Calling occupants of interplanetary craft

Shoo be do lang lang

Greeting cards have all been sent.

I'm hanging on a hope, but I'm alright.

You and I, because we are in love.

Nice song generally, but have I missed something? I'm not aware of "the blues" being an obsolescent term or of its meaning changing. So unless she means she has what I'm pretty sure "they" STILL call "the blues", I'm at a loss as to what she's trying to say she's got.

This song has to be one of the most childish,idiotic and almost other worldly pieces of trash I've ever heard.Who was the writer of this thing aiming at?Mentally deficient Martians?Who is this guy she's fawning over?Some kind of living Greek god?Like,every time he's near her birds come out of nowhere to be close to him?Every girl in town desires to be close to him?Oh,and by the way she seems OK with that.[Get me out of this madhouse.]The very stars are being ripped from space every time this superbeing strolls into the vicinity.[It really begins to sound like the writer of this needed help.]On the day this wonderful personage was born he was blessed by angels with all manner of beautiful qualities which would endear him to humans-All those attentive chicks-To animals-All those attentive birds-Even inanimate objects-All those falling stars.OK,so let's say she's just being symbolic about an ordinary guy she's in love with.If we leave out the birds and stars bit we're still left with that total crap about all women following him everywhere.That doesn't sound as fantasy laden as the rest,but is still nonetheless total crap.It just wouldn't happen,and even if it did she'd hardly be happy about it.I recall someone saying the reference to birds is actually a reference to girls.Nice try,except that,ofcourse,she goes on to talk about LITERALgirls.By the same token someone could have said that the stars mentioned are really film stars or something.Get this,someone refered to this monumental shambles as,quote,A cute little love song dripping with innocence.My own personal summation of it can be found in the first three lines of this article.[Here's another thing.It's not the only Carpenters number that sucks,although it's undoubtedly the worst.Others include Goodbye to love,which I showed up as the ramblings of a women who doesn't know what she's talking about,and Top of the world,which features a woman who thus has one mother of a long way to fall if that recent love interest goes belly up.She even hints as much-Wish tomorrow will be just the same for you and me.]Close to you?Guys,if that number ever comes my way again I'll be getting as FAR away as possible.

It would be quite impossible to hate anything sung by the angelic Karen Carpenter during the all-too-brief time that she graced this desperate Earth. Nonetheless, that cannot completely hide the fact that the lyrics she was given to work with were sometimes less than superb. In this case, not only is there only an approximate rhyme between "shape" and "gate"; it is also true that "I really missed the gate" is an awkward line. I know the line is somehow meant as a metaphor, but even at that it is a reaching and awkward metaphor. So here, the author of these lines settled for an awkward line in order to make not even an exact rhyme, but only an approximate rhyme.

Well, I guess the answer depends on what type of birds are actually appearing when you are near. The song doesn't really specify. If its robins or doves, then ok, it's appropriate, I guess. However, if the birds that keep appearing are pigeons or vultures . . . .

"It's Going To Take Some Time" was another top ten hit in the year 1972 for the Carpenters.

"Goodbye To Love" was another top ten hit for the Carpenters from 1972.

Nice song, but "Christmas" is not a verb.

It sounds like an up tempo soft rock song with a great guitar solo (The only Carpenters song that has a guitar solo.) But this song is about giving up or going into sabbatical on finding love.

Fogs on the lyre
Fill me with desire