
“They’ll stone ya and then they’ll say, “good luck””
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Variant: Long days and pleasant nights.
Source: Wizard and Glass
“They’ll stone ya and then they’ll say, “good luck””
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
“To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.”
Source: Haunted
On death and the nightly resurrection of the slain on Valhal, Ch. 2
Space Chantey (1968)
Context: Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.
“I say good night-night
I tuck him in tight.
But things are not right.”
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
Context: I say good night-night
I tuck him in tight.
But things are not right.
What is this? An infant kiss
That sends my body tingling?
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), To Cowper (1842)
Context: p>All for myself the sigh would swell,
The tear of anguish start;
I little knew what wilder woe
Had filled the Poet's heart.I did not know the nights of gloom,
The days of misery;
The long, long years of dark despair,
That crushed and tortured thee.</p