CAMELOT FANTASIES

I did not want to overwhelm you, dear married people but now it seems like I have successfully overwhelmed myself in the process. I am deciding on my song no. 6 but quite unfortunately I have two songs at this place. I just couldn't go for one only even after going over it quite a few times. Oh well, you will just have to put up with whatever I decide. Hee hee. 

At No. 6 I have first, Happy New Year. It's a very good song with a very good message. That's why it was very hard to overlook plus Agnetha's command in this song is just too good.

Here's a bit of the lyrics that I love so much...

No. 6 Happy New Year

Sometimes I see
How the brave new world arrives
And I see how it thrives
In the ashes of our lives
Oh yes, man is a fool
And he thinks he'll be okay
Dragging on, feet of clay
Never knowing he's astray
Keeps on going anyway...



And here's my other favouite also at No. 6. I am appalled this wasn't on your list but then again you may have never heard of it because I don't think you know as much as I do. lol. Annnnnnyway, it was from their last album - The Visitors. Very emotional song by Agnetha - you'd fall in love with her once again by this sweet and yet very moving performance.

Here's a bit about the song from Wiki....

"Slipping Through My Fingers" is a song written by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson and recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA from their 1981 album, The Visitors, with lead vocals by Agnetha Fältskog. The song is about a mother's regret at how quickly her daughter is growing up, and the lack of time they have spent together, as the girl goes to school.

The inspiration for the song was Ulvaeus' and Fältskog's daughter, Linda Ulvaeus, who was seven at the time the song was written.

No. 6 Slipping Through My Fingers

Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile
I watch her go with a surge of that well known sadness
And I have to sit down for a while
The feeling that I'm losing her forever
And without really entering her world
I'm glad whenever I can share her laughter
That funny little girl



There are cover versions of both of these songs however there's no decent version out there. And since I hate the Mamma Mia movie which I call Hollywood gone karaoke, I am not going to post their version. That movie, though hugely successful worldwide, is an utter disgrace to humanity.