Una pe zi - 30 noiembrie 2012

Enya – My! My! Time Flies! (Live version on The Late Late Show) 

  

"My! My! Time Flies!" was released on 4 February 2009. 

It is the first ever Enya song to feature a steady drum track and a prominent 12-string guitar accompaniment. 

The guitar parts were played by Dublin-based guitarist Patrick Farrell.
This is a tribute to the late Irish guitarist, Jimmy Faulkner, who died on March 4, 2008 at the age of 58. Faulkner was well known and respected in the Irish music scene, and collaborated with many artists, including Christy Moore, Paul Brady and Mary Coughlan. This song features his friend Pat Farrell, who Faulkner played with in the Floating Dublin Blues Band. Farrell was married for a time to Enya's sister, Moya Brennan.
The album's producer, Nicky Ryan, explained: "We had 11 tracks done, but we just wanted to do something for Jimmy. He was one of the great unsung heroes, a really unassuming guy and a great guitar player. There are a lot of them out there, and so it was something we felt strongly about. So it became the final track."
Unusually for Enya, this song features guitar solos as well as references to The Beatles ("Four guys across Abbey Road/one forgot to wear shoes"), Elvis ("a king who's still in the news") and B.B King ("a king to sing you the blues"). Dubliner Pat Farrell is the featured guitarist on the track.

The album named "And Winter Came..." is the seventh studio album from irish musician, Enya. 

LP consists of 12 tracks: ten english songs, which are all original compositions, plus "Oíche Chiúin" being sung in Irish and '"Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel" in English and Latin. 

The lyrics are: 

My! My! Time flies! One step and we're on the moon, next step into the stars

My! My! Time flies! Maybe we could be there soon, a one way ticket to mars

My! My! Time flies! A man underneath a tree, an apple falls on his head

My! My! Time flies a man wrote a symphony, it's 1812

My! My! Time flies! Four guys across abbey road, one forgot to wear shoes

My! My! Time flies! A rap on a rhapsody, a king who's still in the news, a king to sing you the blues

My! My! Time flies! A man in a winter sleigh, white white as the snow

My! My! Time flies! A new day is on its way, so let's let yesterday go

Could be we step out again

Could be tomorrow but then,

Could be 2010

Una pe zi - 29 noiembrie 2012

Moby – Porcelain (live on TV show Later with Jools Holland, 2000)  

This was released as the sixth single from Play.

The track featured Moby's vocals backed by a sample of vocalist Pilar Basso.

The song's popularity was enhanced by being featured on the soundtrack of the 2000 movie The Beach and in the UK it became Moby's highest charted song to date. 

Moby recalled to Rolling Stone: "Strangely enough, that's probably the most signature song on the record, and I actually had to be talked into including it. When I first recorded it, I thought it was average. I didn't like the way I produced it, I thought it sounded mushy, I thought my vocals sounded really weak. I couldn't imagine anyone else wanting to listen to it. When the tour for Play started, “Porcelain” was the song during the set where most people would get a drink. But then Danny Boyle put it in the movie The Beach with Leo DiCaprio. It was Leo DiCaprio's first film since Titanic and everyone went to go see it. He used the music so well in the movie. I think that's when a lot of people became aware of the record." 

The lyrics are:

In my dreams I'm dying all the time

As I wake it's kaleidoscopic mind

I never meant to hurt you

I never meant to lie

So this is goodbye

This is goodbye

Tell the truth you never wanted me

Tell me

In my dreams I'm jealous all the time

As I wake I'm going out of my mind

Going out of my mind

Una pe zi - 28 noiembrie 2012

Prince – Purple Rain (live with Beyonce at Grammy Awards 2004) 

Purple Rain is regularly ranked among the best albums in music history. 

Time magazine ranked it the 15th greatest album of all time in 1993, and it placed 18th on VH1's Greatest Rock and Roll Albums of All Time countdown. 

Rolling Stone magazine ranked it the second-best album of the 1980s and 76th on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. 

Zounds magazine ranked it the 18th greatest album of all time. Furthermore, the album placed 4th in Plásticos y Decibelios' list of The Greatest Albums of All Time. 

Finally, in 2007, the editors of Vanity Fair labeled it the best soundtrack of all time and Tempo magazine named it the greatest album of the 1980s. 

In 2012, Slant Magazine listed the album at #2 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980s" behind only Michael Jackson's Thriller. 

This year the album was added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." 

Prince won two Grammy Awards in 1985 for Purple Rain, for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group and Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or TV Special, and the album was nominated for Album of the Year. Purple Rain also won an Oscar for Best Original Song Score in 1985.

The lyrics are:

I never meant to cause you any sorrow.

I never meant to cause you any pain.

I only wanted to one time see you laughing.

I only wanted to see you laughing in the purple rain.

Purple rain, purple rain.

Purple rain, purple rain.

Purple rain, purple rain.

I only wanted to see you bathing in the purple rain.

I never wanted to be your weekend lover.

I only wanted to be some kind of friend.

Baby I could never steal you from another.

It's such a shame our friendship had to end.

Purple rain, purple rain.

Purple rain, purple rain.

Purple rain, purple rain.

I only wanted to see you underneath the purple rain.

Honey I know, I know, I know times are changing.

It's time we all reach out for something new,

That means you too.

You say you want a leader,

But you can't seem to make up your mind.

I think you better close it,

And let me guide you to the purple rain.

Purple rain, purple rain.

Purple rain, purple rain.

If you know what I'm singing about up here.

C'mon raise your hand.

Purple rain, purple rain.

I only want to see you, only want to see you.

Una pe zi - 27 noiembrie 2012

Adriano Celentano & Cesaria Evora - Quel Casinha 

Celentano was born in Milan at 14 Via Gluck (place who give the title of this song), about which he later wrote the famous song "Il ragazzo della via Gluck" ("The boy from Gluck Street"). 

Heavily influenced by his idol Elvis Presley and the 1950s rock revolution and by the American actor Jerry Lewis, he has retained his popularity in Italy for the last 40 years, selling millions of records and appearing in numerous TV shows and movies. In the latter respect, he has also been a creator of a comic genre, with his characteristic walking and his facial expressions. For the most part, his films were commercially successful; indeed in the 1970s and part of the 1980s, he was the king of the Italian box office in low budget movies.

As an actor, critics point to Serafino (1968), directed by Pietro Germi, as his best performance.

As a director he frequently casts Ornella Muti, Eleonora Giorgi and his wife Claudia Mori. He and Claudia have three children; Rosita, Giacomo and Rosalinda Celentano, most notable to worldwide audiences for playing Satan in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. He also often works as a host on several Italian television shows. 

His last concert-event, after 18 years without live performaces, has been transmitted on Mediaset channel Canale 5, with over 9 spectators' million in both the evenings.

The lyrics are:

Quel casinha naquel ladera

na meio di sol e ventania

era un paloce di pedra e cal

costruido na meio di luta

'M ta lembra sorriso di nha paia

embora cansode

se alegria d'oia nos f'licidade

desabrocha

Quel casinha naquel ladera

era um mundo meravilhode

inda 'm ta lembra nos bricadera

nos ilusao, nos sonhe calode

E na cansao di nos deseja

esperança no tinha di conche mundo

pa disfruta se doce e se margoze

tudo se riqueza

e volta um dia pa semplicidade

di nos casinha

Quel chalutera na se quintal

era un floresta pa aventura

na cinema d'nos fantasia

nos era sport contra bandide

Na hora minguarda no tava descansa

la na sombra di se impesa

no tava uvi gente grande ta conversa

ta ralembra

tha partilha tudo ses recordaçao

ses mocidade

quel casinha

Nha casinha hoje ta-me bem longe

li ness cidade d'arranha-ceu

vida léva-me pa ote ladera

mas agreste sem muto doçura

Quel chalutera hoje ja v'ra lenha

tuda ja muda, f'ca sa lembrança

na meio dum mar de f'maça e casarona

nha casinha ja' me perde

naquel ladera surgi um novo cidade

e onde nha casinha

Oh nha casinha, onde bo ta

pa nha casinha ja' me qu're volta

onde nha casinha...

Una pe zi - 26 noiembrie 2012

Imany – You Will Never Know (unplugged with Jack Parker-Taous) 

Following in the sophisticated footsteps of Carla Bruni, rather than the ill-advised musical forays of Naomi Campbell, Imany is one of the few supermodels to make the transition from the catwalk to the recording studio appear effortless.
Born Nadia Mladjao, in 1979, in the Comoros Islands, off the southeast coast of Africa, she grew up in France, where she initially started out as a successful high jumper before being signed by the Ford Models Europe Agency.
After several years of traveling around the world, including a six-year stint in the U.S., she returned to France to pursue her lifelong ambition of becoming a singer.
Inspired by the likes of Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, and Tracy Chapman, she began performing a blend of acoustic folk and soulful blues under the guise of Imany (Swahili for "hope") in various Parisian nightclubs and jazz bars, before releasing her debut EP, Acoustic Sessions.
After supporting Ben l'Oncle Soul and Angie Stone on their European tours, she worked with producer Malick N'Diaye (Ayo) on her first album, „The Shape of a Broken Heart”, which was released to critical acclaim in 2011.

The lyrics are:

It breaks my heart 'couse I know

you're the one for me

Don't you feel sad,

there never was a story, obviously

it'll never be, oh

and You would never know

I would never show

What I feel, what I need from you, no

and You wouldnever know

I would never show

What I feel, what I need from you

With every smile comes my reality, irony

You won't find out what has been killing me

Can't you see me?

can't you see?

and You would never know

I would never show

What I feel, what I need from you, no

and You would never know

I would never show

What I feel, what I need from you, no, no

You would never know

I would never show

What I feel, what I need from you, no, no

No no you'll never know

No no no you'll never know

No no no, love me, love me, love me, love me, no

and You would never know

I would never show

What I feel, what I need from you, no, no

You would never know

I would never show

What I feel, what I feel, what I feel

what I need, what I need from you, no

Una pe zi - 25 noiembrie 2012

Bruce Springsteen - Death To My Hometow (live in Apollo Theater, 2012) 

"Death to My Hometown" is a song written and recorded by American musician Bruce Springsteen and it is expected to be the third single from his album, „Wrecking Ball”. It is a thinly-veiled protest song notable for Springsteen's experimentation with celtic-rock rhythms.

The song is an allegorical protest song concerning the causes and fallout of the 2008 economic crisis. Springsteen uses archaic imagery to show how "death" came to his hometown not by war, but by reckless economic practices. He also references the lack of accountability for the dishonest practices by bankers that lead to the crisis in the first place. "The greedy thieves who came around/And ate the flesh of everything they found/Whose crimes have gone unpunished now/Who walk the streets as free men now," he sings. 

The lyrics are: 

Well, no cannon ball did fly, no rifles cut us down

No bombs fell from the sky, no blood soaked the ground

No powder flash blinded the eye

No deathly thunder sounded

But just as sure as the hand of God

They brought death to my hometown

They brought death to my hometown

Now, no shells ripped the evening sky

No cities burning down

No army stormed the shores for which we’d die

No dictators were crowned

I awoke on a quiet night, I never heard a sound

The marauders raided in the dark

And brought death to my hometown

They brought death to my hometown

They destroyed our families, factories 

And they took our homes

They left our bodies on the plains

The vultures picked our bones

So, listen up my sonny boy, be ready when they come

For they’ll be returning sure as the rising sun

Now get yourself a song to sing 

And sing it ’til you’re done

Sing it hard and sing it well

Send the robber barons straight to hell

The greedy thieves who came around

And ate the flesh of everything they found

Whose crimes have gone unpunished now

Who walk the streets as free men now

They brought death to our hometown, boys

Death to our hometown

Death to our hometown, boys

Death to our hometown

Una pe zi - 24 noiembrie 2012

White Lion - Broken Heart (1985) 

 

Scurt și la obiect: 

"Broken Heart'" is a song by hard rock band White Lion and was their debut single.

The song was originally from the band's Fight to Survive album in 1985 and featured a music video, but was later re-recorded and re-released as the second single from the Mane Attraction album in 1991 which peaked at number 61 on The Billboard 200.

White Lion - vocal: Mike Tramp, guitar: Vito Bratta, bass: James Lomenzo, drums: Greg D' Angelo 

The lyrics are:

Here I stand, all alone

Trying to fight the pain from a broken heart

Why she left me? I don't know

It really doesn't matter anymore

I thought our love could last forever

But here I stand lost and all alone

Chorus:

There is life even after a broken heart

You can fight 

the pain from a broken heart, broken heart

Start a new day, but not alone

I'm gonna break away this broken heart

I'll meet a woman. I'm gonna take her home

Where I'll pick all (up?) the pieces and start all over again

I know that life will be much better

Cause' know the sun will shine again

You baby I know

Chorus x1

There is life even after a broken heart, broken heart

You can fight 

the pain from a broken heart, broken heart

I know that life will be much better

Cause know the light will shine again

You baby I know... baby I know

There is life even after a broken heart

Chorus x2

There is life even after a broken heart, broken heart

You can fight 

the pain from a broken heart, broken heart

Una pe zi - 23 noiembrie 2012

Bob Marley - Redemption song (live, 1981) 

"Redemption Song" is a song by Bob Marley. It is the final track on Bob Marley & the Wailers' ninth album, Uprising, produced by Chris Blackwell and released by Island Records.

Some key lyrics derived from a speech given by the Pan-Africanist orator Marcus Garvey.

At the time he wrote the song, circa 1979, Bob Marley had been diagnosed with the cancer in his toe that later was to take his life. According to Rita Marley, "he was already secretly in a lot of pain and dealt with his own mortality, a feature that is clearly apparent in the album, particularly in this song".

Unlike most of Bob Marley's tracks, it is strictly a solo acoustic recording, consisting of Marley singing and playing an acoustic guitar, without accompaniment.

"I carried Bob Marley’s Redemption Song to every meeting I had with a politician, prime minister, or president. It was for me a prophetic utterance or as Bob would say ‘the small ax that could fell the big tree’. The song reminded me that freedom always comes with a cost, but for those who would prepare to pay it, maybe ‘emancipation from mental slavery’ would be our reward", says Bono from U2. 

The lyrics are: 

Old pirates, yes, they rob I;

Sold I to the merchant ships,

Minutes after they took I

From the bottomless pit.

But my hand was made strong

By the 'and of the Almighty.

We forward in this generation

Triumphantly.

Won't you help to sing

This songs of freedom

'Cause all I ever have:

Redemption songs;

Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Have no fear for atomic energy,

'Cause none of them can stop the time.

How long shall they kill our prophets,

While we stand aside and look? Ooh!

Some say it's just a part of it:

We've got to fullfil the book.

Won't you help to sing

This songs of freedom-

'Cause all I ever have:

Redemption songs;

Redemption songs;

Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;

None but ourselves can free our mind.

Wo! Have no fear for atomic energy,

'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.

How long shall they kill our prophets,

While we stand aside and look?

Yes, some say it's just a part of it:

We've got to fullfil the book.

Won't you have to sing

This songs of freedom? -

'Cause all I ever had:

Redemption songs -

All I ever had:

Redemption songs:

These songs of freedom,

Songs of freedom.

Una pe zi - 22 noiembrie 2012

Def Leppard - Love Bites (live in Don Valley) 

"Love Bites" is a power ballad recorded by british rock band Def Leppard in 1987 on the album „Hysteria”.

The title "Love Bites" was originally used for a very different song that was eventually re-titled "I Wanna Be Your Hero", and which appeared as a Hysteria B-side and later on the album Retro Active.

Following the huge momentum generated by "Pour Some Sugar on Me", the song was released in August 1988 and quickly shot to the top of the U.S. charts, dethroning Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry Be Happy". It stayed there for one week before giving up the position to UB40's "Red Red Wine". The song also hit number eleven in the UK (their second best showing from the album).

UPCOMING: Great Britain’s premier arena rock band Def Leppard will take over The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas in the spring of 2013 with „Viva Hysteria!”. Details are here. 

The lyrics are: 

Motto: 

If you've got love in your sights 

Watch out, love bites 

When you make love, do you look in the mirror? 

Who do you think of, does he look like me? 

Do you tell lies and say that it's forever 

Do you think twice or just touch 'n' see 

Ooh babe oh yeah 

When you're alone do you let go 

Are you wild 'n' willin' or is it just for show 

Ooh c'mon 

I don't wanna touch you too much baby 

'Cos makin' love to you might drive me crazy 

I know you think that love is the way you make it 

So I don't wanna be there when you decide to break it 

No! 

Love bites love bleeds - it's bringin' me to my knees 

Love lives love dies - it's no surprise 

Love begs love pleads - it's what I need 

When I'm with you are you somewhere else 

Am I gettin' thru or do you please yourself 

When you wake up will you walk out 

It can't be love if you throw it about 

Ooh babe 

I don't wanna touch you too much baby 

'Cos makin' love to you might drive me crazy 

Love bites love bleeds - it's bringin' me to my knees 

Love lives love dies - it's no surprise 

Love begs love pleads - it's what I need 

I don't wanna touch you too much baby 

'Cos makin' love to you might drive me crazy 

I know you think that love is the way you make it 

So I don't wanna be there when you decide to break it 

No! 

Love bites love bleeds - it's bringin' me to my knees 

Love lives, love dies 

Love bites love bleeds - it's bringin' me to my knees 

Love lives love dies - it's no surprise 

Love begs love pleads - it's what I need 

If you've got love in your sights 

Watch out, love bites 

Una pe zi - 21 noiembrie 2012

Melanie - Look What They Done To My Song, Ma (Live at the Royal Albert Hall, 1972) 

Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk (born February 3, 1947) is an american singer-songwriter.

Known professionally as simply Melanie, she is best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Ruby Tuesday", "Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma" and " The Good Book”.

When she became an official UNICEF ambassador in 1972, she agreed to forgo a world tour in favor of raising money for the organization.

In October 2012, Melanie collaborated with John Haldoupis, the artistic and managing director of Blackfriars Theatre in Rochester, New York, to create an original musical about her love story with her late husband, Peter. Melanie and the Record Man made its world premiere on October 19 with performances scheduled until October 28. The musical, conceived and designed by Haldoupis, features the music of Melanie and tells the story of her Peter meeting, falling in love, and working together to produce her music. Melanie performs during the musical and was also the narrator. Her son, Beau Jarred, was the musical director and also performed. Mandy Hassett, of New York City, played the younger Melanie and Nick Faruch played Peter.

The lyrics are: 

Look what they've done to my song, Ma

Look what they've done to my song

Well it's the only thing I could do half right

And it's turning out all wrong, Ma

Look what they've done to my song

Look what they've done to my brain, Ma

Look what they've done to my brain

Well they picked it like a chicken bone

And I think I'm half insane, Ma

Look what they've done to my song

I wish I could find a good book to live in

Wish I could find a good book

Well, if I could find a real good book

I'd never have to come out and look at

What they've done to my song

La la la…

Look what they've done to my song

But maybe it'll all be all right, Ma

Maybe it'll all be OK

Well, if the people are buying tears

I'll be rich some day, Ma

Look what they've done to my song

Ils ont changé ma chanson, Ma

Ils ont changé ma chanson

C'est la seule chose que je peux faire

Et çe n'est pas bon, Ma

Ils ont changé ma chanson

Look what they've done to my song, Ma

Look what they've done to my song

Well they tied it up in a plastic bag

And turned it upside down

Look what they've done to my song

Ils ont changé ma chanson, Ma…

Look what they've done to my song, Ma

Look what they've done to my song

Well it's the only thing I could do all right

And they turned it upside down

Look what they've done to my song 

Una pe zi - 20 noiembrie 2012

Roy Orbison - In Dreams (live)

Cântecul datează din 1963. A redobândit faimă mondială în 1987 când Orbison a lansat o antologie cu cele mai mare hit-uri ale sale; un an mai devreme, în 1986, regizorul David Lynch a folosit melodia în provocatorul său thriller „Blue Velvet”, ajutând prin utilizarea acestei piese și la revigorarea carierei lui Roy Orbison. 

"In Dreams" is a song composed and sung by rock and roll performer Roy Orbison in 1963. The song has a unique structure in seven musical movements in which Orbison sings through two octaves, beyond the range of most rock and roll singers.

It gained notability again in 1987 when Orbison released a re-recorded anthology of his greatest hits; the year prior David Lynch had used the song provocatively in his dark thriller Blue Velvet, helping to revive Orbison's career. 

Orbison later claimed that the origin for "In Dreams" came to him while he was sleeping, as many of his songs did. He often heard music while asleep with a radio disc jockey announcing that it was Elvis Presley's new song. 

For this song, however, he was half awake when he imagined it, and thought, "Boy that's good. I need to finish that. Too bad things don't happen in my dreams." When he woke up the next morning, the entire composition was written in 20 minutes. 

The lyrics are: 

A candy-colored clown they call the sandman 

Tiptoes to my room every night 

Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper: 

"Go to sleep, everything is alright" 

I close my eyes 

Then I drift away 

Into the magic night 

I softly sway 

Oh smile and pray 

Like dreamers do 

Then I fall asleep 

To dream my dreams of you 

In dreams...I walk with you 

In dreams...I talk to you 

In dreams...Your mine 

All of the time 

We're together 

In dreams...In dreams 

But just before the dawn 

I awake and find you gone 

I can't help it...I can't help it 

If I cry 

I remember 

That you said goodbye 

To end all these things 

And I'll be happy in my dreams 

Only in dreams 

In beautiful dreams

In oglinda asez si versiunea cinematografica a lui David Lynch a piesei lui Roy Orbison. 

Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" in Blue Velvet - The most popular videos are here

Una pe zi - 19 noiembrie 2012

Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven (Official Video) 

Povestea din spatele melodiei este una foarte tristă, aceasta apărând într-un moment de cumpănă pentru cariera lui Eric Clapton. După ce în 1990, într-un accident de elicopter, câțiva apropiați (printre care și managerul său) au murit, în 1991, copilul său de patru ani a murit după ce a căzut de la al 53-lea etaj al unui apartament din New York. O poveste extrem tristă care l-a marcat, care a dat naștere acestui cântec. 

Vizibil afectat de pierderea suferita, Eric Clapton a compus acest cantec trist, care a fost si cel mai de succes dintre piesele sale.

Alte informații despre melodie: 

• Piesa a apărut pe soundtrack-ul filmului Rush (1991); 
• Will Jennings a luat parte la scrierea versurilor (este un textier american celebru; el a scris și versurile de la „My Heart Will Go On”); 
• Melodia a fost inclusă în 2004 pe lista Rolling Stone: The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. 

Versurile sunt: 

Would you know my name 

If I saw you in heaven? 

Would you feel the same 

If I saw you in heaven? 

I must be strong and carry on 

Cause I know I don't belong here in heaven... 

Would you hold my hand 

If I saw you in heaven? 

Would you help me stand 

If I saw you in heaven? 

Ill find my way through night and day 

Cause I know I just can't stay here in heaven... 

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees 

Time can break your heart, have you begging please...begging please 

Beyond the door there's peace Im sure 

And I know therell be no more tears in heaven... 

Would you know my name 

If I saw you in heaven? 

Would you feel the same 

If I saw you in heaven? 

I must be strong and carry on 

Cause I know I don't belong here in heaven...

Una pe zi - 18 noiembrie 2012

Blowing In The Wind - Bob Dylan (Live on TV, March 1963)

"Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962 and released on his album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in 1963. Although it has been described as a protest song, it poses a series of rhetorical questions about peace, war and freedom. 

The refrain "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind" has been described as "impenetrably ambiguous: either the answer is so obvious it is right in your face, or the answer is as intangible as the wind". 

"Blowin' in the Wind" has been described as an anthem of the 1960s civil rights movement. 

In Martin Scorsese's documentary on Dylan, No Direction Home, Mavis Staples expressed her astonishment on first hearing the song, and said she could not understand how a young white man could write something which captured the frustration and aspirations of black people so powerfully. 

The lyrics are: 

How many roads most a man walk down

Before you call him a man ?

How many seas must a white dove sail

Before she sleeps in the sand ?

Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly

Before they're forever banned ?

The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many years can a mountain exist

Before it's washed to the sea ?

Yes, how many years can some people exist

Before they're allowed to be free ?

Yes, how many times can a man turn his head

Pretending he just doesn't see ?

The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many times must a man look up

Before he can see the sky ?

Yes, how many ears must one man have

Before he can hear people cry ?

Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows

That too many people have died ?

The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Una pe zi - 17 noiembrie 2012

Moon Over Bourboon Street – Sting 

(live at Universal Amphitheatre – 2000) 

„The Dream of the Blue Turtles” (1 june 1985) is the first solo album by Sting. 

The song Moon Over Bourboon Street embodies what vampire stories SHOULD have at their core.
It’s not about sex. It’s the concept that now changed as a person, there is no going back, and you can’t change your new direction, you either have to accept, embrace or die.

Sting said it was inspired by Anne Rice's book "Interview With A Vampire''.

The lyrics are:

There's a moon over bourbon street tonight

I see faces as they pass beneath the pale lamplight

I've no choice but to follow that call

The bright lights the people and the moon and all

I pray everyday to be strong

For I know what I do must be wrong

Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet

While there's a moon over bourbon street

It was many years ago that I became what I am

I was trapped in this life like an innocent lamb

Now I can never show my face at noon

And you'll only see me walking by the light of the moon

The brim of my hat hides the eye of a beast

I've the face of a sinner but the hands of a priest

Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet

While there's a moon over bourbon street

She walks everyday through the streets of New Orleans

She's innocent and young from a family of means

I have stood many times outside her window at night

To struggle with my instinct in the pale moonlight

How could I be this way when I pray to god above

I must love what I destroy and destroy the thing I love

Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet

While there's a moon over bourbon street. 

THE BRAND NEW DAY TOUR live, STING 

(The Universal Amphitheatre - 2000)

STING - guitars/vocals

Dominic Miller - guitars

Manu Katché - drums

Jason Robello - piano/clavinet

Kipper - keyboards/drum programming

Stevie Wonder - harmonica

Chris Botti - trumpet

Mohamed Khelifati - vocal

Abdel Nasser Haoua - darabukka

Mejdoub Ftati - violin

Lorraine Barnes - backing vocals

Mandy Lecointe - backing vocals

Samantha Swaby - backing vocals

Una pe zi - 16 noiembrie 2012

Harry Belafonte - Matilda (live, Stockholm, 1966)

O adevarata lectie de show. 

Text insipid dar un show magistral. 

Atat pe scena cat si in sala. Delectati-va! 

This is from of a beneficiary concert for Martin Luther Kings civil rights movement in Stockholm, Sweden. The recording took place on the 31 march 1966 in the Opera House and was aired live on Swedish, Danish and Finnish television network. 

The lyrics are: 

Hey! Matilda, Matilda, Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.

Once again now!

Matilda, Matilda, Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.

Five hundred dollars, friends, I lost:

Woman even sell me cat and horse!

Heya! Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.

Everybody!

(Matilda,) Sing out the chorus,

(Matilda,) Sing a little louder,

Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.

Once again now!

(Matilda,) Going 'round the corner,

(Matilda,) Sing out the chorus,

Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.

Well, the money was to buy me house an' lan'

Then she got a serious plan,

A-hey, ah!

Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.

Everybody!

(Matilda,

Matilda,

Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.)

Once again now!

(Matilda,) Going 'round the corner,

(Matilda,

Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.)

Well, the money was just inside me bed,

Stuck up in a pillow beneath me head.

Don't you know,

Matilda, she found me money and...

Everybody...

(Matilda,

Matilda,

Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.)

Once again now!

(Matilda,) Hooma locka chimba,

(Matilda,) Bring me little water,

Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.

Women over forty?

(Matilda,

Matilda,

Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.)

Everybody!

(Matilda,) Goin' round the corner,

(Matilda,) Bring me little water,

Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.

Well, me friends, never to love again,

All me money gone in vain!

Uh, heya...

Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.

Everybody!

(Matilda,

Matilda,) Oom, ba-locka-chimba!

(Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.)

Sing a little softer!

(Matilda,

Matilda,

Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela.)

EVERYBODY!

(Matilda,

Matilda,) Sing out the chorus!

Matilda, she take me money and run Venezuela!

Una pe zi - 14 noiembrie 2012

Tom Waits - Waltzing Matilda (live 1977)

Wasted and wounded

And it ain't what the moon did

I got what I paid for now

See you tomorrow

Hey Frank can I borrow

A couple of bucks from you

To go waltzing Matilda waltzing Matilda

You'll go waltzing Matilda with me

I'm an innocent victim

of a blinded alley

And I'm tired of all these soldiers here

No-one speaks English

And everything's broken

And my strength is soaking away

To go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda

You'll go a waltzing Malitda with me

Now the dogs they are barking 

and the taxi cab's parking

A lot they can do for me

I begged you to stab me

You tore my shirt open

And I'm down on my knees tonight

Old bushmills I staggered

You buried the dagger

Your silhouette window light

To go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda

You'll go a waltzing Matilda with me

Now I've lost my St. Christopher

Now that I kissed her

And the one-arm bandit knows

And the maverick Chinaman

with the cold-blooded sigh

And the girls down by the striptease shows go

Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda

You'll go a waltzing Matilda with me

No I don't want your sympathy

Fugitives say

that the streets aren't for dreaming now

Manslaughter dragnet

and the ghost that sells memories

Want a piece of the action anyhow

Go waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda

You'll go waltzing Matilda with me

And you can ask any sailor

And the keys from the jailor

And the old men in wheelchairs know

That Matilda's the defendant

She killed about a hundred

And she follows wherever you may go

Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda

You'll go waltzing Matilda with me

And it's a battered old suitcase

in a hotel someplace

And a wound that would never heal

No prima donnas the perfume is on

and old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey

And goodnight to the street-sweepers,

The night watchmen flame-keepers

And goodnight Matilda too

Goodnight Matilda too.