Psience Quest

"Sisters of Mercy."

Quote:That's the only song I wrote in one sitting. The melody I had worked on for some time. I didn't really know what the song was. I remember that my mother had liked it.

Then I was in Edmonton, which is one of our largest northern cities, and there was a snowstorm and I found myself in a vestibule with two young hitchhiking women who didn't have a place to stay. I invited them back to my little hotel room and there was a big double bed and they went to sleep in it immediately.

They were exhausted by the storm and the cold. And I sat in this stuffed chair inside the window beside the Saskatchewan River. And while they were sleeping I wrote the lyrics. And that never happened to me before. And I think it must be wonderful to be that kind of writer. It must be wonderful.

Because I just wrote the lines with a few revisions and when they awakened I sang it to them. And it has never happened to me like that before. Or since.

Cover by Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt


A live version:

That cheerful song, "You are my Sunshine", it has a darker side too. Creatively photographed.

The Dead South - You Are My Sunshine

A good song for this time - The Planet - Hans Theessink, A song for Mother Earth, originally recorded on the CALL ME album 1992.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdh_TNefhWE

Love this ... so different.

https://youtu.be/iqAsfDCIkGo?si=xw3G_Wnl9MGtr0rY

(2023-10-15, 09:56 PM)nbtruthman Wrote: [ -> ]A good song for this time - The Planet - Hans Theessink, A song for Mother Earth, originally recorded on the CALL ME album 1992.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdh_TNefhWE

This reminded me of an old favorite, Kenny Loggin's Conviction of the Heart:



Though my primary listening right now is Gunship:

(2023-11-17, 05:20 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: [ -> ]

Nice, Sci. Chill, poignant, and haunting, to the point of a slightly dark edge, tolerable in everyday consciousness, but perhaps not in a more anxious, paranoid, or depressive state of mind.