El Condor Pasa (more relevant than you might think)

[beetiger]

[Poll #159987]

Comments

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Do I have to be the nails-and-wood kind of carpenter? I think it'd be kinda cool to be Karen Carpenter for a while.

[redbird]

I tried voting in this and got "This is the address to participate in a poll. You've stumbled onto an address which does nothing right now. If you'd like, you can create a new poll."

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Huh. Stupid LJ. Try again in a bit?

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't deny that her *voice* would be cool to have for a while. But the whole eating disorder/dying thing is probably not where it's at. :}

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Well... yeah, that's why I only want it for a little while. :)

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

I first read that as 'Condor Pasta'. Maybe I'd be less disappointed if I knew what 'El Condor Pasa' actually meant?

[freeko.livejournal.com]

I chose carpenter only because there was not another option. But If I could I would be a saw.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Full lyrics:

I’d rather be a sparrow than a snail
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I’d rather be a hammer than a nail
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would

Away, I’d rather sail away
Like a swan that’s here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground
He gives the world its saddest sound
Its saddest sound

I’d rather be a forest than a street
Yes I would, if I could, I surely would
I’d rather feel the earth beneath my feet
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would

-Paul Simon, based on a Peruvian folk song

The usual subtitle for the song is "If I Could", but El Condor Pasa literally means something like "the condor passes (overhead)".

[freeko.livejournal.com]

I always liked that song! Thanks for including the lyrics. :-)

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

E) street

This also puts me in mind of the most inventive obscenity I have ever heard, a Catalonian stream of blasphemy and scatology so horrifying that I think I'll post it on a more appropriate journal...

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I never was a big fan of Nine Inch Nails, and I was probably born too late for The Carpenters. So, I picked MC Hammer.

Great poll!

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Heh. You know where *I* am on the forest/street continuum.

[queenofstripes.livejournal.com]

Yes, puny Earth tiger. If only you know what the streets were made from where I come from. ;)