BS: Song Scraps from Out of the Blue

Subject: Song Scraps from Out of the Blue
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Dec 03 - 04:18 PM

Sometimes I 'hear' a new song in a dream. I rarely remember it when I awake, but this morning just as I was coming to consciousness I heard a man singing. I don't remember the tune, darn it, but I do remember one line:

"So please take the blame- I'm madder than you"

Anybody want to go somewhere with this?? Feel free!

Subject: RE: BS: Song Scraps from Out of the Blue
From: Joybell
Date: 29 Dec 03 - 04:36 PM

Sounds like a great country hook. Needs to swim around in a few more dreams perhaps.

Subject: RE: BS: Song Scraps from Out of the Blue
From: Cluin
Date: 29 Dec 03 - 11:12 PM

Sounds like Fred Eaglesmith.

But if he wrote one on that theme, you can bet there'd be at least 4 more like it on the same album.

Subject: RE: BS: Song Scraps from Out of the Blue
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 01:11 AM

Cluin, it's always possible that it is an existing song. That hadn't occurred to me. I'll keep my ear out.

Fred Eaglesmith is great.

Subject: RE: BS: Song Scraps from Out of the Blue
From: Cluin
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 01:55 AM

I like Fred too. Well, his music anyway.

But he does tend to exhaust a theme on each album.

Subject: RE: BS: Song Scraps from Out of the Blue
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 05:37 AM

I know the feeling. I have so many great lines scribbled down on bits of paper, all over the house. I have no idea whether they are my own or some I've heard or just acquired by some form of osmosis, but if they ever get put together, they could be one hell of a song (or a complete jumble of garbarge)!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Song Scraps from Out of the Blue
From: Morticia
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 08:30 AM

I wake up with a scrap of a song in my head pretty much every day. That's been dealt with here, many people here do but, sometimes it's a lyric or at least a tune I would swear I don't recognise.

Since I have only written the tune to a song three or four times in my life, I assume I have no particular talent for song writing and therefore it must be a sort of deja vu ( there should be another phrase for heard before,yes?), and somewhere in real life I have heard it. No idea how I would trace it though.

Subject: RE: BS: Song Scraps from Out of the Blue
From: Peg
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 11:00 AM

That happens to me too. Sometimes the song has some sort of ultra-significant meaning,other times it just happens to be there. Familiar songs, too, but sometimes completely unknown or perhaps original ones...I do write songs a bit but it is not a regular pasttime of mine...the function of the songs sometimes seems to be to mark a certain moment or occurrence in the dream, and sometimes its perceived quality or specialness is forgotten or fades to mundane   after considering it in wakefulness...Just as sometimes a language unknown to me is used perfectly coherently in a dream...

Subject: RE: BS: Song Scraps from Out of the Blue
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 12:37 PM

Fountains Of Wayne (and we all know who Fountains of Wayne are) wrote a great mock country song with the line "Since you hung up on me, I've been hung up on you."

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Song Scraps from Out of the Blue
From: Cluin
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 05:21 PM

Liz, I think it would resemble the bulk of Bob Dylan's stuff... which he produces of both categories.

Subject: RE: BS: Song Scraps from Out of the Blue
From: Joybell
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 06:25 PM

I was taught a wonderful tune, in a dream, by a lady I've never met who said she was actually a parrot who could shape-change. Of course it went away before I could remember it properly. ... it maybe that Death's Bright Angel....

Subject: RE: BS: Song Scraps from Out of the Blue
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 06:48 PM

Great dream, Joybell!

I often hear a song or sing in my dreams and usually wake up with an ongoing song in my head. But sometimes, as in the other night, it's a song that I've never consciously heard.

Subject: RE: BS: Song Scraps from Out of the Blue
From: Joybell
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 10:20 PM

Ebbie, a poet friend came up with this. Her sense of humour gets into most things she does by the end. Her images are strong though and she has a nice turn of phrase.

Delusions of grandeur, delusions of pain,
I cannot believe we're back here again
Locked in our cells when the moon's in the sky.
Something quite crazy was there in your eye.
It wasn't my fault you got locked in the loo,
So please take the blame - I'm madder than you.
                                              Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Song Scraps from Out of the Blue
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 10:30 PM

Sounds good to me, Joybell! Makes me try to figure out the scenario!

I just wish I remembered more of the song from the dream- I do know that one earlier line said 'So you take the blame', etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Song Scraps from Out of the Blue
From: Joybell
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 07:27 AM

Me too Ebbie, you never know with my friend.