Friday OT #1 - These Pleasures A Wayward Distraction

[Angie]

Thanks so much to @Entropy for this awesome thread idea! I'm going to just paste his idea exactly like he sent it:

Favorite song/lyric that describes how you've spent the pandemic.

I am a little mad at him for coming up with the perfect example of it from a beloved song of mine in his PM to me, so my example is going to instead honor the great DMX:

"Y'all gonna make me lose my mind. Up in here, up in here. Y'all gonna make me go all out."

What are yours?

 

[Cyclonepride]

Not necessarily related to the pandemic, but this one speaks to me in a way that it didn't when I was younger.

Every time that I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The past is gone
It went by like dusk to dawn

Dream On- Aerosmith

 

[BCClone]

Wish I could say it was

Clarence Carter with Strokin'

But it was more

Bruce Springsteen with 57 channels and nothings on,
and Wicked Assasin with Yeah bakin Bread, you know I'm baking bread.

 

[JP4CY]

Pretty much Live and Let Die by McCartney

Live and let die
You're wastin' time tryin' to change the mind
Of those who's souls are full of holes
I do unto others as I wish them to do unto me

 

[cyrocksmypants]

I’ll get banned for it.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Courtesy of the Animals:

We gotta get out of this place
If it's the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
'Cause girl, there's a better life for me and you

 

[Clonefan32]

Basically all the lyrics from "Longview" by Green Day

 

[Entropy]

This song has been on heavy rotation this last year for me.

Vampire Weekend "Harmony Hall"

" I don't wanna live like this, but I don't wanna die"

A little bit of classic Led Zeppelin never hurts either.
"In my time of dying
Want nobody to mourn
All I want for you to do
Is take my body home."

 

[SCyclone]

Pink Floyd "Echoes":

And no one calls us to move on
And no one forces down our eyes
No one speaks and no one tries
No one flies around the sun

 

[GMackey32]

Chevelle's "An Evening With El Diablo"

Wish I had your faults,
Nothing seems to phase you.
Lies, you're much more than just human.

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

The entire song of In My Room by the Beach Boys.

 

[BoxsterCy]

After 13 months of talking to myself, singing to myself and dancing with myself it's gotta be Billy Idol.

So let's sink another drink
'Cause it'll give me time to think
If I had the chance I'd ask the world to dance
And I'd be dancing with myself, oh-oh

 

[BCClone]

After 13 months of talking to myself, singing to myself and dancing with myself it's gotta be Billy Idol.

So let's sink another drink
'Cause it'll give me time to think
If I had the chance I'd ask the world to dance
And I'd be dancing with myself, oh-oh

I’ve always thought of that song as the same subject as The Stroke by Billy Squier.

 

[alarson]

"I'm not sick but I'm not well"
- Harvey Danger

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Courtesy of the Animals:

We gotta get out of this place
If it's the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
'Cause girl, there's a better life for me and you

Just reading this I can hear that opening bass lick...
*sigh*

 

[cyclones500]

"He's a real nowhere man / sitting in his nowhere land / making all his nowhere plans / for nobody."