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Post by aurarisma on Dec 19, 2011 2:05:29 GMT -5
What are some of your favorite lines in Cat Stevens/Yusuf Songs ..
1. "and the worlds all glistening with gold when you're talking to me, and the whirling wind turns to song , why it sets my soul free ... Love love love love must have made you on sunday ."Foreigner Suite
2. "I listen to the wind to the wind of my soul where I'll end up well i think only God really knows"-The Wind
3." .. every burning comet that zooms and angels too.." -
Being with you .. I can climb a mountain in the dark.. listening to you ... flowers dance in the park .. -Thinking of You
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Post by aurarisma on Dec 19, 2011 11:22:34 GMT -5
."..dont you feel a change a comin' from another space in time breaking down the walls of silence lifting shadows from your mind placing back the missing mirrors that you thought you couldnt find fillin' mysteries of emptinesss that yesterday left behind.." -Changes IV
...."its never to late to learn about love.... learn about love..". -Remember the Days (Of the Old Schoolyard)
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Post by aurarisma on Dec 20, 2011 22:58:29 GMT -5
How many times must I get up ... look out and see the same old view view .... (How many times)
is anyone out there  ??  
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Post by Affy on Dec 20, 2011 23:08:05 GMT -5
LOL  Well one of my recent faves is from the Moonshadow preview.......Yes you guessed it "Doors" "When a door is closed, somewhere There’s a door that’s opening When a light goes out, somewhere There’s a light that’s shining" Really love this....although really i guess i would select loads of lines from each song but that would be kinda pointless . Salaam |
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Post by brandnewman on Dec 20, 2011 23:08:54 GMT -5
"1000 hours I've looked in her eyes, and i still don't know what color they are."
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Post by Affy on Dec 20, 2011 23:13:58 GMT -5
"1000 hours I've looked in her eyes, and i still don't know what color they are." Oh yeah......that's a beautiful line.......And welcome (I don't think i have read your posts before) Salaam |
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Post by aurarisma on Dec 20, 2011 23:21:55 GMT -5
LOL Well one of my recent faves is from the Moonshadow preview.......Yes you guessed it "Doors" "When a door is closed, somewhere There’s a door that’s opening When a light goes out, somewhere There’s a light that’s shining" Really love this....although really i guess i would select loads of lines from each song but that would be kinda pointless . Salaam well sharing the lines lets us know the beauty in them that we seee and feel ty for sharing .. i really like Doors too .. its in his high register .. which I love too.. and the words are prolific .. I have a feeeeling it will be on his new album xoxo blessing to you Affy xoxo I just love the piano on "How many Times" ahhhhhhhhhh magnificient isnt it ?? |
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Post by aurarisma on Dec 20, 2011 23:23:08 GMT -5
"1000 hours I've looked in her eyes, and i still don't know what color they are."
xxo blessings to you xoxo |
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Post by Affy on Dec 20, 2011 23:24:58 GMT -5
Salaam
Yeah it ought to be.........lets hope it aint too long before the new album comes out.
and Yes how many times is a great great song.
Peace!
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Post by purplemoon on Dec 20, 2011 23:40:50 GMT -5
"1000 hours I've looked in her eyes, and i still don't know what color they are." This line has always intrigued me. Presumably by "eyes" he means the "window of the soul." Any novel guesses about "C79"? My college aged son immediately thought "Class of '79." |
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Post by aurarisma on Dec 20, 2011 23:43:42 GMT -5
Salaam Yeah it ought to be.........lets hope it aint too long before the new album comes out. and Yes how many times is a great great song. Peace!
Peace !! one of my faves ... such a loving plea song xoxooxx
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Post by purplemoon on Dec 20, 2011 23:47:57 GMT -5
Another cyptic line is in this passage from How Many Times:
Because I – I know one thing
There ain’t nothing that could ever ease the pain
But for your line and mine
I want that loving again.
What does "your line and mine" mean? Does "lines" mean "paths"? And then he doubles the mystery by abandoning the thought incomplete, exclaiming instead "I want that loving again." Very effective. |
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Post by aurarisma on Dec 20, 2011 23:52:21 GMT -5
yes .. very .... I totally get it ..
why dont we make a thread for this song .. i would discuss ..
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Post by brandnewman on Dec 21, 2011 17:57:31 GMT -5
I've always taken C-79 to be a hotel room number.
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Post by purplemoon on Dec 21, 2011 19:36:40 GMT -5
I've always taken C-79 to be a hotel room number. The premise of C79 is so bizarre. He's speaking to his sons, explaining --- what? That they exist because he couldn't keep his hands off their mother even though she was "a junkie" and he was on the road? And BTW, "I still don't know what color" your mother's eyes are??!?!? This interpretation doesn't seem to cohere well with the rest of the oeuvre. Perhaps it's another "let me know if you can put a meaning to it" song. |
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Post by aurarisma on Dec 21, 2011 20:34:35 GMT -5
I've always taken C-79 to be a hotel room number. The premise of C79 is so bizarre. He's speaking to his sons, explaining --- what? That they exist because he couldn't keep his hands off their mother even though she was "a junkie" and he was on the road? And BTW, "I still don't know what color" your mother's eyes are??!?!? This interpretation doesn't seem to cohere well with the rest of the oeuvre. Perhaps it's another "let me know if you can put a meaning to it" song.
I believe he knows exactly what he wrote in that song and its meaning ...
yeah... yeah ... |
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Post by Gizem on Dec 22, 2011 19:14:15 GMT -5
" There's an empty space inside me now. A wasteland deep beneath the snow,
so cold, nothing will grow... "
Fill My Eyes
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Post by aurarisma on Dec 22, 2011 20:59:48 GMT -5
" There's an empty space inside me now. A wasteland deep beneath the snow,
so cold, nothing will grow... "Fill My Eyes |
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Post by ilovemycat on Dec 23, 2011 1:32:34 GMT -5
yeah - of all the Cat songs C79 is the most bizarre to me. I love the song but the words just seem a little out of character for Cat - crass. Even more so than Mona Bone Jakon because at least there is some humor in that song.
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Post by blossom on Dec 23, 2011 2:03:48 GMT -5
Yes..although for me the words to C79, especially linked as it is to Sun (Sun/C79) reveal a strange pathos...the woman is fame.and its trappings?..his attraction to the beauty of it...ref best figure...but knowing all the time that its just not.what he really wants.. ref.colour of eyes...............the words were a fascination to me..showed a depth.of contraditions and paradoxes...but then again thats just my take....probably inaccurate and overthought! but when listened to is there not that rawness there?
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Post by blossom on Dec 23, 2011 2:26:07 GMT -5
Some of my fav lines are from Wigwam..
I'm glad I'm alive am I/I'm glad to be alive am I
We gotta get our heads up in the sky
We gotta get our heads up
Gotta give it time
We gotta get our heads up in the sky
Gotta get to heaven get a guide
We gotta get to heaven get a guide
We gotta have a guide
We gotta get to heaven get a guide
Love them....never fail to cheer me up! and the music they are set to is so upbeat..no navel gazing...just get on with it sheer joy of life and a stunning prescience .....
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Post by adornedsin on Jun 28, 2012 8:44:04 GMT -5
I was born in 1970, a great year ;D Around about the time my Uncle Al randomly met Mr Stevens during a visit to Spain, not sure exactly when that was but the event obviously gave Cat megastar status in my family, so I was just a little baby but I guess you could say 'Tea for the Tillerman' became soundtrack to my childhood and beyond..and passed on to my daughter, who recently 'liked' Cat Stevens on FB, I assume that means she's a fan.  Also released in 1970, Where do the children play? Well here of course .. nowadays they play on the internet, very different world for the children nowadays. Back in the 70s, things weren't always great growing up in the UK. Droughts, industrial action, oil crisis striking dustmen .. punk rock, Margeret Thatcher etc etc .. are they better now off, or not .. lol, not sure about that at all. Beautiful song this anyway. The lyrics just always seemed self explanitory to me and simple to relate to life. My fave line? Not sure, all of them? Do I have to pick one in particular.. ? Still listening to this over 40yrs later .. still current.......Enjoy Sandi x |
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Post by tiffany on Jun 29, 2012 15:57:38 GMT -5
OK, here's an interesting page, with featured lines from everyone's favourite songs by Cat Stevens, starting off with mine.
I long to tell you that I'm always thinking of you,
I'm always thinking of you, but my words just blow away, just blow away.
It always ends up to one thing, honey, and I can't think of right words to say.
HOW CAN I TELL YOU
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Post by tiffany on Jun 29, 2012 16:05:14 GMT -5
The gates of the Garden are open,
wide and trusting.
Seventy-thousand will enter of them
without reckoning.
One Day at A Time
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Post by peacock on Jul 19, 2012 23:57:32 GMT -5
Just a random observation. Didn't think it deserved its own thread.
Good grief. I've listened to "I'm Going To Be a Pop Star" dozens of times - it's a cute song. And I just noticed TODAY that he says "here it comes--catch." I heard the "here it comes" part but never heard the "catch." Wonder what he's tossing? The end of the melodic phrase perhaps? Too cute.
Honestly, I could listen to these songs all day every day and never stop noticing something new.
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Post by tiffany on May 24, 2013 13:37:30 GMT -5
OK, here's a few of my faves from Cat, which my Mum likes listening to, starting with this one-
I've been pushed around,
Made to look a clown.
(I'm Gonna Be King)
I know many fine feathered friends, but their friendliness depends on how you do.
(Hard Headed Woman)
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Post by valleycreeper on Jun 10, 2013 6:50:05 GMT -5
"Pop Star" is never "cute" to me. It talks ironically about his UK '60s stardom, cut short by TB, when he had to come "home".
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