sábado, novembro 24, 2007

One Of Us

i lit a thin green candle
to make you jealous of me
but the room just filled up with mosquitos
they heard that my body was free
then i took the dust of a long sleepless night
and i put it in your little shoe
and then i confess that i tortured the dress
that you wore for the world to look through

i showed my heart to the doctor
he said i just have to quit
then he wrote himself a prescription
and your name was mentioned in it
then he locked himself in a library shelf
with the details about honeymoon
and i hear from the nurse
that he's gotten much worse
and his practice is all in a ruin

Cannot Be Wrong

i heard of a saint who had loved you
so i studied all night in his school
he taught that the duty of lovers
is to tarnish the golden rule
and just when i was sure that his teachings were pure
he drowned himself in the pool
his body is gone but back here on the lawn
his spirit continues to drool

an eskimo showed me a movie
he'd recently taken of you
the poor man could hardly stop shivering
his lips and his fingers were blue
i suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes
and i guess he just never got warm
but you stand there so nice, in your blizzard of ice
oh, please let me come into the storm

Leonard Cohen /// La Double Vie De Véronique /// *

sexta-feira, novembro 23, 2007

No One Knows

hell above and heaven below
all the trees are gone
the rain made such a lovely sound
to those who are six feet under ground
the leaves will bury every year
and no one knows i’m gone

I'm Gone

live me golden tell me dark
hide from graveyard john
the moon is full here every night
and i can bathe here in his light
the leaves will bury every year
and no one knows i’m gone

Tom Waits /// Northanger Abbey /// *

quinta-feira, novembro 22, 2007

You Know

i cannot follow you, my love
you cannot follow me
i am the distance you put between
all of the moments that we will be
.
you know who i am
you've stared at the sun
well i am the one who loves
changing from nothing to one

sometimes i need you naked
sometimes i need you wild
i need you to carry my children in
and i need you to kill a child

you know who i am

Who I Am

if you should ever track me down
i will surrender there
and i will leave with you one broken man
whom i will teach you to repair

you know who i am

i cannot follow you, my love
you cannot follow me
i am the distance you put between
all of the moments that we will be

you know who i am

Leonard Cohen /// *

terça-feira, novembro 20, 2007

I'm

you haven't looked at me that way in years
you dreamed me up and left me here
how long was i dreaming for
what was it you wanted me for

Still

you haven't looked at me that way in years
your watch has stopped and the pond is clear
someone turn the lights back off
i'll love you til all time is gone

Here

you haven't looked at me
that way in years
.
but i'm still here

Tom Waits

segunda-feira, novembro 19, 2007

I'm

if you want a lover
i'll do anything you ask me to
and if you want another kind of love
i'll wear a mask for you
if you want a partner
take my hand
or if you want to strike me down in anger
here i stand
i'm your man
.
if you want a boxer
i will step into the ring for you
and if you want a doctor
i'll examine every inch of you
if you want a driver
climb inside
or if you want to take me for a ride
you know you can
i'm your man

Your

ah, the moon's too bright
the chain's too tight
the beast won't go to sleep
i've been running through these promises to you
that i made and i could not keep
.
ah, but a man never got a woman back
not by begging on his knees
or i'd crawl to you baby
and i'd fall at your feet
and i'd howl at your beauty
like a dog in heat
and i'd claw at your heart
and i'd tear at your sheet
i'd say please, please
i'm your man

Man

and if you've got to sleep
a moment on the road
i will steer for you
and if you want to work the street alone
i'll disappear for you
if you want a father for your child
or only want to walk with me a while
across the sand
i'm your man
.
if you want a lover
i'll do anything you ask me to
and if you want another kind of love
i'll wear a mask for you

Leonard Cohen /// La La La Human Steps /// *

domingo, novembro 18, 2007

Good

waiting, i got no town to hide in
the country's got a hold of my soul
tv's dead and there ain't no war in my head
and you seem very beautiful to me

sleeping, but my works not done
i could be lying on an atom bomb
i'll take care
cause i know you'll be there
you seem very beautiful to me

Song

it is the rest of your life
keeps a rolling and rolling
picture in my pocket looks like you
it is the rest of your life
keeps a rolling, rolling, rolling along
were all

Blur

Watch

last night i dreamed that i was dreaming of you
and from a window across the lawn
i watched you undress
wearing your sunset of purple tightly
woven around your hair
that rose in strangled ebony curls
moving in a yellow bedroom light
.
the air is wet with sound
the faraway yelping of a wounded dog
and the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak
your house is so soft and fading
as it soaks the black summer heat
a light goes on and the door opens
and a yellow cat runs out on the stream
of hall light and into the yard

Her

a wooden cherry scent is faintly breathing the air
i hear your champagne laugh
you wear two lavender orchids
one in your hair and one on your hip
.
a string of yellow carnival lights
comes on with the dusk
circling the lake with a slowly dipping halo
and i hear a banjo tango

Disappear

and you dance into the shadow of a black poplar tree
and i watched you as you disappeared
i watched you as you disappeared
.
i watched you
as you disappeared
.
i watched you as you
disappeared

Tom Waits /// La La La Human Steps /// *