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Musicbrainz DBI sailed a wild, wild sea,
climbed up a tall, tall mountain;
I met a old, old man beneath a weeping willow tree.
He said, "Now if you got some questions,
go and lay them at my feet.
But my time here is brief,
so you'll have to pick just three."
And I said, "What do you do with the pieces of a broken heart?
And how can a man like me remain in the light?
And if life is really as short as they say,
then why is the night so long?"
And then the sun went down,
and he sang for me this song:
"See I once was a young fool like you:
Afraid to do the things that I knew I had to do.
So I played an escapade just like you.
I played an escapade just like you."
I sailed a wild, wild sea,
climbed up a tall, tall mountain,
I met an old, old man;
He sat beneath a sapling tree.
He said, "Now if you got some questions,
go and lay them at my feet.
But my time here is brief,
so you'll have to pick just three."
And I said, "What do you do with the pieces of a broken heart?
And how can a man like me remain in the light?
And if life is really as short as they say,
then why is the night so long?"
And then the sun went down,
and he sang for me this song.
| unclehud (now 50 feet above the planet in Boston) | Posted: May 26, 2013 - 23:37 How do you fix a broken heart? That's a different song. Al Green has some advice on mending a broken heart which may be illuminating. This songs asks, "What do you do with the pieces of a broken heart", which is a completely different question. I collected mine very carefully. Not sure how to put them back together, but I'm confident someone will come along and help with that. |
| AndyJ (Oregon) | Posted: Apr 25, 2013 - 15:07 Ballad of Tom Dooley-? Sure sounds like it, with other bits and flourishes... |
| meinthecorner (Toronto, gridlock capital of the western world) | Posted: Jan 05, 2013 - 20:50 Darkmatter wrote: The music is great, but what do you do with the pieces of a broken voice?  Well, that's easy, Darkmatter...you pick yourselves up, and start all over again! Doodle-ee-doo! :o) |
| hidey (NZ) | Posted: Dec 21, 2012 - 00:35 What a treat! Haven't heard M Ward on RP before. Good news. ;-) |
| linz_bobinz (the city of the newly wed & the nearly dead) | Posted: Sep 17, 2012 - 18:20 because this song is excellent and the video even more so, I am so going to watch it on youtube right now!  |
| coding_to_music (Beantown) | Posted: Sep 10, 2012 - 01:09 Grammarcop wrote: Saw M. Ward on Austin City Limits. Was disappointed. Had all the stage presence and charm of a cup of yogurt. Watching it right now — for the second time. Impressed ! |
| Grammarcop (Proud owner of the smallest sailboat in the harbor) | Posted: Sep 02, 2012 - 05:41 Saw M. Ward on Austin City Limits. Was disappointed. Had all the stage presence and charm of a cup of yogurt. |
| drivingunit103 (around the 4 western provinces) | Posted: Aug 17, 2012 - 06:48 ... never gets broken - just gets broken in |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Aug 01, 2012 - 19:09 crockydile wrote: Hearts don't break. They feel. If you choose not to feel, you stop feeling. It's a choice. It's really your head that's the problem.  All hearts do is pump blood around one's body. The rest has something to do with aliens, zombies, or alcohol, unless you're Barney Clark. Nice tune, by the way. |
| Jazbo (Beautiful Valparaiso IN.) | Posted: Apr 23, 2012 - 07:36 Love this ......8.. |
| Darkmatter (Too close for comfort) | Posted: Mar 28, 2012 - 00:21 The music is great, but what do you do with the pieces of a broken voice? |
| meinthecorner (Past the gravy, far beyond the golden fries) | Posted: Mar 22, 2012 - 14:44 Businessgypsy wrote: Surgeons use everything from Superglue to pig valves. It helps to be an optimist - which you certainly are, expecting no smartass answers on an internet forum. Far superior to dumbass answers, by my reckoning. On the emotional side of the injury, humans are genetically conditioned to handle all manner of horrible circumstance as long as they allow enough exposure to pain to build up some resistance. It's too much introspection that can prevent healing. Didn't your momma tell you not to pick at the scab? The question that was posed: "SO, how do you fix a broken heart?" I think you may just have covered all the bases on this one, Businessgypsy. Thanks for your light-hearted reply, and I do hope it helps. |
| kcar | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 14:28 This is a perfect follow-up to Pink Martini's "Hang On Little Tomato"... |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Jan 19, 2012 - 03:01 Stingray wrote: HOMEGROWN wears off quickly! Bill has just proven it! I'm outta here! PS "Kaka" (in Russian) Trolling is wearing, as is posting in massive font sizes. Knock it off. And Russian is written in Cyrillic, not Roman. |
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: Aug 19, 2011 - 12:27 Nice tune. I heard it out of the corner of my ear. Catchy, all those allusions about pieces of a broken heart. Play it again, Bill, I might punch it up a notch. Not that M. Ward gives a dang, but you might... |
| ERERER | Posted: Aug 19, 2011 - 12:26 Welcome Back Kotter |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: May 16, 2011 - 20:53 China Forbes: singer in last song, Chinese Translation here......the secret glue is Hunt's tomato ketchup |
| unclehud (300 feet above the planet) | Posted: Apr 15, 2011 - 07:13 You pick them up and glue them back together, that's what. |
| cohifi (Denver) | Posted: Mar 14, 2011 - 20:15 mandolin wrote: ...my ears can picture this coming from edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros... Best comment ever? Me thinks so. Nice tune as well! |
| mandolin (...drifting...) | Posted: Mar 14, 2011 - 20:06 ...my ears can picture this coming from edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros... |
| sonofpick (SoCal, Small College, My Office) | Posted: Mar 09, 2011 - 11:00 Stingray wrote: HOMEGROWN wears off quickly! Bill has just proven it! I'm outta here! PS "Kaka" (in Russian) HAHAHA, you said EUROPE |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Mar 09, 2011 - 11:00 Still love it! |
| Magellan18 (Southern Germany) | Posted: Feb 11, 2011 - 11:27 flows smoothly through and reminds you to relax some times - really |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Dec 26, 2010 - 08:50 Nice! |
| kopak (Mais bien sûr !) | Posted: Dec 26, 2010 - 08:45 Stingray wrote: HOMEGROWN wears off quickly! Bill has just proven it! I'm outta here! PS "Kaka" (in Russian) Ja ja... Bis nachher... |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Dec 10, 2010 - 15:10 socalhol wrote: this song is starting to grow on me.... i give it a 7 tzzzz.... |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Dec 10, 2010 - 15:08 HOMEGROWN wears off quickly! Bill has just proven it! I'm outta here! PS "Kaka" (in Russian) |
| coy (san antonio) | Posted: Nov 08, 2010 - 20:23 i;'m gonna buy it |
| ellet (Stockholm, Sweden) | Posted: Sep 22, 2010 - 06:39 Good song. The singer sounds like he has a cold though. |
| ihategrapejuice (Bloomington, IN) | Posted: Sep 22, 2010 - 06:39 This song makes me think of The Little Prince, perhaps when he grows up. |
| Bachka (Lithuania, Panevezhys) | Posted: Sep 17, 2010 - 00:20 Really dissapointing song for th RP playlist. 3. |
| Anax (Seattle, WA) | Posted: Sep 17, 2010 - 00:18 socalhol wrote: this song is starting to grow on me.... i give it a 7 There may be a treatment for that. |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Sep 06, 2010 - 08:19 Giselle62 wrote: people kept telling me "life is short" and I would always say "no it isn't —-it's interminable" but he says it best: "if life is as short as they say then why is the night so long?" probably said before, by Shakespeare or somebody. Life is short??!! I do believe it's the longest thing an individual could ever do. |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Sep 06, 2010 - 08:18 WHAT THE FUCKIN FUCK AM I DOING HERE...? MUTE THIS WAR-MUTANTS! |
| Giselle62 (many bear, big rock, estuary California) | Posted: Jul 04, 2010 - 11:06 people kept telling me "life is short" and I would always say "no it isn't —-it's interminable" but he says it best: "if life is as short as they say then why is the night so long?" probably said before, by Shakespeare or somebody. |
| crockydile (Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way) | Posted: Jul 04, 2010 - 11:06 peter_james_bond wrote: So how do you fix a broken head?  Metaprogramming. See "Prometheus Rising" by R.A.Wilson. |
| socalhol (Seattle) | Posted: May 17, 2010 - 15:39 this song is starting to grow on me.... i give it a 7 |
| sirdroseph (Tokyo) | Posted: May 12, 2010 - 12:35 I wuuuuubs M. Ward! |
| Businessgypsy (Deepest, Darkest Florida) | Posted: May 12, 2010 - 11:25 No_Where_Man wrote: SO How do you fix a broken heart???????????? Surgeons use everything from Superglue to pig valves.Smart ass answers need not apply, Thank you Good song It helps to be an optimist - which you certainly are, expecting no smartass answers on an internet forum. Far superior to dumbass answers, by my reckoning. On the emotional side of the injury, humans are genetically conditioned to handle all manner of horrible circumstance as long as they allow enough exposure to pain to build up some resistance. It's too much introspection that can prevent healing. Didn't your momma tell you not to pick at the scab? |
| peter_james_bond (The Burg) | Posted: May 12, 2010 - 11:22 crockydile wrote: Hearts don't break. They feel. If you choose not to feel, you stop feeling. It's a choice. It's really your head that's the problem. So how do you fix a broken head? |
| Decoy (Milliway's, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe) | Posted: Apr 26, 2010 - 13:26 h8rhater wrote: Wouldn't want anyone liking something more without someone raining on their parade. just balancing out the Universe. |
| h8rhater | Posted: Apr 26, 2010 - 11:55 Decoy wrote: ...and I bumped it from 4 down to a 3. this just doesn't agree with me. Wouldn't want anyone liking something more without someone raining on their parade. |
| crockydile (Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way) | Posted: Apr 26, 2010 - 11:53 No_Where_Man wrote: SO How do you fix a broken heart???????????? Smart ass answers need not apply, Thank you Good song Hearts don't break. They feel. If you choose not to feel, you stop feeling. It's a choice. It's really your head that's the problem. |
| Decoy (Milliway's, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe) | Posted: Apr 26, 2010 - 11:52 zair99 wrote: Wonderful song! Bumped this up from an 8 to a 9! ...and I bumped it from 4 down to a 3. this just doesn't agree with me. |
| jkhandy (Near the ocean (in my mind)) | Posted: Apr 15, 2010 - 21:35 No_Where_Man wrote: SO How do you fix a broken heart???????????? Smart ass answers need not apply, Thank you Good song time my friend, time.... |
| SmackDaddy (San Diego) | Posted: Apr 15, 2010 - 21:23 No_Where_Man wrote: SO How do you fix a broken heart???????????? Smart ass answers need not apply, Thank you Good song Borrow someone else's for a little while. |
| No_Where_Man (Southern Ca.) | Posted: Apr 10, 2010 - 17:23 SO How do you fix a broken heart???????????? Smart ass answers need not apply, Thank you Good song |
| Decoy (Milliway's, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe) | Posted: Mar 15, 2010 - 07:17 Anax wrote: Ugh. Not in the mood for this either... |
| Anax (Seattle, WA) | Posted: Jan 21, 2010 - 21:17 Ugh. |
| helenofjoy (Lincoln, Nebraska) | Posted: Jan 06, 2010 - 03:55 What wonderful sound to wake up to |
At first I didn't get it and then I started hearing more and more as well as Monsters of Folk, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros and all of their ilk, a light bulb went off and I was like; Holy Shit! All this is great
and here I am!
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