I wrote this song when my two best friends broke up somewhat acromoniously. I was kind of stuck in the middle because I remained very close to both of them and understood both sides of the story.
FADE AWAY:
I never thought I had the answers
I never thought I'd feel this way
This story's hardly started
Its the first act of this play
But they've already killed the hero
and the villain saved the day
the bad guy is the winner
yet everything's ok
Chorus:
and I miss you
but I can't tell you
there's nothing to do
but fade away
How I want you
And how I need you
And how I love you
fade away
So roll the closing credits
As we slowly fade to gray
I can see our lips are moving
But I can't hear what we say
Ch.
Although the story's over
Its this ending I can't take
What happened to our hero?
What wrong choices did he make?
But who could blame him
Because he wants you
He knows he can't have you
So he fades away
God I miss you
No matter what I do
I still love you
fade away
And if my heart breaks
From all this heartache
I'll always love you
Fade away
Ch. (repeat to end)
copyright 2004-05 Bozz
Saturday, January 08, 2005
TRACK OF THE WEEK
And now (fanfare please), a new weekly feature! I am going to put a single track up here that I have played during the week and that I think deserves wider attention. It could be new, old, obscure, well known or just plain mad. I am doing this because its my blog, nobody reads it and I can!
Track Of The Week:
Worn Me Down by Rachael Yamagata (from the album Happenstance)
Worn me down like a road.
I did everything you told.
Worn me down to my knees.
I did everything to please you.
But you can’t stop thinking about her.
No, you can’t stop thinking about her.
I am sometimes shallow and I make no apologies for it. I originally started listening to the album because I liked the photo of Rachael that adorned the cover (B&W and very sexy). This was the standout track for me on this album - most of us have been in a realtionship where either you or the other person are more focused on somebody they have lost than on the person that your with. I would like to apologize to Nichole - it was too soon after Pam's death and I thought you understood that.
And now (fanfare please), a new weekly feature! I am going to put a single track up here that I have played during the week and that I think deserves wider attention. It could be new, old, obscure, well known or just plain mad. I am doing this because its my blog, nobody reads it and I can!
Track Of The Week:
Worn Me Down by Rachael Yamagata (from the album Happenstance)
Worn me down like a road.
I did everything you told.
Worn me down to my knees.
I did everything to please you.
But you can’t stop thinking about her.
No, you can’t stop thinking about her.
I am sometimes shallow and I make no apologies for it. I originally started listening to the album because I liked the photo of Rachael that adorned the cover (B&W and very sexy). This was the standout track for me on this album - most of us have been in a realtionship where either you or the other person are more focused on somebody they have lost than on the person that your with. I would like to apologize to Nichole - it was too soon after Pam's death and I thought you understood that.
English Phrase of the Week: BOLLOCKS pr: Bhol-ohx
Literally testicles. Can be used in a number of ways:
Literally testicles. Can be used in a number of ways:
- noun Ow, you just kicked me in the bollocks you bastard (more normally pronounced as "Oooopppphhhh" with copious groanings and tears)
- As a replacement for things of a dubious nature: "Excuse me but aren't you talking bollocks?"
- Descriptive expletive "Ohhh bollocks!"
- Can also be used in a positive way: "Gosh, that new car is the bollocks". Also often used in conjunction with "dog": "I had a curry last night that was the dog's bollocks"
Thursday, January 06, 2005
(Taken from from The New York Times article by Bill Carter on CNN cancelling Crossfire and "ending its relationship" with Tucker Carlson)
Mr. Klein specifically cited the criticism that the comedian Jon Stewart leveled at "Crossfire" when he was a guest on the program during the presidential campaign. Mr. Stewart said that ranting partisan political shows on cable were "hurting America."
Mr. Klein said last night, "I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart's overall premise."
I like John Stewart, I think he's smart and funny without been too intellectual. I also have a suspicion that a number of people watch the Daily Show and don't realize its fake, but that may just be paranoia on my behalf. However, if your justification for ending a show on your network is because some comedian who runs a FAKE new show critizes your show, and not because your a news channel that wants to focus on the NEWS rather than on some partisan shouting match, you need to seriously condsider your priorities.
Actually, I think CNN feels it is losing a war that it can't win. That bastion of level headed, unbiased news reporting, Fox (I'm sorry, did I say unbiased, I meant right wing reactionist. My bad.) has stolen considerable market share from CNN. So CNN has chosen to move battlegrounds away from commentary and back towards news - what next, MTV playing music videos?
Mr. Klein specifically cited the criticism that the comedian Jon Stewart leveled at "Crossfire" when he was a guest on the program during the presidential campaign. Mr. Stewart said that ranting partisan political shows on cable were "hurting America."
Mr. Klein said last night, "I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart's overall premise."
I like John Stewart, I think he's smart and funny without been too intellectual. I also have a suspicion that a number of people watch the Daily Show and don't realize its fake, but that may just be paranoia on my behalf. However, if your justification for ending a show on your network is because some comedian who runs a FAKE new show critizes your show, and not because your a news channel that wants to focus on the NEWS rather than on some partisan shouting match, you need to seriously condsider your priorities.
Actually, I think CNN feels it is losing a war that it can't win. That bastion of level headed, unbiased news reporting, Fox (I'm sorry, did I say unbiased, I meant right wing reactionist. My bad.) has stolen considerable market share from CNN. So CNN has chosen to move battlegrounds away from commentary and back towards news - what next, MTV playing music videos?
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
(taken from http://vortexia.blogspot.com//)
"on an average day, about 3.3% of the world's population has sex"
Which just goes to prove my contention that at least 96% the world are wankers!
"on an average day, about 3.3% of the world's population has sex"
Which just goes to prove my contention that at least 96% the world are wankers!
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Sunday, January 02, 2005
Life Swap CD Pt2.
After thinking about it for a while, I don't believe I did my life swap CD justice. Not because I disagree with any of the tracks, but because there was more tracks that should have been included. So I have decided that my life swap cd is a double album!
CD 2
Life On Mars, David Bowie
Although I've been a Bowie fan dating back to high school (my best friend then, David Green, had all his albums, including the rare double album with The Laughing Gnome on it). However, I saw Bowie about five years ago as part of Moby's Area festival. He walked out on stage and belted this out. It was too beautiful for words.
Yellow, Coldplay (from the album Parachutes
My best friend's brother was stuck in Thailand and fading away from some combination of bad diseases and bad habits. She sent him this song to try to make him understood she loved him and wanted him to live (which he did). Later we sat in my house, played the track over and over and drank way too much port.
Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd (from the album Wish You Were Here)
We're just two lost souls, swimming in a fish bowl, year after year
Floyd are just one of those bands that feel like a comfortable pair of shoes that you keep for years and wear occaisionally just to remember. First song I learnt to play on the guitar!
Come Together, The Beloved (from the album Conscience)
There are some songs that you listen too because they just make you feel good. This is one of those.
She's The One, World Party (from the album Egyptology)
A nine hour drive across the west Texas desert. Dry thunderstorms. Laughing at the lot lizards. Happiness beyond belief. Yeah I cry every goddamn time I hear it, you got a problem with that?
Purple Rain, Prince (from the album Purple Rain)
If you look past the hyperbole and the high heels, you find one of the most talented song writers. Look past that and you see an amazing guitarist. I hope you got to see his stage show last time he toured because it could be your last opportunity.
The One I Love, REM (from the album Document)
They wrote some of the most intelligent three minute pop songs. Its nice to see a return to form with their new stuff.
Biko, Pater Gabriel (from the album Peter Gabriel IV)
Everybody has some artist that they love that nobody they now cares about. For a long time that was Gabriel for me. Biko used to be the way he ended his stage show, usually combined with falling into the audience and been transported around the crowd on their hands. PG has always had a tremendous sense of theater and also of the world outside of western borders - he formed WOMAD long before people knew what world music was.
Tainted Love, Soft Cell.
My first year of college this was EVERYWHERE. It was derigeur at student parties and the juke box in the student union had to have the single replaced roughly every two months because it kept get warped from the heat of the mechanism playing it over and over again. I hated it then but find myself osmewhat nostalgic when it comes on now.
Someday Soon, Journey (from the album Deperature)
The dark if before the dawn
open your eyes
Someday soon
There will be a better day
I remember talking to this old guy who used to go to my local pub in England. He was really cool and he told me how he used to be really into Jazz until he went to a club in London one night on a whim to see a young american guy called Hendrix. He sadi within weeks of that gig how he had changed, listening to different music, dressing differently etc. In my middle years of high school there was one brand of music and it was called heavy metal, it was the only thing that my friends and I listened too. Then my two closest mates, Pete and Jim, started listening to this obscure US band called Journey (obscure in England anyway). At first I ignored them but Pete, who was perceptive, forced me to listen to the album because ("its a big world Bozz"). Within weeks my musical tastes widened considerably and I never looked back.
Solid Air, John Martyn (from the album Solid Air)
When I first left college I went to live in the south of England. I rented a room in a house owned by a guy called Kipper (there is a whole blog in the stories from that period alone). Kipper had a brother, who's nickname was Mankey, who played John Martyn incessantly and, more by osmosis than design, I started to listen to him to. A couple of years later, I am hanging out with friends up in London at the Mean Fiddler and we are waiting fro JM to play a gig. Its a smallish club, the crowd is rocking and as the night goes on, it only gets more electric. JM is late ("flight delays" apparently) which only adds to the expectation. JM finally comes on stage two hours late, launches in to the first number and it is obvious that both him and the badn are going to be on fire. Obvious that is, right up until the second chorus, when JM vomits on stage and the rest of the gig is cancelled! He played a make-up gig at the Town and Country but it wasn't the same.
Are Friends Electric? Gary Numan (from the album Down In The Park)
Now the light fades out
And I wonder what I'm doing
In a room like this
There's a knock on the door
And just for a second I thought
I remembered you
Early middle school years. All night parties. Amateur fumblings in the dark. Embaressment. Ecstasy. Excitement. Early morning trains home.
Something's Got Me, Lori Carson (from the album Everything I Touch Runs Wild)
Something's got me, and its got me good
I used to be known as the king of obscure goodness when I lived in England. I had a knack for discovering tracks and bands that nobody had heard of but that a lot of my friends turned on to. It wasn't that I really had a talent just that I had more disposable income and no girlfriend so something had to fill up the time! :)
I decided to load Rhapsody today and, while typing email at work, just randomally try stuff I hadn't heard before. This is an amazing track and stands out on the album although Snow Come Down has a beautifully wistful quality (Every time I see your face, I can hardly breathe).
I Want You, Elvis Costello (from the album Blood And Chocolate)
We happened to be in Reno at a basketball tournament having missed EC in San Francisco two nights earlier. Although it wsn't a great concert (casino halls are not the best venues) the room lit up when he did this.
After thinking about it for a while, I don't believe I did my life swap CD justice. Not because I disagree with any of the tracks, but because there was more tracks that should have been included. So I have decided that my life swap cd is a double album!
CD 2
Life On Mars, David Bowie
Although I've been a Bowie fan dating back to high school (my best friend then, David Green, had all his albums, including the rare double album with The Laughing Gnome on it). However, I saw Bowie about five years ago as part of Moby's Area festival. He walked out on stage and belted this out. It was too beautiful for words.
Yellow, Coldplay (from the album Parachutes
My best friend's brother was stuck in Thailand and fading away from some combination of bad diseases and bad habits. She sent him this song to try to make him understood she loved him and wanted him to live (which he did). Later we sat in my house, played the track over and over and drank way too much port.
Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd (from the album Wish You Were Here)
We're just two lost souls, swimming in a fish bowl, year after year
Floyd are just one of those bands that feel like a comfortable pair of shoes that you keep for years and wear occaisionally just to remember. First song I learnt to play on the guitar!
Come Together, The Beloved (from the album Conscience)
There are some songs that you listen too because they just make you feel good. This is one of those.
She's The One, World Party (from the album Egyptology)
A nine hour drive across the west Texas desert. Dry thunderstorms. Laughing at the lot lizards. Happiness beyond belief. Yeah I cry every goddamn time I hear it, you got a problem with that?
Purple Rain, Prince (from the album Purple Rain)
If you look past the hyperbole and the high heels, you find one of the most talented song writers. Look past that and you see an amazing guitarist. I hope you got to see his stage show last time he toured because it could be your last opportunity.
The One I Love, REM (from the album Document)
They wrote some of the most intelligent three minute pop songs. Its nice to see a return to form with their new stuff.
Biko, Pater Gabriel (from the album Peter Gabriel IV)
Everybody has some artist that they love that nobody they now cares about. For a long time that was Gabriel for me. Biko used to be the way he ended his stage show, usually combined with falling into the audience and been transported around the crowd on their hands. PG has always had a tremendous sense of theater and also of the world outside of western borders - he formed WOMAD long before people knew what world music was.
Tainted Love, Soft Cell.
My first year of college this was EVERYWHERE. It was derigeur at student parties and the juke box in the student union had to have the single replaced roughly every two months because it kept get warped from the heat of the mechanism playing it over and over again. I hated it then but find myself osmewhat nostalgic when it comes on now.
Someday Soon, Journey (from the album Deperature)
The dark if before the dawn
open your eyes
Someday soon
There will be a better day
I remember talking to this old guy who used to go to my local pub in England. He was really cool and he told me how he used to be really into Jazz until he went to a club in London one night on a whim to see a young american guy called Hendrix. He sadi within weeks of that gig how he had changed, listening to different music, dressing differently etc. In my middle years of high school there was one brand of music and it was called heavy metal, it was the only thing that my friends and I listened too. Then my two closest mates, Pete and Jim, started listening to this obscure US band called Journey (obscure in England anyway). At first I ignored them but Pete, who was perceptive, forced me to listen to the album because ("its a big world Bozz"). Within weeks my musical tastes widened considerably and I never looked back.
Solid Air, John Martyn (from the album Solid Air)
When I first left college I went to live in the south of England. I rented a room in a house owned by a guy called Kipper (there is a whole blog in the stories from that period alone). Kipper had a brother, who's nickname was Mankey, who played John Martyn incessantly and, more by osmosis than design, I started to listen to him to. A couple of years later, I am hanging out with friends up in London at the Mean Fiddler and we are waiting fro JM to play a gig. Its a smallish club, the crowd is rocking and as the night goes on, it only gets more electric. JM is late ("flight delays" apparently) which only adds to the expectation. JM finally comes on stage two hours late, launches in to the first number and it is obvious that both him and the badn are going to be on fire. Obvious that is, right up until the second chorus, when JM vomits on stage and the rest of the gig is cancelled! He played a make-up gig at the Town and Country but it wasn't the same.
Are Friends Electric? Gary Numan (from the album Down In The Park)
Now the light fades out
And I wonder what I'm doing
In a room like this
There's a knock on the door
And just for a second I thought
I remembered you
Early middle school years. All night parties. Amateur fumblings in the dark. Embaressment. Ecstasy. Excitement. Early morning trains home.
Something's Got Me, Lori Carson (from the album Everything I Touch Runs Wild)
Something's got me, and its got me good
I used to be known as the king of obscure goodness when I lived in England. I had a knack for discovering tracks and bands that nobody had heard of but that a lot of my friends turned on to. It wasn't that I really had a talent just that I had more disposable income and no girlfriend so something had to fill up the time! :)
I decided to load Rhapsody today and, while typing email at work, just randomally try stuff I hadn't heard before. This is an amazing track and stands out on the album although Snow Come Down has a beautifully wistful quality (Every time I see your face, I can hardly breathe).
I Want You, Elvis Costello (from the album Blood And Chocolate)
We happened to be in Reno at a basketball tournament having missed EC in San Francisco two nights earlier. Although it wsn't a great concert (casino halls are not the best venues) the room lit up when he did this.
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