Swing, Swing

I think it more than adequately describes my 'taste' in music all these years.

Maybe it's fickle-mindedness, maybe it's a state of inner flux, maybe it's just going with the mainstream flow - or maybe, like I would like to think, I'm just internally inconsistent and contradictorily contradicting.

Started with Mandarin songs (my first cassette), then switched to English mainstream in lower sec (my first CD), then back and forth again (and back and forth, and back and... you get my point.).

Another Wiki-wonder moment - it lets you 'recover' those lost memories...

All-American Rejects - Swing, swing (2003)


Days swiftly come and go
I'm dreaming of her
She's seeing other guys
Emotions they stir
The sun is gone
The nights are long
And I am left while the tears fall

Did you think that I would cry
on the phone?
Do you know what it feels like
being alone?
I'll find someone new

[Chorus](Swing) Swing, Swing from the tangles of
My heart is crushed by a former love
Can you help me find a way
To carry on again.

Wish cast into the sky
I'm moving on
Sweet beginnings do arise
She knows I was wrong
The notes are old
They bend, they fold
and so do I to a new love

Did you think that I would cry
on the phone?
Do you know what it feels like
being alone?
I'll find someone new

Bury me
(you thought your problems were gone)
Carry me
(away. away, away...)

[Chorus fades till end]

Toad the Wet Sprocket - All I Want (1992)


Nothing's so loud
As hearing when we lie
The truth is not kind
And you've said neither am i
But the air outside so soft is saying everything
Everything

All i want is to feel this way
To be this close, to feel the same
All i want is to feel this way
The evening speaks, i feel it say...

Nothing's so cold
As closing the heart when all we need
Is to free the soul
But we wouldn't be that brave i know
And the air outside so soft, confessing everything
Everything

And it won't matter now
Whatever happens to me
Though the air speaks of all we'll never be
It won't trouble me
And it feels so close
Let it take me in
Let it hold me so
I can feel it say...

Def Leppard - When Love and Hate Collide (1995)


You could have a change of heart
If you would only change your mind
Instead of slamming down the phone girl
for the hundredth time

I got your number on my wall
But I ain't gonna make that call
When divided we stand baby
United we fall

Got the time got a chance gonna make it
Got my hands on your heart gonna take it
All I know I can't fight this flame
You could have a change of heart
If you would only change your mind
Cause I'm crazy 'bout you baby
time after time

Without you
One night alone
Is like a year without you baby
Do you have a heart of stone
Without you
Can't stop the hurt inside
When love and hate collide

I don't wanna fight no more
I don't know what we're fighting for
When we treat each other baby
like an act of war
I could tell a million lies
and it would come as no surprise
When the truth is like a stranger
Hits you right between the eyes

There's a time and a place and a reason
And I know I got a love to believe in
All I know got to win this time

You could have a change of heart
if you would only change your mind
Cause I'm crazy 'bout you baby
Crazy
Crazy

Without you
One night alone
Is like a year without you baby
Do you have a heart of stone
Without you
One night alone
Is like a year without you baby
If you have a heart at all
Without you
Can't stop the hurt inside
When love and hate collide

幸好有些回忆不会沦落到抓不到月光，一握紧就便成黑暗。

Signing off.............. What would I be, without song and lyric............
RC