Once I was there, it was some months ago. Now I can say it was one of my favourite places in London, and that's why I want to share this. Sometimes I need to think or I just need to relax and hide from everyone and it's then when I wish I was there.
PRIMROSE HILL
Nothing more to say, if you've been there you may understand why I love this place.
If you haven't been there... you'll never understand.
GOOD PEOPLE OF LUD
HEAR THE VOICES CALLING
HEAR THEM WEEP AND CRY
IMAGINE ALL THE LIVES THAT LIVED BENEATH THESE LONDON SKIES
FROM PIMLICO TO MORDEN
FROM MUSWELL HILL TO BOW
RECALL IT'S POWER & GLORY
RECALL IT'S LIFEBLOOD FLOW
IT'S ESSENCE AND IT'S CHARACTER
IT'S BITTER NATURE TRUE
IT'S CRUEL OPPORTUNITY
IT'S HEART IT'S LOVING BLOW
IT'S ANCIENT INSTITUTIONS
IT'S ENACTMENT OF THE LAW
IT'S PRISONS AND APPRENTICES
IT'S PRIVILEGED AND POOR
HEAR THE JUDGE PASS SENTENCE
FEAR THE TYBURN DANCE
THE BANK OF ENGLANDS PROMISE
GOG AND MAGOGS GUARDIAN GLANCE
WALK THE THAMES EMBANKMENT
COUNT THE RAVENS IN THE TOWER
OBSERVE GOOD BOUDICIA
WHILE GREENWICH CALLS THE HOUR
PRAY IN HAWKSMOORS CHURCHES
FOR THOSE LOST TO FIRE AND PLAGUE
VISIT HIGHGATE'S CITIZENS
LYING IN THEIR GRAVES
GIVE THANKS TO NOBLE PARLIAMENT
AND THE WELFARE STATE IT MADE
CHEER THE TEACHERS, NURSES, POLICEMEN
AND THE FIREMEN WHO DO BRAVE
FOR ALL IT'S DARK INIQUITY
FOR ALL IT'S GREED AND VICE
FOR ALL IT'S BRUTE HOSTILITY
IT'S MURDERS AND IT'S CRIMES
FOR ALL THE GOOD, GOOD PEOPLE
FOR ALL THAT'S FAIR AND FINE
GOOD HEALTH OLD MERRY LONDON
GOOD HEALTH THROUGHOUT ALL TIME
I've no reason to post this song... or not at least nothing important to say about this song, it's just another great song of a great album that is The Liberty Of Nortong Folgate. (We're waiting for more, Madness!!)
I just post this one because it reminds me in some way to something that happened to me, something that was supposed to end but it won't, it comes to me every day. Today for a good reason, so I will dedicate this song to that "something" without saying anything about the story.
I know it's your favourite but weren't you the one complaining about people changing just like the weather?
Anyway here's the song and the lyrics again... There's two versions of the video, one's for the german film The Wixer and the other one is the official, made with bits of gigs. I'll post only the first one, because it's the one I like...
NW5
Ooh I watched you grow up
Only to despise
I seen the madness stack up through
Tarpaulin eyes
I have heard you come up
Believing your own lies
Witnessed the blessing rise up in a
A very strange disguise
Though you have become a burden
One thing remains, thats for certain
I will love you all my life
But without you in my life
Ooh I watched you climb up
I seen you come alive
From those very humble beginnings in
NW5
Though we face the final curtain
One thing remains, thats for certain
I will love you all my life
But without you in my life
I would give you everything
For just the smile you bring
For just the song to sing
I would give you everything
For just that smile you bring
For just that song to sing I sing now
Yes I watched you grow up
Only to despise
Witnessed the blessing rise up in a
A very strange disguise
Nothing, it seems, lasts forever
People change just like the weather
Some for good and sometimes never
I hope things work out for the better
I would give you everything
For just the smile you bring
For just the song to sing
I would give you everything
For just the smile you bring
For just the song to sing I sing
Nothing, it seems, lasts forever
People change just like the weather
Some for good and sometimes never
I hope things work out for the better
I would give you everything
For just the smile you bring
For just the song to sing
I would give you everything
For just the smile you bring
For just the song to sing I sing
I would give you everything
For just the smile you bring
For just the song to sing I sing now
I tried to stop myself but I can't, I need to do this >.<!!
Here's a tribute video to Chas Smash or Carl -born Cathal Joseph Patrick Smyth, that is a member of my favourite band, Madness. I made this two years ago using bits of their promo videos and some other videos. I used the song The Wizard, by Madness, it's not him the one who sings -it's Suggs- but he wrote this song and it suits with the video.
After these two years I'd probably choose another song instead of The Wizard. I talk about Dreaming Man, I love the music -of course- and the lyrics are amazing -are his. He also sings in this one :D. Here's the song:
To sleep perchance to dream
To scream in my dream
I am the ocean, I am the sea
I'm the eye of the hawk, the weal of the tree
I'm in the king and the joker too
I'm the spark in the flame in the words of truth, yeah
I'm in the east and I'm in the west
I'm in the stitching of a kevlar vest, yeah
I'm everything that you see
I'm the words on the lips of Mohammed Ali, yeah
I'm the dreaming man
I can make it real, yes I can
I like to dream
I am the dreaming man
I can make it real, yes I can
I'm a driver, racing driver, debt collector, business tester
I'm a priest and a prophet and a man of means
A graphic illustrator, a cartoon animator
A moral agitator, I'm a soldier, a sailor
A doctor, a dentist
A Seventh-Day Adventist
What's a thief, who's a liar?
Which is why I'm good
I'm everything that I am
I am a dreaming man
And I like to dream
I'm the dreaming man
I can make it real, oh, yes I can
I like to dream
I am the dreaming man
I can make it real, oh, yes I can
Wake up!
Wake up!
I'm in the morning, I am the light
I'm the body next to you in the middle of the night, yeah
I like to feel your skin
I'm the blood that is pumping from your heart within, yeah
I'm the dreaming man
I can make it real, oh, yes I can
I like to dream
I am the dreaming man
I can make it real, oh, yes I can
I like to dream
I'm the dreaming man...
*Sorry again if I make mistakes, I wish my english was better but it isn't hahaha I'll keep improving my english ;)!!
After a few weeks it seems I'm finally ready to start this blog... and now I have to start it some way, I don't really know how... so I'll start talking a bit of myself ;).
Well I'm a spanish girl whose body lives in Barcelona but her heart and mind live in London -I think it's such a good way to describe it- so here's my excuse: I can make a lot of mistakes with grammar because english is not my first language. I like music -well, I don't know if 'like' it's a good word, maybe 'I live for music' it's more likely- and I'm a Chelsea supporter. I like mods, skins, punks... but don't think I'm into any kind of subculture. I wanted to start this with my favourite band -that is Madness- but considering the name of the blog I thought I was better to start with The Jam.
So here's the song that gives the name to my blog...
Some people might say my life is in a rut,
But I'm quite happy living with what I got
People might say that I should strive for more,
But I'm so happy I can't see the point.
Somethings happening here today
A show of strength with your boy's brigade and,
I'm so happy and you're so kind
You want more money - of course I don't mind
To buy nuclear textbooks for atomic crimes
And the public gets what the public wants
But I want nothing this society's got -
I'm going underground, (going underground)
Well the brass bands play and feet start to pound
Going underground, (going underground)
Well let the boys all sing and the boys all shout for tomorrow
Some people might get some pleasure out of hate
Me, I've enough already on my plate
People might need some tension to relax
[Me?] I'm too busy dodging between the flak
What you see is what you get
You've made your bed, you better lie in it
You choose your leaders and place your trust
As their lies put you down and their promises bust
You'll see kidney machine replaced by rockets and guns
And the public wants what the public gets
But I don't get what this society wants
I'm going underground, (going underground)
Well the brass bands play and feet start to pound
Going underground, (going underground)
[So] let the boys all sing and let the boys all shout for tomorrow
We talk and we talk until my head explodes
I turn on the news and my body froze
Braying sheep on my TV screen
Make this boy shout, make this boy scream!
Going underground, I'm going underground!
When I started listening to The Jam this one was the first song I liked but I'd like to post here another video of the song I like the most now, in this case performed by the singer, Paul Weller, after the years as a solo singer.
