Songs that make the air dusty

Not cheesy at all, TBF. I tear up at the line about teaching a class full of innocent children (among others), because that's what I was doing that day. It's a fantastic song.

 

I know it's the nerd in me, but:

Force Ten - Rush. Only the verses:

We can rise and fall like empires
Flow in and out like the tide
Be vain and smart, humble and dumb
We can hit and miss like pride
Just like pride

We can circle around like hurricanes
Dance and dream like lovers
Attack the day like birds of prey
Or scavengers under cover

[Chorus:]
Look in...to the eye of the storm
Look out...for the force without form
Look around...at the sight and the sound
Look in look out look around...

We can move with savage grace
To the rhythms of the night
Cool and remote like dancing girls
In the heat of the beat and the lights

We can wear the rose of romance
An air of joie de vivre
Too tender hearts upon our sleeves
Or skin as thick as thieves
Thick as thieves...

Inspiring. To me.

 

Two more that need adding to the list:

Ballad of Poncho and Lefty -- Nelson and Haggard
"Poncho was a bandit boy, his horse was fast as polished steel
He wore his gun outside his pants, for all the honest world to feel
Poncho met his match, you know, on the deserts down in Mexico
Nobody heard his dyin' word, but that's the way it goes

All the Federales, they say
They could have had him any day
They only let him slip a-away
Out of kindness I suppose"

Minstrel Boy -- The Paul Robeson version (downloadable from the Smithsonian site) must be played at full volume when you have a skinful of Guiness and Irish whiskey

 

wfw

well done