"Whatever colors you have in your mind
I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine."
Wow. The first time I heard those incredible two lines decades ago, I fell in love with Lay Lady Lay. The way Bob Dylan sings, the music, everything about it touches me. Couldn't find one with a video, just the music. The video will probably be gone by tomorrow, I find the song and it's taken away. Enjoy it while it it's here.
Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colors you have in your mind
I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.
Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Until the break of day, let me see you make him smile
His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean
And you're the best thing that he's ever seen.
Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man awhile
Why wait any longer for the world to begin
You can have your cake and eat it too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he's standing in front of you.
Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead
I long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the night
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead.
It's lovely to think about the beautiful pictures in my mind, I'm grateful for the OC. I was tired of looking at the last post. Time to put that memory away.
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When this first came out I didn’t pay much attention silly child I was; now it speaks to me on so many different levels.
Thanks for bringing me back to the good old days and also for adding me.
~R~
zanelle, oh thank you, I do love your second life blog!. Wouldn't it be lovely if we were free to create all the beauty we wanted. What would the world look like if we could all make what's in our minds shine? Maybe it would be too beautiful.
Jane, thanks. Nothing like a sweet old song.
jmac, the man knew what he was doing, I suppose he just wrote from the heart.
M.C.S., the simplest things get to the heart of all matters don't they?
V. Corso, achingly is good choice of word.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H88g_Eew4PY
Thanks, Bleue. Have a wonderful night ... put on some music and dance! I will be!
Yes, this brings back the good.
Let us all get away from bad vibes this time...
For it's going to be The Future Soon
I won't always be this way
When the things that make me weak and strange
Get engineered away
It's going to be the Future Soon
Never seen it quite so clear
And when my heart is breaking
I can close my eyes, and it's already here.
(Jonathan Coulton, "The Future Soon")
Thanks for posting.
Kate, I'm glad you're enjoying it, sadly the mystical powers that be will come take it away.
Libby, I would have melted completely. Fortunately men liked fast banging sounds otherwise the pregnancy rate would have skyrocketed! Heavy metal is good birth control.
Mission, Sweet was what I needed, everything is too glum.
neutron, just went and checked out the vid and it's fabulous! The future is already here, y'all are running the show. Even if it's not, you be you, you be all of you!
Linda, it's a lovely song. HUGGGGGGGGG
rita, you have good taste, nana introduced me to Mazzy Star and it's fabulous but that song is too sad for today. (oopsie about the inside joke, I have a potty mouth and failed to use my inside my head voice, sigh)
Good Daughter, thank you! That's Pinkie my original avatar, she feels safe and comforting when I'm scared or sad. Oh, I'm so glad you didn't listen to a song you don't like, I dislike making friends groan in misery. Be quirky but don't be taking my share of the good stuff...
the "colors of your mind" quote you have covered...
no greater gift to a person than
to show them the infinite worth of their imagination...the colors...
make them shine...
also i love the clothes are dirty, hands clean thing...
morally & also usually physically true...
but these days?
to be unclean in yr clothes, yr body, etc
is a cardinal sin.
he is the only person, dylan is, who would dare say this:
you can have yr cake & eat it too!
So few care what beauty is in our minds. We must present our pretty faces and appropriately similar ideas. Nothing shines, the dull sameness everywhere. It is no gift at all to be unseen, those lines made me ache inside for something more.
Dylan was insightful but the simple words there hid it well. What good is it to me if the exterior is shiny but what touches me is rotten? Haha, the song and thoughts are terribly outdated.
That he was so daring is the sad part. Of course we can have our cake and eat it too. Sadly, not everyone wants to eat cake first.
Good Daughter, sad is normal when sad things happen and my dad died without us ever having a relationship, I'm healing. Afraid is a lifelong state for me, things are just more uncertain than usual lately. My goal is not to become withdrawn, having friends helps. Thank you much.