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Jude Cole — Speed of Life
Album: I Don't Know Why I Act This Way
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Released: 1995
Length: 4:37
Plays (last 30 days): 3
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Like ghosts on open windows
The curtains rise and fall
The past is a foreign country
At the dark end of the hall

And the morning is an offering
To the shelter of the day
But the violent come
And they bury it away

Time goes by at the speed of life
Slower than a slow dance on a hot summer night
Faster than the skin breaks on the edge of a knife
And we just go on at the speed of life

Like questions begging answers
The stars appear at night
What's it mean to love somebody
What's it mean to be alive

I heard a little girl laughing
At her first sight of snow
Saw an old man dying
In a room, he didn't know

While the world turns through the ages
It's a most peculiar ride
Holding on to one another
Moving at the speed of life

We just go on at the speed of life
A family on the midway in the carnival lights
Moving in a circle through the sounds and the sights
And it all goes by at the speed of life

Time goes by at the speed of life
Slower than a slow dance on a hot summer night
Faster than the skin breaks, baby
On the edge of a knife

And we just go on and on at the speed of life
Moving at the speed of life, speed of life
On and on and on and on
On and on and on and on
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Never tire of this song, timeless perfect pop...gets 10+. Keep spinning this one Bill!!
Posted 1 month ago by molson    [ Reply ]
 Kilgoretrout wrote:

Yet another "new to me artist"  and Moline is just up the road from me!!? How have I never heard of him or Lifehouse...

Thanks RP
A few bits made me think of the Finn brothers.
That's a good thing.



Posted 1 year ago by Kilgoretrout    [ Reply ]
Yet another "new to me artist" Thanks RP
A few bits made me think of the Finn brothers.
That's a good thing.
Posted 1 year ago by Kilgoretrout    [ Reply ]
Ahhh...

He's from Moline, IL.  That's a rough town. 

That album cover may be of  downtown Moline.
Posted 2 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
Everything about this beautiful bittersweet song tugs at the heart and often brings tears to my eyes. Any song that can do that is a ten in my book.
Posted 2 years ago by MayBaby    [ Reply ]
This is an excellent song, full of powerful, apropos sentiment, it occurs to me whenever I hear it -- and I love hearing it here on RP. 
Posted 2 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
Never heard of this guy in my life.  Really nice surprise, just 25 years late.  
Posted 2 years ago by Alastair    [ Reply ]
Huh. How did I miss this?
Sounds so much like Sting at his best. Most excellent.
Posted 3 years ago by sajitjacob    [ Reply ]
 surfrider4life wrote:
Sweet Sound!
Me Likey
Thank you R.P for opening up an old Audiophile's pallet again!
 
Enjoy your special sleeping spot with sound! You deserve a nap.
Posted 3 years ago by Ok_Sobriquet    [ Reply ]
Is that  Neko Case, singing harmony? 
Posted 3 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
Nice tune! Thank you
Posted 4 years ago by MarcsRadio    [ Reply ]
Sweet Sound!
Me Likey
Thank you R.P for opening up an old Audiophile's pallet again!
Posted 5 years ago by surfrider4life    [ Reply ]
Love, love, love Jude Cole! Great voice and brilliant writer.
Posted 5 years ago by emcibulka    [ Reply ]
 idiot_wind wrote:
Hey Jude,

Edward Hopper wants his vibe back!
 
Nice spot.  Isn't Google a wonderful thing?

I think that yer man and Norman Rockwell occupy my favourite artists top spots.
Posted 5 years ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]
 jimtyrrell wrote:
6.8? Come on RP listners. You can rate higher than that on a great tune like this. give him an 8. thanks RP. I had no clue who about this artist until once again you have enlightened me.
 
Hm.  What if I don't feel like this is an 8?  Can I rate it as I see fit?
Posted 6 years ago by dwhayslett    [ Reply ]
6.8? Come on RP listners. You can rate higher than that on a great tune like this. give him an 8. thanks RP. I had no clue who about this artist until once again you have enlightened me.
Posted 6 years ago by jimtyrrell    [ Reply ]
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51v0ePVt13L.jpg
Posted 6 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
 jambo wrote:

who the hell is edward hopper? and what does neoclassicist art have to do with jude cole?
 
Come on, man, if you had learned enough Art History to know the word "Neoclassicist", then you should also know who Edward Hopper was - by the way, he was not a neoclassicist in any way.
Posted 6 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Go see Hopper's Night Hawk painting. 
Posted 6 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
 idiot_wind wrote:
Hey Jude,

Edward Hopper wants his vibe back!

 
who the hell is edward hopper? and what does neoclassicist art have to do with jude cole?
Posted 6 years ago by jambo    [ Reply ]
Hey Jude,

Edward Hopper wants his vibe back!
Posted 6 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
Finally a good beat!!!
Posted 7 years ago by Bert7    [ Reply ]
 idiot_wind wrote:
The clock on the wall in the album cover, is the time 25 or 6 to 4? 
rtrt wrote:

Looks like 8 o'clock to me - unless I'm missing something...

 
....I think you did miss the CHICAGO reference idiot_wind dropped....25 or 6 to 4....yeah
Posted 7 years ago by lizardking    [ Reply ]
Anything Neko touches is gold!
Posted 7 years ago by bwood11243    [ Reply ]
 On_The_Beach wrote:

Does anybody really know what time it is?

 
Does anybody really care?
Posted 7 years ago by bwood11243    [ Reply ]
Great guitar work.
Posted 7 years ago by bwood11243    [ Reply ]
 idiot_wind wrote:
The clock on the wall in the album cover, is the time 25 or 6 to 4? 

 
Looks like 8 o'clock to me - unless I'm missing something...
Posted 7 years ago by rtrt    [ Reply ]
 idiot_wind wrote:
The clock on the wall in the album cover, is the time 25 or 6 to 4?
 
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Posted 7 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
The clock on the wall in the album cover, is the time 25 or 6 to 4? 
Posted 7 years ago by idiot_wind    [ Reply ]
8 > 9
Posted 7 years ago by passsion8    [ Reply ]
 kingart wrote:
John Mellencampish. Only better. 
 

 
Agreed.  
Posted 7 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
 bluematrix wrote:
I'm not one to throw my 10's about lightly here, but this gets one from me. And I'm not sure why as it's just a great pop song... but it resonates with me.

 
Exactly.  What's different about this and the million other poppy things I don't know.  But this is a winner, alright.  I luvs it loads.
Posted 7 years ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]
I played this song several times back in February when my mother passed of Alzheimer's and used that line "time goes by at the speed of life" for my Facebook status that day for a while. Also last week when I had my "first" heart attack, this song came to mind and I played it loudly when I got home.
Posted 8 years ago by Geecheeboy    [ Reply ]
Hi Bill,

Listen to this;

I can send you his MP3 with his consent if you like.

https://vimeo.com/richardgoldmedia/showreel-2015

Rich 
Posted 8 years ago by Richard_Gold    [ Reply ]
Heartfelt music...
Posted 8 years ago by Bert7    [ Reply ]
 bravadodon wrote:
I like the steel guitar. He's got a Sting feel too.
 
Exactly.  I thought, is this a faster version of a Sting song.
Posted 8 years ago by swtobias508    [ Reply ]
If you groom a go, gives back a ghost, and some room to admit that I was thinking about how to lie.
Posted 8 years ago by twoplain2sea    [ Reply ]
Excellent artist, great writer.  His first album is amazing,, View from 3rd Street, tells a story of struggle and triumph. More please!  
Posted 8 years ago by Peakmecca    [ Reply ]
I'm not one to throw my 10's about lightly here, but this gets one from me. And I'm not sure why as it's just a great pop song... but it resonates with me.
Posted 8 years ago by bluematrix    [ Reply ]
John Mellencampish. Only better. 
 
Posted 8 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
 westslope wrote:
Does remind me of the Eagles, but nice tune all the same.

 
{#Lol}
Posted 9 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
I like the steel guitar. He's got a Sting feel too.
Posted 9 years ago by bravadodon    [ Reply ]
Does remind me of the Eagles, but nice tune all the same.
Posted 9 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
I've always thought that Jude Cole deserved more fame and credit than other singer songwriters of the adult contemporary genre.
Posted 9 years ago by IndyDoug    [ Reply ]
My love for this song nearly rises to my love for Hopper, and my love for Hopper knows no bounds.
Posted 10 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
Catchy tune - I've always liked it.. esp. like the lyric "Faster than the skin breaks on the edge of a knife"
Posted 10 years ago by k1j2cat    [ Reply ]
Everything about this is Ho Hum except the chorus
Posted 10 years ago by MrsTom    [ Reply ]
My toes is tapping...  I like it.  :)
Posted 10 years ago by eswiley2    [ Reply ]
I like the soundscape of this song…
Posted 10 years ago by gillespp    [ Reply ]
 taterflatpicker2 wrote:
I want this played at my funeral.

 
Played at your funeral, as in, "It's a bad day for me so why don't all you suckers suffer too!"?
Posted 10 years ago by DavidS_UK    [ Reply ]
I cannot decide if this is a 3 bordering 4 or a 7...
nah,.... it's cheesy and a 3.
Posted 10 years ago by DavidS_UK    [ Reply ]
 Alexandra wrote:
As everyone else said - I absolutely love the Hopperesque album cover! And the song too.

 
 I have in my bathroom that bookstore, a picture of isolation at about 3 in the am.
Posted 10 years ago by LizK    [ Reply ]
his first albun was excellent
Posted 11 years ago by Sbed    [ Reply ]
Slides over to cheesy to me.  4
Posted 11 years ago by Webfoot    [ Reply ]
Decent, not more then that
Posted 11 years ago by Ghiaap    [ Reply ]
I love this song.
Posted 11 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
up from 6 to 7.... 
Posted 11 years ago by Moonflower31    [ Reply ]
As everyone else said - I absolutely love the Hopperesque album cover! And the song too.
Posted 11 years ago by Alexandra    [ Reply ]
I want this played at my funeral.
Posted 11 years ago by taterflatpicker2    [ Reply ]
 coyote620 wrote:
Thanks for playing Jude Cole!
 
{#Cheers}        EXCELLENT!!
Posted 11 years ago by dew34    [ Reply ]
Thanks for playing Jude Cole!
Posted 11 years ago by coyote620    [ Reply ]
 Stingray wrote:

I want to be your friend - you're the first in 7 years to agree with me!
 
Does this mean there is something wrong with me? {#Angel}
Posted 11 years ago by raewah    [ Reply ]
 Stingray wrote:

I want to be your friend - you're the first in 7 years to agree with me!
 



 raewah wrote:

AGREED!!!
 
_______________
..i also agree—this is the 1st person to agree w/Stingie..
Posted 11 years ago by cShaggy    [ Reply ]
 raewah wrote:

AGREED!!!
 
I want to be your friend - you're the first in 7 years to agree with me!
Posted 12 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
Just love the off beat snare.........first listen and yep I like it.
Posted 12 years ago by Papasmeg    [ Reply ]
 Stingray wrote:
Lovely melody. This is - melodywise - how music should, no, MUST sound like!
 
AGREED!!!
Posted 12 years ago by raewah    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:

It appears as if the designer essentially combined elements from a few different Hopper paintings for the cover.
Hopper - 7AMsunday
Hopper - Nighthawks

Good tune.

 

 

Certainly hopperesque! No question! Thought so immedeately!


Posted 12 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
Lovely melody. This is - melodywise - how music should, no, MUST sound like!
Posted 12 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
 WonderLizard wrote:
 Awesome get. I'm a student of Hopper, and I didn't see this. Wow.
 
The first mates name was Hopper. . . 

. . My god he had a whopper, once round the deck, one round his neck and up his a*** for a stopper. (from an old english tune often sung at Twickenham and on deck of the good ship Venus)
Posted 12 years ago by SquiddlyDiddly    [ Reply ]
Can't find this on iTunes. The CD is on Amazon - year is 1995.
Posted 12 years ago by Tana    [ Reply ]
B L I S S 
Posted 12 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
I came here to comment on the song and got distracted by the Hopperania...IMHO "Speed of Life" is a nearly  perfect pop song. I found the balance of the disc, hmm, so-so, but this one's outstanding.
Posted 12 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:

It appears as if the designer essentially combined elements from a few different Hopper paintings for the cover.
Hopper - 7AM
Hopper - Nighthawks

Good tune.

  Awesome get. I'm a student of Hopper, and I didn't see this. Wow.


Posted 12 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
Beautiful and introspective. This premise of 'Speed of Life' often bestows upon my ever wondering and sometimes failing brain. This song is so damn good! Rest in peace, Elaine...we are gonna miss you.
Posted 12 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
 kyleminor wrote:
Really great song. A View from 3rd Street is one of the absolute GEMS of my music collection. Boy, but the 1995 Jude sounds different from the 1990 version!  Not worse or better... just different.

Thanks Bill!
 
AVF3S is a terrific album. Thought he was a one album wonder until I caught more at RP!
Posted 12 years ago by rushed    [ Reply ]
Wow this really really sounds like Sting, possibly "I'm So Happy I can't stop Crying" from Mercury Falling. I guess both songs are pretty derivative.
This does not mean I don't like it of course. Good tune, good lyrics..

Edit: Thank you Proclivities, that Album cover was making my brain itch.
Posted 12 years ago by sajitjacob    [ Reply ]
Love, love, love this tune. Did I mention that I like this song too?
Posted 12 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
Good stuff, this.

Posted 12 years ago by DD gypsyman    [ Reply ]
 On_The_Beach wrote:
Like the Hopper-esque cover art.

Edward Hopper - Early Sunday Morning

Nice tune, too.

 
It appears as if the designer essentially combined elements from a few different Hopper paintings for the cover.
Hopper - 7AMsunday
Hopper - Nighthawks

Good tune.
Posted 12 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
I really, really love this song.   {#Cheers}
Posted 12 years ago by bev    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:
Bumped this from 8 to 9.  Jude Cole is one of those singer-songwriters that just makes my ears happy.  {#Music}
 
Well put... I know I've been hearing this for years on RP, but it's just occurred to me how much I like it! Easy 8 :)
Posted 12 years ago by toomanyollys    [ Reply ]
 On_The_Beach wrote:
A seque into Greg Kihn's "Remember" would work nicely . . .
 
Thanks for the Greg Kihn reference.  I knew that guitar sounded familiar, but I couldn't place it!  Remember is a great song as well.


Posted 13 years ago by Stephenater    [ Reply ]
A seque into Greg Kihn's "Remember" would work nicely . . .
Posted 13 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
I KNEW there was something linking Jude Cole to Kiefer Sutherland!

Clicky

Posted 13 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
Lyrics, for whatever they're worth...

 

Like ghosts on open windows
The curtains rise and fall
The past is a foreign country
At the dark end of the hall
And the morning is an offering
To the shelter of the day
But the violent come
And they bury it away

Time goes by at the speed of life
Slower than a slow dance on a hot summer night
Faster than the skin breaks on the edge of a knife
And we just go on at the speed of life

Like questions begging answers
The stars appear at night
What's it mean to love somebody?
What's it mean to be alive?

I heard a little girl laughing at her first sight of snow
Saw an old man dying in a room he didn't know

While the world turns through the ages
It's a most peculiar ride
Holding on to one another
Moving at the speed of life

We just go on at the speed of life
Family on the midway in the carnival lights
Moving in a circle through the sounds and the lights
And it all goes by at the speed of life


Posted 13 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
It's funny when you hit the "buy CD from Amazon.com" link and Amazon reminds you that you bought it April 25, 2007.

edit 12.15.11 I just tried to buy it again.


Posted 13 years ago by Geecheeboy    [ Reply ]
Bumped this from 8 to 9.  Jude Cole is one of those singer-songwriters that just makes my ears happy.  {#Music}
Posted 13 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
An overlooked and shiny gem.
Posted 13 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!  Thanks Radio Paradise!!!
Posted 13 years ago by coyote620    [ Reply ]
Speed of Life, Speed of Sound!? Not bad, btw.
Posted 13 years ago by helgigermany    [ Reply ]
Really like this song. The guitar hook juxtaposed with the bass is sooo moreish..
A regular on my iPod :-) 
Posted 13 years ago by daedalus    [ Reply ]
This whole CD is pretty good. I wonder why you never hear about this guy.
Posted 14 years ago by rabaak    [ Reply ]
 Wizzuvv_oz wrote:

https://honorsushistory.wikispaces.com/file/view/EdwardHopperNighthawks.jpg


 

Very cool!! 
Posted 14 years ago by coolpeople_rule    [ Reply ]
Really great song. A View from 3rd Street is one of the absolute GEMS of my music collection. Boy, but the 1995 Jude sounds different from the 1990 version!  Not worse or better... just different.

Thanks Bill!
Posted 14 years ago by kyleminor    [ Reply ]
 djaychicago wrote:
First time I've heard this... wonderful! 8
 
I had to raise my 8 to a 10!

Posted 14 years ago by cohifi    [ Reply ]
First time I've heard this... wonderful! 8
Posted 14 years ago by djaychicago    [ Reply ]
Does anyone know if he plays guitar himself on this song?  Sublime - great pop tune.

{#Dancingbanana}
Posted 14 years ago by fergie348    [ Reply ]
I never get tired of this song.
Posted 14 years ago by BubbaGoose    [ Reply ]
Like the Hopper-esque cover art.

Edward Hopper

Nice tune, too.

Posted 15 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
LOVELY! Like it a lot!
Posted 15 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
INTRO is EXELLENT!
Posted 15 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
 Hoomiester wrote:
This not only brings back great memories but it's a great song to drive to with the windows down and the top open! More please!
 
Amen!  Hope this guy doesn't give up music in favor of act'ing (said with my best Jon Lovitz impression).

So, if I use my iPhone to relay RP to the Bluetooth-equipped Kenwood head unit in my car, I can hear RP while I'm driving around? How COOL is that?!


Posted 15 years ago by Tim_in_N_FL    [ Reply ]
I really liked that one.
Posted 15 years ago by CoolbeaN    [ Reply ]
This not only brings back great memories but it's a great song to drive to with the windows down and the top open! More please!
Posted 15 years ago by Hoomiester    [ Reply ]

https://honorsushistory.wikispaces.com/file/view/EdwardHopperNighthawks.jpg


Posted 15 years ago by Wizzuvvoz    [ Reply ]
Have always really liked this song. It still sounds good after a few years.
Posted 15 years ago by rabaak    [ Reply ]
 Ericac wrote:
It just occured to me that cd cover art is part of Edward Hopper's classic Seven am.  Move the guy and the red building and you would just about have the origianal.  It fits the mood of that art work.

 

I liiked this song even more when I saw the cover and made this same connection - I really like this song.
Is this a one song wonder or is the entire cd this good?
Posted 15 years ago by glydev    [ Reply ]
There's a sting in your voice, stop acting this way!  The odometer turns from 6 to 7.
Posted 15 years ago by MTachyon    [ Reply ]
 danagraves wrote:
I bought this CD by mistake, thinking of another artist. But haven't regretted it at all.
 
Dontcha love those kind of mistakes?{#Yes}
Posted 15 years ago by Gednabb    [ Reply ]
Very catchy little guitar riff, I like it!!
Posted 15 years ago by coolpeople_rule    [ Reply ]
I bought this CD by mistake, thinking of another artist. But haven't regretted it at all.
Posted 16 years ago by danagraves    [ Reply ]
I love it!
and it's cool that the last time it played on RP, it was my B-Day {#Daisy}
Posted 16 years ago by MayBaby    [ Reply ]
{#Eek}  Bill's reading my mind, I swear!

I was just gonna ask out there who does the album with the guy leaning on the wall/painting on the cover.

He's good! Thanks.
Posted 16 years ago by trekhead    [ Reply ]
parrothead wrote:
What's the problem ??
Whatever. I gave it a 6.


Posted 16 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
 themotion wrote:
I hear Ben Harper.
 
Funny what we all hear: I heard (don't shoot me!) John Waite.

Posted 16 years ago by wilcogirl11    [ Reply ]
It just occured to me that cd cover art is part of Edward Hopper's classic Seven am.  Move the guy and the red building and you would just about have the origianal.  It fits the mood of that art work.

Posted 16 years ago by Ericac    [ Reply ]
RobRyan wrote:
...a question begging an answer doesn't imply a misuse of "begging the question."
Well, it sort of does. The phrase is an idiom with a particular meaning. I understand that you can use that phrase and actually mean asking for a question, so it's not a "misuse," but then I agree with the website that "raises the question" is probably a better way to say that. Where I totally agree with you is that it's amazing that someone devoted a whole website to the issue. As Bill Shatner said to the Trekkies, "get a life!"
Posted 16 years ago by nate917    [ Reply ]
lmic wrote:
Eagles + Jimmy Buffett + Dire Straits?
What's the problem ??
Posted 16 years ago by parrothead    [ Reply ]
Inamorato wrote:
Your link provides the best description I've seen of what begging the question means. I don't think the way it's used in the lyrics-- "And we just go on at the speed of life Like questions begging answers" --should trigger your pet peeve response, though. That is, one can beg for an answer without begging the question. I too like the song quite well. Skål!
I agree with the pet peeve, it annoys me hugely. But Inamorato is correct imho, a question begging an answer doesn't imply a misuse of "begging the question." Holy mackerel though, I would never have imagined that an entire web site would be devoted to drawing a line in the sand on the misuse of "begging the question." I loved the end of the home page where he/she states "this is why we fight." It begs the question of whether a web site can change the momentum of this misuse, however.
Posted 16 years ago by RobRyan    [ Reply ]
Darkmatter wrote:
Time goes by at the speed of life. Ain't that the truth. /sigh Very clever title, that. And a very good song. EDIT: the lyrics contain a certain pet peeve of mine though: Beg the question
Your link provides the best description I've seen of what begging the question means. I don't think the way it's used in the lyrics-- "And we just go on at the speed of life Like questions begging answers" --should trigger your pet peeve response, though. That is, one can beg for an answer without begging the question. I too like the song quite well. Skål!
Posted 16 years ago by Inamorato    [ Reply ]