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Yesterday I posted a message here in which I asked for help with a fundraiser that my fiancee is involved with.

So many people stepped up to help and my fiancee and I are awed by how wonderful are so many people who frequent this website.

Thanks again to all who helped out. The goal was met!

This morning I drove into work and went through my Jimmy CD's to look for one that I don't listen to that often...There was the "Hoot" soundtrack where I'd left it a couple months ago, last time I listened to it.

As soon as I heard the opening guitar chords to Jimmy's version of "Wondering Where the Lions Are" a big smile came over my face. It's a song with a couple of foreboding lyrics - wondering where the dangerous lions are and the lyric about soldiers marching in the sun. But mainly the song is about an "ecstacy that's got a hold on me".

It just seemed like an appropriate song to post to say how grateful we are for the help that so many offered. The members of this website rock! Hope you all have a great, great day.

Here's the song that has me smiling on a cloudy Monday morning...

Wondering Where the Lions Are

Sun's up, uuh huh, looks okay
the world survives into another day
and i'm thinking about eternity
some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me.

I had another dream about lions at the door
they weren't half as frightening as they were before
but i'm thinking about eternity
some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me.

Walls windows trees, waves coming through
you be in me and i'll be in you
together in eternity
some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me

Up among the firs where it smells so sweet
or down in the valley where the river used to be
i got my mind on eternity
some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
and i'm wondering where the lions are...
i'm wondering where the lions are...

Huge orange flying boat rises off a lake,
thousand-year-old petroglyphs doing a double take,
pointing a finger at eternity
i'm sitting in the middle of this ecstasy

Young men marching, helmets shining in the sun,
polished as precise like the brain behind the gun
(should be!) they got me thinking about eternity
some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
and i'm wondering where the lions are...
i'm wondering where the lions are...

Freighters on the nod on the surface of the bay
One of these days we're going to sail away,
going to sail into eternity
some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me
and i'm wondering where the lions are...
i'm wondering where the lions are...

I am glad that everyone stepped up to help...they usually do around here!
Just remember the smiles your fiance is helping put on the faces of people suffering with Leukemia...she is helping find a cure that will make a lot of families smile!

Thanks, Kitty!

Be sure to PM us with the details of your next Team in Training event.

Paul

BNers are the bestest.

I really enjoy finding a JB song that I like that I haven't heard for awhile.
BTW, that song was written by Bruce Cockburn.

Thanks, Dezdemona.

I remember the Bruce Cockburn version. I wasn't sure if he wrote it or if someone else did. I've heard Jimmy sing the other Hoot cover, Werewolves of London, but would love to hear him sing "Lions" live. Also, as far as Warren Zevon covers, I'd LOVE to hear Jimmy sing "Lawyers, Guns and Money" which he sang in Aspen. Hearing that song or "Lions" in concert would be definite highlights, despite being "covers".

I always wondered if the lyrics to "Wondering Where the Lions Are" were partly inspired by Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea with Santiago's dreams of lions playing on the beach which he saw in his youthful travels in which (if I recall correctly) he was fishing off the
coast of Africa.

Anyway, wonderful song in my opinion.

Catch&Release wrote:I always wondered if the lyrics to "Wondering Where the Lions Are" were partly inspired by Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea with Santiago's dreams of lions playing on the beach which he saw in his youthful travels in which (if I recall correctly) he was fishing off the coast of Africa.

Personally, I think that the lions (and eternity) are Christian references, but that's just my opinion and I don't know for certain.

Jimmy has also recorded "Pacing the Cage", "All The Ways I Want You", "Someone I Used To Love", and "Anything Anytime Anywhere" by Bruce Cockburn.

Quoting from an interview with Bruce Cockburn:

I have a relative who is involved in one of those kinds of government jobs where they can't say what they do. The part you can say involves monitoring other people's radio transmissions and breaking codes. At that time China and the Soviet Union were almost at war on their mutual border. And both of them had nuclear capabilities. I had dinner with this relative of mine and he said, "We could wake up tomorrow to a nuclear war." Coming from him, it was a serious statement. So I woke up the next morning and it wasn't a nuclear war. [Laughs] It was a real nice day and there was all this good stuff going on and I had a dream that night which is the dream that is referred to in the first verse of the song, where there were lions at the door, but they weren't threatening, it was kind of a peaceful thing. And it reflected a previous dream that was a real nightmare where the lions were threatening.

I ran across that at http://cockburnproject.net/songs&music/wwtla.html - it has some real interesting notes on the song.

Also, I find it somewhat interestign that if you order his songs right, Bruce answers his own question. Wondering Where the Lions Are? They're Pacing the Cage.