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Artist:Jackson Browne [ more ]
Song:For A Dancer
Album:Late For The Sky [ album info ]
Released:1974
Last Played:Aug 19, 2010 - 05:32
Avg. Rating:7.4    (Total Ratings: 220)
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Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Jul 18, 2010 - 07:29 

 lingchih wrote:

He'd seen too many Yes album covers?
 
Ha. Just say no to Yes.
donna_birichina
(right where I should be)
Posted: Jun 16, 2010 - 10:34 

This song and I were born in the same year. I hope I'm holding up better than it is.
jules44
(Sunny North Carolina)
Posted: Jun 16, 2010 - 10:32 

A very bittersweet song...gives me chills every time I hear it. thanks Bill!
BKardon
(Boulder, CO by way of State and Madison)
Posted: May 15, 2010 - 15:57 

 ice-9 wrote:
 toterola wrote:
The best version I've heard is on "Solo Acoustic, Volume 1".
 

The Solo Acoustic albums are fantastic.  His songs sound great in a stripped down acoustic guitar/vocals/piano style.  Highly recommended.

ice-9
Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 21:19 

 toterola wrote:
I love this song. I have another excellent version of it on the "Western Wall" album with Emmylou and Linda Ronstadt. I can't listen to one without reaching for the other.

Thanks for playing this, Bill. It fits my melancholy mood on a rainy Friday evening. {#Umbrella}


The best version I've heard is on "Solo Acoustic, Volume 1".  The album really demonstrates the strength of good music, without the extra "production", something I think Jackson's studio albums always suffered a little from.  There is an equally beautiful version out there somewhere on a tribute album to Nicolette Larson.

solrac
(38th parallel)
Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 21:17 

i don't remember a bad song jackson has put out. request him for ever...
blueotis
(Olympia, W@)
Posted: Feb 09, 2010 - 17:35 

Thanks for this jewel Bill & Rebecca.
Jackson Browne just soothes my soul and renews my commitment to fight the good fight.
His music is so much about life; good, bad, and indifferent and how we're all in it together.
Keep up the good music guys.


Grammarcop
(Hey, I can see Canada from here!)
Posted: Jan 09, 2010 - 06:43 

There's a very Sunday morning-like quality to Jackson Browne's voice.
lmic
(Influential In All The Wrong Ways)
Posted: Nov 07, 2009 - 12:32 

...very Existentialist lyrics...
dctrpunda
(the thin line of here)
Posted: Sep 05, 2009 - 11:32 

one of my favs, used to follow it up with One more cup of Coffee to help satisfy the violin fix.
casey1024
(Connecticut)
Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 11:09 

Wow.  Being a teenager feels so close, but it was so many years ago....  Love this album!
HearsayDave
Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 11:08 

Great song for moments of transition, like the end of GM or leaving work.
jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA)
Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 11:08 

z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z.............

Sorry, great lyricist or not, Jackson's always done this to me.
lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 11:08 

I like to call Jackson Browne "Mr. Depression."  It's a general tone to much of his popular work and of course when your biggest hit is called "Running on Empty"..........
Antigone
(A house, in a valley, Virginia)
Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 11:05 


toterola
(Further)
Posted: May 01, 2009 - 18:21 

I love this song. I have another excellent version of it on the "Western Wall" album with Emmylou and Linda Ronstadt. I can't listen to one without reaching for the other.

Thanks for playing this, Bill. It fits my melancholy mood on a rainy Friday evening. {#Umbrella}

I hope calypsus doesn't object, I've included the lyrics. Slainte.

Keep a fire burning in your eye
Pay attention to the open sky
You never know what will be coming down

I don’t remember losing track of you
You were always dancing in and out of view
I must’ve always thought you’d be around
Always keeping things real by playing the clown
Now you’re nowhere to be found

I don’t know what happens when people die
Can’t seem to grasp it as hard as I try
It’s like a song playing right in my ear
That I can’t sing
I can’t help listening

I can’t help feeling stupid standing ‘round
Crying as they ease you down
Cause I know that you’d rather we were dancing
Dancing our sorrow away
(Right on dancing)
No matter what fate chooses to play
(There’s nothing you can do about it anyway)

Just do the steps that you’ve been shown
By everyone you’ve ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours another’s steps have grown
In the end there is one dance you’ll do alone

Keep a fire for the human race
And let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know will be coming down

Perhaps a better world is drawing near
And just as easily, it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Don’t let the uncertainty turn you around
(The world keeps turning around and around)
Go on and make a joyful sound

Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive but you’ll never know



ploba
(the other coast and hang a left)
Posted: Mar 31, 2009 - 05:02 

What a blast from the past!  I used to have this album and pretty much wore it out.  Love this song - thanks for playing it Bill
kencanuck
Posted: Feb 27, 2009 - 20:45 

It never happened. Stop passing along tabloid gossip as the truth. Daryl Hannah recanted the accusations. Police were there the night of the supposed incident and are on record that NOTHING happened.

 
segueman wrote:
Jeez, how could the same guy who wrote something this beautiful also be a wife beater. That was a real shocker and taints a lot of good music I used to enjoy.
 


nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey)
Posted: Oct 24, 2008 - 08:48 

JB has been one of my favorite lyricists ever since "Saturate Before Using."
Marr
(Houston (dreaming of Austin))
Posted: Oct 24, 2008 - 08:47 

It seems like there's been a bit more JB on RP of late. I like it!
drjimmy
Posted: Oct 24, 2008 - 08:47 

apd wrote:
Wonder why the art director choose to pair such an understated photo with chrome-effect script type? An odd choice, to say the least...

 

There is some info about the album cover here:
http://website.lineone.net/~fred.taylor/lfts.htm
lingchih
(Irving, Texas)
Posted: Oct 24, 2008 - 08:46 

 apd wrote:
Wonder why the art director choose to pair such an understated photo with chrome-effect script type? An odd choice, to say the least...

 
He'd seen too many Yes album covers?

apd
(Toronto, On)
Posted: Jul 21, 2008 - 12:04 

Wonder why the art director choose to pair such an understated photo with chrome-effect script type? An odd choice, to say the least...

Antigone
(A house, in a valley, Virginia)
Posted: Jul 21, 2008 - 12:02 

Listen to the heartbreaking violin ... a lovely match for the beautiful lyrics and voice.
bluedot
(Long Beach, CA)
Posted: Jun 19, 2008 - 23:12 

not my usual taste, but you gotta love jackson. saw him a year or so ago solo-performing an unrecorded protest song at an anti-iraq-war demonstration in los angeles.

he was chillingly awesome.

plus, he wrote all those annoying early eagles hits!

LOL

orpheus
(pacific northwest, finally!!!)
Posted: May 19, 2008 - 13:30 

great song, great lyrics, great freakin CD
esotericderek
Posted: May 19, 2008 - 13:25 

wmstadler wrote:


Humans are complex, multi-dimensional beings. We are capable of such great beauty and great ugliness. It's no surprise to find both qualities in the same person.

Yeah. Look at Liberace.

Speaking of complex, multi-dimensional beings.

esotericderek
Posted: May 19, 2008 - 13:22 

Feel like I'm all numbed up in the dentist's chair, unable to block out the torturous sounds of easy listening slipping like sour milk through the PA.

Softly.

Just enough to drive me insane.


Kokoloco53
(Safford, AZ)
Posted: May 19, 2008 - 13:19 

Jackson, always good, well, almost always. Not good to listen to sometimes if you're really bummed out.
But, big fan. Cosmic messages not found in modern music as much these days.
squidish
(Peace on Earth. We need it now.)
Posted: May 19, 2008 - 13:18 

gjeeg wrote:
Anyway, if he struck Darryl, I'm dead certain she provoked it.

It is never OK to strike another human being.
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