what's happened is so sad bare with me as i try to explain my train of thought tonight just this last winter/spring for a multimedia class we made slide show presentations on a place we would like to visit as one of the final projects, to sorta show off what we had learned, could do, yeah... anyways, i did mine on New Orleans, and it was definitely an interesting place to research... we were to put music to the thing... well, one of the first songs that had anything to do with or mentioned New Orleans that came to mind was The Veils' "The Valleys of New Orleans" (The Runaway Found 2004), but the mood didn't seem to fit my slide show, i don't know if anybody else on here listens to them, and on the other hand, it might not even particularly be about New Orleans... so i went with some Charlie Parker stuff (bird lives!!!) using the jazz connection... but getting back on track with my train of thought tonight, i was looking back on that & thinking about it... Bush reciting his speech on tv & all... & for the first time since this disaster happened i thought about that song by The Veils, which lyrics go something like: "Someday the walls will tremble with terrible flames here ‘Til the mouth of some hurricane sweeps them away And If I had either love or fortune I’d shed them both here But those cards are so rarely played I’ve hid them away The valleys of New Orleans The valleys of New Orleans Oh Stanley I’ve heard you laughing your way around here There’s a game that I wish to play, so slow down I found another in Sidneys’ pocket, she knows my name And she says she wants to drive all night in the dark through all The valleys of New Orleans The valleys of New Orleans Sidney says God is watching so don’t fear now She says he’s bound to come, give him time Her mouth is the taste of sea salt and saddled rum She speaks in a vagrant language I’d heard once in a film about The valleys of New Orleans The valleys of New Orleans The valleys of New Orleans The valleys of New Orleans" it stirred me before, but now i think this song... at least the beginning... gives a deeper chill...
