Continuing our examination of time from last week, this week we’re listening to songs about ephemerality and trying to figure out if transient things can have eternal value. Send your song suggestions to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com!
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Al Green, “Funny How Time Slips Away” (Call Me, 1973)
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6:28
Reading: Ecclesiastes 3
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8:40
Willie Nelson, “Summer of Roses” (Yesterday’s Wine, 1971)
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10:44
Grateful Dead, “Box of Rain” (American Beauty, 1970)
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17:30
The 77s, “Under the Heat” (All Fall Down, 1984)
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20:34
Luxury, “Maker / Wheel Within a Wheel” (Like Unto Lambs, 2024)
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24:16
Q Lazzarus, “Goodbye Horses” (single, 1991)
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31:24
Reading: Homer, Iliad
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32:56
Bob Dylan, “Temporary Like Achilles” (Blonde on Blonde, 1966)
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37:52
Billie Holiday, “As Time Goes By” (single, 1947)
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41:11
Reading: Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
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45:53
Son Volt, “Tear-Stained Eye” (Trace, 1994)
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50:05
Bonny Light Horseman, “Gone by Fall” (Rolling Golden Holy, 2022)
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52:48
Jim Croce, “Time in a Bottle” (You Don’t Mess Around with Jim, 1972)
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55:53
George Harrison, “All Things Must Pass” (All Things Must Pass, 1970)
1 comment
Emily R
Fantastic playlist, Michial.