Apr 21, 2024 – willowdot21

Its Sunday so I am late again I hope someone made Linda some breakfast, you know how busy she always is! Anyway her prompt arrived Friday as always she said.”Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: ends with “grate/great.” Use one or bonus points if you use them both. Enjoy!“

Yesterday I was getting ready to go out to a Wedding Anniversary party I went to use my eye shadow brushes and found they had disintegrated! Well that’s great I thought! what do I do now? ….. Then I remembered I have an integrated eye shadow putter oner and I used it…my fingers . I was very grateful to Gaia/ God for designing me that way. So I did my make which was not overgreat but passable.

Well here we are it’s Sunday again and this week Jim Adams’s promt for Song Lyric Sunday is “Duets with two prominent performers suggested by Nancy aka The Sicilian Storyteller.

Well I am being totally selfish this week and picking my favourite duets by my favourite artists. Artists, Imogen Heap and IAMX,Sam Ryder and Hannah Waddingham and Axil Rose and Elton John.

I have spent ages over which duets to choose but I hope you will enjoy these picked with love. First up Immie and IAMX and My secret friend. It’s so haunting song. I really love how the lyrics draw you in . The video too is just amazing, ambiguous and thought provoking.

“My Secret Friend” is a song performed by IAMX and Imogen Heap, released as the third single from the album Kingdom of Welcome Addiction. The music video, directed by Chris Corner, features Corner dressed as a woman, the video’s lead female character, and Heap as a man, the lead male character. He stated in an interview that when he wrote it he pictured the characters as siblings, who have a romantic, possibly incestuous, relationship. The video is featured on the CD single. Information here.

You have loved
You were not alone
You have braved the weather
When the storm cut you to the bone
There was always shelter

My secred friend
I’ll take you to the river
My secred friend
We can swim forever

In your skin
To die a little death
This time there’s no code word
When everyday frays in hollow ends
Dream sweet love submersive

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Christopher Anthony Corner / Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap

My Secret Friend lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc

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Next our lovely Sam singing beautifully, not roaring today,(thought he roars amazingly), with Hannah Waddingham.

“Fought & Lost” is a song by British singer-songwriter Sam Ryder featuring English musician Brian May and Bulgarian musical composer George Strezov. It was released as a single on 24 May 2023 by Parlophone Records. It was by written by Ryder alongside Jamie Hartman and Tom Howe, who also produced the track. Ryder performed the song with Hannah Waddingham, at the Grammy Museum.

“Fought & Lost” is an original song written for season 3 episode 11 of the American comedy-drama series Ted Lasso. Ryder explained on his social media that he was offered the opportunity to write the song after meeting series star Jason Sudeikis and composer Tom Howe at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert in September 2022.

In an interview with Chris Evans, Ryder described the song lyrically as a track “for the hope seekers & the faith keepers and the ones who foster the dream and keep its fire burning regardless of the knock backs, the almosts, the falls & the failures”. Information here

Congratulations on your jubilation
Our hearts are breaking underneath all the applause
This devastation is of our own making
But we’ve never tasted this much bitterness before

And everybody falls
But some of us are born to fight
And fight, and fight some more

So, we will see you here
Same time, same place, next year
And you may win this battle but you’ll never win the war
Better to have fought and lost than never fought at all

Go take a bow your
Audience is waiting
We’ll take the shadows since the limelight isn’t ours
We wanted it so bad
Gave it all we had
Oh, but wanting it doesn’t always make it yours

This time was ours to lose
But fortune favors those who ride the storm and make it through

So, we will see you here
Same time, same place, next year
And you may win this battle but you’ll never win the war
Better to have fought and lost than never fought at all

So, here on the same ground
When the tables have turned around
Oh, and your tears fall as your world is crashing down
I hope when you see me
You remember that feeling
Oh, ’cause we’ve both seen the world from both sides now

And everybody falls
And life will tear you down to show you what’s worth fighting for

Oh, we will see you here
Same time, same place, next year
And you may win this battle but you’ll never win the war
Better to have fought and lost than never fought at all

Better to have fought and lost than never fought at all

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Jamie Hartman / Sam Ryder / Tom Howe

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Now for the third one This is more s trio or perhaps a quartet than a duet but it only two singers . Queen, Freddie Mercury (posthumously) Elton John and Axil Rose. This one starts of gently enough until at about 3mins 19seconds when Axil bursts on to the stage and like a Whirling Dervish delights everyone (especially me) then he and Elton end the masterpiece together almost holding hands 💜💜.

Queen + Elton John and Axl Rose – “Bohemian Rhapsody“

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness was a benefit concert held on Easter Monday, 20 April 1992, at Wembley Stadium in London, England, for an audience of 72,000. The concert was produced for television by Ray Burdis, directed by David Mallet and broadcast live on television and radio to 76 countries around the world, with an audience of up to one billion. The concert was a tribute to Queen‘s lead vocalist, Freddie Mercury, who died of AIDS on 24 November 1991. The show marked bassist John Deacon‘s final full-length concert with Queen (save a short live appearance with Brian May, Roger Taylor and Elton John in 1997). The profits from the concert were used to launch the Mercury Phoenix Trust, an AIDS charity organization. Information Wikipedia

Well there are so many more duets I would love to show you but Dad always said leave them wanting more.

Oh! One more because it’s live and cute! It’s Sam singing and roaring with Cha Dabin . The video is homely and honestly live. Don’t much about Cha Dabin but she says. “I sing YouTube 9M • TikTok 3M Contact : youtube.com/@chada6in+1 and this is her Instagram