Past Times at 80's High · Episode 59
Dongo, Kevin, Mark, AJ count down Lyrically Speaking Series 2 — Deep Lyrics on Past Times at 80's High, spotlighting 'War Pigs' - Black Sabbath (Paranoid,...
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Sun is the same in a relative way, but you're old. Shoulder of breath, one day closer to death.
Hey y'all, welcome to another episode of Past Times at 80s High, the cast that takes you back. As always, we got another fun one for you today. We're gonna do our lyric series again. Today I think we're gonna go a little deep within ourselves. Looking forward to this one, boys. I think it's gonna be a lot of fun. And as I said, boys, as always, they are here with me, Donald. Hey, what's happening? Hello, Kevin. Hello. Hello, and Brother Mark. Hey, AJ, hey audience. Awesome. So, yes, I think this one will be a lot of fun. Before we go any further, though, I did want to get something out there. And that's the fact I wanted to give a big thank you shout out to uh David Latour and his producer, Art, who graciously had us on his radio show slash podcast that he does, Latour Live.
Let's go. It's Latour Live on news radio, WHP580.
It was a lot of fun, and thank you so much, guys. We had a great friggin' time. That was a blast. Yeah, we did. That was super fun. And always we get going right out of the gate here. But Kevin, Mr. Shout out.
All right, we want to say hello to our friends in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, our friends to the north. Beautiful country. Yeah. Erlinger Bavaria, our German friends over there, down in Palisades Park, New Jersey, and Brazzaville, which is in the Congo, South Central Africa. Oh boy. I don't know how we ended up there, but there we are.
Gorilla Scare. Awesome. All right. Well, we'll just get going right out, like always. And Dongo, it's your honors today.
All right. So we're doing lyrics again. And this time we're going with the deep lyrics. Uh, some of mine are uh I always like to stay true to form, and they're all over the place. And I might twist boundaries here or there, but that's what I like to do. Um, so this one is very poignant uh for the times of today, and it's politicians hide themselves away. They only started the war. Why should they have to go out and fight? They leave that role for the poor. Time will tell on their power mines, making war just for fun, treating people just like pawns in chess. Wait till their judgment day comes.
Why don't they go out to the white? They leave out to the war.
Yeah, war pigs from Black Sabbath and Aussie. Incredible year. Love that, love that song. Uh there's so many changes in that song. Yes, there is, and uh, it's powerful, and I like that one verse there, a couple verses.
Damn, right. That's a great pick. And I just feel like, you know, people think Sabbath or Aussie or any of that, and and I don't think they get the that credit a lot, you know. Of course, from their big fans like us, they do, but you know, I think someone hears about Sabbath, they just think metal. You know, they don't realize how friggin' deep those guys were. I mean, incredible. Um, I think Geezer Butler, you know, did a lot of the lyrics for them. Yes, he did. You know, most of them. But he was uh incredible lyricist.
And that was written in 1970, you know, pretty much, you know, I think Vietnam ended officially in 72, so it was right during 75.
75.
Yeah. Awesome.
Awesome pick, Dongo. All right, Kev.
All right. Well, I just want to get started by saying, and I think I might have mentioned this before, but I I literally as a small child thought that the answers to life, and this is somewhat true, were were in lyrics. I looked for wisdom because the radio was a philosopher, poet to us, right? Our generation. We didn't have Socrates or Shakespeare or we were we were listening to the radio. Um so today I thought about some songs that just kind of hit home with me. And I'm gonna start with the preacher man talking on the TV, putting down the rock and roll, wants me to send a donation, says he's worried about my soul. He said Jesus walked on the water, and I know that's true, but sometimes I think that preacher man would like to do a little walking too. But I ain't asking nobody for nothing if I can't get it on my own. If you don't like the way I'm living, you just leave this long-haired country boy alone.
Preacher man talking on TV, put him down the rock and road. Wants me to send a donation because he's worried about my soul. You don't like that we are debated. You just leave the low hair country for alone.
Charlie Daniels, man. Nice great. I just I feel that with every ounce of me. And that's there's other verses in there too that just like, you know what? That's it. That's all I want to do. I want to live my life. Leave me alone.
Damn straight. Yeah, exactly. Awesome. I do gotta correct you on something, though. We might have to pull a bunker moment there because you said Socrates, and it's Socrates.
Hey, look them up. Oh, it's under Socrates. Oh, yeah.
Just so you know.
Yes, Socrates, I forget.
I think it's the first time I've ever heard that eight.
Well, some of the other ones, didn't they? They they messed up a lot of the names, too.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure they did. But Socrates was the yeah. That was the big one. What was that from? Uh Bill and Ted. Excellent adventure.
Oh, oh, okay. Okay. Oh, all right. I gotcha.
Awesome. Great pick, though. Love Charlie Daniels.
Yeah. Brother Mark, off to you. Okay, well, these these are deep in some way. They may not sound like deep lyrics. The first one is not from a deep lyricist. Gotta tie it to kiss. But it's quite simple. It goes. Stop looking down and look up and be proud of it.
Stop looking down and look up and be proud of it.
And I I know that doesn't sound sound heavy or anything, but in 1989, I remember we were at uh Zachary's in uh Belmont. I think that's Belmont. That song came into me, and I'm like, Mark, walk around. Like be proud of yourself, man.
Damn right.
You know, I mean, usually back then it was a little fleeting, but yeah, I met a girl that night.
I wish I didn't, but anyway, uh we gotta all have that, I'm sure.
Oh no, I yeah, she wants, yeah. You guys know who she is, but uh very simple message. Stop looking down and look up and be proud of it. Ace Freely from uh uh the the name of the song is Separate, yes, and uh from second sighting, he was a little out of it during that record, he was a little back on the the booze, but anyway, but yeah, that was that was always meant a lot to me.
And you know what, Mark? That's what this is all about. What means something to you or us, because the one thing you'll not normally get is a deep lyric from Ace Real.
That's why that's why it's at number seven, but I mean I know yeah.
Baby's on her knees, baby wants to please oh my god, just go listen to on uh unmasked, and that whole album is friggin' brutal.
It's gonna fly, a little flag, but gonna happen, it's just gonna glad.
And there there's possibly our next lyric episode, everyone. We can definitely do some cheap lyrics. Yep. Oh my god. Awesome pick. And you know what? Damn right. We should be proud. All right, off to me to wrap up number seven. And this one to me, it's gonna sound weird, but it kind of messed with my faith when I heard it. And this is I'm not even gonna say your last name right, but it's Iris Dement, I believe. 1992, and it's Let the Mystery Be. Alright. Just the whole song is about faith and what's gonna happen, you know, and what people think are gonna happen. But this one always hit me and messed with my mind. And it's some say once you're gone, you're gone forever. And some say you're gonna come back. Some say you rest in the arms of a savior if in sinful ways you lack. Some say they're coming back in a garden, bunch of carrots and little sweet peas. I think I'll just let the mystery be.
Some say once you're gone, you're gone forever, and some say you're gonna come back. Some say rest in the arms. The savior invents in the way you like. Some say that they're coming back in a garden, bunch of carrots and little sweet teas. Think I'll just let the mystery be.
And it was always it messed with me because my beliefs are yes, we are going somewhere after. But it started fucking with me and my mind, and you know, I would hear this once in a while. And this iris man, I don't know, like some people out there just make it that baffle me, but she has the biggest wobble, squeakiest voice you've ever heard. But but she's got a lot of hits, and and it really came back later in the the leftover series. Um, it was their opening for a season or two, and it jogged that back to me when that happened. But anyway, you know, deep to me is what I mean.
And she she does a she does a tune with John Prine. It's one of my favorites, in spite of ourselves. It's two people talking about their relationship and they're you know, kind of putting each other down, but but still love each other.
She don't like her eggs already. She thinks crossing her legs is funny. She looks down and knows that money. She gets it on like the Easter bunny. She's my baby, I'm her honey. I'm never gonna let her go.
He ain't got late in a month of Sundays. Caught him once and he was sniffing my undies. He ain't too sharp, but he gets things done. Drinks his beer like it's oxygen. But he's my baby, and I'm his honey. Never gonna let him go.
Amazing song, and yes, she has a very, very distinct voice. Indeed.
Is that a polite way of saying it was a kind of annoying girl?
No, it's it's weird, it's catchy, it's strange, it's just very it's pleasant. You can it's you gotta go listen to her to know what we're talking about. Iris Dement, if I'm saying it correctly. I think you got it right.
I didn't know if it was Daffodil or uh Lily or you know.
Oh no, Mark jokes. Awesome. Okay. Anyway, that brings it back to you, Dongo, to start out number six.
All right, and I'm keeping with another uh same theme of war because uh just recently we kind of have been dancing around war quite a bit, you know. Some would say we were in the midst of World War III or very, very, very close to it anyway. So hopefully cooler heads will prevail and we will uh get through it. But uh this song, uh very classic from 1966, is there's battle lines being drawn. Nobody's right if everybody's wrong. Young people speak in their mind, getting so much resistance from behind. I think it's stop hey. What's that sound? Everybody look what's going on.
Battle lines being wrong, and nobody's right if everybody's wrong. Young people speak in their minds. I get so much resistance from behind. We stopped. Hey, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down.
Buffalo Springfields for what it's worth. Buffalo Springfield. I had to sing it because it's such a groovy tune. Oh, yeah. You know, that bang. I think everyone I also like the verse that's paranoia strikes deep into your life, it will creep. It starts when you're always afraid. Step out of line, they come and take you away.
Paranoia strikes deep into your life, it will creep. It starts when you're always afraid. Step out of line, the man come and take you away.
It's fear, it's you know, the media, politicians, they love to use fear to get you to fall in line. So, you know, you know, you have to resist that fear. Indeed. You know, that's my little public service announcement for today. Thank you, Donnie. For what it's worth. Right, right. For what it's worth, don't be afraid, people. That's right. Tell your politicians to shut the fuck up. Yeah. Exactly.
Fear gets you nowhere. Yeah. Except even more fear. Exactly.
Yeah, I just read a little blurb on that, that it was the there was a club on the on the Sunset Strip that they were playing, and Steven Stills played it, I think, just before they ripped it down, and there were kids out protesting, and that's what inspired him to write that song. And he didn't even have he didn't even want to publish it or anything. And one of the producers was like, Oh no, we're gonna put it out. Didn't have a name for it. He says, Well, here it is for what it's worth. Yeah, and that became the name of the song. Yeah, yeah.
That's cool. Great one, Donnie. Awesome. Okay, Kevin, where do you well?
I gotta I g I gotta bring Peter Gabriel into it because he's such a great lyricist. I know I mentioned him last time, but this is a different song. Um, hard to pick exactly where to go with Salisbury Hill because it's it's there's a whole thing going on there, and it's it was about him leaving Genesis. But there's also a little bit more going on because he talks about, you know, how's he gonna how's he gonna tell his friends, which connections is he gonna cut, turning water into wine, maybe a little bit of a Jesus thing happening in there. But so the lyrics that I've got is today I don't need a replacement. I'll tell them what the smile on my face went meant, my heart going boom, boom, boom. Hey, I said, you can keep my things, they've come to take me home. And the first couple verses he says, Grab my things, they've come to take me home. And then the last verse, he says, keep my things, right? They've come to take me home, which is that you're not just releasing yourself from the chains that you had yourself in, you're not even taking anything with you. Yep, it's like I'm just leaving, I'm free now, I'm gone. And that song just always got me right in the gut, right when he got to that lyric. Right.
That is it's hard. I don't want this shit anymore. Right, right, right, done with it. Don't want to be around it. Yeah, I feel that one for sure. Awesome pit, Kev. Awesome.
All right, brother Mark. Will you won't you want me to make you? I'm coming down fast, but don't let me break you. When the tell me, tell me, tell me, come on, tell me, answer. You may be a lover, but you ain't no dancer. Bop bop bop. Look out! Hell to skelter, in an ear. Hell to skelter.
Oh, brother.
This is a song that you hear the rap out of me in seventh grade because we all know that this what was the uh name of the movie. The name of the book was Hell to Skelter. The song is actually by the Beatles on their white album, and uh Paul McCartney sings it, but it uh to me at the time, it was the song from Hell to Skelter, and I was petrified. I couldn't sleep for months, and that song just it scared the crap out of me. So it does mean a lot because man, that was scary to me. And uh you know, Charlie actually sings it on tape. I he actually has a vr his own version. I couldn't find it, but yeah. Just uh you know, that whole album was really strange and uh the white.
He goes to weird places for sure.
You know, with piggies and sexy Sadie and Happiness is a warm gun, Blackbird, just so many great album though. Fantastic, you know, and then it had like the theme song to uh what was that song that I remember with uh Corky, that show? Oh life goes on. Life goes on, life goes on, yeah. And then uh yeah, so I mean, yeah, that just that scared me. I did not mean to burn a restaurant down back up.
You've had too much to drink. Oh blah blah, oh blah da.
Oh blah deep, chaos, you know, the song's about chaos, right?
Yeah, well, I mean that I mean Helta Skelter was a ride in in uh in Great Britain, so I mean I've never been on a Helta Skelter, but there was an actual road, a little side road next to uh St. Rose Church. Uh I think it was Helta Skelter Lane or something like that. So that road scared me, of course. So naturally, I mean down there. No, yeah, now I stayed away, but anyway.
If you want to go down some deep rabbit holes, yeah, right. Really? Yeah, consider that CIA again. Yeah, yeah.
They're into everything. Yeah, the dark side of it, anyway.
Yeah, Charles Manson was part of MK Ultra.
Yeah. Uh Jolly Jolly West was the guy's name. He was running a f he was a CIA guy, but he was running a free clinic in Haight Ashbury. Yep. And Charlie To bring his girls there for their health care and whatever else. So there's a lot of a lot of connection as to what's going on. Another great one is um uh what was it? I was reading it last year about the um the valley. The I mean the uh Jess Valley? No, not Jess Valley. Uh where they all ranch. No, no, where they where they all lived. Zappa started. We've talked about it before, but I can't. On Ranch? Good Lord. Laurel Canyon. Laurel Canyon. Oh, yeah. That took a long time to come up. Wow.
So the book I was referencing is Chaos, Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret Histories of the 60s by Tom O'Neill. It's a good listen or read, however, you like to ingest your books.
When did that come out?
Uh a few years ago, probably five years ago-ish.
Wow.
Yeah. Definitely. Weird scenes inside the canyon was the one that I'm talking about. And it goes through all of the same connections and all the weird stuff that happens, and the people that died quite mysteriously in that era. So two good reads.
Yeah. Yeah, there was some fucked up stuff going on for certain. Yep. All right. Good one, Mark. And this is to me, uh, number six. And once again, I'm reading these, not singing them, so they'll make sense later. Sei upon the moment long ago, one breath away, and there you will be, so young and carefree. Again, you will see that place and time so gold.
Upon the moment long ago. One breath away, and there you will be so young and carefree. Again, you will see that place in time. So gold.
And this is Stevie Wonder. I mean, 1985, stay gold. And the reason this is important to me, I mean, everyone knows that's from the outsiders as well, and it's very important to me. But just to be a kid again, being gold as a kid, and kind of the point of our show a bit once in a while, which is to take us all back to when we were a lot younger, and it's so fucking true if you think about it. It doesn't last long, man. It's it's gone in a moment, so enjoy it when you can. And I know we all try to pass that on to our kids, but just something that always touched me, the whole song, really, and you gotta love Stevie anyway.
Everybody knows a musical genius.
You the motherfucker I be doing, Stevie Wanda. That shit ain't funny, motherfucker. Don't you never let me see you do that shit again. I'll fuck you up.
That shit ain't funny, motherfucker.
I got all his albums. I got fulfilled. Fuck it, you know the good one. Yeah.
All right, awesome. Back to you, Dongo number five.
Cool. And as I said in the previous lyrics cast, I'm not a lyrics person, so that's why I kind of picked this, is it's you know, it's outside my comfort zone a little bit. Um, but I also um went to songs that I remember as uh from childhood, like my dad singing, you know, like playing in the car and singing along. So that's why I went back to some of those. And and I picked this one because it's haunting and it's like a it's kind of like a uh a sea shanty or whatever you call those, I can't remember the name of the song, but it's like a seafaring song that you about a ship that sank. And you would think it was like hundreds of years ago, but it was actually on November 10th, 1975. The Edmund Fitzgerald sank.
Thank God. I'm not about that, but I love that song.
Yeah, so Gordon Lightfoot, and uh the the line that I picked was the wind and the wires made a tattletale sound, and the waves broke over the railing, and every man knew as the captain did too, was the witch of November come stealing.
The wind and the wires made a tattletale sound, and the wave broke over the railing. And every man knew as the captain did too. Twas the witch of November come stealing.
You know, he had that like the melody of that song was so amazing in his voice, and it's haunting, it's a very haunting song. And 29 guys lost their lives in 1975, a ship on Lake Superior. You know, you would never think. But they had they have what's called the witches, and it's um, you know, it's hurricane force winds. You got cold Arctic air coming down from Canada and warm air coming up from the Gulf, and they get like you know, category two hurricanes up there with with high swells, and it you might as well be all in the middle of the North Atlantic.
It's a farging big lake, man. The big lake they call Gitchagumi. Getcha Gumi, yeah. You know, and uh that song, Donald, it it gives me goosebumps and puts me in tears every time I hear it. Yeah, it's just unbelievable. The lyric from that one, uh, when the scales of November come early, yeah. Like it's doing cleanups, and because it always gets windy in November, but no, that song is so the word is haunting. Yeah, nailed it on the head, they are being nice to me. That's such a great song.
Cleanups are haunting too.
Well, they can be when it's windy, but no, I mean that's not what the song speaks to me. It's just that one line.
Yeah, yeah. And then the other line is yeah, the witch of the gales of November come early.
There's another one that came slashing.
Yeah, and the gales of November came slashing, something like that.
Yeah, great song. Awesome, awesome. Okay, Kev.
You're breaking my heart, you're tearing it apart, so fuck you.
Breaking my heart, turn it apart, but fuck you.
Oh, okay. I just remember as a kid hearing that song. I'm like, wow, he just said that. He just said that.
You're breaking my heart, turn it apart, so fuck you.
And I just I love that song, and that's pretty much the sentiment of the whole song. It it's incorporated right in those three lines.
That's beautiful.
Beautiful. What is the name of said song? You're breaking my heart. Oh, it's not I can live.
No, but yeah, there were many Nielsen songs in my world that would that would absolutely fit here, but I felt like a little levity today and went with that because it always kind of struck me. And yeah, I think we've all kind of felt that, right?
Absolutely in relationships.
Damn, F and straight. We have he's an interesting dude for sure.
Yeah, there's some great documentaries on him, too. He's he's he's one of my all-time favorites, and and his lifestyle did not match most of his music. Most of his music was can't live without you, and and and uh Sappy stuff. Well, kind of, yeah. He did a lot of like old, like my old desk, and some of those songs that were kind of like harken back to the 20s and 30s or whatever, but he was uh he was a raging alcoholic. He had the lost weekends with uh with John Lennon, where they got thrown out of places for the colour.
I heard it like Lennon was like, yeah, you know who I am, but yeah, you're just an absolute drunk, drunken asshole.
Yeah, they were the original Hollywood vampires. Oh, nice, yeah, yeah. One of them, yep. Which is kind of again, what an interesting group. Lennon, Nilsson, uh Alice Cooper, uh Keith Moon. Keith Moon, uh, just a straight uh Mickey Dolan from from the monkeys, just a strange group of people, what what they were to us, and that we saw in on TV and in media, but in reality they were just some hard-drinking motherfuckers to be up in that annex at the rainbow with them, right?
What a time that must have friggin' been.
Man, uh probably more scary than anything else in reality if you're not rich famous raging alcoholic. It was probably a frightening situation. Oh shit. Awesome.
All right, Mark. Put your money in a big house, get yourself a pretty wife. She'll collect your life insurance when she connects you with a knife. Of course, I am speaking of Cinderella. Somebody save me. Great, great song, great band. And that just kind of, I mean, you know, you everyone knows about the gold digger and everything. And I mean, that's one one great thing about me. And uh, I know my wife didn't marry me for my money. There's no friggin' way she did. So I don't I don't expect to get murdered, you know, for my money. And uh, so yeah, it's you know, the gold digger that goes after a rich man, and you know, she's 24 years old, and he's, you know, my age, 62 or whatever, and uh only cares about his money and and eventually does just can't deal with him anymore, and she kills him. But that's just a great song. Very uplifting, too, yes. No, I not we will get to those songs on my list. We will get to them towards the end.
Nice. I was actually cranking that on the deck yesterday. Oh singing it out loud too. That very line, to be precise.
They should have been far bigger than that. Yeah.
That they that they were, but uh I I have the exact same gold digger insurance mark. I do too.
Yeah, too. No gold. See how smart? See how smart we are?
Yeah, yeah, wicked, wicked fucking schmack.
None of us are gonna have gold digger women.
Alright, I'm willing to try.
All right. To me to wrap up number five. And Kev, you took someone you took last time. I did as well with a different song. I am going with Fade to Black, 1984, Metallica. In the last episode we did, I talked about how I think Hetfield is just an incredible lyricist. Probably also goes unnoticed with, you know, being metal. And I think a lot of people just think, you know, they're a heavy band that just thrashes, but God does he have some deep stuff. And I hate to be depressing on this one, but I'm gonna be. Things not what they used to be, missing one inside of me, deathly lost. This can't be real, cannot stand this hell I feel. And this is the one that always hit me. Emptiness is filling me to the point of agony. Growing darkness, taking Dawn. I was me, but now he's gone. God, if my hair stands up when I hear the song, it's so friggin' depressing, but it's something that always hit me, and this is deep lyrics, and they were friggin' deep to me. And I'll leave it at that because we should probably go in a happy direction.
That was my favorite that that is my favorite Metallica song.
Awesome. Love it. Okay, Dongo.
All right, so this one uh was written by um a man named Jacques Rivaux. Uh it was called For Me, and then it was rewritten. So that was in English, but written in France, and I probably mispronounced his name. Uh, it was rewrote in French uh called Comme di Habitat, which uh is as usual translated to English, and then Bowie rewrote it, and he uh wrote it, uh I can't remember Life on Mars, uh, but he never he never produced it. So then a gentleman named Paul Anka wrote it for Old Blue Eyes, and it's a song that we all know as My Way by Frank Sinatra. Yes. Oh, yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew, but through it all, and there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out. I faced it all and I stood tall and I did it my way. Damn right.
I'm sure you knew when I couldn't get it.
Yep. Um, just because so many people had their hands on the writing of that song. Right. And the funny thing about that song is Frank Sinatra hated it. His daughter said he couldn't, he he couldn't stand it, and he he described it as the song that was like stuck on a paper stuck on his shoe that he couldn't kick off. Right. Everybody wanted to hear it, but he he didn't want anything to do with it.
But well Zeppelin with um Stairway to Heaven. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? That was the perfect analogy, the paper stuck on my shoe. Yeah, I think they I think a lot of people feel that way when they have huge hits that they just can't they can't get away from them, that's inescapable, and you're you're tied to it and there's no escape. When did that song come out, Don? Because you mentioned Life on Mars, which is an actual David Bowie song, yeah, 1968.
So Bowie what did Bowie Bowie rewrote an interpretation, even a fool learns to love was the name of my way.
On a crowd of an angel, so much in love, I'll stay with my dream.
Inside such a dream, and even the same melody, or right, you know, but we later changed it to an original song, Life on Mars. That's what I have in my notes. Cool. Yeah.
I love that. I love that song. It was actually a pretty good series that ended quickly, too, probably 15 years ago. Um very cool. I think you can still find it on Netflix or something, but great, great song. Did not know that, Don. There was a connection between the two. I did not know that. Awesome.
All right, Kev, then that's to you.
Oh, all right. I am gross and perverted, I'm obsessed and deranged. I have existed for years, but very little has changed. I'm the tool of the government and industry too, for I am destined to rule and regulate you. I may be vile and pernicious, but you can't look away. I make you think I'm delicious with the stuff that I say. I'm the best you can get. Have you guessed me yet? I am the slime oozing out from your TV set.
I am gross and converted, I'm obsessed and deranged. I have existed for years, but every world has changed. I'm the tool of the government and investigate, for I am destined to rule, and regulate you. I'm the vile and pernicious, but you can't walk away. I make you think I'm delicious. With the stuff that I say, I'm the best you can get. Have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime losing out from your TV set.
Oh my god. Frank Zappa, I am the slime. Oh my god. And that was like 72, 73. And look at where we are now. Oh that's so much worse.
Still running out of the TV, man. They they manipulate us to behave a certain way, you know.
Exactly. Hate your neighbors, don't hate the people that are driving the country into the ground and destroying everything. Just hate the guy next door to you.
That has a different view than you do. Exactly. Not to get too into it, but nowadays, you know, back then it was okay to have a different thought process. Nowadays, people stop speaking to one another because of who they vote for and whatnot. And it's Fargain bullshit. Nice. I knew you'd have Zappa. And the first crazy lyric when you said fuck you, I thought for sure that would have to be him. Nice. All right, Mark.
Alright, well, this is Uncle Ted. Rhoda Cruz is a bitch now, baby. You know you can't turn me round. And if my house gets in my way, baby, you know I'll burn it down.
No, you can't turn me round. If my house gets in my way, baby.
This is somebody who is gonna reach his goals. The noge. This is somebody is is just has a mission, is gonna, I mean, I maybe he's going a little too far, he's gonna burn his own house down, and he crushes her face and stuff like that in this song, but uh hey, you know, it's just I mean that this song obviously is a classic. I mean it's probably his best, you know, his most well-known song. But that's always that that has always reached me deeply because you know I've had goals in life. We all have. And damn it, if I'm doing something that's stopping me from reaching my goals, I gotta stop doing it. And if my house is getting in my way, we burn it down. So it might be metaphorical, but you know.
What an incredible song. In it's in everything out there. Like I've never I don't know if I know of a more used song, like in movies and shows. I know we've talked about it before, but God, what a song. And I also feel like sometimes that's not aligned to Nugent because Derek St. Holmes sings it. No, no, he's he sang most.
I mean, Ted Nugent, I believe, sang one song on that whole album. I think it was Motive City Madhouse.
I'm just saying when people think the Nug, they think cat scratch fever, they think free for all, you know. They stranglehold comes on, they're like, this is a great fucking song, but they don't put it to Ted, and that's too bad. You know, so incredible song. Awesome pick mark. Oh, what a great friggin' song. All right. To me to wrap up number four. And this, um sorry to take the the poll here, but probably gonna be the deepest song of the day. This would be by Kiss. Gotta tie it to KISS. And the song is called Take Me. This is 1976. I was going dark for a bit, so I had to take myself, well, take me back, if you will, because this just happy fun lyrics. And yes, this does take me back to a time in my life. And here we go. Sitting in the back, her head down in my lap, the moonlight shining down on her hair. The radio was playing. Her fingertips were straying. Her mama didn't know she was there.
Sitting in the back, her head down in my lap. The moonlight shining down on the head. The radio was playing.
Alright, um, take me, baby. And it's just so much fun. The first song in this, I mean, the first line in this song is put your hand in my pocket and grab onto my rocket.
Put your hand in my pocket.
Baby got the number.
Okay. If those are not deep, deep, incredible lyrics, I don't know what are, but guess what? I guarantee all of us have been in that predicament in the backseat of our car as a teenager. So it's pure, meaningful, and beauty to me. And we'll leave it at that. So anyway, there's the deepest lyrics of the day, and I shall go to you, Dungo.
Alright, so this one I'm gonna do a couple verses. The first verse, most people are gonna be kind of not knowing. The second verse will definitely reel you in. Uh Kevin might get it, but I watch the ripples change their size, but never leave the stream of warm impermanence. And so the days float through my eyes, but the days seem the same. That's the first verse. The second verse, and these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds, are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through. And of course, that's Bowie for changes.
Don't tell them to pull off an out of it. Turn on face the strain. Where's the shame? You left us up to our accident. You can't twist time strange.
And then my public service announcement is I always thought it was time may change me, but I can't change time. That's what I thought. I can't trace time. Yeah. But that line of the these children that you spit on, of course, was on the Breakfast Club. Yeah. They uh they put it right before the movie.
And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds, are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.
Awesome, dude. That's an incredible lyric. Yeah, that's iconic.
The phrasing is very difficult in that, too, Don. Even reading it, he's like, he's he's kind of it's almost like Christopher Walken, where the punctuation isn't quite exactly what you expect it to be.
I watch the ripples change the sides, but never leave the stream of warm permanent sand.
So the days float through my eyes, but still the days seem the same.
And I can I can the second verse I can definitely because I could hear it, you know. And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through. But the first the first one is, you know, that that's a tricky one. I watch the ripple change, but never leave their stream of warm and permanence. Which I had to look that word up.
That's how you learn, right? Yeah. Awesome.
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Jack. You've gone back in time. This is pastimes at 80 time.
All right, Kevin. All right. The ultimate in vanity, exploiting their supremacy. I can't believe the things you say. I can't believe, I can't believe the price you pay. Nothing can save you. Justice is lost. Justice is raped. Justice is gone. Pulling your strings, justice is done, seeking no truth, winning is all. Find it so grim, so true, so real. It's great that you took Fade to Black, because it would be really awkward with eight billion songs out there if we both picked the same song off an album. So I think that worked out. But that one to me always, and and I didn't the first line is halls of justice painted green, which is such perfect commentary of where the world is. It's like, yeah, you can get justice if you can if you can afford it. Um, I get a kick like you talked about Hatfield's lyrics, and I know that um the little troll there, um Lars. Lars. He said, Well, that was our CNN era. We were watching CNN while we were writing songs, and I'm like, okay, you were watching CNN. Hatfield was writing songs. Exactly. He's a golem, get back behind the drum kit and play out of time.
Yeah.
Well put.
And I wouldn't pick on him so much if he didn't come across like he's so arrogant. Like, dude, really? You're just you're not even a really good drummer, but God bless you.
I wish I could do his voice. So annoying. So fucking annoying. Agreed. And I love that field.
Yeah, that whole album though. I just I love it. I mean, for a final album from a band, I find that one to be one of the absolute best final recordings. I don't know what happened to them after that one. They just disappeared.
I don't know. They just they I mean, you know, you get you get tired of doing the same thing. He probably got another job, maybe at Wendy's or something. I don't know.
I think for a while, I think the like like Mickey Dolan's and and Davy Jones and Michael Nesmith, Peter Torque came out and put out an album as as Metallica. I think maybe it's like a pre prefab Metallica Monkeys reunion tour or something. I don't know.
I don't know, but I think they got different jobs. Changing oil. Yeah, they're at down at uh what the hell is the name of that place? Uh Speedy Lube? Yeah, something like that.
I think it's actually called the Sphere in Vegas.
To their credit, they were big against the Napster stuff and you know the the piracy, which is cool, you know.
Yeah, it was cool and bad all at the same time. They fucking could have gone about it a better, a better way, and that was really Lars. Yeah, not have Lars speak. Right. Yeah, yeah.
Had the right intentions, but they did it the wrong way.
Moss I and it solved nothing because look at where we are with Spotify and everything else and everything else. Yeah, yeah.
Well, they're fucked, you know, because they make nothing off those streams, you know. Yeah, yeah. I poor guys. Anyway. Yeah. Awesome.
I guess I just won't get another solid gold tub.
Thanks a lot. You beat me to their last album. I always say it when you bring up injustice. Awesome. All right, that's to you, Mark.
Okay, well, this is how my next pick goes. I don't need your civil war. It feeds the rich while it buries the poor. You're power-hungry selling soldiers in a human grocery store, ain't that rich? I don't need your civil war. It goes, I mean, it goes right with uh war pigs. It's the basic, you know, it's the same damn thing. You know, they don't send off uh middle management or anything, they send people instead of war, they go to war while they're using you as a pawn. You know what I'm saying? And I I don't know if he I mean that I used to hear that song all the time at Galaxy Gym when we worked out there because they they played that on a loop pretty much. The uh those the double album. And um but that that means a lot to me because I've lost friends that have gone to war, you know, either usually um by side effects that they had through the war, depression. I mean, I even like uh one of my friends, Freddie, he was not the same person when he came back. He was not a rich man. He went over, you know. He probably got cancer from shit that he went through over there, and uh, yeah. So things are gonna get more upbeat, my last two picks, but I'm just saying that.
Awesome, man. Awesome. We all miss Freddy. Yep. Awesome pick, brother. Alright, that's to me. Number three, wrapping it up. And this one for me is this just hit me heavy. Um, I'm gonna read a like you did, Dongo, a couple verses. And this is heavy to me, and maybe not to a lot of other people out there, but this second verse hit me really heavy when I was in my my old home a few years ago. But something about it, uh like listen to it like once a month and tear-ra- I don't know why it does it to me. It's Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen. Okay, 1984. And it starts with this. I get up in the evening, and I ain't got nothing to say. I come home in the morning, I go to bed feeling the same way. I ain't nothing but tired. Man, I'm just tired and bored with myself. Hey there, baby. I could use just a little help. I don't know, I felt that way for a lot of years. I'm s I've snapped out of that. But then this one really hit me as well. Messages keep getting clearer. Radios on, and I'm moving round my place. I check my look in the mirror. Wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face. Man, I ain't getting nowhere. I'm just tired of living in a dump like this. There's something happening somewhere, baby. I just know there is. Just goes really deep to me.
Yeah. That could, yeah, I'm sure that speaks to a lot of people. If I mean, I'm hearing that song all these years, I never even knew what the lyrics were. But I mean they're pretty fucking deep to me.
No, those are those are great lyrics. I'm just wondering, I'm wonder who wrote them. Right, probably not him. I gotta get out of this dump. Like by that time, he was already a multiple. I just we've talked about it before. He can write some really good songs, but what a fraud poser, uh, loser piece of garbage that he is.
Yes, like we spoke with Michael Jackson, I'm separating the art from the person. Yes, yes, exactly.
Yeah, exactly. No, I I do those those are amazing lyrics and they hit really hard. I just how do you how do you how do you write that when you got a billion dollars in the bank?
Right. I mean, unless he that was 20 years ago, what you know, 20 years ago from that point, what he was living, but other than that. No, he's a fraud. You're absolutely right, Kevin.
Somebody said recently when he's that just it just struck me, he said, I want to change my clothes, my hair, my face, because now the thing online is of the pictures of him, is he looks like a western town lesbian bartender.
I see it! I saw that quote, I read it, yeah.
Yeah, and you look at the picture of me like, wow, that's that's actually spot on. You know, how accurate.
Too funny. Great song though, AJ.
All right, Dongo. All right, I gotta sing this one because in the first three words, you're gonna know what the song is. Every gambler knows the secret to surviving, just knowing what to throw away, and knowing what to keep. Because every hand's a winner, and every hand's a loser, and the best that you can hope for is a dying space. And that's from Kenny Rogers, the game. You got to know when to hold him. Such a classic tune. Yeah, you gotta know when to hold when to fold up, know when to walk away, and know when to run.
You never count your money. When you sitting at the table, there'll be time enough for counting. When the dealing's done, you got no windows.
Never count your money.
When you sit at the table, you guys have this.
We're all out of tune.
We gotta work on timing with you guys.
Wicked, not me. I believe it's you, Mark, with the timing.
All right, well, give me the flick track, I'll be fine.
Yeah, so Kenny Rogers, great tune. Uh just classic, iconic 80s country tune. Classic, incredible words, great vision. You know, when you hear that song, you can see, you know, some old guys lives life, you know, hey, in a spot. Let me get a drink of your whiskey and I'll tell you a story.
Yes. Did you see that commercial? He was he was sitting out at a table gambling and he starts singing, and uh they all start looking at him like, Will you shut the fuck up? And he's like, Oh, you guys get the gist of it.
Huh. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. Yeah, everybody knows that. Well, did you know that playing cards with Kenny Rogers gets old pretty fast?
You got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, know when to run. You never count your money when you're sitting at the table. What? You get it, guys. I get the gist, yeah.
Geico, 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance.
Was was that the beginning of that era for him? Because I'm thinking there was Coward of the County, there was um Find Time to Leave Me, Lucille, Islands in the Stream, the Duet. It's like he just went off. And I think that was kind of the beginning of it, where he just exploded again after the whole um first edition just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in. That was a little earlier. Was that right around six pack? I remember going to the theater to see that. Yes.
Awesome. Great song, Donnie. Holy shit, the whole song's incredible. Yeah, yeah, amazing.
Yeah, and the reason why I picked that line is you know, that being an emess and all that, the best way to die is in your sleep. You know, absolutely, you know. I think no matter what you're in, it's the best way to go. Yeah, right, right.
In the saddle, right?
Yeah, you hope it's not after a long period of bed bedriddenness, but right.
Um one of my all-time favorites is I want to go like my grandfather did in his sleep, not like the other people in the car screaming.
I think I broke my nose. I stabbed my brain. I just got my period.
Better check under the hood.
Yeah. Oh god.
But yeah, Mark, I would combine the two. I would combine old age and die in your sleep. All right, Kevin, that's to you.
How's life treating you?
Taking too damn long.
Oh god. Well, I'm I'm glad we had some laughs after that because I'm bringing everybody down here for a minute. But I promise I'm gonna end on a high note. Um, we've all heard this song. Again, I did I doubt that anybody knows exactly. Who it is, but you know you've heard it. When the road gets dark and you can no longer see, just let my love throw a spark and have a little faith in me. And when the tears you cry are all you can believe, just give these loving arms a try and have a little faith in me.
When the road gets dark, and you can no longer see. Just let my love throw a spark. Have a little faith in me when the tears you cry. Oh you can believe. Just give these loving arms a track, and have a little faith in me. Have a little faith in me.
Have a little faith in me. That's one of my favorites, John Hyatt. And I didn't realize until uh my concert buddy told me about this. He recorded that song, and and the whole song is very moving. That captures a piece of it. The the echo on the piano really draws you in and gets you. He wrote that song because he was and recorded it. He was having a hard time with his wife, she was having a hard time. When he came out of the studio from recording it, he found out that she had killed herself. And he plays that song every night. And it's gotta be at this point, it's gotta be just a tribute to her. And there's he mentions he talks about what happened to her and like four or five other songs as well. It was definitely something that left a huge impression on his life. Um, but and that was kind of like his first song that really went mainstream. I think he had like four or five albums out before that. The record company was about to let him go. So imagine that that you write that for your wife, and then she kills herself, and then and that becomes the springboard to your career. Unbelievable. Yeah, a lot of lot of emotion going on there, and just an incredible, incredible song. And I've seen him do it, I don't know, probably ten times, and and it's hard to keep dry eyes when he does that.
That's fucking deep for sure. That is extremely deep. Jesus. And like you said, yeah. Did he have was he like guilty that that was his springboard? You know what I mean?
Yeah, I'm sure he was conflicted by it the whole time. Absolutely.
Right? You gotta think it sometimes. You think about these people fucking making it, you know, as musicians and making all the money, but there's a lot of depth inside them, and a lot of them really do, you know, come from nowhere. So you gotta respect that shit. Yeah. Awesome pick.
All right, Mark. Okay. Um, gonna bring the beat up a little bit. Uh yes, uh, it can happen. And the lyrics are you can mend your wires, you can feed your soul apart, you can touch your life, you can bring your soul alive, you can fool yourself, you can cheat till your blind.
You can come to your heart, it's gonna be up the two.
It's uh song from I believe it was 90125. Yeah. And great album, but I mean, all these years I thought it was you can mend your wires, you can beat your soul apart. It's feed your soul apart, which means what you're doing is nourishing your soul by perhaps going out into uh nature and just learning new stuff, all kinds of different ways to do that. Yeah. And um, you know, and mend your wires means relationships that have gone sour with people that you truly love, and mend your wires. In other words, why do you have to be bitter with people for the rest of your life? There's just absolutely no need. I mean, this is stuff that people do all the time. Paul Stanley. Yeah, well, yeah, okay.
No, he's bitter, I'm saying he's still bitter at his age against other people. Go on.
Oh, well, yeah, no, I know. And the that's probably not a happy person deep down. He has fame, he has a beautiful wife, a great kid who's a better guitar player and singer than he is, and uh Well put Mark because it's so true.
Like, yeah, and my point was is you must get to a certain age where, you know, why wouldn't you let the that past stuff go and hold on to it, which is where you were going when I brought his name up, you know?
Yeah, no, exactly. And and uh I don't have it, I'm not bitter with anybody right now, and not at all. I just wish they weren't the opposite, you know what I mean? And I don't know how to go about it, and you know stuff like that, but it's just it's just inspirational, and a lot of people really need to try to do this. I mean, it's just not something you should carry around with you. Damn right.
So that album, Mark, is I I looked at three songs at least on that album. Right, it can happen. Such such an amazing album, such a soundtrack of our youth. I mean, it was 83, I think. Was it 83? Yeah, in that in that era, yeah.
Well, I mean, you have Changes, Owner of a Lonely Heart, many others, you know. Incredible.
Solid, solid album, unbelievable.
Solid band. Talk about harmonies. I mean, and they could play their instruments too, but their singing was just amazing.
Incredible. Awesome pick, Mark. Awesome. Well, I wish I could, you know, say I was gonna be uplifting, but this one's not gonna be for me. And my number two, um, so I'm keeping it legal here, but everything is illegal. Everything is illegal.
But you can't do this, you can't do that, you can't, you can't, you can't. Everything's illegal.
All right, Chuck. Hang tight. All right, my number two is a song called Hurt. The original was uh Nine Inch Nails in 1994, Trent Reznor, um who I think's incredible with a lot of the songs he writes. But I'm gonna cheat a bit because my favorite version of this song is Johnny Cash, which believe it or not, was 2002.
So the song was written in the 1990s.
That's right. So it is not illegal. But anyway, um this uh everything that I've said today has deep meaning to me, and sometimes I am projecting some some things, and I want to read this couple of lines, if I may. And you could have it all. My empire of dirt. I will let you down, I will make you hurt. If I could start again a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way, and you could have it all.
I will let you down. I will lady must I would find a way.
I doubt I sorry. I doubt with some of this through my life, um a certain time in my life, and I felt like no matter what I did, you know, I was gonna make people hurt. Sorry to not lift everyone up out there for a minute, but I just, you know, it didn't matter what I was gonna fucking do. I felt like I was hurting people around me. And I'm guessing that it was for the same reasons that Trent Trent Reznor was having. So, you know, we are obviously in different circumstances, but the same ster circumstance, if you will, and I beat that fucking battle, but that song is always spoken to me. And when Johnny Cash does that, man, it is so much deeper to me than when Reznor did it with nine-inch nails, because he put more Johnny Cash just put so much more actual hurt into that song.
Oh, absolutely became a Johnny Cash song.
Exactly. He actually said that, became his own. So yeah, so definitely have to look that up. That is definitely you haven't heard that, Dongo? Not the uh Johnny Cash. Oh boy, Donny.
You must this is around the time she passed away, and then he passed away very shortly after that.
So he he thought that he was done. I think wasn't that one wasn't that the album Rick Rubin came in? I believe so. And did with him? Yeah, just showed his relevance right to the end, and and that is, yeah, obviously Reznor wrote the words, but man, Johnny brought them to where everybody could could feel it for sure.
Indeed, man. I mean, nine inch nails was more of a I mean, even the the way the song, the music, the guitars and everything, it took you to a place that you felt like you were probably on the same things he was taking, you know? So I believe it was his Empire of Shit.
Yeah, Empire of Durgan. Exactly. So anyway, yeah, that song hurts. No pun intended. All right, Dongo, wrapper up, number one.
Cool, and I'm gonna uplift everyone with this song and we're gonna float on the water because this is a yacht rock staple, and I had to shoehorn in a yacht rock. Kevin will appreciate this. So I'll I'll read the lyrics and then I'll uh I'll tie it in with the with the chorus. Heavenly Father watching us fall, we take from each other and give nothing at all. Well, it's a doggone shame, but never too late for change. So if your luck runs low, just reach out and call his name. His name.
Yamobi there. Oh, Yamobi there.
Yamo be there. Heavenly Father watching us all. We take from each other and give nothing at all. Well, too late.
Is it James Ingram and Michael McDonald?
Correct. James Ingram, Michael McDonald, also Quincy Jones. I love Quincy Jones. I mean Trinity. Right? Quincy Jones. But so originally I thought that when I was younger, I thought that was like, you know, the Weiss bugging them. Like, you gotta show up for the yeah, I'll be there. Yah mo be there, bitch. But no, the the the the lyrics are you know, God will be there, and and Yahweh is a he is the Hebrew name for God. So Yah Mo be there is yeah, God will be there. Yeah, and uh I thought that was pretty cool. Awesome. Um but I love the song, I love the groove, and uh you know James Ingram sings that shit.
Yeah, and then Michael McDonald comes in with his smooth rasp in the background and just what's a yeah, what's the exclamation point on it? Yamubi was was that from Running Scared?
I don't know.
Is that the great uh Billy Crystal and um Heinz, Gregory Hines, Gregory Hines, thank you. I was drawing a blank on that. I think there if that wasn't that one, there they did one for that movie, but yeah, same same era. Great, great tune.
I love it. I think you're right with the movie, Kev, but we'll have to check it out to be sure. Don't crucify us, audience.
Paula, yeah.
I gotta tell you something. I'm really excited about it. Uh, for the first time today, I woke up, I came to the store, and I I feel confident to say to you that if you don't take this Michael McDonald DVD that you've been playing for two years straight off, I'm going to kill everyone in the store and put a bullet in my brain.
David, what do you suggest we play?
I don't care. Anything. I would rather I would rather watch Beautician and the Beast. I would rather listen to Fran Dresher for eight hours than have to listen to Michael McDonald. Nothing against him, but if I hear Yamo be there one more time, I'm going to Yamo burn this place to the ground.
Such a smart ass. Get back on the floor.
Awesome, Vic Dongo. All right, Kevin.
Hold on. This song has a little introduction to it. It ain't supposed to be sad, though you might feel it that way. It's a song about desperation. Every now and again, we do get desperate. This is a song about L-O-V-E, and if you abuse it, you're gonna lose it.
And if you lose it, you abuse it, you ain't gonna be able to choose it because you ain't gonna have it further on down the line. Things ain't gonna be so fine. You're gonna be sitting there on your little machine trying to look and keep it clean. You're gonna be playing bingo all night all alone. That's why you're sitting there by the telephone and you know that she ain't gonna call you. So you put on the TV and you're watching John and Carson segueing right into tomorrow show, but that don't got the go, so you turn it off, you turn on the radio. The radio don't seem to get the click, so you say, Hey man, I can't look at the split. You start to open up a little book, and there's something there you got to overlook and say, baby, you know that's something on my mind.
You say, baby, there's something of my mind. I know that you're home, and I know you ain't all alone. So you start walking over to a house. You get over to a house, you walk over to a door, you start powering on the door. You say, open up the door, bitches woof-goo with the green teeth, and let me in.
Well, she opens up the door, and then you just kind of walk up to her and say, baby.
You look up way up at a green mascara and you say, Oh my darling. You know her and me was at the party as friends. Do not believe what they say. That's only gossip that they're telling you down the wild cracker line. You say, darling! Take your big curls and just squeeze them down, Retumba. What's the name of that chick with the long hair?
Rapunzel!
That's your hey, Rapunzel. Hey, Raputa! Raputa the Puta, hey, Raputa the Puta, climb it down your hair, let me climb up to the lad of your love. Because this is Wolvergo saying to you. Love comes once, and when it comes, you better grab it fast. Cause sometimes you love your grab ain't gonna last, and I believe I'm a monster.
You know, I think I'm a monster. You know, baby, I think I'm a monster. You know, I think I'm a monster.
You gotta cut that in. You gotta cut the piece of mom and put Peter Wolf in there wherever I've I I've tried. I tried to get through it. I absolutely fucking love that is, of course, uh the blow your face off live rendition or a live intro to Musta Got Lost. And it's so iconic that I don't want to listen to Musta Got Lost off the album because without that intro, the song's like, meh, it's not the same. If you don't have him talking about Raputa, Reputa the Puda, throw me down your hair, let me climb up. Oh, sorry, Don. Throw me down your hair, let me climb up the ladder of love. Because this is Wobba Gubba saying, Love comes once and when it comes, you better grab it fast. Because the love you grab may not last. I do believe I must have. I do believe I must have. I must have got lost. I mean, that's just and he did that classic, like every concept. I I I he did it on that live album. I don't know if he did it, but it sounds I mean, who knows? They might have rehearsed it, but he's like got call in response because he says he says Raputa. He goes, What's that? What's the girl with the long heads? Rapunzel, hey Rapunzel, hey Raputa, hey Raputa the Muda. He changes it, so I don't know. It's just such a moment in time, and they were such a great band, and he was such an incredible motor mouth that I just I love every second of that intro.
It's incredible, man.
It is, it really is. You just it brings me joy as soon as I as soon as I hear that.
Oh, yeah. And Kevin, I think I think you would have nailed it if you didn't run out of breath.
I actually I had to scroll down, I was losing the words. Oh, could not remember it.
Oh man, too funny. Now, are those your lyrics? Are you picking lyrics from the song too? Oh no, it's that.
I mean, the song's it's a great song, but that intro is absolutely timeless, man.
It's the best who doesn't know that real wobble gumbo with the green teeth lemon.
You look up into her, you look way up into her green mascara. Say, oh my darling. You know her and I were only at the potty at friends. Do not believe what they're telling you down the wise cracker line.
That's one of the best rants in history. Absolutely. I don't think Ted Nugent can hold one to him.
I would say, I know, I know. Same exact thing at the same exact time.
Fucking incredible right, brother. Number one to you.
Okay, I'm gonna sing this bubble style.
And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart, closer to the heart.
Blacksmith and the artist reflected in their art, they forge their creativity. Closer to the heart. Yeah, closer to the heart.
It's rush, closer to the heart. And this lyric, uh, it it basically speaks of unfortunately the impossible because as we talked about it, you need to have such a narcissistic and sometimes ruthless attitude to actually get elected to high office and everything. And wouldn't it be great if the people that did get to high office were the ones that you know were spreading love and happiness and and you know, just hope and all that.
It could get there if people got their heads out of their ass and started stopped, you know, voting for the losers, you know. Well, it's the problem is it's the primaries, you know.
Well not only that, but you're you're given you're given two choices and you pick the lesser of evils.
There's no I just don't think you can get there going to the primary, you know, like you have to in the money that's involved in it and all that stuff, yeah. You gotta have the people show up when it when it counts, and that's unfortunately the times where it's not very highly advertised.
And people that have a lot of love in their heart and all that are actually trying to raise happy families and just trying to and the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart, closer to the heart, you know, spread it amongst their own groups or you know, their communities. If you have the money and desire and just the I mean insane motivation to reach those higher offices, you're probably have a lot of deep flaws too, and that are not going to bring us closer to our heart, if you will.
You know, so some people politically, if they're if they oppose the sitting president, oh he's a megalomaniac. Yeah, and what was the guy before him? A megalomaniac. Why would anybody want that position if they weren't a complete megalomaniac? Right.
I I I know what I wouldn't want to be president.
I don't, I mean you have to make decisions every day. Your decisions big kill people. I don't want that.
No, no, they do. Exactly. I mean, I they're I don't want that responsibility. I can't even the highest I would run for, and it it's not gonna happen, but the highest would be like a state rep in Concord making a hundred dollars a year.
Yeah, but the thing is like the the state, like the state and local stuff, that's more work when you when you think about it, you know. Like the federal positions, like Congress and Senate, all they do is you know press the D or R, whatever one they are, and you know any idiot can do that, you know.
And then they raise money on it.
Take money from the packs and all that stuff, and then just vote the party line and yeah, any anyway.
That's that's they are literally telemarketers. I think, and I read this probably 10 years ago. They need to they need to generate $208,000 per day as a US senator to remain in their position. So that was 10 years ago. So what is it, half a million dollars a day that they have to raise? So they're bit they're they are on the phone the same as the guy that's calling you about your extended warranty. Yeah, their actual job is no different, other than they get inside trading and they can make tons of billions of dollars for themselves.
Right. Yeah.
Yeah. But I mean, I was a page up in Concord in uh 1983, and you know, you have lobbyists that come in, they're trying to influence everybody. But here I am, what, 18 years old, and I didn't even I knew there was a thing called political parties, you know, Democrat, Republican mostly. And like when I would watch them vote in in uh the chambers there, I never thought of I just looked at the numbers. I mean, I didn't I thought that people just made up their mind per issue, and it's not like that anymore. It's like okay, I have to vote for this because I'm in this party, I have to vote for this because I'm in that party, and it's it really sucks. You know, but uh but I was trying to be uplifting with that with that lyric.
Yeah, yeah. I think that's the third or fourth song where we got into politics. What were you gonna say, Kev?
Well, I was just saying it should be it should be one, every bill should be standalone. Because it's like, oh, we're gonna I voted to pass the bill to save small children. Well, that's great. You would go to page three, and there's forty billion dollars for Al Qaeda. Right? So bills, bills should have one purpose only. There's a term for it, and I can't think of it right now, but that's what it should be. Is it should be a single purpose bill, right? Not all this other crap tied to it.
So in closing, you know, nice people don't end up at the top, unfortunately. And secondly, political parties suck.
That's number one. You are correct, Mark. All right, number one to me to wrap it up. And if I may hear boys and audience, I'm gonna go a little deep on this one, so forgive my rant. Just like the last song I picked, this one is two different versions. Uh, the original is 1969 by Chris Christofferson. And this song is called Sunday Morning Comin' Down. I'm going with the 1972 version by once again, two in a row here, boys. Johnny Cash. Yes. Okay. This song to me has a dozen different meanings, but I'm gonna nail it down to like two or three or four. But uh first of all, I will read the lyrics and then I'll go into it. Well, I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt, and the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert.
Well, I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt, and the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert.
Alright, first of all, that first line right there migraines, hangovers, just I suffered from migraines, um, you know, for at least 35 years of my life, decapacitating migraines that um you could feel the the thumping in the back of my head, and I would have to go to the hospital, you know, probably 70 times over my life. It was fucking brutal. I see these kids coming to work now and say they have a migraine and they're talking to people laughing. I'm like, no, you don't have a migraine, trust me. These things were dehabilitating, and thank God I have no idea why they left me. That is exactly what it makes me think of is because I would sit in a recliner and move my head around for two hours just trying to find a way that it didn't kill. That's that's deep to me, you know, and that's what this show is about. But the hangovers, of course, as well. You know, there were some headaches there as well.
I think that's what Christofferson was talking about there, obviously.
Yeah, but then I will go on further. Then I fumbled through my closet, through my clothes and found my cleanest dirty shirt.
Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes and found my cleanest dirty shirt.
Incredible line, just finding the cleanest one that you can find. Yes. Then I washed my face and combed my hair and stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.
Then I washed my face and combed my hair and stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.
One other thing that I wanted to bring up about this song, and one more line, because there's something in a Sunday that makes a body feel alone. And I don't know what it is about Sundays. It also makes me think a little bit about the walk of shame that everyone's gone through in their life. But but to me, just as a little like boy, you know, five, six, seven, eight years old, it was just a weird feeling on a Sunday, even here in you know, a very quiet area, like you went outside Sunday morning and it felt different. It was just quiet, lonely. I don't know what it is, but the fact that A, that there's a song about this, and B, that all of us, I'm sure, and most of the world has that feeling sometimes on a Sunday. It's it's very it's deep to me that way, too. Like, what is it about that day of the week, you know, that just it's lonely. It can be a lonely day, you know. I mean, it can be a hell of a day too, don't get me wrong, but but that feeling always hit me. So I'll leave it at that.
Sunday has a distinct feeling, I think, for everyone, and always has, whether it's because it's the Lord's Day or because, you know, being in the restaurant industry, AJ, you know that that Fridays, Friday nights feel different than Saturday nights, right? Friday nights, everybody's rushing to get there, they're still wound up from the week. Saturday, people kind of saunter in, they're a little bit more relaxed. They're, you know what I mean? They've they've taken the work week off and they've, you know, mowed the lawn or whatever else. It's a different mindset. So I think Sunday is that in between going back to work. Yeah, you're thinking about going back to work, so you're a little solemn. Yeah, you still don't have to be anywhere. And so it's a little bit enjoyable, but it's an awkward feeling because it's not it's not as defined as the other days of the week are. But such a great pick, AJ. I mean, just Christofferson was such an underrated writer. Damn right. And and you had one just one, Kev. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, yeah. Jesus was a Capricorn. Yeah. Um, I just anytime I think of Johnny Cash now that he's been gone for years, is is that one photograph of you've been fucked up, but you've never been Johnny Cash in the bushes with a cake fucked up. I mean, that's right. I mean that's such an iconic picture. And that's the way I like to remember Johnny Cash, which is which was probably Saturday night and then Sunday morning.
He was enjoying the smell of someone frying chicken, right? Exactly. Oh, that whole song, the lyrics. And I gotta go back to the original, I mean, the first one I read. Um, and the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad. So I had one more for dessert. And I don't know if a lot of you have been out out there have been there, but I sure as hell have. Oh, yeah, and boy, is that true. You know, on a day off. Dear Lord. Not till noon, usually, but you know. Well, good for you, brother. I've had them for going to a Patriots game, uh, or fishing on the ocean, man. That would be 5 a.m. Yeah, yeah. Awesome, awesome fun, boys. What a great time, yeah. Yeah, that was so much fun just hanging out with you guys and everyone out there for listening. We couldn't thank you more. Just just a great fucking time. Dungo, thank you. Thanks, man.
Awesome, brother Mark. Well, that was fun. Um, I've had a fantastic time, as always. And uh, always and Kevin, thank you.
Absolutely, thank you, AJ. A great time, and I don't know if you planned on doing this, but I did want to say that uh reiterate that people should check us out on Latour Live and check out his show because Dave's a fun guy, they have a good time on that show. Absolutely listening to their their radio show. So check it out. iHeartRadio, I think, is the big one that they're on.
They're on Spotify and Apple Podcast, too. So pretty much like us where you can except the few that we don't know about that they said they weren't on. Right. Awesome, and everyone out there too. Thank you so much. Check out the pastimers at 80s high page. It's we're starting to get some awesome uh reels up there and and pictures and just shit that takes you back and some interaction. So thank you all.
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