I wrote this song after a confluence of inspiration from mike's #askhubski, from the when is the best time to plant a tree? saying that b_b introduced me to and from a recent comment from WanderingEng here.
I mention in the song that I think the saddest word is "regret." -I'm not sure if this is truly what I think, it just seemed to fit the song.
What words stand out to you as particularly sad?
The song could use some bass, some organ, background vocals etc. Anyone game? ghostoffuffle, T-Dog, coffeesp00ns, BLOB_CASTLE, mk or b_b (grab a bass, ya'll can play... I've seen it) and anyone else... go to town.
Happy fathers day to ya'll.
-Steve
lil and steve -I played hockey -- my wife was kind enough to give me two uninterrupted hours for fathers day :)
Lyrics:
The best time to plant a tree
Is 20 years ago or today
So don't procrastinate
If you care about your fate
Let me tell you about
A man once fell in love and held it a secret for years
Let me tell you about
He waited till his last breath and in it there was nothing left
The best time to make amends
Is now the present tense
Don't hold off for fear of trying
There are worse fates than dying
Let me tell you about
A woman once fell in love and held it a secret for years
Let me tell you that
She waited till her last breath and in it there was nothing left
Don't let your fear hold sway
Don't let the tangled days
Don't let the one thing that burns inside you, flame out in the rear view
The saddest word, regret
Yeah, "loss" sucks. "Insufficient," sucks too. More Hubski, bring me more sad words. My loss is insufficient, need more sadness.
Sorry for bringing mood down, but I might as well share it. It's not always good. I'm beginning to look like a death camp survivor because of how my hormones are out of whack, despite eating around 150% of what I should for my age, gender and level of physical activity. Weighting 65 kilograms while being 193 centimeters high and losing more weight sucks a big one. I'm eating my second dinner as we speak, still feel hungry like I didn't get to eat anything in two weeks.
"Dor". It's a Romanian word which supposedly resembles 'missing' ("I miss you"), but it's more close to 'yearning'. Think about the Portuguese 'saudade'. I'm really fond of these guys I recently discovered: Oppenheimer Analytics - Subterranean Desire
"Can't." But only in the specific sense that a government official, HR rep, or parent would use it. As in , "You can't do that, sir." No one ever did anything great by responding, "Ok." Also, I think I learned that saying here on our humble little site, if I'm not mistaken.
Y'all. It fills a very useful and otherwise unfilled grammatical role. It allows you to unambiguously address a representative of a group as a representative of that group rather than as an individual. "You keep fucking up" is a personal accusation, "y'all keep fucking up" is not. Y'all is a friend of all who have to deal with dysfunctional organizations. Many conflicts can be avoided by making clear that it is not the person you are talking to, necessarily, you are calling a fuckup. It is rarely allowed to do its thing, though, because you can't say "y'all" without sounding like an uneducated hick. Proper grammar demands making is personal or adding lengthy qualifications to every other sentence. Poor y'all, it only wants to help.
Nah, ya'll is a happy word. It implies a group with camaraderie. I live in the south (as I think you do too) and as a transplant from the north I held the same views of the word until I heard it used by some very smart people as a way to impart "southern-ness". I like it in the right context.