![]() The week "And When I Die" was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "Come Together/Something" by the Beatles. It was BS&T's third straight release to peak at #2, it followed "You've Made Me So Very Happy" and "Spinning Wheel", and all three records each spent 13 weeks a piece on the Top 100. Barry from Sauquoit, NyExactly fifty years today on November 23rd, 1969, Blood, Sweat, and Tears' "And When I Die"* peaked at #2.Irishcalifornian from Cali."I can swear there ain't no heavan, but I pray there ain't no hell" is probably the best lyric I have ever heard in the rock and roll era.For earbuds sound like you want a can of Budweiser in your ears. Rapcrapkilledgoodmusic from Wyckoff Heights, Bklyn.Please bring back Headphones.Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind In our world to carry on, to carry on, yeah, yeah It came naturally because it expressed “a certain kind of folk wisdom teenagers have.All I ask of the living is to have no chains on meĪll I ask of living is to have no chains on meĪnd all I ask of dying is to go naturallyĪnd when I die and when I'm dead, dead and gone So by my late teens, when I wrote ‘And When I Die,’ I was already deep inside of music.” I was listening to John Coltrane and Miles Davis when I was 14. And I’d also been passionately listening to music since I was really young. So by the time I started writing songs, I was in a poetic frame of mind. “I was reading poetry from the time I was really young. How did she reach that level of songwriting at that age? When she said “And When I Die” was the first song she wrote – at 17 – I was surprised. ![]() But by 17, she said, “I just knew music was the language I wanted to speak.” She said she loved all the arts – painting, jazz. When I interviewed Laura in 1994, I asked about the origins of her songwriting, not knowing where it began. ![]() Normally, except with rare exceptions (John Prine, Leonard Cohen), songwriters spend years writing songs before they write a masterpiece. ![]() It’s one of those songs which resonates forever, in that distinctive melody, which is both yearning and knowing, and in the folk wisdom woven into the words. ![]()
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