MAKE MINE BLUE
I’m gonna hook an anchor
To a rainbow
I’m gonna tie it
To the back of my car
I’m gonna drive
So very fast
Watch that rainbow
Rip the tar
I don’t need no colors
To cloud up my view
For my palette
Just make mine blue.
Blue like the night
Of an endless sky.
Blue like the chill
In the wind passing by.
Blue like a scorned lover’s
reply.
A shadow. A sigh.
One committed goodbye.
Blue.
Yellow’s the morning
A passing school bu
A dancing girl’s dress
Frills and a fuss
A temporary flower
A faulty view
Yellow is passing
Make mine blue.
Red’s not the fire
Red’s just the flame
Temperature rising
Red is for shame
A warning, forlorning
A pending rescue
Red is flashing
Make mine blue.
Green’s a false promise
Violet is weak
Orange, the pretty whore
Fast and cheap
Grey, non-committal
Black is tattoo
Demanding and final
An intended bruise
I will not waiver
Make mine blue.
Blue like the depth
Of the deepest mine.
Blue for the one
You can never find
Blue like the heart
Of the one left behind.
Blue.
Like mine.
Onement VI -- Barnett Newman
In 2013 Microsft co-founder Paul Allen put his painting "Onement VI" by Barnett Newman on auction in New York, expecting to get $30-40 million for it. "Newman overwhelms and seduces the viewer with the totality of its sensual, cascading washes of vibrant blue coexisting with Newman’s vertical 'Sign' of the human presence, his iconic and revolutionary 'zip',” according to Sotheby's. An unidentified bidder bought it over the phone for $43.8 million (plus tax and the buyer's premium, a percentage of the hammer price to cover administrative expenses; Sotheby's also gets a commission, previously agreed upon with the seller.) Sotheby's predecessor, Baker and Leigh, was founded in London in 1744, when Samuel Baker presided over the disposal of a private library. After Baker’s death in 1778, his estate was divided between George Leigh and John Sotheby, who left the business to set up their own book dealership in 1804. In 1816, after the death of Leigh, who was unmarried, Sotheby took over and soon expanded the business into auctioning prints, medals, and coins. But the company did not enter the fine arts field until much later; its first major sale was a Frans Hals painting for 9,000 guineas in 1913. The auction house established a branch in New York in 1955 and eventually operated at 90 locations in 40 countries; in 2011 its global sales reached $5.8 billion.
ReplyDeleteIn 1963 Bobby Vinton recorded "Blue on Blue," composed by Burt Bacharach and Hal David; his single spent 13 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 3; it reached No. 2 on Billboard's Middle-Road Singles chart.
Blue on blue, heartache on heartache
Blue on blue, now that we are through
Blue on blue, heartache on heartache
And I find I can't get over losing you!
I walk along the street we used to walk
Two by two, lovers pass
And as they're passing by
I could die
'Cause you're not here with me!
Now the trees are bare, there's
Sadness in the air and
I'm as blue as I can be!
Blue on blue, heartache on heartache
Blue on blue, now that we are through
Blue on blue, heartache on heartache
And I find I can't get over losing you!
Night after lonely night, we meet in dreams
As I run to your side
You wait with open arms
Open arms
That now are closed to me!
Through a veil of tears your
Vision disappears and
I'm as blue as I can be!
Blue on blue, heartache on heartache
Blue on blue, now that we are through
Blue on blue, heartache on heartache
And I find I can't get over losing you
Blue on blue, heartache on heartache
Blue on blue, now that we are through
Blue on blue...
The term "friendly fire" to designate inadvertently firing toward friendly forces was coined by the US military to describe such actions that occurred in World War I. In North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) parlance, these incidents are called "blue on blue" (in military exercises NATO forces were identified by blue pennants and "Warsaw Pact" forces by orange ones).
Thank you sir. I just saw this. David/Bacharach...ah, yes. Masters. Joni Mitchell's Blue collection is also masterful...and inspiring. In fact "Make Mine Blue" comes from a collection I wrote in response to that album. I have some nerve right? Ha!
ReplyDeleteBut thank you sir.