A Sense of Doubt blog post #1516 - Time Passages - Love is the Answer

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1516 - Time Passages - Love is the Answer

So, this song just came to me one day. I am not sure why. I am sure this kind of thing happens to you, too.

It's like my mind is blank, sort of, and then there's this song, and it's not even a song I know well or would list as a particular favourite. And yet, there it is.

Since I don't really know the lyrics to this one by heart, I only really had the title over and over.

And then this other song came into my head, but all I had was this fragment:

"... A ticket to paradise ..." and then a vague sense of the melody, so a little humming.

How do you google that?

Well, I did somehow with the word "paradise" 1970s and soft rock. I found it. Magical.

I should have known it was from "Love is the Answer."

I prefer this version to Todd Rundgren's as after seeing him live a couple of times, I am very soured on him due to his bitterness and lack of graciousness. Asshole.

In any case, I am still in low power of mode on the blog, so instead of a full mix for Musical Monday, here's two songs. That's easier to digest, eh?

I will return to doing mixes, but it's much easier on me if I do not try to do them weekly. :-)

Because, you know, "time passages" ... and


"And when you feel afraid, love one another
When you've lost your way, love one another
When you're all alone, love one another
When you're far from home, love one another
When you're down and out, love one another
All your hope's run out, love one another
When you need a friend, love one another
When you're near the end, love
We got to love, we got to love one another..."

Time Passages

Al Stewart

It was late in December, the sky turned to snow
All round the day was going down slow
Night like a river beginning to flow
I felt the beat of my mind go
Drifting into time passages
Years go falling in the fading light
Time passages
Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight
Well I'm not the kind to live in the past
The years run too short and the days too fast
The things you lean on are the things that don't last
Well it's just now and then my line gets cast into these
Time passages
There's something back here that you left behind
Oh time passages
Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight

Hear the echoes and feel yourself starting to turn
Don't know why you should feel
That there's something to learn
It's just a game that you play

Well the picture is changing
Now you're part of a crowd
They're laughing at something
And the music's loud
A girl comes towards you
You once used to know
You reach out your hand
But you're all alone, in those
Time passages
I know you're in there, you're just out of sight
Time passages
Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight

Songwriters: Eric Stewart / Wilfred Collins / Jim Falcone / Paul Nieser

Time Passages lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

Love Is The Answer

England Dan & John Ford Coley

Name your price
A ticket to paradise
I can't stay here any more
And I've looked high and low
I've been from shore to shore to shore
If there's a short cut I'd have found it
But there's no easy way around it

Light of the world, shine on me
Love is the answer
Shine on us all, set us free
Love is the answer

Who knows why
Someday we all must die
We're all homeless boys and girls
And we are never heard
It's such a lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely world
People turn their heads and walk on by
Tell me, is it worth just another try?

Light of the world, shine on me
Love is the answer (let it shine)
Shine on us all, set us free
Love is the answer (you know the answer is love)

Tell me, are we alive, or just a dying planet?
What are the chances?
Ask the man in your heart for the answers

And when you feel afraid, love one another
When you've lost your way, love one another
When you're all alone, love one another
When you're far from home, love one another
When you're down and out, love one another
All your hope's run out, love one another
When you need a friend, love one another
When you're near the end, love
We got to love, we got to love one another

Light of the world, you got to shine on me
Love is the answer
Shine on us all (know that love can save the day)
Set us free
Love is the answer
(Just give it, just one more chance)

Light of the world, shine on me
Love is the answer (love, love, love)
Shine on us all, set us free
Love is the answer
(Lord, you just can't let it stop, Lord)

Light of the world, shine on me
Love is the answer
Shine on us all, set us free

Songwriters: John Wilcox / Kasim Sulton / Roger Powell / Todd Rundgren

Love Is The Answer lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

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