Song lyrics assignment # 8 is due by 500p.m. You are to choose .docx

Song lyrics assignment # 8 is due by 5:00p.m. You are to
choose one song from this song packet. Choose one question
from that one song. Answer everything next to that one question
in paragraph form. Type the name of the song and the number of
the question you answer. Your answer must have at least five
different sentences in it. These songs begin with the song,
“Crazy Love” and end with the song, “Last Year’s Man.” This
assignment is worth a maximum of 50 points. You might want
to find these songs if you are able to do this on YouTube videos
by the original artists and listen to them. These songs follow
this paragraph in my syllabus. You will also be writing a five
paragraph essay using these same songs a little later in the
semester.
Song Lyrics Assignment # 8
Song # 1: “Crazy Love”-Poco
Verse !: Tonight I’m gonna break away
Just you wait and see.
I’ll never be imprisoned by
A faded memory.
Verse 2: Just when I think I’m over her,
This broken heart will mend.
I hear her name and I have to cry,

The tears come down again.
Chorus 1: It happens all the time.
This crazy love of mine,
Wraps around my heart
Refusing to unwind.
Ooo Ooo Crazy love
Ahh ha
Verse 3: Count the stars in a summer sky,
That fall without a sound.
And then pretend that you can’t hear
These tear drops coming down.
Refusing to unwind.
Ooo Ooo Crazy love
Ahh ha
Verse 4: Tonight I’m gonna break away

Just you wait and see.
I’ll never be imprisoned by
A faded memory.
Refusing to unwind.
Ooo Ooo Crazy love
Ahh ha
Chorus 5: Tonight I’m gonna break away.
Questions:
1. Describe the type of love the songwriter had when he wrote
this song. Is this more of a healthy love, or is it more of an
unhealthy love? Explain. Use quotes from the song to illustrate
your points.
2. What are the triggers that are causing so much misery in the
songwriter’s feelings for this woman? How can he break out of
this sadness and misery and move into a better space in his life?
Explain. Use quotes from the song to support your ideas.
3. In your opinion, is the songwriter imprisoned by a faded
memory of the love that he once had and does not have right

now? Explain how he might be imprisoned in this way. Use
quotes from the song to illustrate your points.
Song # 2: “Lodi”-Credence Clearwater Revival
Verse 1: Just about a year ago I set out on the road,
Seeking my fame and fortune, looking for a pot of
gold;
Things got bad and things got worse,
I guess you know the tune.
Chorus 1: Oh Lord, I’m stuck in Lodi again.
Verse 2: Rode in on a Greyhound, I’ll be walking out if I go,
I was just passing thru, must be seven months or
more;
Ran out of time and money,
Looks like they took my friends.
Verse 3: If I only had a dollar for every song I’ve sung,
And every time I’ve had to play, while people sat
there drunk;

You know I’d catch the next train
Back to where I live.
Questions:
1. Describe the songwriter’s life when he is in Lodi. Does he
seem to be enjoying himself while he is there? Explain. Use
2. What was the songwriter looking for when he came to Lodi?
Specifically, what is the songwriter disillusioned by in Lodi?
Explain. Use quotes from the song to support your ideas.
Song # 3: “If I Had a Hammer”-Pete Seeger
Verse 1: If I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the morning,
I’d hammer in the evening, all over this land.
Chorus 1: I’d hammer out danger,
I’d hammer out a warning.
I’d hammer out love between my brothers and my
sisters
Ooh, All over this land.
Verse 2: If I had a bell, I’d ring it in the morning,

I’d ring it in the evening, all over this land.
Chorus 2: I’d ring out danger,
I’d ring out warning.
I’d ring it out love between my brothers and my
sisters
Verse 3: If I had a song, I’d sing it in the morning,
I’d sing it in the evening, all over this land.
Chorus 3: I’d sing it out danger,
I’d sing it out a warning.
I’d sing about the love between my brothers and
my sisters
Verse 4: Well, I’ve got a hammer,
And I’ve got a bell,
And I’ve got a song to sing
All over this land.
Chorus 4: It’s a hammer of justice,
It’s a bell of freedom,

It’s a song about the love between my brothers and
my sisters
All over this land.
Questions:
1. What do the three objects mentioned in this song have in
common (a hammer, a bell, and a song)? What do they represent
in this song? Explain. Use quotes from the song to support your
points.
2. What is the songwriter warning people about in this song?
What danger is he implying exists in this world? What solution
is he offering to offset this warning and this danger? Explain.
Use quotes from the song to illustrate your ideas.
3. What are a hammer and a bell normally used for in this
world? How is this different from the uses that the songwriter is
suggesting for these objects? Explain. Use quotes from the song
to support your points.
Song # 4: “For a Dancer”-Jackson Browne
Verse 1: Keep a fire burning in your eye,
Pay attention to the open sky,
You never know what will be coming down.
Verse 2: I don’t remember losing track of you,

You were always dancing in and out of view,
I must have thought you’d always be around,
Always keeping things real by playing the clown;
Now you’re nowhere to be found.
Verse 3: 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 I can hear playing right in my ear
That I can’t sing-I can’t help listening.
And I can’t help feeling stupid standing ‘round
Crying as they ease you down,
‘Cause I know you’d rather we were dancing,
Dancing our sorrow away,
Right on dancing.
Verse 4: 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.
Verse 5: Keep a fire for the human race,
Let your prayers go drifting into space,
You never know what 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.
Verse 6: Don’t let the uncertainty turn you around,
The world keeps turning around and around,
Go on and make a joyful sound.
Verse 7: 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 the reason you were alive,

But you’ll never know.
Questions:
1. What kind of relationship did the songwriter have with the
woman who passed away (the dancer)? Explain. Use quotes
from the song to illustrate your points.
2. What suggestions is the songwriter offering in this song to
people? Do you think these suggestions are reasonable and
helpful suggestions to human beings who are experiencing
sorrow due to the loss of loved ones? Explain.
3. What effects do you think it had on the songwriter to write
this song and express his grief for the loss of a loved one in this
way? Explain. Use quotes to support your ideas.
Song # 5-“All I Really Want To Do”-Bob Dylan
Verse 1: I ain’t lookin’ to compete with you,
Beat or cheat or mistreat you;
Simplify you, classify you,
Deny, defy or crucify you.
Chorus 1: All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.
Verse 2: No, and I ain’t lookin’ to fight with you,

Frighten you or uptighten you;
Drag you down or drain you down,
Chain you down or bring you down.
Verse 3: I ain’t lookin’ to block you up,
Shock or knock or lock you up;
Analyze you, categorize you,
Finalize you or advertise you.
Verse 4: I don’t want to straight face you,
Race or chase you, track or trace you;
Or disgrace you or displace you
Or define you or confine you.
Verse 5: I don’t want to meet your kin,

Make you spin or do you in;
Or select you or dissect you
Or inspect you or reject you.
Verse 6: I don’t want to fake you out,
Take or shake or forsake you out;
I ain’t lookin’ for you to feel like me,
See like me or be like me.
Questions:
1. What does Bob Dylan want from this person he is addressing
in this song? Explain. Is this a reasonable request? Explain. Use
quotes from the song to support your points.
2. The songwriter mentions a lot of things he does not want to
be or do with this person. Are these things he mentions in the
verses part of most friendships, or are these things that will hurt
and destroy friendships? Explain. Use quotes from the song to
illustrate your ideas.
3. How do your requirements for friendship match up with the
songwriter’s ideas about friendship? Explain. Use quotes from

the song to support your points.
Song # 6: “The Dangling Conversation”-Paul Simon (Simon
and Garfunkel)
Verse 1: It’s a still life water color
Of a now late afternoon
As the sun shines through the curtain lace
And shadows wash the room.
And we sit and drink our coffee,
Cast in our indifference, like shells upon the shore;
You can hear the ocean roar.
Chorus 1: In the dangling conversation, And the superficial
sighs,
The borders of our lives.
Verse 2: And you read your Emily Dickenson
And I my Robert Frost,
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we lost.
Like a poem poorly written,

We are verses out of rhythm, Couplets out of rhyme
In syncopated time.
Chorus 2: And the dangling conversation, And the superficial
sighs,
And the borders of our lives.
Verse 3: Yes, we speak of things that matter
With words that must be said;
Can analysis be worthwhile?
Is the theater really dead?
And how the room is softly faded,
And I only kiss your shadow, I cannot feel your
hand;
You’re a stranger now unto me.
Chorus 3: Lost in the dangling conversation, And the
superficial sighs,
On the borders of our lives.
Questions:
1. Based on the words in this song, describe the relationship
between this couple. Do they seem to have more of a healthy
relationship, or more of an unhealthy relationship? Explain. Use

2. What feelings did the songwriter have when he wrote this
song, based on the lyrics? List at least eight different feelings
he might have had. Explain how he had each of these feelings.
3. The songwriter is describing a couple who seems to have lost
their positive connection with each other. Explain how this song
illustrates this idea, Use quotes from the song to support your
ideas.
Song # 7-“I’m a Loser”-John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Chorus 1: I’m a loser, I’m a loser, and I’m not what I appear to
be.
Verse 1: Of all the love I have won or have lost,
There is one love I should never have crossed.
She was a girl in a million, my friend,
I should have known she would win in the end.
Chorus 2: I’m a loser, and I lost someone who’s near to me,
I’m a loser, and I’m not what I appear to be.
Verse 2: Although I laugh and I act like a clown,
Beneath this mask I am wearing a frown.
My tears are falling like rain from the sky;

Is it for her or myself that I cry?
Verse 3: What have I done to deserve such a fate,
I realize I have left it too late.
And so it’s true pride comes before a fall,
I’m telling you so that you won’t lose all.
Questions:
1. Explain why the songwriters (this song was primarily written
by John Lennon) felt like losers. Use quotes from the song to
support your points. Have you ever felt like you were a loser? If
you have, explain what caused you to feel this way. If you have
never felt like a loser, explain why you have never felt like this.
2. In the second verse , the songwriters say these words: “My
tears are falling like rain from the sky; Is it for her or myself
that I cry?”. Explain what this quote means. How do you think
the songwriters would answer this question? When you cry, do
you most often cry for other people or for yourself? Explain.
3. The songwriters say in the chorus the following words: “I’m
a loser, and I’m not what I appear to be.” What do you think the

songwriters appear to be to other people? What are they really?
What kind of masks do you think the songwriters put on so that
people will not see how sad they are? What kinds of masks do
you wear and for what reasons do you wear these masks?
Explain.
Song # 8-“Military Madness”-Graham Nash
Verse 1: In an upstairs room in Blackpool, by the side of the
northern sea;
The army had my father, and my mother was having
me.
Chorus 1: Military madness was killing my country;
Solitary sadness comes over me.
Verse 2: And after the school was over, and I moved to the
other side;
I found another country, but I never lost my pride.
Chorus 2: Military madness was killing my country;
Solitary sadness comes over me.
Verse 3: And after the wars are over, and the body count is
finally filed;
I hope the man discovers, what’s driving the people
wild.

Chorus 3: Military madness is killing the country;
So much sadness between you and me.
Questions:
1. Explain what the title means in relation to the words in the
song. Use quotes form the song to illustrate your ideas.
2. Explain what the following words from verse 3 mean: “And
after the wars are over, and the body count is finally filed; I
hope that man discovers, what’s driving the people wild.” In
your opinion, are these things likely to happen in your lifetime?
Explain.
3. How do you think the songwriter would respond to this
statement: “Wars are sometimes a necessary evil in this world,
and do sometimes serve a good purpose.” Would he agree with
any part of this statement? Explain why he either would agree
with all or part of this statement.
Song # 9-“Saturday Night”-The Eagles
Verse 1: Seems like a dream now, it was so long ago,
The moon burned so bright and the time went so
slow.
And I swore that I loved her and gave her a ring,
The bluebird was high on the wing.

Chorus 1: Whatever happened to Saturday night?
Finding a sweetheart and holding her tight?
She said, “Tell me, oh, tell me, was I all right?
Whatever happened to Saturday night?
Verse 2: The years brought the railroad, it ran by my door;
Now there’s boards on the windows, and dust on the
floor.
And she passes the time at another man’s side,
And I pass the time with my pride.
Interlude: What a tangled web we weave,
Go ‘round with circumstance;
Someone show me how to tell the dancer
From the dance.
Chorus 3: What ever happened to Saturday night?
Choosing a friend or losing a fight;
She said, “Tell me, oh, tell me, are you all right?”
Questions:

1. In the songwriter’s past, what was special about Saturday
night? What happened in the songwriter’s past on Saturday
night?
2. The songwriter has experienced some changes in his life.
Describe these changes, Use quotes from the song to support
your points. Are these mostly positive changes, or are they
mostly negative changes? Explain.
3. How would the songwriter answer this question from the
Interlude? “Someone show me how to tell the dancer from the
dance.” Explain.
Song # 10-“Last Year’s Man”-Leonard Cohen
Verse 1: The rain falls down on last year’s man;
That’s a Jews harp on the table, that’s a crayon in his
hand.
And the corners of the blue print are ruined since
they rolled
Far past the stems of thumb tacks that still throw
shadows on the wood.
Chorus 1: And the skylight is like the skin for a drum I’ll
never mend,

And all the rain falls down, Amen, on the works of
last year’s man.
Verse 2: I met a lady, she was playing with her soldiers in the
dark,
Oh, one by one she had to tell them that she her name
was Joan of Arc.
I was in that army, yes I stayed a little while,
I want to thank you, Joan of Arc, for treating me so
well.
Chorus 2: And tho’ I wear a uniform, I was not born to fight;
All these wounded boys you lie beside; good night,
my friends, goodnight.
Verse 3: I came upon a wedding that old fam’lies had
contrived,
Bethlehem the bridegroom, Babylon the bride.
Great Babylon was naked; Ah! She stood there
trembling for me,
And Bethlehem inflamed us both like the shy one at
some orgy.
Chorus 3: And when we fell together all our flesh was like a
veil,
That I had to draw aside to see the serpent eat its
tail.

Verse 4: Some women wait for Jesus and some women wait for
Cain,
So I hang upon my altar and I hoist my axe again.
And I take the one who finds me back to where it all
began,
When Jesus was the honeymoon and Cain was just
the man.
Chorus 4: And we read from pleasant Bibles that are bound in
blood and skin
That the wilderness is gathering all its children
back again.
Verse 5: The rain falls down on last year’s man,
An hour has gone by and he has not moved his hand.
But everything will happen if he only gives the
word,
The lovers will rise up and the mountains will touch
the ground.
Chorus 5: But the skylight is like the skin for a drum I’ll never
mend,
And all the rain falls down, Amen, on the works of
last year’s man.
Questions:
1. What are the characteristics of last year’s man, according to

the song? Explain. Use quotes from the song to illustrate your
points.
2. What roles does God/ Jesus play in this song? Explain. Use
quotes from the song to support your ideas.
3. Choose one of the five verses and explain what this verse
means to you. Identify the verse you choose by listing its
number.

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