellite and seen by an audience of over 400 million in 25 countries.
Lennon's lyrics were deliberately simplistic, to allow for the show's international audience, and captured the utopian ideals associated with the Summer of Love. — wiki

All You Need Is Love
The Beatles
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love

(Love, love, love)
There's nothing you can do that can't be done
(Love, love, love)
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung
(Love, love, love)
Nothing you can say
But you can learn how to play the game
It's easy

(Love, love, love)
Nothing you can make that can't be made
(Love, love, love)
No one you can save that can't be saved
(Love, love, love)
Nothing you can do
But you can learn how to be you in time
It's easy

All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

(Love, love, love)
(Love, love, love)
(Love, love, love)

All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

(Love, love, love)
Nothing you can know that isn't known
(Love, love, love)
Nothing you can see that isn't shown
(Love, love, love)
There's nowhere you can be
That isn't where you're meant to be
It's easy

All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

All you need is love (All together now)
All you need is love (Everybody)
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need

Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)

Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)

Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
Love is all you need
(Love is all you need)
(Love is all you need)
(Love is all you need)

(Love is all you need) Yesterday
(Love is all you need) Oh, love is all you need
Love is all you need (Oh yeah)
Love is all you need (She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Love is all you need)
(Love is all you need)

Songwriters: Lennon John Winston, Mccartney Paul James
For non-commercial use only.
Data from: Musixmatch

A haunting reply to "All You Need is Love" almost exactly a year later ...

It's been a long
long
long time
How could I ever
have lost you
When I
loved you

It took a long
long
long
time
Now I'm so happy
I found you
How I
love you

So many tears I was searching
So many tears I was wasting, oh oh

Now I can see you,
be you
How can I ever
misplace you
How I
want you
Oh I
love you
You know that I need you
Ooh I
love you

Ohhhhhhh

"Long, Long, Long" (3:04)
The Beatles, 1968
written by George Harrison
The Beatles

For me it's just a good example, maybe the best, of a metaphysical presupposition, if we even want to call something so typically automatic a presupposition. — j0e

Yes, it's a good example of what Collingwood called an absolute presupposition, although you are right that it looks more basic. Perhaps Kant's a priori is a better way to look at it, like our sense of space and time?

Perhaps Kant's a priori is a better way to look at it, like our sense of space and time? — Olivier5

I would say that it has that Kantian flavor except that in my imperfect understanding of Kant is that it's too contingent. We can imagine more than one person per skull. The philosopher Robert C. Solomon used (don't think invented) the phrase methodological solipsism for something like the Cartesian starting point. I think of it as a research habit that was fruitful in many ways but also leads to certain confusions and dead ends (well criticized by various 20th century philosophers.)

We might also consider how Kant's work is endangered or not by dropping MS or at least by recognizing it as a contingent decision. Philosophers could have worked from the outside in rather than from the inside out, or many other ways.

A haunting reply to "All You Need is Love" almost exactly a year later ... — 180 Proof

Haunting and a wee bit weird at the end.
From p132 of GH's autobiography:

'The 'you' in Long, Long, Long is God. I can't recall much about it except the chords which I think were coming from Sad Eyed Lady of the Low Land - D to E minor, A and D - those 3 chords and the way they moved.
There was a bottle of 'Blue Nun' wine on top of the Leslie speaker and when our Paul hit some organ note the Leslie started vibrating and the bottle rattling. You can hear it on the record - at the very end.'

'Blue Nun' and whatever else they were taking - I think the bottle rattling set George and Ringo off on a trip where they just let rip. That howl from George... :scream:

'Sad-Eyed Lady of the Low Lands' - Bob Dylan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c1NJPCN6nA

Lyrics:
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bobdylan/sadeyedladyofthelowlands.html

50 years ago the Stones dropped this juvenile piece of nasty work, which nonetheless is a Rock-n-Roll masterpiece (covered by Little Richard no less). Other than civil rights activists at the time (like Jessie Jackson), I can't recall other recording artists such as Stevie Wonder, Sly Stone, Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Billie Preston, Ike & Tina Turner, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Roberta Flack, Bill Withers, George Clinton, Chaka Khan, Muddy Waters et al complaining that this offensive paean to 'slavery heroin rape cougars & cunnilingus' had offended them. Yo, have some sympathy and some taste ... :fire:

Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in a market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright
Hear him whip the women just around midnight

[ ... ]

Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot
Lady of the house wonderin' where it's gonna stop
House boy knows that he's doing alright
You shoulda heard him just around midnight

[ ... ]

How come you taste so good?

"Brown Sugar" (3:50)
Sticky Fingers, 1971
The Rolling Stones

( https://youtu.be/8fAzIxGPLN8 – the B side! )

*

(Meanwhile uptown the DJ play
Oldies but good as I seh:
"Them belly full but we hungry
A rain a fall but de dirt is tough
A yaka yuk but a you nah nuff")

Dem a dance to de riddim of the sufferah
Dem a dance to forget
Dem dance me no fret
Dem a sing dem a sing, man ...

"De System" (2:54)
Check It!, 1983
Mutabaruka