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Monday Music Thread

The Realm of Inspiration
#21

Because I’m editing “The Years of Living Dangerously Happy”, here’s the song that inspired the story.

“Lake of Silver Bells” by Carbon Leaf.

Lake of Silver Bells

[i]Float from the balcony, we ride the pinetop swells
Down from the old hotel on the lake of silver bells
And leading is lonely when you make alone decisions
Leading is lonely when youre dancing through derisions
So much left for giving in, the year of living dangerously happy
On the lake of silver bells

Life flickers by a hundred suns behind the trees
Melts us in a lullaby our eyelids are like movie screens
And we close our eyes and feel the warmth come into frame
We close our eyes until our dreams become one and the same
So much left for giving in, the year of living dangerously happy
On the lake of silver bells

We dance across til we drop, the bells keep time and never stop
We sleep and we wake to muffled chimes out on the lake
We dance across til we drop, the bells keep time and never stop
We sleep and we wake on the lake of silver bells

We’ve reached the secret place to rest and reconcile
We close our eyes, the only change is no change for a while
We’ll buy the old hotel and we will make this place our own
And fill each room with sons and daughters and never be alone

And we dance across 'til we drop the bells keep time and never stop
We sleep and we wake to muffled chimes out on the lake
We dance across 'til we drop the bells keep time and never stop
We sleep and we wake on the lake of silver bells

Looking past the love you face, you miss the place you never had
What you need’s not just the dream, but something on the other end
Wake up, wake up
Wake up, you’re much too fast asleep

And we dance across til we drop the bells keep time and never stop
We sleep and we wake to muffled chimes out on the lake
We dance across til we drop the bells keep time and never stop
We sleep and we wake on the lake of silver bells
The lake of silver bells
The lake of silver bells
The lake of silver bells[/i]

#22

I really like Better, Still by 100 Mile House. Thanks for sharing.

I’ve been listening to “The Gardener” by The Tallest Man on Earth a ton recently.

[i]I sense a runner in the garden
Although my judgements known to fail
Once built a steamboat in a meadow
Cos I’d forgotten how to sail

I know the runner’s going to tell you
There ain’t no cowboy in my hair
So now he’s buried by the daisies
So I could stay the tallest man in your eyes, babe

I sense a spy up in the chimney
From all the evidence I’ve burned
I guess he’ll read it in the smoke now
And soon to ashes I’ll return

I know the spy is going to tell you
It’s not my flag up in the pole
So now he’s buried by the lilies
So I could stay forever more in your eyes, babe

I sense a leak inside my phone now
From all the lies that I have told
I know he has your private number
And soon he’ll make that vicious call

I know the leak is going to tell you
There ain’t no puppy in your leash
So now he’ll fertilize the roses
So I could stay the king you see
In your eyes, babe (x2)

So now we’re dancing through the garden
And what a garden I have made
And now that death will grow my jasmine
I find it soothing I’m afraid

Now there is no need for suspicion
There ain’t no fraud kissing your hand
I won’t be lying when I tell you
That I’m a gardner I’m a man
In your eyes babe (x3)[/i]

#23

Tonight’s Monday Music is a joyful cheer, a mix of old and new into something pleasantly psychedelic and different:

Lemon Jelly - Nice Weather For Ducks

all the ducks are swimming in the water
fal de lal de lal dah
fal de lal de lal dah

#24

This week’s Monday Music is by a band very close to my heart: Captain Tractor, regional Alberta celtic beer-rock heroes, combining kick-ass songwriting with a diverse cast of instruments. Perfect music to get your first Monday of July rocking.

This is Captain Tractor - #3 Roxburgh Street. (Note: Auto-playing audio.)

[i]
You must believe me brothers, for I have no need to lie
I jumped off the edge of this old world to see if I could fly
and I fell down into the darkness, like a stone dropped in the sea
And I landed upside down outside a door marked with a three

But I swear I heard the banshees reelin’ just inside the door
And the staircase it was full of ghosts who lived there long before
And as I turned the key my life had changed for sure

There were drunks and punks and poets,
there were gumboots and guitars
And the legendary stardust cowboy tracked me by radar
In the corner was a jester with his eyes all glowing red
When I asked him where I was well he just laughed at me and said:

You’re in the land of bedlam boy, in the state of anarchy
If the swallows do not get you then you’ll have to deal with me
and then he licked my cheek and offered up some tea
And I fell on my knees!

And now I’m baking in this hot Alberta sun
the western wind is waving in the wheat
So much of me lives on
There at number three Roxburgh Street

You must believe me, brothers, for I have no need to lie
The drunks all went to college and now the poets never try
The banshees have been silenced and the swallows left the nest
And then the jester’s selling real estate and the punks all drive a desk

But I swear if you were there right now and standing in that door
You would hear the ghosts of banshees reeling just like long before
And the melody would haunt you evermore
Down to your core!

And now I’m baking in this hot Alberta sun
the western wind is waving in the wheat
So much of me lives on
There at number three Roxburgh
There at number three Roxburgh Street

And now I’m baking in this hot Alberta sun
the western wind is waving in the wheat
So much of me lives on
There at number three Roxburgh
There at number three Roxburgh
There at number three Roxburgh Street
[/i]

#25

Well, the weather is crazy hot, and we all need a little siesta in the shade. So here’s some soothing steel drums to help you chill and beat the heat as you pound the keyboard:

Morcheeba - A Well Deserved Break

#26

This week’s Monday Music is the venerable Boards of Canada (who are, tragically, not actually Canadian). They’re two chaps from Scotland making some of the finest and most listenable trance music.

Today’s song is Boards of Canada - Reach for the Dead.

I can attest this is a life-changing song when you first hear it taking off on an airplane at dawn somewhere and you’ve got a window seat. I was utterly unsurprised to find out the music video for it was flight-themed.

#27

Today’s Monday Music is a marvelous little bit of nerdsnipery: Hatnote’s “Listen to Wikipedia”, available here: http://listen.hatnote.com/

Great background sound to work and write to, and if you need a distraction, you can click on one of the expanding bubbles and see what’s changing in wikipedia in realtime. (And thus nerdsnipe yourself out of a few hundred words, so use with caution…)