Just For Fun: DB Theme Songs

[AlexEN]

Anyone here remember the Jon Pousette-Dart Band from the mid-70s? I didn't think they were all that obscure, must have been to at least a half dozen of their concerts back in Beantown and thereabouts, but I can't find lyrics to their songs anywhere on the net...

They had a few quasi-hits: Amnesia and May You Dance... Some of their stuff, which I haven't listened to in years and years just randomly pops into my head... You can still download the tunes, but with titles like Cheated ("Cheated, mistreated, lost my mind, lost my touch... I get hopeful, get let down, you're sure exciting to have around. I want to stand on solid ground, I want something that will stick around...", Never Enough (title speaks for itself, but has the line "What gets me most is that I see, you talk to you and not to me, convince yourself, it's truth you speak..."), Gotta Get Far Away From You ("Been knocked around for almost a year, I'm gone when you want, and when you want me I am here. You've kicked me around til I can't sit down, can't take it no more, so it's 'Goodbye, Miss You'. Gonna get right out, start a new, gotta get far away from you." Even Amnesia has some good stuff... "Well you hit me on the head with your beer bottle, something in my chemistry has changed, and though I've already decided to forgive you, my friends all think I'm permanently deranged... I hope that it's only amnesia, believe me I'm sick but not insane."

I'm kinda guessing someone in the band was going through what we are as a lot of the songs evoke the themes we read about on these boards...

May You Dance says "May you dance, when all your world falls down, when it's all upside down, may you turn it around and dance."

There are also great tunes about children, my favorite is called Yaicha ("Yaicha, I love to watch you smile, you are a candle beneath the falling rain, you are the child in which the love still remains"), but the one that I always aspired to when I was a young man thinking about the type of father I wanted to be is the one that I want to rededicate myself to. It's called, I think, The Man and it goes like this:

I've watched the man grow older through the years,
I've seen the lines in his face grow deeper.

Listened to his silence and
Heard wisdom,
Felt his love checkmate hate...

Worth downloading some of these if you remember that band at all... The messages are timeless...

For the California crowd, I see they have some gigs there in July...