BS: Sleep Well Tonight

Subject: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: flattop
Date: 12 Sep 01 - 10:14 PM

Reminders from Roget's

Joy ruled the day and love the night. - Dryden

be inactive; do nothing [more]; move slowly [more]; let the grass grow under one's feet; take one's time, dawdle, drawl, droil, lag, hang back, slouch; loll, lollop; lounge, poke, loaf, loiter; go to sleep over; sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une aile.

take it easy, take things as they come; lead an easy life, vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness; loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence; waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time; burn daylight, waste the precious hours.

idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away time; spend time in, take time in; peddle, piddle; potter, pudder, dabble, faddle fribble, fiddle-faddle; dally, dilly-dally.

sleep, slumber, be asleep; hibernate; oversleep; sleep like a top, sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse; sleep soundly, heavily; doze, drowze, snooze, nap; take a nap; dream; snore one's best, settle to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep; drop off; fall asleep; drop asleep; close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids; weigh down the eyelids; get sleep, nod, yawn; go to bed, turn.

languish, expend itself, flag, hang fire; relax.

render idle; sluggardize; mitigate

be moderate; keep within bounds, keep within compass; sober down, settle down; keep the peace, remit, relent, take in sail.

moderate, soften, mitigate, temper, accoy; attemper, contemper; mollify, lenify, dulcify, dull, take off the edge, blunt, obtund, sheathe, subdue, chasten; sober down, tone down, smooth down; weaken [more]; lessen (decrease) [more]; check palliate.

tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb (restrain) [more]; tame (subjugate) [more]; smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin.

go out like a lamb, "roar you as gently as any sucking dove,"

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: CarolC
Date: 12 Sep 01 - 10:23 PM

You too, flattop. Pleasant dreams.

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Sep 01 - 10:24 PM

I like that. Ne battre que d'une aile indeed. N'en battez meme pas.

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: flattop
Date: 12 Sep 01 - 10:30 PM

Ok for you Mrrrrrrrrrrrrrzy, you understood the French. I just copied it. What happens if you get them out of sink?

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Sep 01 - 10:49 PM

That reminds me, I have to get the dirty dishes out of my "sink" before I can go to bed...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: flattop
Date: 12 Sep 01 - 10:51 PM

I don't think you are getting the spirit of this spaw. Do nothing, loaf, dawdle, fall asleep.

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: Troll
Date: 12 Sep 01 - 10:56 PM

Sleep? "Cawdor shall sleep no more, for Glamis hath murdered sleep."
I wish I could but when I close my eyes, I see that plane hitting the tower and hear the cries of the wounded and the dieing in my mind. When exhaustion takes over, I dream and the dreams are worse than the reality.
"Sleep; that knits the raveled sleeve of care..."
I wish.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: flattop
Date: 12 Sep 01 - 10:59 PM

Try reading the words over and over until the crowd everything else out of your mind. I've only read them about 4 times and I'm tired.

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Sep 01 - 11:35 PM

flattop, thank you, so much! I am going to print this out and refer to it every time I get to feeling anxious and as though I am not doing enough or quickly enough.:-)

I LOVE that "dulcify!" Now, I know what I do when I play my duclimer. When people ask me what I am, I'll tell them I am a dulcifer!**BG**

I wanted to post the lyrics to a beautiful lully the Moddy Blues did, but I don't know the name and can't find it.

It starts out something like, "Close your eyes and go to sleep, Hmmm, Hmmmm, Hmmm, Hm...(those are supposed to be words.) It is a beautiful melody and driving me nuts that I cannot remember the words.

Anyway, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: flattop
Date: 13 Sep 01 - 07:47 AM

You're welcome kat. Perhaps we should read the Thesaurus more often.

Years ago I played a Moody Blues song similar to the one you mentioned. I hurt my brain trying to remember it. It had Ummms instead of Hummms and the chords went from E to C#m to A. The words that came back were like, 'The rain is on the roof, hurry high???????'

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 13 Sep 01 - 07:55 AM

Wish I'd seen this last night. At 2 am it really began to hit and I'm with Troll. Tonight, I'll take the precaution of reading this first!

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: flattop
Date: 13 Sep 01 - 11:05 AM

Om. Wrong myself. I'm surprised that Sorcha the song searcher didn't get this. She must be sleeping. Had a cup of Red Rose and looked for it.

OM
Mike Pinder)


The rain is on the roof
Hurry high butterfly
As clouds roll past my head
I know why the skys all cry
OM, OM, Heaven, OM

The Earth turns slowly round
Far away the distant sound
Is with us everyday
Can you hear what it say
OM, OM, Heaven, OM

The rain is on the roof
Hurry high butterfly
As clouds roll past my head
I know why the skys all cry
OM, OM, Heaven, OM

www.kaibab.org/moodies/mxsearch.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Sep 01 - 11:27 AM

I saw OM, but it doesn't scan quite right for the tune I've got and I do remember some kind of lully words. Right, now, on a piano keyboard, the first few notes (someday I will learn abc):

G D A Fsharp G (middle)C E F E E D

See if that jogs any memories, please, everyone? I can do more if needed.

Thanks! I slept well until lower back pain hit!*bg*

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: GUEST,Frank
Date: 13 Sep 01 - 11:40 AM

We live in the world. We can't deny our grief. But the "senseless" inhumanity that we witnessed has a "sense" about it if we can become larger in our understanding as to why it happened. For this, we need to meditate, pray, internalize our collective grief and not overreact.

This horrible tragedy has a "meaning" if we can bring ourselves forward to grasp it.

The only solution through this web of horror is to understand. Then we can appropriately deal with it.

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: flattop
Date: 13 Sep 01 - 11:42 AM

Googling your words with 'Moody Blues', it points to this song.

Nervous
(John Lodge)

Why I am so nervous
Please explain to me
Why I can't sleep
I close my eyes to shelter
In the dark I try to hide
If you leave me on my own
I'm worried I could lose my way

In my mind confusion
I see you everywhere
But we don't speak
I try so hard to touch you
But you're always out of reach
If you walked right by
Would I see in it your eye
Would you turn away

Seems to me
I've been a long time
On this road
Has there been a sign
Another way
And I've passed it by
I don't know what it is that drives me on
Gotta keep movin'
Gotta keep movin' on

Bring it on home
Let's bring it on home - your love
Bring it on home
Let's bring it on home your love
Bring it on home
Let's bring it on home your love
Down parallel lines
Don't question faith
Don't answer lies

Tell me why I'm nervous
Please explain to me
Why I can't sleep
Please explain to me
Why you're always out of reach
If the water ran dry
Would I see it in your eye
Would you walk away

It seems to me I've been a long time on this road
And I wonder why
Has there been a sign that points another way
And I've passed it by
I don't know what it is that drives me on
Gotta keep movin'
Gotta keep movin' on

Bring it on home
(straight lines before my eyes)
Let's bring it on home your love
Bring it on home
(straight lines before my eyes)
Let's bring it on home your love
Bring it on home
(straight lines before my eyes)
Let's bring it on home your love
Down parallel lines
Don't question faith

Don't answer lies
You know you gotta keep movin'
Bring it on home
(straight lines before my eyes)
Let's bring it on home your love
Bring it on home
(straight lines before my eyes)
Let's bring it on home your love

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Sep 01 - 12:06 PM

oH, JEEZ, I should have gone with my first instinct last night. I thought "Beatles" then, "No, Moddy Blues." Duh, it was the Beatles. Maybe we can use this one tonight:

Goodnight Lennon / McCartney (1968)

{Slow lullaby}

1. [G]Now it's [Bmi]time to [C]say goodnight,

[Bmi]Good [C]night, sleep [D7]tight.

[G]Now the [Bmi]sun turns [C] out his light,

[Bmi]Good [C]night, sleep [D7] tight

{Chorus:}

[Bmi]Dream sweet [Ami]dreams for [Bmi]me [Ami],

[G]Dream sweet [Ami]dreams for [G]you [Ami].

2. Close your eyes and I'll close mine, Goodnight, sleep tight

Now the moon begins to shine, Goodnight, sleep tight

{Chorus.}

{Middle:}

[G]Hm, m [Ami]m, [A]Hm, m [Dmi]m, [G]Hm, m, [C]m-m-m [D7]m.

3. Close your eyes and I'll close mine, Goodnight, sleep tight

Now the sun turns out his light, Goodnight, sleep tight

{Chorus.}

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: flattop
Date: 14 Sep 01 - 12:20 AM

yawn

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Sep 01 - 12:23 AM

'nite, flattop, thanks for all of your wise and supportive ways over the past two days...*eyes are drooping*

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Sleep Well Tonight
From: Troll
Date: 14 Sep 01 - 12:26 AM

Thanks guys but it doesn't help.

troll