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Turn in Sequence/ For My Favorite American Songs Part1

My love poems are almost caused from my emotion when I listened to my favorite songs, with Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Chicago, Eagles or so.


When I listen to Billy Joel’s songs, the turn to do with his songs must be the first “Honesty”, next “Just the Way You are”, coz former is the song he felt so exhausted in aloneness as solitude and isolation never being able to believe anyone, but after a few while, he met someone so beloved for him, and he with regained mentality sings “Just the Way You are”.


Thereby this turn must be kept, reverse turn makes me so disappointed. In other words, Billy’s screaming in solitude as first song must be cured with next song, and its turn is so crucial to at least me as favorite listener.


For example, when I listen to Chicago songs, first I often listen to “Beginning” and next “Make Me Smile”, first one is morning’s coming in breakout and next is for weeping emotional song for yelling to beloved one who beside me or absent with his call to her or so.


But after two songs listened, next "Saturday in the Park" must cheer up our exhausted sorrow or sadness caused from solitude must be loosened.


Dylan’s song’s case, I first listen to “Like a Rolling Stone”, with that message to the carnally vanity in world, next I can have some feeling to listen to “Desolation Raw” means so anarchy corrupted city civilization with the absolute loneliness, and next I listen to “One more Cup of Coffee.”, this song is yelling for the traveler of caravan or so in the desert, but this song is paralleled to another desert song,” All along the Watchtower”.
The last song is for ironically criticizing totalitarianism tasted authorized power as policing order in segregated desert area or island area, and its message calls Michael Foucault’s great text, “Birth of Prison”.


Thus, contemporary society’s margin to maintain the warmth of human emotion caused from rationally infrastructure’ s disregarding performance with ceremonial indifference.


Of course, Dylan’s message and Foucault’s idea must remind us another mentally traumatic reminiscence to the war with sung masterpiece by Eagles, as “Hotel California”, but this song must need the regained nostalgic song devoted to outcasts of all the society, “Desperado”, but its song is completely so in emotion of shell, although this song intends to guide us absorbing to nihilistic but a little joyfully regained powered spirit, in other words, Billy Joel’s suffering traumatic emotion would be expired with Eagles’ healing together among the same sinners, coz we are all sinners in front of our Lord.


(to be continued)
(Sep. 27th. 2019)