'No Surrender'

'For friendship' is from his one-line introduction
and 'these 'these drums and these guitars' from his lyrics.

I think that 'No Surrender' and 'Independence Day' are probably
his greatest songs.



Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Douglas Clark wrote:

> The line
> 'For friendship -- I listen to these drums and these guitars'
>
> contains the essence of a Springsteen line. Sorry I cant remember
> the song or the original quote. I'll dig out my CD set and try
> and find it while watching the cricket for an hour before I
> catch the bus to my voluntary job.
>
>
>
> Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
> Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
>
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Candice Ward wrote:
>
> > What I want to know is the Springsteen quote! I've been poring over the poem
> > and can't spot it. Sure, "it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive," but it
> > ain't no less than one to forget rock lyrics in your middle age!
> >
> > Candice
> >
> >
> >
> > on 8/24/01 5:01 AM, Douglas Clark at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> >
> > > Silly me! I forgot to give the quote which I doctored:
> > > 'You weep like a woman for what you could not hold as a man'
> > >
> > > Everybody will have forgotten my poem by now so it dont matter much.
> > > I just read Machado for the last time and filed him. You will find
> > > what LOrca pinched from him out of Verlaine as well as lots of
> > > lovely landscape descriptions (which I cant do)
> > >
> > > But he was well worth reading.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Douglas Clark wrote:
> > >
> > >> Just checked out my MIchelin 'Spain' and the quote I use
> > >> in the poem was said by Boabdil, the last Emir of GRanada, 's
> > >> mother to him as they took their last look at Granada on
> > >> being ejection. The spot on the road where she said it
> > >> is called 'The Moor's Sigh'. Perhaps I should have put
> > >> the quote in italics. Too late now. But I did use it for
> > >> the title of the Lorca poem. (There is a Bruce Springsteen
> > >> quote hidden there as well. . I was listening to his 3-CD
> > >> live set as I wrote it).
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
> > >> Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
> >
>