Well it looks like I have the first Peggy Lee comment.
They used to play this song at the end of the Hoolihan and Big Chuck show (later Big Chuck and Little John show) in Cleveland, Ohio.
Anyway it is a very interesting song indeed. Very deep and profound. Well written. Basically house catches on fire, go to a circus. Fall in love and ultimately on your deathbed, is that all there is?
This is a song that really makes you think. Basically you go through all this stuff in life and really...who cares? What is the big deal? Nothing spectacular happens. You win the football game, get married, make a lot of money, have kids and at the end of the day....whatever.
You go through life expecting the big thing and really...whatever happens that is really important or signficant in the big picture?
What would be interesting is to see a real live ghost or a close up of a UFO or have something really significant happen. But nothing ever seems to. You live, you die and 200 years from now, nobody is going to care or know who the hell you were.
And the break out the booze is like....F*** it. No sense in getting all mellodramatic or whatever. Enjoy it while it is here and don't get all hung up. Eventually we are all going to kick off anyway.
Ultimately, this song is about sadness that the great optimism that we had of life as kids and all the possibilities that await us...it really didn't live up to the hype now did it?
I like your comment, but it seems she never had optimism, even when she was a young child. I think if she HAD seen a ghost, she might have said:
"And when I was 15 years old, I saw a ghost at the end of our hallway,
The scariest thing most people fear in the their lives;
I just stood there and watched as the ghost approached and walked right through me;
As it passed on through, it’s coldness me gave me a quiver, but then it was gone,
And I said to myself, ‘is that all there is to a ghost?’
Is that all there...
I like your comment, but it seems she never had optimism, even when she was a young child. I think if she HAD seen a ghost, she might have said:
"And when I was 15 years old, I saw a ghost at the end of our hallway,
The scariest thing most people fear in the their lives;
I just stood there and watched as the ghost approached and walked right through me;
As it passed on through, it’s coldness me gave me a quiver, but then it was gone,
And I said to myself, ‘is that all there is to a ghost?’
Is that all there is all? is that all there is? …….......” lol
Well it looks like I have the first Peggy Lee comment.
They used to play this song at the end of the Hoolihan and Big Chuck show (later Big Chuck and Little John show) in Cleveland, Ohio.
Anyway it is a very interesting song indeed. Very deep and profound. Well written. Basically house catches on fire, go to a circus. Fall in love and ultimately on your deathbed, is that all there is?
This is a song that really makes you think. Basically you go through all this stuff in life and really...who cares? What is the big deal? Nothing spectacular happens. You win the football game, get married, make a lot of money, have kids and at the end of the day....whatever.
You go through life expecting the big thing and really...whatever happens that is really important or signficant in the big picture?
What would be interesting is to see a real live ghost or a close up of a UFO or have something really significant happen. But nothing ever seems to. You live, you die and 200 years from now, nobody is going to care or know who the hell you were.
And the break out the booze is like....F*** it. No sense in getting all mellodramatic or whatever. Enjoy it while it is here and don't get all hung up. Eventually we are all going to kick off anyway.
Ultimately, this song is about sadness that the great optimism that we had of life as kids and all the possibilities that await us...it really didn't live up to the hype now did it?
Also, the party at the end is not a jubilant party. It has a undercurrent of sadness to it.
Also, the party at the end is not a jubilant party. It has a undercurrent of sadness to it.
I like your comment, but it seems she never had optimism, even when she was a young child. I think if she HAD seen a ghost, she might have said: "And when I was 15 years old, I saw a ghost at the end of our hallway, The scariest thing most people fear in the their lives; I just stood there and watched as the ghost approached and walked right through me; As it passed on through, it’s coldness me gave me a quiver, but then it was gone, And I said to myself, ‘is that all there is to a ghost?’ Is that all there...
I like your comment, but it seems she never had optimism, even when she was a young child. I think if she HAD seen a ghost, she might have said: "And when I was 15 years old, I saw a ghost at the end of our hallway, The scariest thing most people fear in the their lives; I just stood there and watched as the ghost approached and walked right through me; As it passed on through, it’s coldness me gave me a quiver, but then it was gone, And I said to myself, ‘is that all there is to a ghost?’ Is that all there is all? is that all there is? …….......” lol