What Are Words For? (8/15)

[Railyn]

Kind of in a slump right now for picking good songs. I try not to get into the obscure stuff too much. After racking my brain for awhile, and coming up pretty much empty, I decided to go back and see who I have and haven't touched on, and saw I haven't touched on one of my favorite groups, The Monkees.

Suffering a similar fate to ABBA, their stuff was dismissed as pop garbage by a large section of people. They really and truly had some great songs. I was glad to see that like ABBA, people are beginning to appreciat them more.

I've decided to go with my favorite song that they sing. The album it can be found on is, in my opinion, their best one. A great backing track combined with the vocal power of Mike Nesmith make it a great song.

LOVE IS ONLY SLEEPING
By: The Monkees
Album: Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones Ltd.
Author: B. Mann/C. Weil

She looked at me
And the emptiness in her eyes was cruel to see
Then she turned away and said,
"Once I loved, but love is dead"
And I whispered, "Sometimes love is only sleeping"

She said, "I cannot cry
And I cannot give or feel or even try"
And her voice was hard and cold
Then her sweet young face looked old
And I whispered, "Sometimes love is only sleeping"

Through the endless days and nights
Could not help but wrap herself in sorrow (sorrow)
Through the endless days and nights
She waited for a shiny new tomorrow
Love was sleeping, sleeping

She looked at me
And her smiling tears were warm and sweet and free
And the moonlight kissed her eyes
As it mingled with our sighs
And she whispered, "Sometimes love is only sleeping"
And she whispered, "Sometimes love is only sleeping"
Only sleeping...

My Opinion In A Nutshell: A good song by an underrated group, with an equally amusing "video" which can be found at the end of the "I Was A 99 lb. Weakling" episode (which also happens to be my favorite ep).

Favorite Line: "Then she turned away and said,
"Once I loved, but love is dead"
And I whispered, "Sometimes love is only sleeping""

[Dawn]

I love that line "Sometimes love is only sleeping". Many times the stresses of everyday life cause us to neglect our relationships with people who are special to us. But if we really stop and think about it, we realize how fortunate we are to have these persons in our life, and it rekindles our commitment to them. Definitely a song that makes you think.

[Railyn]

Dawn said:

I love that line "Sometimes love is only sleeping". Many times the stresses of everyday life cause us to neglect our relationships with people who are special to us. But if we really stop and think about it, we realize how fortunate we are to have these persons in our life, and it rekindles our commitment to them. Definitely a song that makes you think.

Yes, it's easy to be bitter sometimes. You get burned, or have had a bad experience and it creeps up on you. It happened to me when I broke my leg. I was wheelchair bound for many months, and couldn't go home to my apartment because I couldn't climb the steps. I had to go back to living with my mom and dad. My mom had to assist me in the bathroom. My husband only slept over on weekends, and because I had to keep the leg elevated, I was in a hospital bed and he slept on the couch. It was horrible, and I got a massive chip on my shoulder about it. It almost cost me my job.

I just had to dig deep and find my old self. Sometimes that's easy to forget.