The Hardest Words I Know

[bcholmes]

I would never normally go bowling
On a friday morning in New Orleans
But I like to come here to remember
The kind of places you took me
Like the time we stole a Datsun
And drove all night to the everglades
Until we crashed it in a big electric storm
And stood there listening to the bayou rain

[...]

Under a Cajun moon I lay me open
There is a spirit here that won't be broken
Some words are sad to sing
Some leave me tongue-tied
(But the hardest thing to tell you )
But the hardest words I know
Are I love you goodbye
I love you goodbye

-- Thomas Dolby, "I Love You Goodbye"

Comments

[purplepaisley.livejournal.com]

I played New Orleans-themed songs on the show today. The one that's got me in tears is Tom Waits' I Wish I Was in New Orleans.

Thanks for sharing.

[futabachan.livejournal.com]

I've been alternately earworming to Led Zepplin's "When the Levee Breaks" and Arlo Guthrie's "City of New Orleans" for a week. (With occasional snippets of Sting's "Moon over Bourbon Street".)

[erik]

When The Levee Breaks and Randy Newman's Louisiana 1927 are what I keep hearing in my head.

[cigfrain.livejournal.com]

i keep hearing a new orleans jazz funeral.
the dirge, and then abandon to the vicissitudes of life.

i keep telling people i want that funeral when i go, but i don't think anyone really believes me.