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[Pareidolia]

Kuca - Margita Stefanovic

Hajde,
da pricamo nezno tajne
govorimo mirno tajne...
Ima kuca, kuca moga tela, ona zvoni i dise cela
Cuva one suvisne reci u odjeku smeha, u boli, u sreci
Otvori, zazmuri - stakla menjaju izgled
Pokazi da boli kad sakrivas pogled
Zamrsi dlan linijom srca
Zapleti san u veciti dan
Ma, hajde da pricamo nezno tajne
govorimo mirno tajne...


Magi, Magicna... hvala za ove divne stihove, Andjele.

[Indy]

Lucinda

Well, they call me William the Pleaser
I sold opium, fireworks and lead
Now I'm telling my troubles to strangers
when the shadows get long I'll be dead

Now, her hair was as black as a bucket of tar
her skin as white as a cuttlefish bone
I left Texas to follow Lucinda
Now I'll never see heaven or home

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight
A sly grin and a bowl full of stars
Like a kid who captures a firefly
and leaves it only to die in the jar

As I kick at the clouds at my hanging
As I swing out over the crowd
I will search every face for Lucinda's
And she will go off with me down to hell

I thought I'd broke loose of Lucinda
The rain returned and so did the wind
I cast this burden on the god that's within me
and I'll leave this old world and go free

The devil dances inside empty pockets
but she never wanted money or pearls
No, that wasn't enough for Lucinda
She wasn't that kind of girl

Now I've fallen from grace for Lucinda
Whoever thought that hell be'd so low
I did well for an old tin can sailor
but she wanted the bell in my soul

I've spoken the god on the mountain
And I've swam in the Irish sea
I ate fire and drank from the Ganges
and I'll beg there for mercy for me

I thought I'd broke loose from Lucinda
the rain returned and so did the wind
I was standing outside the Whitehorse
Oh but I was afraid to go in

I heard someone pull the trigger
her breasts heaved in the moonlight again
There was a smear of gold in the window
and then I was the jewel of her sin

They call me William the Pleaser
I sold opium, fireworks and lead
Now I'm telling my troubles to strangers
when the shadows get long I'll be dead

Now her hair was a black as a bucket of tar
skin as white as a cuttlefish bone
I left Texas to follow Lucinda
I know I'll never see heaven or home
I know I'll never see heaven or home
I know I'll never see heaven or home



Written by: Tom Waits and Kathleen Waits-Brennan

[letmesee]

***
All mine
Portishead



All the stars may shine bright
All the clouds may be white
But when you smile
Oh how I feel so good
That I can hardly wait

To hold you,
Enfold you
Never enough
Render your heart to me

All mine
you have to be

From that cloud, number nine
Danger starts the sharp incline
And such sad regrets
Oh, as those starry skies
As they swiftly fall

Make no mistake
You shan't escape
Tethered and tied
There's nowhere to hide from me

All mine
you have to be

So don't resist
We shall exist
Until the day
Until the day I die

All mine
you have to be

[CheRRY_BLoSSoM_GiRL]

BOB DYLAN

COMING FROM THE HEART

We have got to come together
How long can we stay apart?
You may get it maybe never
But it's coming from the heart.

Your life is full of indecision
You can't make up your mind.
We must get it in position
And move it on down the line.

'Cause the road is long, it's a long hard climb
I been on that road too long of a time
Yes the road is long, and it winds and winds
When I think of the love that I left behind.

Make me up a bed of roses
And hang them down from the vine
Of all my loves you've been the closest
That's ever been on my mind.

Please don't talk about tomorrow
I'm really not one to care
This world is filled with too much sorrow
That nobody's heart should bear.

'Cause the road is long, it's a long hard climb
I been on that road too long of a time
Yes the road is long, and it winds and winds
When I think of the love that I left behind.

Please, please give me indication
Stop and talk to me
Like a river that is flowing
My love will never cease to be.

You will always be my honey
No one could take your part
Our love can't be bought with money
'Cause it's coming from the heart.

'Cause the road is long, it's a long hard climb
I been on that road too long of a time
Yes the road is long, and it winds and winds
When I think of the love that I left behind.


DEAR LANDLORD

Dear landlord,
Please don't put a price on my soul.
My burden is heavy,
My dreams are beyond control.
When that steamboat whistle blows,
I'm gonna give you all I got to give,
And I do hope you receive it well,
Dependin' on the way you feel that you live.

Dear landlord,
Please heed these words that I speak.
I know you've suffered much,
But in this you are not so unique.
All of us, at times, we might work too hard
To have it too fast and too much,
And anyone can fill his life up
With things he can see but he just cannot touch.

Dear landlord,
Please don't dismiss my case.
I'm not about to argue,
I'm not about to move to no other place.
Now, each of us has his own special gift
And you know this was meant to be true,
And if you don't underestimate me,
I won't underestimate you.


THREE ANGELS

Three angels up above the street,
Each one playing a horn,
Dressed in green robes with wings that stick out,
They've been there since Christmas morn.
The wildest cat from Montana passes by in a flash,
Then a lady in a bright orange dress,
One U-Haul trailer, a truck with no wheels,
The Tenth Avenue bus going west.
The dogs and pigeons fly up and they flutter around,
A man with a badge skips by,
Three fellas crawlin' on their way back to work,
Nobody stops to ask why.
The bakery truck stops outside of that fence
Where the angels stand high on their poles,
The driver peeks out, trying to find one face
In this concrete world full of souls.
The angels play on their horns all day,
The whole earth in progression seems to pass by.
But does anyone hear the music they play,
Does anyone even try?

[mmilovan]

SOME OTHER SPRING
Irene Kitchings / Arthur Herzog Jr.


Some other spring

I'll try to love

Now I still cling

To faded blossoms

Fresh from worn

Left chrushed and torn

Like the love affair I mourn



Some other spring

When twilight falls

Will the night bring

Another to me?



Not your kind

But let me find

It's not true that love is blind

Sunshine's around me

But deep in my heart it's cold as ice

Love, once you've found me

But can that story unfold twice?



Some other spring

Will my heart awake?

Stirring to sing

Love's magic music

Then forget the old duet

Love in some other spring?

Spring?

[velvet]

Sto se tice ovih prostora, mislim da je EKV najlepse utkao reci u muziku, npr. Budi sam, Sarajevo, Modro i Zeleno...

Ne mogu da odolim da ne stavim i moj omiljeni text Nick Cave-a:

As I sat sadly by her side
At the window, through the glass
She stroked a kitten in her lap
And we watched the world as it fell past
Softly she spoke these words to me
And with brand new eyes, open wide
We pressed our faces to the glass
As I sat sadly by her side
She said, Father, mother, sister, brother,
Uncle, aunt, nephew, niece,
Soldier, sailor, physician, labourer,
Actor, scientist, mechanic, priest
Earth and moon and sun and stars
Planets and comets with tails blazing
All are there forever falling
Falling lovely and amazing
Then she smiled and turned to me
And waited for me to reply
Her hair was falling down her shoulders
As I sat sadly by her side
As I sat sadly by her side
The kitten she did gently pass
Over to me and again we pressed
Our different faces to the glass
That may be very well, I said
But watch the one falling in the street
See him gesture to his neighbours
See him trampled beneath their feet
All outward motion connects to nothing
For each is concerned with their immediate need
Witness the man reaching up from the gutter
See the other one stumbling on who can not see
With trembling hand I turned toward her
And pushed the hair out of her eyes
The kitten jumped back to her lap
As I sat sadly by her side
Then she drew the curtains down
And said, When will you ever learn
That what happens there beyond the glass
Is simply none of your concern?
God has given you but one heart
You are not a home for the hearts of your brothers
And God does not care for your benevolence
Anymore than he cares for the lack of it in others
Nor does he care for you to sit
At windows in judgement of the world He created
While sorrows pile up around you
Ugly, useless and over-inflated
At which she turned her head away
Great tears leaping from her eyes
I could not wipe the smile from my face
As I sat sadly by her side

[Lucy Van Pelt]

He, he... Vidim vrte se provereni majstori.
Evo i od mene malo Koena.
Ova je obično malo kraća kad se peva ali je meni lepša ovako.
Nažalost, nemam je i otpevanu.


For Those Who Greeted Me

You came to me this morning
And you handled me like meat.
You´d have to live alone to know
How good that feels, how sweet.
My mirror twin, my next of kin,
I´d know you in my sleep.
And who but you would take me in
A thousand kisses deep?

I loved you when you opened
Like a lily to the heat.
I´m just another snowman
Standing in the rain and sleet,
Who loved you with his frozen love
His second-hand physique -
With all he is, and all he was
A thousand kisses deep.

All soaked in sex, and pressed against
The limits of the sea:
I saw there were no oceans left
For scavengers like me.
We made it to the forward deck
I blessed our remnant fleet -
And then consented to be wrecked
A thousand kisses deep.

I know you had to lie to me,
I know you had to cheat.
But the Means no longer guarantee
The Virtue in Deceit.
That truth is bent, that beauty spent,
That style is obsolete -
Ever since the Holy Spirit went
A thousand kisses deep.

(So what about this Inner Light
That´s boundless and unique?
I´m slouching through another night
A thousand kisses deep.)

I´m turning tricks; I´m getting fixed,
I´m back on Boogie Street.
I tried to quit the business -
Hey, I´m lazy and I´m weak.
But sometimes when the night is slow,
The wretched and the meek,
We gather up our hearts and go
A thousand kisses deep.

(And fragrant is the thought of you,
The file on you complete -
Except what we forgot to do
A thousand kisses deep.)

The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat.
You win a while, and then it´s done -
Your little winning streak.
And summoned now to deal
With your invincible defeat,
You live your life as if it´s real
A thousand kisses deep.

(I jammed with Diz and Dante -
I did not have their sweep -
But once or twice, they let me play
A thousand kisses deep.)

And I´m still working with the wine,
Still dancing cheek to cheek.
The band is playing "Auld Lang Syne" -
The heart will not retreat.
And maybe I had miles to drive,
And promises to keep -
You ditch it all to stay alive
A thousand kisses deep.

And now you are the Angel Death
And now the Paraclete;
And now you are the Savior's Breath
And now the Belsen heap.
No turning from the threat of love,
No transcendental leap -
As witnessed here in time and blood
A thousand kisses deep.



I ženska varijanta, Anjani:


Blue Alert

There’s perfume burning in the air
Bits of beauty everywhere
Shrapnel flying; soldier hit the dirt
She comes so close. You feel her then
She tells you No and No again
Your lip is cut on the edge of her pleated skirt
Blue Alert

Visions of her drawing near
Arise, abide, and disappear
You try to slow it down; it doesn’t work
It’s just another night I guess
All tangled up in nakedness
You even touch yourself
You’re such a flirt
Blue Alert

You know how nights like this begin
The kind of knot your heart gets in
Any way you turn is going to hurt
There’s perfume burning in the air
Bits of beauty everywhere
Shrapnel flying; soldier hit the dirt
Blue Alert. Blue Alert

She breaks the rules so you can see
She’s wilder than you’ll ever be
You talk religion but she won’t convert
Her body’s twenty stories high
You try to look away, you try
But all you want to do is get there first
Blue Alert

[fanciulla]

[Oliver - Trag u beskraju]

Ka i uvik gledan more
ovu tajnu koja dise
ovu mrizu sto me vuce
u tamne dubine
sve kroz pismu u daljine
I da ocu i da smin
Ne bi moga skupit
svu lipotu zivota
niti suze ovog svita

Sve bi da(o) da si tu
baren jedan tren da vicnost bude
Da ti pratin trag u beskraju
Sve bi da da si tu

Ka i nekad gledan nebo
tražim gradove u noći
di smo podno zvizda
zori krali grumen sjaja,
jutro moje di si sad

Pismo di li je kraj
ovo more bez dna
ženo razmakni sve
sive koprene sna
budi opet moj dom
što sad pust je i sam
jer sad puna je luna
što nad morem sja...

[fanciulla]

E da.. da se i ja pridruzin klasicima..


There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one

My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new bluejeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans

Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk

Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun

Well, I got one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain

Well, there is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one

[Indy]

Malo ime, ali veliko srce:
---------

So Long, My Old China (The Singing Loins)


You called me Old China
You played darts with nails
Had a trial for Millwall
After 14 brown ales

Drove a forty foot lorry
Proper sheeted and roped
Had me for a son
Is that what you hoped?

Your jacket don’t fit me
So, give us a rest, mate
I can’t follow your footsteps
They’re too big, they’re too straight

“Keep your eye on the ball, son”
“Don’t snatch at the trigger”
A few words of wisdom
Like John Wayne, but bigger

You grew up at El Alemein
Not long out of school
You only cried once
You big, bloody fool

Your jacket don’t fit me
So, give us a rest, mate
I can’t follow your footsteps
They’re too big, they’re too straight

Then as you lay dying
Your face went to stone
You said "Jesus won’t help you
We’re all on our own."

You visit my dreams every night
And I wake up weeping
Chewing the fat until light
When I should be sleeping

I’m too small for your jacket
So, give us a rest, mate
I can’t follow your footsteps
They’re too big, they’re too straight

So,
So long
So long
So long, my old china

So long
So long
So long, my old mate.

[Artur Dent]

proljece je cak i u decembru
trinaestog
ili bilo kog drugog
proljece stoji iza barikade
s podignutom rukom
zar sumnjas u svoju djecu
mislis da ne pamte
kazi
da li te pitaju za put prema nebu
cijena je sigurno visoka
kazi
da li te pitaju s bijesom u sebi
ne tajeci nista
ne htijuci mnogo osim zivota
o cemu razmislja obrisano lice
izmedju dva osmijeha
i nakanom tamnijom od noci
o cemu razmislja dok zuri u tvoju zenu
stvorenje niotkuda
mozda te provocira

BJS

[fanciulla]

[fanciulla]

RUKE
Tisuce malih bogova silaze nocas skriveni u kisnim kapima
Na moje lice padaju kao da se igraju zivota u koraku
Smisljam pravu rijec za ono sto se naziva hod zatvorenih ociju
Medju prste zapetljan zadnje cigarete dim cuva me od mene samoga

A ja ruke prodajem prvom sto me dotakne i udari poljupcem..
Neka mi vjetar s juga osmijeh vrati na lice
Kao da me nikad nije bilo tu.


OTROVNA KISA
Kad zvijezde se spuste da oplave vode
Umotaj me u ruke i... pusti niz rijeku
Sve njene kapi nek' kliznu niz lice
Umjesto suza nek' mi sakriju oci
Kapi kroz kozu prolaze
Tvoj smijeh jos grane njise i nestaje..

Uzmi od mene al' samo pusti otrovnu kisu po meni da pljusti
Sapni mi tiho svoju tisinu
Hladni zrak jutra neka postane buka
Kapi kroz kozu prolaze
Tvoj smijeh jos grane njise
Na jeziku rijeci tope se
Budi zrak sto disem
Dotakni me opet otrovna kiso
Ja sam oduvijek na tvojoj strani.


XTC
nisam siguran kada cu otici iz grada
avionom ili brodom... mozda sam ili sa tobom
u svakom gradu moja kuca, u svakoj kuci moja luka
najbogatiji na svijetu sa slobodom sam u dzepu
a tvoj poljubac mi treba samo da doguram do jutra
padobran da lakse s danas padnem ja na sutra
mi smo tu
sretni sto licimo na ljude
mi smo tu
jos uvijek daleko od zvijezda

ja sam bolest na dve noge, kao igla sto te bode
i tetovira ti srce; ja sam lose sto te vuce
a tvoj poljubac mi treba samo da doguram do jutra
padobran da lakse s danas padnem ja na sutra
mi smo tu
sretni sto licimo na ljude
mi smo tu
jos uvijek daleko od zvijezda
mi smo tu
daleko od zvijezda
jos uvijek.

[Indy]

Shark Fin Blues

Standing on the deck watching my shadow stretch
The sun pours my shadow upon the deck
The waters licking round my ankles now
There ain't no sunshine way way down

I see the sharks out in the water like slicks of ink
Well, there's one there bigger than a submarine
As he circles I look in his eye
I see Jonah in his belly by the campfire light

See the albatross up in the windy lofts
He gets to beating his wings while he sleeps it off
I hear the jettisoned cries from his dreams unkind
Gets to whippin' my ears like a riding crop

The captain once as able as a fink dandy
He's now laid up in the galley like a dried out mink
He's laying dying of thirst and he says or I think
Well, we're gonna be alone from here on in

Well you are all my brothers, and you have been kind
But what were you expecting to find?
Now your eyes turn inwards, countenance turns blank
And I'm floating away on a barrel of pain
It looks like nothing but the sea and sky remain

I sing na na nana nananana na
Na na nana nananana na

A harpoon's shaft is short and wide
A grappling hook's is cracked and dry
I said, why don't you get down in the sea
Turn the water red like you want to be?

Cause if I cry another tear I'll be turned to dust
No the sharks won't get me they don't feel loss
Just keep one eye on the horizon man, you best not blink
They're coming fin by fin until the whole boat sinks

Fin by fin
Fin by fin
Fin by fin by fin by fin



Gareth Liddiard

[zoee]

ME & BOBBY MCGEE

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' for a train
And I's feelin' near as faded as my jeans
Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained
It rode us all the way into New Orleans
I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana
I's playin' soft while Bobby sang the blues, yeah
Windshield wipers slappin' time, I's holdin' Bobby's hand in mine
We sang every song that driver knew, yeah

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose
Nothin' don't mean nothin' hon' if it ain't free, no no
And feelin' good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues
You know, feelin' good was good enough for me
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee

From the Kentucky coal mine to the California sun
There Bobby shared the secrets of my soul
Through all kinds of weather, through everything we done
Yeah, Bobby baby kept me from the cold
One day up near Salinas, Lord, I let him slip away
He's lookin' for that home and I hope he finds it
But I'd trade all o' my tomorrows for one single yesterday
To be holdin' Bobby's body next to mine

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose
Nothin', that's all that Bobby left me, yeah
But if feelin' good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues
Hey, feelin' good was good enough for me, mm-hmm
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee

La-da-da La-da-da-da La-da-da da-da da-da
La-da-da da-la-da la-da, Bobby McGee, yeah
La-da-la-da-la-da La-da-la-da-da
La-da-la-da-la-la, Bobby McGee, yeah
La-da-da La-da-da La da-da La da-da
La-da-da La da-da La da-da
Hey, my Bobby, Lord, my Bobby McGee, yeah
Lo-da-lo da-la-lo-da-la
Lo-da-la-lo da-la-lo la-la-lo la-la-lo la-la
Hey, my Bobby, Lord, my Bobby McGee, yeah

Lord, I call him my lover, call him my man
I said I call him my lover, did the best I can, c'mon
Hey now Bobby now, hey now Bobby McGee, yeah
La-da la-da la-da la-da la-da la-da la-da la-la
Hey, hey, hey, Bobby McGee, Lord!

La-da la-da la-da la-da la-da la-da la-da la
Hey, hey, hey, Bobby McGee, yeah

Janis Joplin
words and music by Kris Kristofferson