Mutterings - 10 July

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Ceremony :: of Carols (by Benjamin Britten - there's also John Ireland's Scarlet Ceremonies - altogether darker!)
2. Thread :: of life
3. Need :: Wants
4. Sarcasm :: Scriabin (I've wandered into the titles of piano works here!)
5. Domain :: Power
6. Take :: Five
7. Cast :: away (as in the single word - though there's also Ecclesiastes 'A time to cast away stones')
8. Zone :: Berlin (when it was divided into zones)
9. Lose control :: Brake
10. Gambling :: Den