Missionary Man - Eurythmics

Well I was born an original sinner.
I was borne from original sin.
And if I had a dollar bill
For all the things Ive done
Thered be a mountain of money
Piled up to my chin...

My mother told me good
My mother told me strong.
She said be true to yourself
And you cant go wrong.
But theres just one thing
That you must understand.
You can fool with your brother -
But dont mess with a missionary man.

Dont mess with a missionary man.
Dont mess with a missionary man.

Well the missionary man
Hes got God on his side.
Hes got the saints and apostles
Backin up from behind.
Black eyed looks from those Bible books.
Hes a man with a mission
Got a serious mind.
There was a woman in the jungle
And a monkey on a tree.
The missionary man he was followin me.
He said stop what youre doing.
Get down upon your knees.
Ive got a message for you that you better believe.

KT's music

Have a look how this woman creates a full song by starting off with the beat and gradually adding instruments and her voice until it sounds like she has a whole band and background singers! And let's face it, it's a catchy tune.. Is it my imagination or does she sound a lot like Allanah Myles..there's some serious memories from my late teenager years! LOL!!!
The lyrics aren't mind blowing, but the rhythm makes up for that.
(and then maybe, just maybe..the KT..got my attention too..:-)



KT Tunstall - Black Horse and the Cherry Tree

Well my heart knows me better than I know myself
So I'm gonna let it do all the talking.
I came across a place in the middle of nowhere
With a big black horse and a cherry tree.

I felt a little fear upon my back
He said "Don't look back, just keep on walking."
When the big black horse said, "Hey lady!" {When the big black horse said, "Look this way"}
Said, "Look this way, will you marry me?" {Said, "Hey, lady, will you marry me?"}

But I said no, no, no, no-no-no
I said no, no, you're not the one for me
No, no, no, no-no-no
I said no, no, you're not the one for me

And my heart hit a problem, in the early hours,
So I stopped it dead for a beat or two.
But I cut some cord, and I shouldn't have done it,
And it won't forgive me after all these years

So I sent it to a place in the middle of nowhere
With a big black horse and a cherry tree.
Now it won't come back, 'cause it's oh so happy
And now I've got a hole for the world to see

And it said no, no, no, no-no-no
Said no, no, you're not the one for me
No, no, no, no-no-no-no
Said no, no, you're not the one for me

{Not the one for me}

Said no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
You're not the one for me
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
You're not the one for me

(do, do, do, do)

Well I was
Big black horse and a cherry tree
I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
Big black horse and a cherry tree
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
No, no, no, no
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
No, no, no, no
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
I can't quite get there cause my heart's forsaken me
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me
(Big black horse and a cherry tree) I can't quite get there 'cause my heart's forsaken me

Piano Music. .

Speaking about music... Michael Nyman's The heart asks pleasure first..



Wonderful piece of music!
From the movie - The Piano.

Music

Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

~ George Elliot ~

50km to nowhere..

This song has had so much meaning to me the past few months.
Funny how you can remember exactly were you were when you first heard it, or that moment when the song had special meaning.
I remember driving 50km to nowhere with the song playing in the background.




Say It Right - Nelly Furtado

In the day
In the night
Say it right
Say it all
You either got it
Or you don't
You either stand or you fall
When your will is broken
When it slips from your hand
When there's no time for joking
There's a hole in the plan

Oh you don't mean nothing at all to me
No you don't mean nothing at all to me
But you got what it takes to set me free
Oh you could mean everything to me

I can't say that I'm not lost and at fault
I can't say that I don't love the light and the dark
I can't say that I don't know that I am alive
And all of what I feel I could show
You tonight you tonight

Oh you don't mean nothing at all to me
No you don't mean nothing at all to me
But you got what it takes to set me free
Oh you could mean everything to me

From my hands I could give you
Something that I made
From my mouth I could sing you another brick that I laid
From my body I could show you a place God knows
You should know the space is holy
Do you really want to go?

Reminiscing

I recently got all my notebooks together in which I have been writing down poems and quotes and things that have made a difference in my life.

One of the notes that I love came from a friend that I met while at Varsity.
It was October 1992 and he was Johan van Rensburg. If I recall correctly he stayed in Hartswater in a house that had speakers in every single room. He loved music and I have recollections of Pink Floyd playing over the speaker in the loo. :-)


He had a saying that I kept and today it has a whole new meaning looking back on my life.

EX HOMEO EST NOVUS OMNIS

Meaning: still waiting for a friend for the correct translation, but basically it means that out of man new things can always be expected.

In afrikaans: Uit die mens altyd iets nuuts.

WOW - Latin is a beautifully rich and deep language.

Secret..

I love music. I live by music.
You know how you sometimes listen to a song and the words just fit in perfectly with every aspect of you life at that specific moment in time?

I've been struggling to listen to CD's in my car - the CD player that was in the car when I bought
it, is of such a bad quality that not even the radio works properly. It's very selective about what CD's it will play or will not play. So I've been going through my CD Collection slowly but surely, hoping that the CD's I will be able to listen to, will be more than one.

Popped in OMD's Greatest Hits the other day. Bought the CD at a 2nd hand shop for something like R15. No.12 on the CD is the song Secret. I listen to the words and what do you know.
An exact fit to my current life scenario! Voila!

I'd like to share the words with you:



Secret - OMD

I got a secret and I can't explain
All the time, I've waited for this day
All along I was never in doubt
I always knew it would never get out
There are things that I cannot tell
And there are things that you know damn well
This is getting very hard for me
I guess you'd better just wait and see
This is all, this is all

You heard a message and the message was clear
All the time you wipe away that tear
And all I want is to hold your hand
To see the sun and walk the sand
You make me sad and you make me glad
My secret is this love
Is love, is love
All my secret is this love

Everyday you're always there
You comfort me
And make me feel its worth my while
And then I look around and you're not there
And everyday you say you care and I'll beware
This is all, this is all

Ive got a secret and I can't explain
All I want is to hold your hand
All along I was never in doubt
To see the sun and to walk the sand