all the dreams were held so close
Seemed to all go up in smoke
Let me whisper in your ear...Angie...Angie...
all the dreams were held so close
Seemed to all go up in smoke
Let me whisper in your ear...Angie...Angie...
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I'm yo.
This my brother yo
We yo yo
Red Lily (10-03-2020)
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I'm yo.
This my brother yo
We yo yo
I'm yo.
This my brother yo
We yo yo
Lady...Kenny Rogers...
Red Green
The man's prayer:
I'm a man
But I can change
If I have to
I guess
Cotton1 (09-09-2019)
Roy Orbison
Red Green
The man's prayer:
I'm a man
But I can change
If I have to
I guess
IMHO, the greatest love song ever written - Thanks Brian Wilson!
Author Barry Miles wrote that it was one track of Pet Sounds which proved that rock music was an art form.[56] Sound engineer Eugene Gearty called "God Only Knows" a perfect example of "how much [Brian] modulated from key to key. He was far more complex than the Beatles and mostly like [Igor] Stravinsky in orchestral music where the key changes and key centers change four or five times within a pop tune, which is unheard of."[57] Gill believes: "I can’t think of any other 'pop love song' that is pinioned between a febrile, almost desperate desire and fear and its opposite, a contented contemplation of a harmonious relationship."[19]
Mojo magazine ranked the song as the 13th greatest song of all time. In a poll on the MTV station, VH1, it placed at number 28 on the UK's Nation's Favourite Lyric. It was voted by listeners of BBC Radio 2as one of the three songs that changes people's lives.[citation needed] In its list of the 100 best singles of the last 50 years, Popdose ranked "God Only Knows" at number 1, saying: "It is simply one of the most beautifully composed and arranged songs in the history of not just pop music, but Western music. To place 'God Only Knows' in its proper context is to compare it not just to 1966 Paul McCartney, but 1836 Frédéric Chopin."[58] English broadcaster Dominic King deemed it the most "perfectly constructed song in pop history".[25] Brian's mother, Audree Wilson, believes that "God Only Knows" was one of Brian's finest ever compositions, as she stated in an interview: "'God Only Knows' ... What can you say about it? I still think it's one of his greatest pieces."[39] Entertainment Weekly ranked the song number one in its "Fifty Greatest Love Songs" list.[59]
Paul McCartney has called it his favorite song of all time.[60] In an interview with David Leaf in 1990 he stated, "I was asked recently to give my top 10 favorite songs for a Japanese radio station ... I didn't think long and hard on it but I popped that [God Only Knows] on the top of my list. It's very deep. Very emotional, always a bit of a choker for me, that one."[39] Speaking again in 2007, McCartney said: "'God Only Knows' is one of the few songs that reduces me to tears every time I hear it. It's really just a love song, but it's brilliantly done. It shows the genius of Brian. I've actually performed it with him and I'm afraid to say that during the sound check I broke down. It was just too much to stand there singing this song that does my head in and to stand there singing it with Brian."[61] Brian responded apprehensively to McCartney's admiration of the song in the 1970s: "Like, if 'God Only Knows' is the greatest song ever written, then I'll never write anything as good again! And if I never write anything as good, then I'm finished."[62]
The song inspired songwriter Margo Guryan to move into writing pop music. She said: "I thought it was just gorgeous. I bought the record and played it a million times, then sat down and wrote 'Think of Rain'. That's really how I started writing that way. I just decided it was better than what was happening in jazz."[63] Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne wrote that "It's impossible to exaggerate how beautiful this song is. Everywhere, it takes risks."[64] Bono said in October 2006 during Brian Wilson's induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame that "the string arrangement on 'God Only Knows' is fact and proof of angels".[need quotation to verify] Jimmy Webb, an American popular music composer, has also stated his love for the song, stating, "I love 'God Only Knows' and its bow to the baroque that goes all the way back to 1740 and Johann Sebastian Bach. It represents the whole tradition of liturgical music that I feel is a spiritual part of Brian's music. And Carl's singing is pretty much at its pinnacle—as good as it ever got."[30] In a 2003 solo concert in Tel Aviv, Steven Wilson, frontman of Porcupine Tree, declared "God Only Knows" as his favorite song of all time. On the Insurgentes listening party that took place in Mexico City in 2009, Steven Wilson said it was a perfect song. Simon Neil of Scottish band Biffy Clyro has the lyrics "God only knows what I'd be without you" tattooed across his chest.[65]
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You are wrong about police.
Cotton1 (09-09-2019)
As a sailor and being away from my loved ones for so long, this song has always touched my heart.
"Being apart ain't easy on this love affair. Two strangers learn to fall in love again".
And a little Barbershop...one we used to sing when I was a member of the Holland Windmill Chorus...
You keep coming back like a song...
Red Green
The man's prayer:
I'm a man
But I can change
If I have to
I guess
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