I don't usually go for covers but this version of Simon and Garfunkle's classic is superb.
His voice is incredible paired with the backing orchestra and the way the song builds and builds.
Just to be different we're watching Cockermouth Amateur Dramatics production of Alan Ayckbourn's "Improbable Fiction". First time to the local theatre for a long time and enjoying the evening whilst having a couple of glasses of house Red.
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It's from a 1964 film Robin and the 7 Hoods, a musical comedy about rival gangs in Prohibition-era Chicago. Sounds an unlikely background for a musical comedy but with Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin and Peter Falk all in the cast how could it fail?
I remember watching it in a local cinema with my future wife a year before our marriage. It still seems like last year.
As we mark Holocaust Day today, I'm reminded of the above song.
The Lyrics were written by the late Neil Peart (Drummer/Lyricist) in honour of Geddy Lee's (Bass player/Vocalist/Keyboard player) parents who survived the Holocaust in Auschwitz.
Red Sector A
All that we can do is just survive
All that we can do to help ourselves is stay alive
All that we can do is just survive
All that we can do to help ourselves is stay alive
Ragged lines of ragged grey
Skeletons, they shuffle away
Shouting guards and smoking guns
Will cut down the unlucky ones
I clutch the wire fence until my fingers bleed
A wound that will not heal, a heart that cannot feel
Hoping that the horror will recede
Hoping that tomorrow, we'll all be freed
Sickness to insanity
Prayer to profanity
Days and weeks and months go by
Don't feel the hunger, too weak to cry
I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate
Are the liberators here, do I hope or do I fear?
For my father and my brother, it's too late
But I must help my mother stand up straight
Are we the last ones left alive?
Are we the only human beings to survive?
Are we the last ones left alive?
Are we the only human beings to survive?
I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate
Are the liberators here, do I hope or do I fear?
For my father and my brother, it's too late
But I must help my mother stand up straight
Are we the last ones left alive?
Are we the only human beings to survive?
Are we the last ones left alive?
Are we the only human beings to survive?
Songwriters: Alex Lifeson / Geddy Lee Weinrib / Neil Peart
I believe it's important that we never forget the atrocities that occured, so that they may never happen again to any Race, Creed or Religion.
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For some weird reason, my days off work tend to involve being out of my flat by 5am and not getting back until 10pm. Back to work and the regular "fix" of 7.40am to 7.15pm hours
LBA: B737-300 G-GDFK empty down to Paris at 16:15 to operate the return LS268 back to Leeds 20:00 ETA where it will then operate the delayed LS265 to Malaga 20:40ETD
LBA: Albastar B737-800 EC-MUB positioning in tommorow afternoon from Gatwick 15:45 to operate a charter to Lourdes/Tarbes on Friday afternoon 14:00 AP7721 STC
I don't believe I am quite covering enough roles at work. Its now 4 on a bad day, 5 on a good day and there is scope for a 6th and 7th role. Still on minimum pay but had the biggest payrise in the company,
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