
Try Me, from Please Please Please (album) (1959)
Song lyrics
"I Try" (co-written with Jeremy Ruzumna, Jinsoo Lim and David Wilder) - YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsTk2xp0nvY
On How Life Is (1999)
Try Me, from Please Please Please (album) (1959)
Song lyrics
"No Matter How I Try" (song)
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "No Matter How I Try" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gM6bo-QhS0 (song on YouTube)
(+ Live performance on Top of the Pops. On YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBqEgnBNKDI
(+ Live performance in Japan, 1993. On YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsQu04bOm9I
Song lyrics
“I spent all of my life trying to stay away from sports and here I am in a sporting arena.”
1993-12-30 at the Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California
Stage banter
“I am waking from a dream,
I am choking on a scream,
You were trying to show me something.”
"Firefly" on Greta Gaines (1999) http://www.allmusic.com/album/greta-gaines-mw0000068041; the phrase in quotes is a line from a poem of Dylan Thomas. · Full song at YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIEA4mjwRik&spfreload=10 · Live Performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbr63vyH-58
Context: I am waking from a dream,
I am choking on a scream,
You were trying to show me something.
But the dark is wide and long,
The gates are closed, the crowd's all gone,
You're still shimmering and leading me on… Firefly that's what you are
Burning for me in my darkest hour
"Light breaks where no sun shines"
So shine for me tonight — firefly.
“When I was a little boy I used to repeat: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again."”
That is what I am doing. When I come back I hope I may be able to say, as Hotspur said in Henry IV, "Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety."
Speech at Heston Airport before his flight to Munich to meet Hitler (29 September 1938), quoted in The Times (30 September 1938), p. 12
Prime Minister
"Castles in the Air"
Song lyrics, Tapestry (1970)
Context: And if she asks you why,
You can tell her that I told you
That I'm tired of castles in the air.
I've got a dream I want the world to share,
And castle walls just lead me to despair.Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky,
A dream come true, I'll live there till I die.
I'm asking you to say my last goodbye.
The love we knew ain't worth another try.
Come Out and Play (20 November 2018), co-written with Finneas O'Connell.
Singles (2017 - )
“Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!”
Source: Howl's Moving Castle