Music for a chilled Sunday - As we know, our community is one million strong. We are a world-wide phenomenon and so I thought I’d celebrate songwriting from around the world; posting the lyrics and any videos I can find on YT.
I thought I’d start with New Zealand and the talents of Crowded House and Neil Finn. Sting described him as a poet, perhaps as Poet Laureate and every time I play this song I marvel at the lyrics, perhaps because they speak to the poet in me.
As a screenwriter and author, I love words; the way they sing on the page, how they can render me both speechless and inspired, elated and melancholic. They are not a means to an end, but the end themselves. They are not mere process or utility, but catalysts for change, in me and the world.
Here’s the song, “Four Seasons in One Day”
Four seasons in one day
Lying in the depths of your imagination
Worlds above and worlds below
The sun shines on the black clouds hanging over the domain
Even when you're feeling warm
The temperature could drop away
Like four seasons in one day
Smiling as the shit comes down
You can tell a man from what he has to say
Everything gets turned around
And I will risk my neck again, again
You can take me where you will
Up the creek and through the mill
Like all the things you can't explain
Four seasons in one day
Blood dries up
Like rain, like rain
Fills my cup
Like four seasons in one day
It doesn't pay to make predictions
Sleeping on an unmade bed
Finding out wherever there is comfort there is pain
Only one step away
Like four seasons in one day
Blood dries up
Like rain, like rain
Fills my cup
Like four seasons in one day
Songwriters: Neil Finn / Tim Finn
Four Seasons in One Day lyrics © Roundhead Music
Enjoy!
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Incredible song, @Geoff Hall! And catchy! You said, "They are not mere process or utility, but catalysts for change, in me and the world." You're right. Even though a big part of a screenwriter's job is to write an entertaining story, a screenwriter can also write scenes within stories that prompt change. The same with songwriters, authors, etc.
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Thanks so much for sharing, Geoff Hall . And Maurice Vaughan , couldn't agree with you more.
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Maurice Vaughan Elena Maro I included the words because I want us to cherish, to value them more. Finn writes sheer poetry!