Sanity by Desperado Revue on The Pipeline at IndieMusicPeople

What's the name of that song by The Who I think that goes "Can It Be For A Moment". Does that song even exist. I seems to me I listened to it many decades ago.

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Bryon Tosoff

6/24/2020 1:57:43 PM ---- Updated 6/24/2020 1:58:52 PM

Sanity,what is sanity? Some of the best ever songs have been ones written during times of trouble and upheaval.they reflect more depth and understanding . Truth Lies Deceit are shared without those songs I think we be deceiving ourselves if everything was nice an cozy..Some insane and troubled people have written some amazing poetry books and songs. By doing so they pull themselves out of their personal plight struggles and despair

Songs of peace love hope. hmmm need those go to church

but ,my take

My mom said,"we make our own world" even while the world seems to be falling apart
Sanity. what is sanity?

this is what I know.

it is the state of mind that we have where calm peace and happiness lie. no one else can help us there. others can't make us happy. oh being around them might, yet what do we have when we are alone. Do we have peace of mind?

If we have peace of mind then we are blessed, especially with what is happening which is quite normal for the human race. This is us, this is who we are, this is what we do, we no nothing else ,history tells us that.

Songs of peace happiness hope , that is nice, and maybe it is vanilla.

Sanity is our state of mind. and right now there are many without Sanity.

Songs reflect the nature of man, current past present

There is more depth and understanding in songs of reality and upheaval then there ever will be with songs of hope. For me , that is what I know.

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Mike Lance

6/24/2020 1:58:03 PM

"Is it Me For a moment"? It's a refrain that pops up on numerous songs on the Quadrophenia album, an all time favourite of mine.

Sanity would be a nice change in these times.

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Desperado Revue

6/24/2020 2:49:55 PM

Good one Bryon, thanks.

"Is it me for a moment", "Quadrophenia", of course, thanks Mike. Could never get enough of that double LP back in the 70's. I guess that one line said it all back then for me. Don't remember why though. Today I get more stuck on a line like "There won't be any Arizona" from Neil w Young.

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Neil w Young

6/25/2020 10:36:35 AM ---- Updated 6/25/2020 10:39:26 AM

Rudyard Kipling has a work that offers some insight into "sanity", Norm, although it doesn't come with that title. I often think of the first line that comes to mind at times when I question the "sanity" of mine:

“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too .... "

By the way, Norm, "There Won't Be Any Arizona" is soon to be released as a single (radio edit version).

The song intrigued platinum artist John Wozniak (additional engineer and mixing on the song) so much that he finally had to ask the question:

"Was there a honeymoon that didn't happen?"

To which I replied, "Good question, John."

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Desperado Revue

6/25/2020 12:33:58 PM

Neil, I was just reading about your association and friendship with Carl Horton and his love for "There Won't Be Any Arizona". It is a song that should get attention by that one line that keeps coming back in the chorus. It is just mesmerizing. It is probably the line that will stick with me for quite a while. (I dare not say the next few decades as I am getting up there)

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Neil w Young

6/25/2020 4:21:11 PM

Thank you, Norm, for your kind words.

Yes, Carl truly loved the song and it shows in his Grand piano and Hammond organ tracks in the song. I was blessed to have Carl play on many tracks on the album before we tragically lost him on the morning of Saturday, December 9, 2017, when the production of my ‘Dreams In The Wind’ album came to a halt with his shocking and sudden death.

You can imagine the shock to those of us in the studio, particularly when only 36 hours earlier he was in the studio putting down the beautiful Grand piano, strings and Hammond organ tracks on “For You”. It was the last piece of music Carl played before he passed.

That the song included a passage from the 23rd Psalm made his sudden passing that more poignant and unbelievable. If you didn’t “believe”, you at least had to wonder.

It was almost a month before I could pull myself back together to go back into the studio to record my vocals for the song.

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Psyche's Muse

7/2/2020 8:11:12 AM

I AM ALL IN(for) "SANITY"!!!

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