I was on the road today when Jackson Browne's 1973 song "Doctor, My Eyes" came on the radio. I'd never listened closely to the lyrics. Musically, it's this fast, upbeat shuffle. But the poem is a song of desperation... about how we exile unwanted feelings, until a day comes that we can't feel anything at all.
I was in tears myself by the end. Because I've been feeling that numbness creeping up for quite a while. And he managed to touch it: that awful "prize" for learning how not to cry.
@impermanen_ Jackson Browne is a stunning lyricist and often underrated songwriter. It's a pity so many young people are unfamiliar with his work, especially his first five albums.
One of his songs, from his third album, that always hits me right in the feels is "For a Dancer." I want that one played at my funeral.
I have always liked Jackson Browne, and for me my favorite is: That Girl Could Sing, which may not even be the title.
@BillMcGuire That's the title! It's from his sixth album, "Hold On." It's just... maybe a hair misogynistic, but it's a good tune.
Well, she wasn't much good at sticking around, but that girl could SING! I actually had Late for the Sky when I was in the Army. At the time, I didn't think much of it, so I rarely played it. That's also how it was with the Fleetwood Mac album which I think was the first with Stevie Nicks & Lindsay Buckingham. I'm thinking 1974. Didn't get it, but after I'd left the Army it was 1978 & that LP had sold a million copies, I played it again. Took 5 plays for me to get it!
@BillMcGuire It's funny how music comes back around on us like that sometimes. You just have to be in the right mindset for it to click.
well, if you mean the Fleetwood Mac album, yes. We had just lost our infant daughter after a terribly long illness or unknown origin, and it became brutally apparent that I needed to take my Korean wife anywhere but College Station, TX, so I talked the head cheese for Wendy's in Ft. Worth/Dallas to hire me. He didn't want to hire me cuz he said I wouldn't stay. He was right, but for the wrong reasons.
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