What Are You Listening To Right Now

As today, the 9th of the 9th of 09, has since long been dubbed the "World Love Day" (hundreds of thousands of Chinese marry today, good luck folks!), here my accoustic supplement:

...many years ago...


...and the triumphalistic version...


(for the younger folks here, they were English, and were called "The Beatles"... and todays 9/9/09 date also marks the first official digital remastered release of all albums)

Enjoy,

Rattler
 
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Lyrics:


"Ironic"

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
And isn't it ironic... don't you think

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
"Well isn't this nice..."
And isn't it ironic... don't you think

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face

A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic...don't you think
A little too ironic...and, yeah, I really do think...

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought... it figures

Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out

 
One more for our TexMex lady out there, one of my favorite love poems with music:

Te amo,

te amo de una manera inexplicable,

de una forma inconfesable,

de un modo contradictorio.



Te amo

con mis estados de ánimo que son muchos,

y cambian de humor continuamente.

por lo que ya sabes,

el tiempo, la vida, la muerte.



Te amo...

con el mundo que no entiendo,

con la gente que no comprende,

con la ambivalencia de mi alma,

con la incoherencia de mis actos,

con la fatalidad del destino,

con la conspiración del deseo,

con la ambigüedad de los hechos.



Aún cuando te digo que no te amo, te amo,

hasta cuando te engaño, no te engaño,

en el fondo, llevo a cabo un plan,

para amarte mejor.



Te amo...

sin reflexionar, inconscientemente,

irresponsablemente, espontáneamente,

involuntariamente, por instinto,

por impulso, irracionalmente.



En efecto no tengo argumentos lógicos,

ni siquiera improvisados

para fundamentar este amor que siento por ti,

que surgió misteriosamente de la nada,

que no ha resuelto mágicamente nada,

y que milagrosamente, de a poco, con poco y nada

ha mejorado lo peor de mí.



Te amo,

te amo con un cuerpo que no piensa,

con un corazón que no razona,

con una cabeza que no coordina.



Te amo

incomprensiblemente,

sin preguntarme por qué te amo,

sin importarme por qué te amo,

sin cuestionarme por qué te amo.



Te amo

sencillamente porque te amo,

yo mismo no sé por qué te amo. ​
Click to expand...

A musical recital of Pablo Neruda´s "Te amo"


Enjoy!

Rattler
 
Ah! Finally someone posting a vid/link again, so one can listen and enjoy with just one click! :) :pray: (frankly, as your super lazy guy, missed all the others...).

Just Another Generic Love Song (and personal declaration of adminration to the gal)


Rattler
 
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