"Don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them"
These days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcJDI7a_1lk
Well I've been out walkin'
I don't do that much talkin' these days
These days
These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do...for you
And all the times I had the chance to
And I had a lover
And it's so hard to risk another these days
These days
Now if I seem to be afraid ... to live the life I have made in song
Well it's just that I've been losin' ... for so long
Well I'll keep on movin' ... movin' on
Things are bound to be improvin' these days
One of these days
These days I'll sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten ... my friend
Don't confront me with my failures
I had not forgotten them
...those words were brought back to me by a fine BBC documentary called "Hotel California-LA from The Byrds to the Eagles", where it was pointed out that Jackson was a mere child when he wrote those famous lines. Brilliant. (thanks to Dukie)
Jackson's first three albums make for one of the finest trilogy of music ever written. Every time I return to them I am truly amazed!
Doctor My Eyes....what an introduction to Jackson we had on the radio!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqFUmo8VVg0
Rock Me On The Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAXl4kYZ ... re=related
I cherish mt promo vinyl...it opens on the side (not on the top like the official vinyl), and has the burlap textured cover.
And my all time favorite....
Before The Deluge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jfnFM8u ... re=related
Farther On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1TouugN ... re=related
Fountain Of Sorrow...seriously brilliant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnhxG8SE ... re=related
Jackson went on to great commercial success and recorded some masterful songs, but none have surpassed these three, for me anyway.
Enjoy...
THE LATE SHOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCTIMRLK ... re=related
Everyone I've ever known has wished me well
Anyway that's how it seems, it's hard to tell
Maybe people only ask you how you're doing
'cause that's easier than letting on how little they could care
But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere
Suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jackson+br ... 68558.html ]
Now to see things clear it's hard enough I know
While you're waiting for reality to show
Without dreaming of the perfect love
And holding it so far above
That if you stumbled onto someone real, you'd never know
(you'd never know)
You could be with somebody who is lonely too
(sometimes it doesn't show)
He might be trying to get across to you
(words can be so slow)
When your own emptiness is all that's getting through
There comes a point when you're not sure why you're still talking
I passed that point long ago
(long ago)
Now I'm so tired of all this circling
And all these glimpses of the end
(you know it's useless to pretend)
That's all the voices say:
"you'll go right on circling
Until you've found some kind of friend"
i saw you through the laughter and the noise
You were talking with the soldiers and the boys
While they scuffled for your weary smiles
I thought of all the empty miles
And the years that I've spent looking for your eyes
(looking for your eyes)
And now I'm sitting here wondering what to say
(that you might recognize)
Afraid that all these words might scare you away
(and break through the disguise)
No one ever talks about their feelings anyway
Without dressing them in dreams and laughter
I guess it's just too painful otherwise
Look--
It's like you're standing in the window
Of a house nobody lives in
And I'm sitting in a car across the way
(let's just say)
It's an early model chevrolet
(let's just say)
It's a warm and windy day
You go and pack your sorrow
The trash man comes tomorrow
Leave it at the curb and we'll just roll away
Song For Adam from "Saturate..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUnIDTEwxWo
though it was really just self titled "Jackson Browne"..it became known "Saturate Before Using" as it was printed across the top of the water bottle used for the cover.
Breaks my heart every time I hear that song...
so celebrate life while you can--before more of your friends have passed away from you than are still with you...