Strange synchronicities

[triskellian]

I'm just finishing reading The Time Traveller's Wife, and last night I dreamt about time travel. I don't remember the details of the dream at all, but it's left me with "Hazy shade of winter" in my head all day. It's a song I'm not aware of having heard for years, but somehow my subconscious made the connection between the lyrics and the story and the fit seems so good* that I'm recording it here.

Time, time, time, to see what’s become of me
While I looked around
For my possibilities
I was so hard to please
But look around, leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Hear the salvation army band
Down by the riverside, it’s bound to be a better ride
Than what you’ve got planned
Carry your cup in your hand
And look around, leaves are brown now
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Hang on to your hopes, my friend
That’s an easy thing to say, but if your hopes should pass away
Simply pretend
That you can build them again
Look around, the grass is high
The fields are ripe, it’s the springtime of my life

Ahhh, seasons change with the scenery
Weaving time in a tapestry
Won’t you stop and remember me
At any convenient time
Funny how my memory slips while looking over manuscripts
Of unpublished rhyme
Drinking my vodka and lime

But look around, leaves are brown now
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Look around, leaves are brown
There’s a patch of snow on the ground...

*No, the fit's not good enough to count as spoilers for the book ;-)

Comments

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

It seems today is a day for synchronicity...
*shakes head in disbelief at smallworldness striking again*

[triskellian]

I saw that, and was amused :-) I hope she's coming on the 16th, so you'll be able to re-meet her then.

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

We were (re)introduced at the Farmers' Market the other week; I look forward to meeting her properly again, this time knowing to whom I am talking!

[adamsmithjr.livejournal.com]

Wow. Yet another CD to be taken from the archives and dusted off. You're good at this, Tris...

[triskellian]

Heh. I don't even know if we've got this one! I certainly don't (or if I do, it's only on crappy recorded tape), but smiorgan might. I'll have to try and find out when I get home...

[adamsmithjr.livejournal.com]

I think it might almost sound better on cruddy old cassette. That was how I fell in love with the song, and from a tiny tinny player too.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

That track was on a tape I used to have taped off the radio. Nice tune, but very depressing lyrics.

[smiorgan.livejournal.com]

We have both Simon And Garfunkel's Bookends (which I recall you were most disparaging of when I fished it out of the used CD bin at the Scope shop) and The Bangles Greatest Hits.

[triskellian]

which I recall you were most disparaging of when I fished it out of the used CD bin at the Scope shop
Really? I like S&G. Was I in a particularly contrary mood that day?

It was their version I was thinking of, anyway. I'd forgotten The Bangles covered it.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten The Bangles covered it.

Some things are better forgotten.

(Much as I like The Bangles normally.)

[kauket.livejournal.com]

incidently - friday afternoon, i'll be around at about 4ish, shall we hang out in a garden with Rebel.

[triskellian]

Ooh, could be a Plan :-) Or, instead of the garden, we could watch that film we keep talking about watching. The weather is apparently going to be cooler (with possible storms) on Friday anyway...