Just Noticing

[debka_notion]

There are a gizillion songs out there about some themes- love, broken hearts, love of country, religion- heck, there are enough dance songs for an hour of dancing about Shabbat... So why don't people write songs about say, doing what you have to when you don't want to? Or heck, about breaking up when you're not the one with the fractured heart unless they're miserably vindictive? Or about the ambivalence of life? Or maybe I'm just not listening to the right things. If you've got any for the above less populous categories, or other good missing ones, let me know.

Comments

[arib.livejournal.com]

Ah, you should really listen to more modern folk music. :-)

Next time you come by, I can loan you some discs.

[efg.livejournal.com]

"about breaking up when you're not the one with the fractured heart"

Try "Didn't want to break your heart" (I think that's the title), by Barenaked Ladies. It's on the album "Born on a Pirate Ship".

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Good country has some of those...I'll brainstorm post-move.

[nuqotw.livejournal.com]

There's a great Calvin and Hobbes strip, wherein Calvin is spouting off about how TV is filled with bad examples and people making bad decisions. Calvin's thesis is that TV should include examples of good, wholesome people doing good wholesome things. Calvin's dad, with the cynicism that comes only from being one of Calvin's legal guardians, responds "Yes, because we all know how funny good role models are."

Noble everyday pursuits, like perseverance, don't garner that same anxious, adolescent nostalgia that songs about love and broken hearts do.

On that note, to the tune of "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"

Don't take my sleep away from me
Don't make me leave my bed til 10.13
If you do, then I'll be blue
'Cause waking up is hard to do

Remember when we stayed up all night?
'Til we saw the eastern morning light?
Think of all we used to do
And waking up is hard to do

They say that waking up is hard to do
Now I know, I know that it's true
Don't say that I can't pretend
Instead of waking up I think that I am faking sick again

I beg of you, don't tell me why
I should give seventh grade another try
Just in case I didn't get through
It's 'cause waking up is hard to do.

If you ever want an illustration of the hilarity of this song, find a seventh grader on the second day of school.

[thevortex.livejournal.com]

There are plenty such songs and I recommend conferring with DJ DOC on this ;)

The Vortex