ok, i’m going to make everybody puke now. please forgive me.
but I’ve been a tad obsessed with John Denver lately. half of his songs make me cry, the other half make me sob. here is a song that makes me sob.
VIDEO: Annie’s song (lyrics)
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July 22nd, 2009 at 5:30 pm #
i like john denver
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:41 pm #
girl, i don’t just like him. I unabashedly love the holy shit out of him. at his dorkiest best. I love his glasses and his dorky hair and his super sweet sentimental honey self. He makes me cry–really deep gut sucking cries. I mean, i’m kinda embarassed to admit it, how hard he makes me cry. I try to sing along to the songs, and i can’t because I’m all choked up and boo hooing. WTF. I mean, really. WTF. I was crying the other night because he was dead. I mean, boo hooing. because it’s just so fucking unfair. all he did was make beautiful shit. and he’s dead.
I think a part of it is his way of being masculine. he got reemed mercilessly by “Dudes”–cuz he was a pussy, right? little pussy boy that sang about being in love and loving nature and uncontrollable connections to the earth. pussy. but he didn’t care. he wore his dorky glasses and didn’t cut his hair for years and kept singing about being in love with the world.
but–as much as that means to me…i don’t know. there’s something I can’t put a finger on when I listen to his shit. he just hits that tender spot and I start crying and I can’t stop.
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:47 pm #
btw, aaminah, i just read your other comment fully–and I hope you are ok. i hope you are safe and that you can confront what you are confronting is a sign of you finally having the strength and space to do so, rather than a sign of something horrible…much love, my love.
xoxo
July 22nd, 2009 at 6:00 pm #
I looooooooove this song! I always get shit for it, too. Whatev. It’s awesome.
July 22nd, 2009 at 6:07 pm #
okay, i was trying to be discreet, but no… i totally understand and relate to how you say he makes you feel. i thought i was the only one, LOL.
re the other… i posted on the health blog about it, but don’t know how to give your permission to read that blog. it’s totally sucking. everyone else i know who has the same kind of acct as you still gave me their username, but if your username is “admin” then i don’t know what to say… sometimes wp makes no freakin’ sense. i would just paste it into an email for you, but… well, you know, LOL.
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:02 pm #
Ahhh…no doubt in my mind, this is one of the greatest pieces of modern songwriting, *period*. Nature boy? Devotee of the cosmic romance? Unabashed unironic lover of life and beauty? Yup. This is my speed. This is where I choose to chill.
I actually posted a bilingual version of this song a couple years back where he did several verses in Spanish, but they scrubbed it off YouTube…
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:07 am #
Well, I love how he undoes masculinity by asking his (female) lover to “come fill [him] again.” That’s just awesome.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:59 am #
This is one of the handful of songs that I feel truly encapsulates the divine movement that is possible in loving and being loved by another human being.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:42 pm #
Wasn’t he just so great? Long live hippies!
July 24th, 2009 at 12:43 pm #
I cry over “Rhymes and Reasons”–used at a friend’s funeral, and oh so perfectly…
“Come and stand beside us, we can find a better way…” reduces me to absolute mush.
July 24th, 2009 at 2:07 pm #
*sigh*
Rocky Mountain High…
When I think of him though, I think of him hanging out with George Burn when he was “God”.
July 24th, 2009 at 6:00 pm #
When I think of him though, I think of him hanging out with George Burn when he was “God”.
LOL!!
July 25th, 2009 at 4:02 am #
I love John Denver too. Annie’s Song and Sunshine On My Shoulder are among my favorites. I actually sing them to myself for comfort sometimes.
That quality you can’t name might be the purity of his voice. I always say his voice is clean; unlike mine which is smoky and whiskey tainted. Even so, it feels good to sing his pretty songs.
July 25th, 2009 at 8:07 am #
Um, you all are kinda freaking me out.
–Jess (laughing)
July 25th, 2009 at 3:32 pm #
i love you.
July 27th, 2009 at 8:34 am #
lol
First song I learned on the guitar!I tortured my family with it. Thanks for the nostalgia.