http://parkinsonsdance.blogspot.ca/2...hapter-99.html

I am humbled.
I thank you.

And leonard Cohen to boot!

theres a legend up there with Tom Waits and John Cooper Clarke.

I always loved his cd "the death of a ladies man" (I am probably pretty much alone in that), which contains the classic line "the art of longings over and its never coming back".

Bob/Thelma/Reverett, if you like Leonard Cohen try John Cooper Clarke, (the bard of Salford). Biggest claim to fame was when The Sopranos used Evidentally Chickentown as the fade out music to an episode. Download his best of, then again it may be just a UK thing !!

Neil.

Lived a year in the last hour…
But it’s all disaster movie stuff
where silence is the code
and revenge is not enough.
The one-eyed king says to the blind,
all beauty has been redefined;

(there is a rainbow in the room)

(it is resting on the palm of your hand)

(John Cooper Clarke, the British street poet)

This is how I'm feeling today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSH7fblcGWM

Help, I have done it again
I have been here many times before
Hurt myself again today
And, the worst part is there's no-one else to blame

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
I'm needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Ouch I have lost myself again
Lost myself and I am nowhere to be found,
Yeah I think that I might break
I've lost myself again and I feel unsafe

Beasley Street, one of his best.

I never thought I would be discussing John Cooper Clarke with a Canadian on a Parkinson's forum.

Guess this proves that genius and good taste know no boundaries

"The perfume of the essence rare
That lingers in the lift
He's a prince among the peasants where
She's working on the nidnight shift
You're gonna find her stuck in the lift
To the wonderland of vice
You're gonna find her on the midnight shift
With feet like blocks of ice

She carried water for the mainman
She had to walk the streets
She married a door-to-door salesman
Who worked away all week
She lived with an empty chair
Until the final rift
She didn't have a thing to wear
She had to work on the midnight shift

You're gonna find her frozen stiff
You think you been hurt
You're gonna find her on the midnight shift
Standing in the dirt"

(Midnight Shift JCC).

Take care buddy,
Neil.