Sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down

[vaneramos]

I've been watching these videos a lot. They cheer me up.



Jane Siberry - One More Colour (1985)

Watch on YouTube

"is it lasting?" and in asking
the sphere becomes a line
a dotted line, and to follow it
you must make a jump each time

a dotted page
a dotted hillside
a blast of dots
a blind reader
a flock of sheep
a blast of trumpet shots

here --- all we have here is sky
all the sky is is blue
all that blue is is one more colour now

a basket of apples by the back door
beneath the sweater pegs
the autumn leaves lift along the street
a pair of dancing legs

same as the vendor
who likes to sing as loudly as he can
and all he says is, it suits me fine
that's the way i am

here --- all we have here...

i've seen this THING you won't believe
why it's big
bigger than the biggest tress
high as the mountains
wide as the widest skies
and that's both sides
well --- at least as big as me...

speak a little softer
work a little louder
shoot less with more care
sing a little sweeter
and love a little longer
and soon you will be there

here --- all we have here...

these are some reasons
and same as the seasons
they hold and then they fly
the goatless ledge
'neath the honkless geese
in the speckless sky
the speckless sky

i hear you...



Jem - Just A Ride (2005)

Watch on YouTube

Life, it's ever so strange
It's so full of change
Think that you've worked it out
then BANG
Right out of the blue
Something happens to you
To throw you off course
and then you

Breakdown
Yeah you breakdown
Well don't you breakdown
Listen to me
Because

It's just a ride, it's just a ride
no need to run, no need to hide
It'll take you round and round
Sometimes you're up
sometimes you're down
It's just a ride, it's just a ride
don't be scared
don't hide your eyes
It may feel so real inside
but don't forget it's just a ride

Truth, we don't wanna hear
It's too much to take
Don't like to feel out of control
So we make our plans
Ten times a day
And when they don't go
our way we

Breakdown
Yeah we breakdown
Well don't you breakdown
Listen to me
Because

It's just a ride, it's just a ride
no need to run, no need to hide
It'll take you round and round
Sometimes you're up
sometimes you're down
It's just a ride, it's just a ride
don't be scared
don't hide your eyes
It may feel so real inside
but don't forget it's just a ride

Slowly, oh so very slowly
accept that
there's no getting off
So live it, just gotta go with it
coz this ride's, never gonna stop

Breakdown
Don't you breakdown
No need to breakdown
No need at all
Because

It's just a ride, it's just a ride
no need to run, no need to hide
It'll take you all around
Sometimes you're up
sometimes you're down
It's just a ride, it's just a ride
don't be scared now
dry your eyes
It may feel so real inside
but don't forget enjoy the ride x2

Comments

[rfmcdpei.livejournal.com]

Jane Siberry is so good.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

sorry it won't embed properly ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyZasu_2LdM

[zombietruckstop.livejournal.com]

O.M.G.

THANK YOU! I never even thought to look at YouTube for Jane Siberry videos!

I'm so happy!

[djjo.livejournal.com]

I should be asleep...but
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlXV19TykLY

[capitalcor.livejournal.com]

Now that name is a name I haven't heard in a LONG time. Love Jane Siberry.

[progbear.livejournal.com]

I ♥ that Jane video. ♥! Directed by Bob Casale, ex-Devo. It shows!

There’s apparently an alternate version of this, directed by...someone else, but it’s NOT on Youtube. Besides, no hand-puppet? No cow? No movie projector in the shed? It’s just not “One More Colour”!

I do have a VHS tape of a bunch of Jane Siberry videos. It has most of them up to and including the stuff off of Bound By The Beauty. It does not include this one, though: