Well I'll be damned

[ET Awful]

Here comes your ghost again
But that's not unusual
It's just that the moon is full
And you happened to call
And here I sit
Hand on the telephone
Hearing a voice I'd known
A couple of light years ago
Heading straight for a fall

As I remember your eyes
Were bluer than robin's eggs
My poetry was lousy you said
Where are you calling from?
A booth in the midwest
Ten years ago
I bought you some cufflinks
You brought me something
We both know what memories can bring
They bring diamonds and rust

Well you burst on the scene
Already a legend
The unwashed phenomenon
The original vagabond
You strayed into my arms
And there you stayed
Temporarily lost at sea
The Madonna was yours for free
Yes the girl on the half-shell
Would keep you unharmed

Now I see you standing
With brown leaves falling around
And snow in your hair
Now you're smiling out the window
Of that crummy hotel
Over Washington Square
Our breath comes out white clouds
Mingles and hangs in the air
Speaking strictly for me
We both could have died then and there

Now you're telling me
You're not nostalgic
Then give me another word for it
You who are so good with words
And at keeping things vague
Because I need some of that vagueness now
It's all come back too clearly
Yes I loved you dearly
And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
I've already paid

50 points for the first person to name the singer
50 extra credit for the first person to name who the song was about :)

[Gothic Sponge]

1. Joan Baez

[GOPisEvil]

2. Or Judas Priest.

;-)

[Gothic Sponge]

7. Yes, one of my first albums!

[GOPisEvil]

8. I heard the JP version before I ever knew about Baez' version.

I heard her version while eating at a salad bar on campus back when I was a college student in the late '80s. I blurted out, hey, that's a Judas Priest song. After my friend stopped laughing at me, he told me that Joan's version was first. :dunce:

[Gothic Sponge]

9. LOL!

Don't feel so bad! I did the same thing! It was a few years after i bought Unleashed in the East. I was flipping through the radio stations and heard her singing. I thought "who is this woman singing a priest song?"

[ET Awful]

10. Hehehehe

That's almost as bad as the now classic (and cliche) story of the kid yelling at his mom "HEY MOM did you know Paul McCartney was in another band before he was in Wings?"

[ET Awful]

4. It was an easy one :)

Now name the subject :)

[The empressof all]

3. And the answers are

1. Joan Baez
2. Bob Dylan

[ET Awful]

5. Well done, I need more difficult challenges for you.

Hmmmm. . . let me think :)

[Democracy Died 2004]

6. Could be

Baez

[tigereye]

11. I have always liked that song

her version I mean. DOn't think I have heard the hair band version.