I always made fun of my father for his corny musical tastes.
"Howard Jones? Really? Universal love and Buddhist harmony? Totally not cool."
He would speak about his own father, who loved Buddy Holly, and how he said much the same thing to the old man, way back then.
Then I had to hear that whole story about a song where the main instrument was a typewriter.
"One day, it will all come together. You won't laugh. You'll cry because you'll know you missed something."
I honor my father now, for his birthday, with a song by one of his heroes.
—bsc
Howard Jones, "The One to Love You", from Transform (2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtFi5sw7MSA
and a pretty decent remix version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h0zO-tHwGE
Of all the people in the world
Why would you choose me
To be like binary stars
Why would you choose me
To be like binary stars
Locked in our own gravity
You say these words
But they're lost on me
Up in the air
Float in my misery
'Cause I could be the one
You say these words
But they're lost on me
Up in the air
Float in my misery
'Cause I could be the one
To love you
'Cause I could be the one
To care for you
I've got to change my heart
'Cause I could be the one
To care for you
I've got to change my heart
See the bigger view
Believe there is a life on Mars
I'd be so good for you
I call out your name
But sound won't travel through space
I take my leap across the void
But I'm lost without trace
'Cause I could be the one
To love you
Cause I could be the one
To care for you . . .
Cause I could be the one
To care for you . . .
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