Written by Dennis Linde and originally recorded by soul artist Arthur Alexander, this was covered by Elvis Presley and released 1st August 1972.  This song was Elvis's 40th and last Top Ten hit on the US charts. It was also one of the last real rock songs in the last years of his life

Burning Love - Elvis Presley

The complicated life of those born with different sensitivities-Bossanova-Jazz-Author

02-Lammene er født-Noruego

Love lost

An upbeat track about a relationship going downhill…

Great Apes

I’m looking down the avenue wondering how to make my escape
And if we really merit our status among the great apes

I was driving at a hundred miles an hour till you stepped on the brakes
You know there’s islands in the lakes on the islands in the Great Lakes

You said you get out of life what you put in
I said well, you should, but that’s the thing
We’ve all got our battles, we’ve all got our cares
I once knew a tortoise who dreamed of a world without stairs
Your jokes don’t cover all your demands
You’re a taxman’s letter printed in Comic Sans
 
Every raindrop on the window’s a fisheye lens that turns the world upside down
And all I hear is your silence when I walk through the crowds in town
 

I got a reputation as an underachiever
The trouble with self-deprecation is some people believe you
I know I got some things wrong back when we were rooming
Hello Action Man, meet Consequence Woman

There’s a vanishing point on the road to hell that leads the eye far into the fire
There’s a missing rung on Jacob’s ladder that stops the likes of me getting higher

Thinking about the time when you wrote me a sonnet
Now I hear your dartboard’s got my face on it
And I’m looking down the metal stairs wondering how the fire escapes
And if we really merit our status among the great apes
If we really, really merit our status among the great apes

You're a Big Boy Now

John Sebastian

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