Featured Songs: Spirits Having Flown, Cucumber Castle

Will you still laugh, and be a clown, When love runs out?

So this will be the every once and a while Bee Gees highlight post. Just wanted to bring up two (maybe three) particular songs, not the most popular ones, but the typical "gems" you find when you listen to an album all the way though. Similar to what I've done over the years with the Beatles, I'll eventually get around to listening to every song/album thoroughly.


Spirits Having Flown (1979)

• Bee Gees - Living Together

"Why ain't we living, living together, instead of being so, so far, apart"

The disclaimer I attach to this song is that I don't wish to advocate co-habiting, living together before marriage --since it asks society to treat you as a married couple when it's completely outside of Matrimony --thus leading to an ugly end for all. I see it more of a call for people to live and interact with one another. If the idea really is that we're here for other people, that purpose needs to be fulfilled for the greater betterment.

"I lay my heart on you, and you can show the way, I give my everlasting love until my dying day. Take this lonely soul, water or the wine, I lay my body on the line, a chance to make you mine."

Cheesy, or corny, whatever you want to call it. But isn't it a great line: "I give my everlasting love until my dying day." That's close to the marriage vow. Then next is the parallel set of lyric on the same melody:

"My life was emptiness until you came along, I nearly fell apart, you took my heart and made me strong."

The strength of love he he he.

• Bee Gees - Until

"You were a lovely child, and you hair was like the morning sun. And I knew we were in love, we were a love to dream a dream, we held our love that held our hearts.

Until: very peaceful and soothing. Love, just a dream .

"Every lonely sad mistake, every change and every change we made. We held our love and then held a heart. Until.. until."

Mistakes.



Cucumber Castle (1970)

• Bee Gees - Bury Me Down By the River

"I wasn't born in the morning, no. [sounds like "in the morning, Lord] I must have been born, in the night. I've done my load, and I've carried my load, but all I own is my life. I wasn't born to be lucky, Lord, luck had no future with me. I've done my wrong, but I'll sing, sing, sing my song, stand beneath the hanging tree."

This song feels like it's a hymn. I'll admit it kind of has a martyr tendency, but it's a joyous and peaceful resolution.

"Bury me down by a river, let all the townspeople see. Their enemy's dead, let me lay, lay my head, yeah. Just put me down and set me free."

It's a nice imagery of the townspeople seeing that their "enemy's dead" and finally being put down, and set free, which sometimes, is all you need.