Diving the deep, we seek the masks...

Brings back memories...

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Night Moves
by Bob Seger

I was a little too tall
Could've used a few pounds
Tight pants points hardly reknown
She was a black-haired beauty with big dark eyes
And points all her own sitting way up high
Way up firm and high

Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy
Out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy
Workin' on mysteries without any clues
Workin' on our night moves
Tryin' to make some front page drive-in news
Workin' on our night moves
In the summertime
In the sweet summertime

We weren't in love, oh no, far from it
We weren't searchin' for some pie in the sky summit
We were just young and restless and bored
Livin' by the sword
And we'd steal away every chance we could
To the backroom, to the alley or the trusty woods
I used her, she used me
But neither one cared
We were gettin' our share
Workin' on our night moves
Tryin' to lose the awkward teenage blues
Workin' on our night moves
And it was summertime

And oh the wonder
We felt the lightning
And we waited on the thunder
Waited on the thunder

I awoke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Ain't it funny how the night moves
When you just don't seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in

Saw this on the Colbert Report Christmas special and really dug it -- sort of rediscovering the song, as it were, truly great song...

And here is the cast from the show singing it:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-c…

And here's a recording of Elvis himself...

http://www.imeem.com/muytonto/musi…

(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding
by Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello

As I walk through
This wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity.

I ask myself
Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?

And each time I feel like this inside,
There's one thing I wanna know:
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

And as I walked on
Through troubled times
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
So where are the strong
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony.

'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

So where are the strong?
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony.

'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? Ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

This one never goes out of style...

Margaritaville
by Jimmy Buffet

Nibblin' on sponge cake
Watchin' the sun bake
All of those tourists covered with oil
Strummin' my six-string
On my front porch swing
Smell those shrimp they're beginnin' to boil

Chorus:
Wastin' away again in Margaritaville
Searching for my lost shaker of salt
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
But I know it's nobody's fault

I don't know the reason
I stayed here all season
Nothin' to show but this brand new tattoo
But it's a real beauty
A Mexican cutie
How it got here I haven't a clue

Chorus:
Wastin' away again in Margaritaville
Searchin' for my lost shaker of salt
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
Now I think
Hell, it could be my fault

I blew out my flip-flop
Stepped on a pop-top
Cut my heel had to cruise on back home
But there's booze in the blender
And soon it will render
That frozen concoction that helps me hang on

Wastin' away again in Margaritaville
Searching for my lost shaker of salt
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame
But I know it's my own damn fault
Yes and some people claim that there's a woman to blame
And I know it's my own damn fault

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If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
- William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night I.1.1-3

Amazing lyrics, harmonies bringing tears to my eyes -- we sang this in our journey group before and it touches very deeply...

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I Remember, I Believe
Composed by Bernice Johnson Reagon, copyright: Songtalk Publishing Co. 1995

I don’t know how my mother walked her trouble down
I don’t know how my father stood his ground
I don’t know how my people survive slavery
I do remember, that’s why I believe

I don’t know why the rivers overflow their banks
I don’t know why the snow falls and covers the ground
I don’t know why the hurricane sweeps through the land
every now and then
Standing in a rainstorm, I believe

I don’t know why the angels woke me up this morning soon
I don’t know why the blood still runs thru my veins
I don’t know how I rate to run another day
I am here still running, I believe

My God calls to me in the morning dew
The power of the universe knows my name
Gave me a song to sing and sent me on my way
I raise my voice for justice I believe

Samhain brings an ending and a beginning; the old year over and the new one to start. My heart is sad and my heart is hopeful, the harvest of the many years and the blossoming to come...

Free Bird
(Allen Collins - Ronnie Vanzant)

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be traveling on, now,
'cause there's too many places I've got to see.
But, if I stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
'cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you can not change.

Oh... oh... oh... oh... oh...
And the bird you cannot change.
And this bird you cannot change.
Lord knows I can't change.

Bye, bye, baby it's been a sweet love.
Yea, yea
Though this feeling I can't change.
But please don't take it so badly,
'cause the lord knows I'm to blame.
But, if I stayed here with you girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you'll can not change.

Oh... oh... oh... oh... oh...
And this bird you cannot change.
And this bird you cannot change.
Lord knows, I can't change.
Lord help me, I can't change.
Lord I can't change,
Won't you fly high free bird yea.

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TITLE: Go Your Own Way
ARTIST: Fleetwood Mac
Lyrics and Chords by Lindsey Buckingham

Loving you isn't the right thing to do
How can I ever change things that I feel
If I could, maybe I'd give you my world
How can I, when you won't take it from me

/ G - - D / C - - G / :

{Refrain}
You can go your own way, go your own way
You can call it another lonely day
You can go your own way, go your own way

/ Em C D - / / Em C D - G /

Tell me why everything turned around
Packing up shacking up is all you wanna do
If I could, baby I'd given you my world
Open up, everything's waiting for you

{Refrain}

You can go your own way, go your own way
You can call it another lonely day
Another lonely day
You can go your own way, go your own way
You can call it another lonely day
You can go your own way
You can call it another lonely day

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"Cup Of Wonder"
by Jethro Tull

May I make my fond excuses
for the lateness of the hour,
but we accept your invitation, and we bring you Beltane's flower.
For the May Day is the great day, sung along the old straight track.
And those who ancient lines did lay
will heed the song that calls them back.
Pass the word, pass the lady, pass the plate to all who hunger.
Pass the wit of ancient wisdom, pass the cup of crimson wonder.
Pass the cup of crimson wonder.

Ask the Green Man where he comes from, ask the cup that fills with red.
Ask the old grey standing stones that show the sun its way to bed.
Question all as to their ways,
and learn the secrets that they hold.
Walk the lines of nature's palm
crossed with silver and with gold.
Pass the word, pass the lady, pass the plate to all who hunger.
Pass the wit of ancient wisdom, pass the cup of crimson wonder.
Pass the cup of crimson wonder.

Join in black December's sadness,
lie in August's welcome corn.
Stir the cup that's ever-filling
with the blood of all that's born.
But the May Day is the great day, sung along the old straight track.
And those who ancient lines did lay
will heed this song that calls them back.
Pass the word, pass the lady, pass the plate to all who hunger.
Pass the wit of ancient wisdom, pass the cup of crimson wonder.
Pass the cup of crimson wonder.

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Happy Birthday griptiger!

Many blessings to you on this day!

This is a hilarious AP story in today's Washington Post:

Here, kitty: Cop expects house cat, gets cougar
The Associated Press
Tuesday, September 30, 2008; 10:50 PM

CASPER, Wyo. -- A police officer didn't think much of a call to shoo off
a bothersome "kitty cat" at a Casper home on Monday. But after the
officer arrived at the home, he ran for cover after seeing a male
mountain lion weighing 80 to 90 pounds.

Beverly Hood said she was inside when she first saw the mountain lion
lying on her porch Monday. Hood said the lion hissed at her, but she
wasn't scared.

She called 911, animal control and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department
and reported that she had a bothersome "big cat." A dispatcher told
Officer Mike Ableman that it was a house cat.

A game warden tranquilized the mountain lion and the animal was relocated.

To see a picture, go to:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-d…

This is beyond surreal -- my first thought was it was a joke, but no, it's real...

http://www.wnbc.com/news/17539627/…