THIS Rhett Butler Will Never Die

Funny how often, one thing leads to another, quite unexpectedly... I was listening to the song "I Go To Sleep" being sung by Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders when I thought that it would be cool to see a video of them performing it. (Well, this is just Chrissie singing it, sans the band.) I always thought it was "their" song. Well, it turns out that it is NOT their song, but it is a song that The Kinks did waaaaay back in 1965 on their second album, Kinda Kinks. Before I found that original version by The Kinks I stumbled across this mystical version by the stupendous Rasputina, featuring the amazing Zoe Keating! How about that? I Go to Sleep Lyrics

Well I hope that I dont fall in love with you cause falling in love just makes me blue, Well the music plays and you display Your heart for me to see, I had a beer and now I hear you Calling out for me And I hope that I dont fall in love with you. Well the room is crowded, people everywhere And I wonder, should I offer you a chair?  Well if you sit down with this old clown, Take that frown and break it, Before the evenings gone away, I think that we could make it, And I hope that I dont fall in love with you. Well the night does funny things inside a man These old tom-cat feelings you dont understand, Well I turn around to look at you, You light a cigarette, I wish I had the guts to bum one, But weve never met, And I hope that I dont fall in love with you. I can see that you are lonesome just like me, And it being late, youd like some some company, Well I turn around to look at you, And you look back at me, The guy youre with has up and split, The chair next to yous free, And I hope th...

Fat Old Sun, by Pink Floyd When that fat old sun in the sky is falling, Summer evening birds are calling. Summer's thunder time of year, The sound of music in my ears. Distant bells, New mown grass smells so sweet. By the river holding hands, Roll me up and lay me down. And if you sit, Don't make a sound. Pick your feet up off the ground. And if you hear as the warm night falls The silver sound from a time so strange, Sing to me, sing to me. When that fat old sun in the sky is falling, Summer evening birds are calling. Children's laughter in my ears, The last sunlight disappears. And if you sit, Don't make a sound. Pick your feet up off the ground. And if you hear as the warm night falls The silver sound from a time so strange, Sing to me, sing to me. When that fat old sun in the sky is falling, Summer evening birds are calling. Children's laughter in my ears, The last sunlight disappears.

Helium - Sad Songs That Will Make You Cry I am sorry but I have to write about this conceptually, rather than figuratively - like I do with many of my articles here at HELIUM. Two songs have made me cry over the past 6 month period; a song by Neil Young called, CORTEZ THE KILLER, and a song by Bob Dylan called IDIOT WIND. I have heard these songs over and over, many, many times over the years of my life and always felt their groove and energy, thinking "yeah man, dig that guitar..." or, "Wow, Neil (or Bob) really mean something deep here...", but I never took the time to contemplate the meaning of the words, or the real meaning of the emotions being conveyed before. Not until this past summer. You see, I think that a person needs to understand themselves before they can understand others. What do you think it would mean to Bob Dylan if no one ever found deeper meaning in his songs. (Well, if you've read anything about what he really thinks about that subject...