Too Much Stuff

I'll start out with the Top 5 On Friday @ Music Memoirs

Top 5 "Ranting" songs (interpret as you see fit)

1. Elaine Paige - Nobody's Side (from the musical Chess)

This song merits my posting lyrics...by Tim Rice: Music by the male half of ABBA.

What's going on around me
Is barely making sense
I need some explanations fast
I see my present partner
In the imperfect tense
And I don't see how we can last
I feel I need a change of cast
Maybe I'm on nobody's side

And when he gives me reasons
To justify each move
They're getting harder to believe
I know this can't continue
I've still a lot to prove
There must be more I could achieve
But I don't have the nerve to leave

Everybody's playing the game
But nobody's rules are the same
Nobody's on nobody's side
Better learn to go it alone
Recognize you're out on your own
Nobody's on nobody's side

The one I should not think of
Keeps rolling through my mind
And I don't want to let that go
No lovers ever faithful
No contract truly signed
There's nothing certain left to know
And how the cracks begin to show!

Never make a promise or plan
Take a little love where you can
Nobody's on nobody's side
Never stay too long in your bed
Never lose your heart, use your head
Nobody's on nobody's side

Never take a stranger's advice
Never let a friend fool you twice
Nobody's on nobody's side
Everybody's playing the game
But nobody's rules are the same
Nobody's on nobody's side

Never leave a moment too soon
Never waste a hot afternoon
Nobody's on nobody's side
Never stay a minute too long
Don't forget the best will go wrong
Nobody's on nobody's side

Never be the first to believe
Never be the last to deceive
Nobody's on nobody's side
Never make a promise or plan...

2. Elvis Costello - The Scarlet Tide (Live version with revised lyrics)

Admit you lied and bring the boys back home

3. Boingo - War Again
Danny Elfman rants like no one else can.

4. George Harrison - Blood From A Clone
George ranting about the evil music industry.

5. Barbara Dickson & Elaine Paige - I Know Him So Well
Two woman ranting about the one man they both love. Not quite the rant the way most people see a rant, but I've lived out this song once and I feel the pain of the lyrics, so I can see the rant in it.

And well...since Chess is one of my favorite musicals...the lyrics:

Nothing is so good it lasts eternally
Perfect situations must go wrong
But this has never yet prevented me
From wanting far too much for far too long
Looking back, I could have done it differently
Won a few more moments, who can tell?
But it took time to understand the man
Now at least I know, I know him well

Wasn't it good, Wasn't it fine
Isn't it madness he can't be mine
But in the end, he needs a little more than before
Security, he needs his fantasy and freedom
I know him so well

No one in your life is with you constantly
No one is completely on your side
And though I move my world to be with him
Still the gap between us is too wide
Looking back, I could have played it differently
Learned about the man before I fell
But I was ever so much younger then

Wasn't it good (oh so good), Wasn't it fine (so fine)
Isn't it madness he can't be mine

Didn't I know how it would go
If I knew from the start
Why am I falling apart

Wasn't it fine
Isn't it madness he can't be mine
But in the end, he needs a little more than before
Security, he needs his fantasy and freedom
I know him so well
It took some to understand him

~ I requested Mamma Mia today for my mum, and it had me feeling crappy for the rest of the day. Not that it's a bad song or anything. I love ABBA. My mum loves ABBA. This song made me think about all the times we went galavanting around the area to the malls and to the record shops. I miss those days. I wish there was something I could do that could give my mother a better quality of life. Losing the companion that I had in that capacity was like losing my best friend, and no one really fills that vacancy.

I'm glad PH played the song, and it did make her laugh. However mom isn't sure if she's ready to have PH call her mommy. And yeah...I get my ornery streak from her. Now I have to rip more of my ABBA stuff to my hard drive.

~ I joined the gym today. I didn't bother to wait for the 2 week trial. This place is wonderful. Circuit training like Curves only with the ability to change the resistence. Great cardio...and the male to female ratio was pleasant. Oh yeah there was eye candy abounding. None of it my type...but pretty college boys that occassionally smiled at me. Made me feel good as I was trying to figure out the machines on my own. However, none of them could hold a candle to PH. PH is just too darn cute, but don't tell him that, he'll get a swelled head.

~ Oh and apparently I'm one of 2 people that call PH Fishy. I figure since he hasn't told me to stop, I'm not going to get bitchslapped anytime soon. I just hope he doesn't call me "crazy email girl."