Little argument with myself chords
Armonica
F Gm
I wanna believe (x4)
(THE SECOND PART IS VERY HARD....I CANNOT FIND OUT EXACT CHORDS!)
Just Keep Counting The Stars Like Some Day You'll Find
Just How Many There Are Then We All Can Go Home 'Cause
There's Nothing As Sad As A Man On His Back Counting Stars
Could Someone help?
Guy Weir
> Just Keep Counting The Stars Like Some Day You'll Find
> Just How Many There Are Then We All Can Go Home 'Cause
> There's Nothing As Sad As A Man On His Back Counting Stars
Cm Dm Gm Eb
then back to the verse chords as before.
christ what a song!!
Guy.
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Guy Weir
correction (Dmajor for 'sad as a man')
> sure:
>> Just Keep Counting The Stars Like Some Day You'll Find
> Eb Dm
>> Just How Many There Are Then We All Can Go Home 'Cause
> Gm Bb
>> There's Nothing As Sad As A Man On His Back Counting Stars
>
> Cm D Gm Eb
Ben Duff
Sad As A Man On His Back Counting Stars." I've lain on my back in the
very remotest areas of the northern Scottish Highlands looking up at
the stars (and the Northern Lights) and it wasn't sad at all! It was
FANTASTIC! What's he getting at with that sentiment?
Ben
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Phil Salathe
>I've never understood why Alan sung this line..."There's Nothing As
>Sad As A Man On His Back Counting Stars." I've lain on my back in the
>very remotest areas of the northern Scottish Highlands looking up at
>the stars (and the Northern Lights) and it wasn't sad at all! It was
>FANTASTIC! What's he getting at with that sentiment?
Can't speak for Al, but I'm thinking the song title gives this one
away. To me, it's about searching for meaning and struggling with
feelings of futility, and knowing that no matter how hard you try to
make sense of it all, you'll never really understand the world (a
religious person might say "see it through God's eyes").
Yet despite this awareness, you keep on pluggin' away -- doing your
best to lead a thoughtful and kind life, and wanting to believe that
it all means something.
The other possibility that came to mind is that "a man on his back
counting stars" is a dead man, i.e. in his coffin for eternity with
nothing else to do...and that what the singer "want[s] to believe" is
that there has to be something, presumably divine in origin, that
transcends that intolerably depressing ("nothing as sad") image.
-- Phil
Craig Silva
| I interpret it pretty much the same way as Phil, I think. I see the counting stars as a metaphor for figuring out our purpose in life with the goal being (we think) counting them all so we can just "go home" (live happily knowing we figured it out). But I think he is arguing with himself because he knows it is not possible to count them all (figure out exactly why we are here) and perhaps it is sad to spend so much time counting the stars as you may be missing out on life to some degree - not living fully - while engaged in that pointless endeavor (counting stars/figuring out life). That makes more sense in my head. At any rate the meaning I get from the song, and it is a good thing that we all take our own meanings from Low's songs, hits me very profoundly. Prolly has something to do with why I love this band (and a few others!). I am a completely non-spiritual person but that does not mean I don't spend a lot of time trying to count all of the stars/figure out life. It is very hard not to. --- On Fri, 11/5/10, Phil Salathe <phil.s...@gmail.com> wrote: |
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Derek Hanson
On Nov 5, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Phil Salathe <phil.s...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> To me, it's about searching for meaning and struggling with feelings
> of futility, and knowing that no matter how hard you try to make
> sense of it all, you'll never really understand the world
Hmmm, that's exactly what I thought "Lice Song" was about.
Derek