Looking over my personal music library, one cannot miss the fact that so many popular songs are relationship based. Either the relationship is separated by distance, or there is a new romance stirring the emotional waters, or (the more likely scenario) there is a total breakdown in the relationship for any number of reasons. Given how important relationships are to our species, this should be no revelation.
Then there are the “social statement” kinds of songs; the soul searching songs, and those that cover an historical event. We write songs for so many reasons, and express a wide range of emotions musically, but they all generally reflect a human situation.
Then I came across this one, which posed the academic (because I knew the answer) question “Who would write a song about a mouse? Who would give it a big dramatic ending? Who would do all that without any hint of it being humorous?” You just have to love the range of musical creativity in the 1970’s! Enjoy … a brief look into a mouse’s night!
Got to get beside you ’cause it’s really cold out here.
Come up close to me you’ll soon be warm.
Hold me tightly like we’re sheltering from a storm.
Into the night, and out of this hole.
Maybe find me a meal.
Walking along this new shag pile
Presents a problem all the while.
Nearly the door.
But the light’s been turned on, now he’s blind as a mole in coal.
They’ve blocked off my door,
I’m not sleeping with that thing around here, no.
Alright then, I’ll fetch a box from below,
Guard him carefully, they’re very quick you know.
Must run out quick, better sorry than late.
I’m out on the stairs.
They won’t catch me now, I’ve the run of the house now.
I’ll make it downstairs and into the bread bin.
That would be nice.
A cat is much quicker than men and their eyes.
The chase that ensues can have only one end,
Unless outside help steps in for our friend in need.
His paw is raised, soon blood will spill, yes it will.
The signpost says inside me, let me bear your heavy load.
But it’s not to be, that final pounce
Knocks a jar upon his head, and lays him out.
To take on all those who would fight.
Then comes this monster mouse, he’s ten feet tall,
With teeth and claws to match.
It only took one blow.
I haven’t heard this one but I know what you’re saying about 70s music. No other decade comes close for variety (although the last part of the sixties was part of this).
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Loved the mid/late 60’s music as well! 🙂
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Haha, I had no idea Genesis produced a song like this. Too funny! Thanks for sharing and really good indeed that you posted the lyrics!
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I thought copying the lyrics helped to make sense of the whole production. Without them it could be construed as pure nonsense! 🙂
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That was a good idea because it could have turned out that way (to an non-English-native speaker at least… lol)!
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🙂
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😊
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Oh gosh! This is a creative song indeed. i enjoyed it, but I don’t think the mouse had a very happy ending. “Poor mouse!”
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Given that the mouse appears to have the last words, I suspect he didn’t do too badly. Perhaps it was the cat that had the unhappy ending?
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Perhaps you are right, but than “Poor Dewey!” 🙂
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If you are going to mention “Dewey” then, for the benefit of other readers, you should perhaps explain who he is!
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He is a very special cat that lives on Moonbeam Farm where he has fun adventures with his crazy friends, a barn owl, jackalope and a man-servant. You can catch all their adventures in the pages of “The Odessa Chronicles.” 🙂
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I think I can do better than that! “The Odessa Chronicles” is a book of short stories perfect for anybody between the ages of 4 and 104. If you still have “the child” inside you, then it will love this book. If you have young children and/or grandchildren … they will love to read about the antics at Moonbeam Farm, or will be thrilled as you read the stories to them! Tempted but uncertain? Then go to amazon.com and read the reviews! You won’t regret it! If you feel you should have at least one “fun book” to read this year, then look no further than “The Odessa Chronicles”.
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Yes, that is better, Well-done! 🙂
I was awake too early this morning, that’s my excuse. LOL!
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I was up and working on my PC at 5:00am. What’s your other excuse?
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…mmm..! I will get back to you on that. 🙂
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I said I would get back to you, so I am. Does no excuse work for an excuse? 🙂 Unlike Saturday, I am feeling wide awake now, wasn’t up too early this morning.
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🙂
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The music drowns out the lyrics. Good thing you included them in the post or I wouldn’t have understood a word of this tune.
Yes even a mouse’s life is important. Maybe even a bacterium’s life. Or a mitochondria’s. Whose to say our human lives are all that matter? Maybe there’s fun, tragedy, and adventure to be had in any life.
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One just never knows! Given the microscopic organisms that live on us … imagine of we are similarly microscopic organisms living on a much larger living being, or imagine if our planet is just one cell of billions that make up a totally different entity. One just never knows! 🙂
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It truly is a fantastic mystery.
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Indeed it is. 🙂
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Yes, you are right, the smallest life can matter, even a spider’s! Though I really prefer that the spiders celebrate their lives FAR away from me!
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They would probably prefer that as well;. 🙂
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Yes, considering that their lives are usually cut short if they see me.
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Me too. My house is too small to accommodate any spider.
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