ジム・キャパルディ/Boy With A Problem

Boy With A Problem


Written by Jim Capaldi

Jim Capaldi - vocals
Roger Hawkins - drums
David Hood - bass
Barry Beckett - piano
Jimmy Johnson - rhythm guitar
Pete Carr - acoustic guitar
Paul Kossoff - lead guitar
Steve Winwood - synthesizer
Rebop Kwaku Baah - percussion
Harry Robinson - string arrangements


Producer Steve Smith, Jim Capaldi, Chris Blackwell


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Jim Capaldi
Short Cut Draw Blood
1975,Island

The song "Boy with a Problem" was written about former Traffic bandmate Chris Wood, whose self-destructive tendencies (particularly his drug addiction) were a cause of increasing concern for Capaldi. - Wikipedia


He tries so hard to get himself together.
But he's so weak he couldn't lift a feather.
And it looks as though it's gonna be bad weather,
When he comes down from the clouds.

His mother says, I wish he'd should stop his drinking.
He's like a ship that's on the verge of sinking.
But she don't see his pupils as they're shrinking,
When he's away in the clouds.


He's just a boy with a problem he caun't conceal.
He thinks he's controlling his habit,
But soon from this earth
He will leave


He used to be a very happy fellow,
And everything he did was very mellow.
But now his skin is slowly turning yellow,
Looking just like a bad dream.

He used to play a melody so pretty.
On a silver stick a long way from the city.
But now my heart is so filled up with pity.
What can we do with him now.


He's just a boy with a problem he caun't conceal.
He thinks he's controlling his habit.
But soon from this earth
He will leave


I'm gonna write a song and send it to him.
And maybe he will see just what I'm feelin'.
I've still got love and hope and my affection,
To keep him from fading away.

The earth is pure, its veins are rivers of water.
And man should be as a father to a daughter.
But he does what he likes, because he thinks he's bought her.
Laughing while he injects her with his filth.


He's just a boy with a problem, lost out in space
We're turning him into a junkie, look at his face,
What a disgrace!

Jim Capaldi (on Drums & Lead vocal with Traffic)

2 August 1944 - 28 January 2005 (aged 60)

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マーゴ・ティミンズ/父と子

Father & Son


Written by Cat Stevens



収録アルバム
Cowboy Junkies
Margo's Corner - Ty Tyrfu Sessions, Volume 1
June 24, 2009




Father
It's not time to make a change,
Just relax, take it easy.
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to know.
Find a girl, settle down,
If you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.

I was once like you are now, and I know that it's not easy,
To be calm when you've found something going on.
But take your time, think a lot,
Why, think of everything you've got.
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.

Son
How can I try to explain, when I do he turns away again.
It's always been the same, same old story.
From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go.

Father
It's not time to make a change,
Just sit down, take it slowly.
You're still young, that's your fault,
There's so much you have to go through.
Find a girl, settle down,
if you want you can marry.
Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.

Son
All the times that I cried, keeping all the things I knew inside,
It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it.
If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them you know not me.
Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go.

Margo Timmins
27 January 1961 - (age 51)

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シカゴ/Dialogue, Pt. 1 & 2

Dialogue, Pt. 1 & 2
[Single Version]

Written by Robert Lamm

Produced by James William Guercio



収録アルバム
Chicago /Chicago V
1972,Columbia(Rhino,2002)


Robert Lamm keyboards, vocals
Terry Kath guitar, vocals
Peter Cetera bass, vocals
Danny Seraphine drums, congas, antique bells
Lee Loughnane trumpet, percussion, vocals
James Pankow trombone, percussion
Walter Parazaider woodwinds, percussion



Terry: Are you optimistic 'bout the way that things are going?
Pete: No, I never ever think of it at all.
Terry: Don't you ever worry when you see what's going down?
Pete: Well, I try to mind my business, that is, no business at all.

Terry: When it's time to function as a feeling human being, will your Bachelor
of Arts help you get by?
Pete: I hope to study further, a few more years or so.
I also hope to keep a steady high.

Terry: Will you try to change things, use the power that you have,
The power of a million new ideas?
Pete: What is this power you speak of and the need for things to change?
I always thought that ev'rything was fine, ev'rything is fine.

Terry: Don't you feel repression just closing in around?
Pete: No, the campus here is very very free.
Terry: Don't it make you angry the way war is dragging on?
Pete: Well I hope the President knows what he's into, I don't know.
Oooh I just don't know.

Terry: Don't you see starvation in the city where you live,
all the needless hunger, all the needless pain?
Pete: I haven't been there lately, the country is so fine,
but my neighbors don't seem hungry 'cause they haven't got the time,
Haven't got the time.

Terry: Thank you for the talk, you know you really eased my mind,
I was troubled by the shapes of things to come.
Pete: Well, if you had my outlook, your feelings would be numb,
You'd always think that ev'rything was fine.
Ev'ry thing is fine.

We can make it better (x3) Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
We can change the world now (x3)

We can save the children (x3)
We can make it happen (x3)

Terry Kath
January 31, 1946-January 23, 1978 (aged 31)
Born in Chicago

ルシンダ・ウィリアムス/Which Will

Which Will


Written by Nick Drake

Produced by Gurf Morlix, Dusty Wakeman, Lucinda Williams


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Lucinda Williams/Sweet Old World
1992,Chameleon / Wea



Which will you go for?
Which will you love?
Which will you choose from
From the stars above?

Which will you answer?
Which will you call?
Which will you take for
For your one and all?
Tell me now which will you love the best?

Which do you dance for?
Which makes you shine?
Which will you choose now
If you won't choose mine?

Which will you hope for?
Which can it be?
Which will you take now
If you won't take me?
Tell me now which will you love the best?

Lucinda Williams
January 26, 1953 - (age 58)


　

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エッタ・ジェイムス/What Fools We Mortals Be

What Fools We Mortals Be


Written by Dorothy Hawkins



収録アルバム
Etta James
Who's Blue? Rare Chess Recordings From The 60s And 70s
2011,Kent(Ace)


　Tell Mama(1968)のあとに発表されたEtta James Sings Funk(1970)から一曲。

　作者のDorothy Hawkinsとは，エッタ・ジェイムスの母親のこと。