Showing posts with label lyrics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lyrics. Show all posts
Song of the Day: Live like Horses
[Loband: Object Removed -]
I stepped onto the moving stairs
Before I could tie my shoes
Pried a harp out the fingers of a renegade
Who lived and died the blues
And his promise made was never clear
It just carved itself in me
All I saw was frost inside my head
On the night he said to me
Someday we'll live like horses
Free rein from your old iron fences
There's more ways than one to regain your senses
Break out the stalls and we'll live like horses
Pavarotti and Friends
performing for War Child
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The Silent Twilight
Sitting in the silent twilight
The purple half light
Of the twilight
Wrap the night around me
Blanket of black on my back
I feel safe in the darkness.
From "Purple", by Crustation
Picture taken from Parco d'Abruzzo, looking towards Lazio (Italy, 2009) Read the full post...
Songs for me - Leaving on a Jet Plane
sunset in Brindisi with trails of planes[i-sunset in Brindisi with trails of planes]
| All my bags are packed I’m ready to go I’m standing here outside your door I hate to wake you up to say goodbye But the dawn is breaking It’s early morning The taxi’s waiting He’s blowing his horn Already I’m so lonesome I could die… So kiss me and smile for me Tell me that you’ll wait for me Hold me like you’ll never let me go cause I’m leaving on a jet plane Don’t know when I’ll be back again Oh babe, I hate to go. |
On several occasions, I have told you music plays an important part of my life. Music picks me up when down, makes me float when on a high, calms me down when enerved and inspires me when too deflated for any inspiration. Music pumps me up when low on energy, soothes me when sad.
Many individual memories are linked to music. Hearing a certain song brings back the image, scent, vibe and mood of a certain event or period. I can be talking with people, and just like a remote perfume of a person walking by, a few seconds of a song can snap me out of the discussion, out of the present, and just have me float on the feeling of that memory for a few minutes… Gone are discussions, or conversations, or anything in the present. This is the moment where my partners in conversation think I am nuts. These are the moments where I completely loose my way, while driving, dreaming with a song on the radio, while ending up in quarters of town previously unknown.
“E” brought “Leaving on a Jet Plane” back into my memory. Not the original by John Denver, but the remake by Chantal Kreviazuk (listen to the song) which was also the title song for the movie Armageddon in 1998.
This song was always there, in my mind, with memories hidden behind a wall of time. Once hearing Chantal Kreviazuk’s version, scents of memories picked over… It took a while until I had all of the pieces of memory:
- When I was 20, I hitchhiked through France and Spain. I crossed the Pyrenees via Andorra. I bought my first walkman there, with a few music tapes. John Denver’s Greatest Hits was one of the tapes, “Leaving on a Jet Plane” was one of the songs. (and yes, mum, this was the summer of the two girls in the one hotel room in Benidorm. But I never confessed the whole story!)
- I saw Armageddon for the first time on an Air France plane, crossing the Atlantic on the way to Honduras for the Hurricane Mitch emergency. That was the first mission, and the proof of concept of the UN fast intervention team we had just started then.
And Armageddon shone through Liv Tyler, with a face and above all a shape of hands that.. anyway..
- “Leaving on a Jet Plane…” has a special meaning for me, as I lead a life where I am often leaving on a Jet Plane, leaving loved ones behind. Close the door, close my heart, and climb the steps into a plane. Sit down, buckle up, close my eyes and just get on with it. Knowing I can not stay, but hate to leave. Knowing I love, but have to feel the missing too, otherwise I stop appreciating, knowing that love is the only thing that keeps me going.
Liv Tyler[i-Liv Tyler]
Picture Liv Tyler courtesy lovelylivtyler.com
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Rumble: Lovely Day
Fregene pines in the morning[i-Fregene pines in the morning]
When I wake up in the morning, love
and the sun light hurts my eyes
And something without warning love
bears heavy on my mind.
Then I look at you
and the world's alright with me
Just one look at you
and I know it's gonna be -
A lovely day...
Bill Withers (track)
Song of the Day: Gabriel by Lamb
On the beach in Fregene (Lazio-Roma)[i-On the beach in Fregene (Lazio-Roma)]
I can fly
but I want her wings
I can shine even in the darkness
but I crave the light that she brings
Revel in the songs that she brings,
my angel Gabriel.
I can love
but I need her heart
I am strong even on my own
but from her I never want to part
She’s been there since the very start,
my angel Gabriel, my angel Gabriel.
Bless the day she came to be,
my angel Gabriel.
but I want her wings
I can shine even in the darkness
but I crave the light that she brings
Revel in the songs that she brings,
my angel Gabriel.
I can love
but I need her heart
I am strong even on my own
but from her I never want to part
She’s been there since the very start,
my angel Gabriel, my angel Gabriel.
Bless the day she came to be,
my angel Gabriel.
"Gabriel" by Lamb
from the album Café del Mar Vol.8
(text slightly modified)
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