Almanac Music: ‘Once I had a love…’ – Songs Referencing Glass
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Almanac Music: ‘Once I had a love…’ – Songs Referencing Glass
Hi, Almanackers! This week’s piece in my ongoing series about key popular song themes concerns songs that reference glass. Glass has been selected for our theme mainly because of its use in popular song to convey fragility, transparency and such qualities, and, more broadly, for its often effective use in poetic terms. As long as the word ‘glass’ appears in the song lyric you choose for inclusion on our songlist, the song is relevant, even if it’s a glass of beer being mentioned. (That keeps the matter straightforward, in terms of what fits the theme and what doesn’t.)
So, dear readers, please put your relevant songs in the ‘Comments’ section. Below, as usual, are some examples from me to get things going.
‘Glass Onion’, written by John Lennon (credited to John Lennon and Paul McCartney), performed by the Beatles (1968)
‘I’ll tell you about the Walrus and me, man’
‘Julie Through the Glass’, written and performed by Carly Simon (1971)
‘Julie through the glass / lookin’ up at me’
‘A Glass of Champagne’, written by Georg Kajanus, performed by Sailor (1975)
‘Let’s get together / the two of us over a glass of champagne’
‘Heart of Glass’, written by Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, performed by Blondie (1977)
‘Once I had a love / and it was a gas’
‘I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass’, written by Nick Lowe, Andrew Bodnar and Steve Goulding, performed by Nick Lowe (1978)
‘I love the sound of its condition’
‘We Are Glass’, written and performed by Gary Numan (1980)
‘We are glass / We are glass’
‘Walking on Broken Glass’, written and performed by Annie Lennox (1992)
‘Walking on, walking on broken glass’
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Now, dear readers / listeners – it’s over to you. Your responses to this topic are most welcome. In the ‘Comments’ section, please add your own choice of a song (or songs) referencing glass, along with any other relevant material you wish to include.
[Note: as usual, Wikipedia has been a good general reference for this piece, particularly in terms of checking dates and other details.]
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Happy ‘new theme’ Friday KD
I’ll open up with the first Dylan lyric to spring to mind on the ‘glass’ theme:
Sweetheart Like You (1983) – off the Infidels album
‘You can be known as the most beautiful woman
Who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal’
Thanks, Karl – each new theme feels like an event these days, which is a fine thing indeed!
Great start to our songlist.
The Drinking Song (Drink, Drick, Drick) – Mario Lanza
The Man in the Looking Glass – Frank Sinatra
A few from Dean Martin
How Do I get a Drink with a Glass Eye?
The Man Who Plays the Mandalino
One more Time
“Long Tall Glasses”, by Leo Sayer. It should get a guernsey as although it’s in the plural, the word glass is in glasses.
Billy Joel’s 1980 ‘Glass Houses’ album opens with
the sound of glass shattering
before dropping into track 1 – You May Be Right.
Many thanks for your initial foray into this new theme, Fisho. The Mario Lanza song would best fit a past ‘songs about drink’ theme, as it doesn’t directly refer to glass in the lyrics, but to the German word stein, which translates to stone, as German drinking mugs were traditionally made of stone/earthenware.
Thanks, Anon, for ‘Long Tall Glasses’, a ripper song. Glasses is plural of glass, of course, so it fits, as do all words that include glass, such as glassware, glassy etc. Probably , I should’ve specified this in my intro. Hopefully, though, it’s enough to say this early on in our thread.
Thanks, Karl, for your mention of Joel’s Glass Houses album – obviously it’s an album title, not a song one, but your observation about the album name and its opening sound was worth noting here.
Broken Glass – Kygo & Kim Petras
H. E. R. – The Glass – Foo Fighters
Dancing on Glass – The Creatures
Glass Slipper – Katherine McNamara
“Pierces of My Life”, by Elvis Presley (“A water glass full of whiskey and women that I never knew too well”)
Thank you for your latest four choices, Fisho. Great input – here and in general.
“If You Know What I Mean”, by Neil Diamond (“Took a drink from an old glass of wine”)
Apologies for the spelling mistake in my previous comment as it should be spelt “Pieces of My Life”, by Elvis Presley.
Thank you, Anon, for the song by the King.
Glass In the Trees – Dead Poetic
Looking at the World Through Rose Coloured Glasses – Bing Crosby
The Whiffenpool Song – Perry Como
“Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve”, by Taylor Swift (“The tomb won’t close, stained glass windows in my mind”). It is a bonus track originally released as part of the 3am Edition of her tenth studio album, Midnights (2022).
Thanks, Anon, and Fisho, for your latest offerings.
“Fox on the Run”, by Manfred Mann (“Come take a glass of wine and fortify your soul.”)
Country songs:
There Stands the Glass, Webb Pierce
Tennessee Whiskey, George Jones
Nothin’ for a Broken Heart, Vince Gill
The Carroll County Accident, Porter Wagoner (and Dolly’s version is pretty good)
Shattered Glass, Brad Paisley
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”, by The Rolling Stones (“I saw her today at the reception, a glass of wine in her hand.”)
Burn’ Down the Spark – Nancy Sinatra
Three from Neil Sedaka
In the Shadow of the Looking Glass
The Parting Glass
The Glass Bottle – I Can’t See the Sun
Four Glass Walls – Conway Twitty and Loretta Lyn
Now 2 from Conway Twitty
There Stands the Glass
Looking Through My Glass
Finally 2 from Johnny Cash
Little Magic Glasses
God ain’t no Stained Glass Window
Combining a past & the current theme in one post…..
The Vanished People (an Italian indie band) just dropped (7 June 2024) this banger!
Glass Moon Dance
Now I’m sitting under a glass moon again
With splinters falling on my head
Ginny in the Mirror – Del Shannon
Judy in Disguise (With Glasses) – John Fred and his Playboy Band
Somewhere by Sea (I looked at my eyes in glass) – Cliff Richard
Whisky Glasses – Morgan Wallen
Shattered Glasses – Brad Paisley
Raise your Glass – Simply Bushed
There Stands the Glass – Webb Pierce
The Salt on your Glass – Gretchen Wilson
Broken Glass – WhISKeFISH
Thank you, Anon, for your latest two – ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’ has always been a bit of a favourite of mine.
Thanks, Rick, for advancing into ‘glass song territory’ via an interesting country route. I’ve known ‘Carroll County Accident’ since I was a kid – must’ve been on one of my father’s LPs back in the day.
Thanks, Fisho, for a fine, extensive bunch of recent additions – Rick not so long before you mentioned a couple of them – ‘There Stands the Glass’ and ‘Shattered Glass’ – but this kind of thing is almost inevitable as a songlist becomes longer.
Thanks for ‘Glass Moon Dance’ (great title), Karl – just had a listen and the song possesses a nifty, jazzy, likeability.
Hey KD, Carroll County Accident is a sad, sad song, which is a fave subgenre of country music for me.
Here’s a few more songs. Southside’s song is a ripper, cowritten with Bruce back in the 80s I think, they’re very old friends.
Shooting Dirty Pool, The Replacements
Yes, I Guess they Outa Name a Drink after You, John Prine
It’s Been a Long Time, Southside Johnny
She Handed Me a Mirror, Little Elvis
South of Cincinnati, Dwight Yoakam
Empty Glass – Peggy Lee
Dark Lady – Cher
Sandra (When a glass fell and broke on the tile) – Dusty Springfield
I agree, re the ‘sad, sad song’ country music genre, Rick. Instantly, I thought of Jimmy Dean’s ‘Big Bad John’ – which is enough to make this ole coyote howl at the moon! (Pity the song doesn’t mention glass, in the present context.)
Thanks, of course, for your latest fine contributions to the glass theme, too.
Thank you, Fisho, for your latest trio – keep ’em coming, mate!
Understanding in a car Crash – Thursday (Geoff Rickly)
Steamy Windows – Tina Turner
What’s Love Got to Do With It – The Glass Child – Tina Turner
Don’t bring me down: Electric Light Orchestra
Green glass windows: Roy Wood’s Helicopters
Oh what a shame: Roy Wood
Blessed: Simon and Garfunkel
Philosophy: Ben Folds Five
Five miles closer to the sun: James Reyne
And the rain: Idle Race
Thank you, Fisho, for your most recent additions.
Thanks, Liam, fo your collection of ‘glass song’ choices; as usual, an interesting bunch, with ELO, Ben Folds and James Reyne in the mix.
Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands (1966) – Dylan
‘And your flesh like silk and your face like glass
Who could they get to carry you?’
Thanks for this classic Dylan song – one which inspired, in terms of chord progressions, George Harrison’s – to me – equally wonderful ‘Long, Long, Long’, on the Beatles’ White Album. Interestingly, ‘Long, Long, Long’ is a lot, lot shorter than the long, long Dylan number!
If Music Could Talk, The Clash
Grandpa was a Carpenter, John Prine
God in Chicago, Craig Finn
Greenville, Lucinda Williams
From St Kilda to Kings Cross, Paul Kelly
Hi KD
Thanks for your informative comment regarding Long, Long, Long. As for the length of Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, at 11m 23s it is 1sec short of being equal to 50% of the entire 3rd side of the ‘White Album’ where Long, Long, Long is the final song.
Bringing this theme closer to home:
Melbourne band, Kingswood’s November 2023 ‘The Tale Of G.C. Townes’ album includes:
Glass Half Full
‘Without a glass half empty, how do you know yours is full?’
I Wish I Wuz (Hi, Ho, Fiddle De De) – (I wish I was a Glass of Sherry Wine) – Rosemary Clooney
Thanks for your most recent five songs, Rick – quality material. Just for the heck of it, I’ll single out the wonderful ‘Greenville’ – the way Williams sings the word ‘oh’ in every verse is so affecting and effective!
Thank you for ‘Glass Half Full’, Karl. I just checked it out and liked it.
Thanks, Fisho, for the Rosemary Clooney song – upbeat in mood, and fun.
Glass on the Bar – Tex Morton
Man of the Glass – Slim Dusty
The Biggest Disappointment (Maybe drink too many glasses down) – Slim Dusty
“It’s Only Natural”, by Crowded House (“Buildings of glass sink into the bay.”)
Wrong Ideas (Well maybe one just little glass of beer) – Brenda Lee
The Glass Bottom Boat – Doris Day
I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock and Roll) – Nick Lowe (although Dave Edmunds did a good version).
(“Well, take a look at the bridegroom smilin’ pleased as pie
Shakin’ hands all around with a glassy look in his eye
He got a real good job and his shirt and tie is nice
But I remember a time when she never would have looked at him twice”)
Second Avenue – Art Garfunkel (“And since our stars took different paths, I guess I won’t be shavin’ in your looking glass.”)
Other people’s Houses – Paul Kelly (“There were things in there he couldn’t imagine anyone ever eating – strange looking pastes in jars and horrible concoctions in plastic. His mother would sit him down with a jam sandwich and a glass of milk, then set to work cleaning other people’s houses.”)
In Germany Before the War – Randy Newman (“A little girl has lost her way With hair of gold and eyes of gray Reflected in his glasses As he watches her”)
That’s My Desire (To sip a little glass of wine) – The Hollies
Ye Olde Toffee Shop (A nice little lady, old and grey with glasses and a shawl) – The Hollies
Does this one qualify? Looking Through any Window – the Hollies
Penny Arcade, by Roy Orbison. In the lyrics, Lost, lost in a sea of glass and tin.
Congratulations to the Almanac Music Readers for reaching 50.
Some corkers from Jason Isbell:
Hurricanes and Hand Grenades (song begins, I got a glass of wine – from early in his career and when drinking was becoming a big big problem)
It Gets Easier (from later in his career, after being alcohol free for years but as the title notes and the line finishes, it never gets easy)
Dreamsicle (from same album as Easier, in this song the lyric, “broken Glass and broken vows” becomes a metaphor for a broken home)
Palmetto Rose (“glass in the gravel like the stars in the sky” – from his best album a song about his father’s death in a car crash and lyrically, one of his most poetic)
Elephant (” Winked at me and drained her glass” – the woman referenced in this quite incredibly powerful and deeply sad song is his friend, in the last stages of cancer, which is the elephant)
Thanks, Fisho, for your latest song choices – impressive work, overall, on this theme.
(Regarding your question, let’s just stick to songs where the word glass, or words containing glass – like glasses, glassy, glassware – are mentioned.)
Thank you, Anon, for your latest couple.
‘Penny Arcade’ has always been one of my favourite Roy Orbison songs. From memory, it was a particularly big hit in Australia.
Many thanks, Dave N, for your interesting range of selections and the judicious use of quotes from these songs. Nice variety of material, too!
Thanks so much for the Isbell material, Rick – illuminating accompanying comments, also.
Here’s a lesser known Dylan song – I Wanna Be Your Lover (1966)
Recorded during the Blonde On Blonde sessions, but not released until 1985 Biograph compilation album.
Well, Phaedra with her looking glass
Stretchin’ out upon the grass
She gets all messed up and she faints –
That’s ’cause she’s so obvious and you ain’t
Also, a big high 5 to Rick’s latest Jason Isbell songs, lyrics & comments.
Thanks, Karl, for your latest Dylan song – seems like a connection with Greek myth in your quoted bit, but I’d need to examine the matter further to say more. But I do know Dylan’s song connects directly with an earlier Lennon-McCartney song (i.e. ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’) with the words ‘I wanna be your lover, baby / I wanna be your man’.
Wreck on the Highway – two different songs, one by Dorsey Dixon and Roy Acuff from 1942 (there’s another story about the song’s origin) and the other by Bruce Springsteen from 1980.
Bruce was influenced by Acuff’s version of said song, which has been covered by many artists, including George Jones and Bill Hayley. The Dixin/Acuff’s song considers why no one was praying because of this terrible incident:
“There was whiskey and blood all together
Mixed with glass where they lay
Death played her hand in destruction
But I didn’t hear nobody pray.”
Springsteen’s song is more introspective, where a similar scene leads the protagonist to think deeply about his loved ones:
“There was blood and glass all over
And there was nobody there but me” and
“I watch my baby as she sleeps
Then I climb in bed and I hold her tight
I just lay there awake in the middle of the night
Thinking ’bout the wreck on the highway.”
Remember Laura Branigan – she had a no.1 hit in 1982 with Gloria.
In 1987 she released ‘Shattered Glass’ – which peaked at no.60!
This song is not to be confused with the other ‘Shattered Glass’ song mentioned by Rick earlier in this theme nor with
Shattered Glass recorded Britney Spears in 1980.
When your world falls apart like shattered glass
Glass, glass, glass, glass, li-li-like glass, glass, glass
Hey KD – had a quick scan back and I think this song has not been mentioned yet;
You Go To My Head
‘Like the bubbles in a glass of champagne’
The song, which dates back to 1938, has been covered by many famous singers.
I’ve got a soft spot for Bryan Ferry’s 1976 version.
Bob also did a cover on his 2017 Triplicate album – but ……
Two superb additions to our theme, Rick, especially with glass connotations (e.g. its cutting aspect and its shatterable nature) being so much to the fore. Excellent, highly informative accompanying detail, too.
Thanks for your latest input, Karl. (Interesting little sub-theme about glass’s shatterable aspect in recent comments!)
And like you, I have a particular fondness for Ferry’s mid-seventies version of ‘You Go to My Head’.
To Live Is To Fly: Townes
“You’re as soft as glass
And I’m a gentle man”
Profound
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine – from Dylan’s 1967 ‘John Wesley Harding’ album
Oh, I awoke in anger
So alone and terrified
I put my fingers against the glass
And bowed my head and cried
Thank you, Peter C – the quoted lines are indeed profound – and lovely in a poetic way.
Thanks, Karl, for your latest Dylan – he is certainly an artist whose work keeps on giving.
Nice one Kevin.
I see Fisho already named this one, but I’m here to highlight it.
“The Parting Glass.”
The Pogues sang it at Shane MacGowan’s service last year. Glen Hansard does a tremendous version here.
Elsewhere online G Hansard introduces the song like this:
“It’s not a morbid song. This song is sung usually at wakes – it’s usually sung from the perspective of the dead person to his family or to her family – and the song basically says ‘thank you, I’ve had a great time, good luck.’
Certainly in Ireland if someone passes, this song will be sung on that day. Or if there’s been a great gathering and people have had a really good time hanging out with each other – then this song will come out. So, it’s a song to say good evening. Or it’s a song to say goodbye. But ultimately, it’s an old song. So.”
Great stuff, David W. Many thanks. Glen Hansard’s version of ‘The Parting Glass’ is certainly a beauty, too.
Another from Dylan’s 1967 John Wesley Harding’ album.
I Pity The Poor Immigrant
Whose visions in the final end
Must shatter like the glass
I pity the poor immigrant
When his gladness comes to pass
Thank you, Karl, for your latest Dylan addition. Excellent!
A little more little elvis
The Deportee Club (Does fibreglass count: In the Arrivederci Roma nightclub bar and grill/Standing in the fiberglass ruins watching time stand still. If not, we got this: Two thousand dollars for wife and some class/A thousand years drowned in a chaser glass)
Beyond Belief, (In this almost-empty gin palace/Through a two-way looking glass, you see your Alice)
The Final Mrs. Curtain (She was a husband collector of impeccable taste/She said “My hands are tied but my glass is chaste”)
This House is Empty Now, written with Burt Bacharach (Remember the glass we charged in celebration?/But now I fill my life up/With all that I can to deaden this sensation)
What Do I Do Now, a cover of UK band Sleeper (Draining the glass they walk home at last/Reaching for each other’s hands)
Cheers
Thanks for the interesting Costello material, Rick – and fibreglass certainly counts, as it contains ‘glass’ in it. Particularly good bunch of lyrics you’ve quoted, too.
Pretty tough at this stage of the game and hopefully credible.
Fripp and Eno with Glass Structure from Beyond Even.
Temptations with Glass Houses. A bit off centre with Sports “ Don’t Throw Stones “ At “My Window “ being made of Glass I guess.
Regards. Frank.
Remember Rick Springfield? Who can forget Zoot and Rick’s debut 1972 single ‘Speak To The Sky’?
Well, after 50+ years, Rick (74 going on to 75) is still going strong.
On his 2023 ‘Automatic’ album, there is this song:
In Case Of Fire Break Glass
‘In case of fire do I break the glass where do I turn
Yeah, she’s on fire’
Thanks, Frank, for your ‘glass’ contributions. Songs specifically mentioning glass, or a word in which glass is contained, are most relevant in terms of our list.
Fripp and Eno’s ‘Glass Structure’ deserves a particular nod, I feel – something out of left-field, perhaps, and I really like it.
Thank you for the Rick Springfield entry, Karl.
Like you, I’ve known him as a performer and writer from his earliest years in the public eye. I remember ‘Speak to the Sky’ being part of my family’s singles collection when I was a kid.
Hey KD
My review of Dylan lyrics referencing ‘glass’ has proved less fruitful that other recent themes.
It seems that ‘glass’ petered out in 1989 with:
Dignity (a studio outtake from the Oh Mercy recording sessions)
Wise man lookin’ in a blade of grass
Young man lookin’ in the shadows that pass
Poor man lookin’ through painted glass
For dignity
Thanks for ‘Dignity:, Karl. I suppose, like all artists, Bob deals with some subjects more than others – even if he’s considerably more prolific than most in general terms.
In Crowded House’s ‘It’s Only Natural’, written by Neil Finn, there’s a reference to ‘buildings of glass’.
Correction: the above Crowded House song was written by Neil and Tim Finn.
Valentine’s Day is Over, Billy Bragg
Tomorrow’s Going to Be a Better Day, Billy Bragg
California Stars, Billy Bragg & Wilco
Heavy Metal Drummer, Wilco
Ambulance, Wilco
Many thanks for the Bragg and Wilco material, Rick. (Bragg, incidentally, is one artist whose work I should know more thoroughly.)
You def won’t be disappointed!
Big shout out to Rick for Billy Bragg’s ‘Valentines Day Is Over’. One of my favourites – and what excellent lyrics for this theme:
‘For the girl with the hour glass figure, time runs out very fast’
Which leads me to:
Dustin Lynch – I’d Be Jealous Too
‘She’s a California red in a dive bar
Hourglass body like a guitar’
No worries, Rick, my recollection is that I first got to know about Bragg via Oz TV shows like Nightmoves and a bit later ABC’s Rage – but somehow over the years I lost touch with what he was up to. Just about every time I hear some of his material, though, I know it’s quality work.
I agree, Karl, about the high quality of ‘Valentines Day is Over’ – thanks, also, for ‘I’d Be Jealous Too’.
A tip of the hat to Cindy Walker, one of country music’s best songwriters.
Two Glasses Joe, Ernest Tubb
The Warm Red Wine, George Jones
Don’t Talk to Me About Men, Cindy Walker
Seven Beers with The Wrong Kind of Man, Texas Jim Lewis and His Lone Star Cowboys with Singing by Cindy Walker (note, not written by Cindy, but great little songs, check it’s back story as well)
The Thingamajig, Johnnie Lee Wills and his Boys (Bob’s brother)
Cindy Walker | Songwriters Hall of Fame (songhall.org)
You Don’t Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker – Wikipedia
Thanks for the Cindy Walker material, Rick. Great to see the songwriting aspect of the overall song ‘equation’ highlighted in these comments.
‘Cheers (Drink to That)’ – performed by Rihanna.
Think Tom Waits blues:
From 1976: Pasties and a G-String (At the Two O’clock Club) – Portland through a shot glass
From 1985: Diamonds and Gold – The broken glass/And the rusty nails/Where the violets grow
From 1987: Temptation – Rusted brandy in a diamond glass
From 1992: That Feel, written with Keef Richards – glass eye
From 2002: Barcarolle – She is skating on the ice/In a glass in the hands of a man/That she kissed on the train
Remember Johnny Farnham, before he dropped the ‘ny’?
In 1968, aged 19, he released his 2nd LP ‘Everybody Oughta Sing A Song’ on which he sings:
Rose Coloured Glasses – a song written by Hans Poulsen
“Moscow”, by Genesis Khan (“Moscow, Moscow, throw your glasses at the wall.”)
Many thanks for the Tom Waits material, Rick.
Thanks for ‘Rose Coloured Glasses’, Karl – a song I recall from my childhood days. I also recall Hans Poulsen from that era.
Thank you, Anon, for ‘Moscow’ – a major hit in Australia (six weeks at Number 1) around the time of the Moscow Olympics (1980).
Here’s another song, released in 1979, ‘But You Don’t Care’ by Mi-Sex, which begins: ‘Lightning flash in the plate glass…’ Good band, in my humble opinion, with a number of memorable songs, including ‘Blue Day’ and ‘Falling In and Out’ (a real beauty).
Cadbury television advertisement jingle (“He likes Cadbury. She likes Cadbury. They like Cadbury dairy milk, with that famous glass and a half of rich full cream milk.”)
“Beautiful World”, by Bon Jovi (“Uh, wearing in Gucci glasses”). The song is from their 2013 album “What About Now.”
“Radio”, by The Corrs (“So I step inside, pour a glass of wine, with a full glass and an empty heart”). The song was released in October 1999 from the band’s live album “The Corrs Unplugged”, during their appearance on MTV Unplugged, with “Dreams” from the same album as a B-side.
“Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”, by The Beatles (“Picture yourself on a train in a station, with plasticine porters with looking glass ties.”)
Congratulations to the Almanac Music Readers for reaching another well deserved century!
Nice variety of material in your latest four, Anon – thank you for your important role in our ton being achieved.
Hi KD
It’s a bitterly blustery day – and it was on a day like this in August 2017 that the words’ Wicked Wind’ came to me. It was the time when the pre-report findings of the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses To Child Sexual Abuse were being filtered out into the public domain.
Over the following weeks, I penned a song, titled ‘Wicked Wind’ and the final verse goes:
‘Yes, I have sinned – so I will not cast the stone
But I’ll be the first to volunteer to build a road
A road made of shattered glass & to the sound of the mission bell
Each depraved and evil priest shall crawl that road to hell.’
Thanks, Karl, for these powerful words.
A small collection of some great singer songwriters.
One Glass of Whiskey, Robbie Fulks (One glass of whiskey to ease my mind)
Window on the World, Jimmy Buffett, written by John Hiatt (A broken glass and a heart gone wrong/That’s my window on the world)
Exit Joe Pug (I will find you at the bottom of my glass)
Birthdays, Craig Finn (The bandage and the broken glass/The weak attempts to keep in touch)
An Empty Glass, Gary Stewart (With an empty glass/That last cigarette/It’s closing time/And I’m drunk again)
The Big Black Hat (a pair of Dark Glasses on his nose) – Rolf Harris.
Thanks, Rick, for your latest choices of a ‘singer-songwriter’ kind. Interestingly, one doesn’t hear that term very much these days. Related to this, some of the bigger (mainly) American hits at the present time seem to be written by a committee, often including the performer concerned.
Thank you for your latest input, Fisho.
A belated entry to this post:
Up To Me (1974)m – Blood On the Tracks outtake that finally surfaced on the 1985 Biograph compilation album.
‘Now we heard the sermon on the mount and I knew it was too complex
It didn’t amount to anything more than what the broken glass reflects’