What are you listening to?

found this while ruminating italian blogosphere tonight
La Canzone di Laura text by Pino Daniele, Fabio Concato sings
You should listen because when napoletan speaks - he sings, and when he sings – he soars right to the stars

Laura nun chiagnere
si 'munno va accussi
stasera te penzo ancora
e l'acqua 'mare e' salata e' salata, si
ma dint' 'e suonne se vola
mo sta cadenno 'na stella
fa 'ampressa a ce penza'
qual'e' 'cosa cchiu' bella ca vulisse i 'te vulesse cca'.
Laura s'affaccia e intanto penza dimane
e l'uocchie vanno luntano
quello 'ca 'o mare leva 'o mare da
arance siciliane
mo sta cadenno 'na stella
fa ampressa a ce penza'
e si 'na lacrema scenne po' caccosa succedarra'.
cammina fino a che nun ce' a faje cchiu', piccirella
cammina semp' addo' l'acqua e' cchiu' blu
e si vuo' na mano 'o ssaje ca sto cca'.
Laura si chesta canzone putesse accuncia' 'tutt'e' guaje...
mo sta cadenno na' stella
fa ampressa a ce penza'
e si 'na lacrema scenne po' caccosa succedarra'.
cammina fino a che nun ce 'a faje cchiu', piccirella
cammina semp' addo' l'acqua e' cchiu' blu
e si vuo' 'na mano 'o ssaje ca sto 'cca'
Laura si chesta canzone
putesse accuncia' tutt'e' guaje...
pe sta 'nziria ca nun ce da pace
e nun ce lassa maje...

Pino with his wife Fabiola, beautiful views of Golfo di Napoli
Pino Daniele in studio
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUIsQo4K70Y

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT LYRICS

"Going To A Town"

I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down
I'm going to a place that has already been disgraced
I'm gonna see some folks who have already been let down
I'm so tired of America

I'm gonna make it up for all of The Sunday Times
I'm gonna make it up for all of the nursery rhymes
They never really seem to want to tell the truth
I'm so tired of you, America

Making my own way home, ain't gonna be alone
I've got a life to lead, America
I've got a life to lead

Tell me, do you really think you go to hell for having loved?
Tell me, enough of thinking everything that you've done is good
I really need to know, after soaking the body of Jesus Christ in blood
I'm so tired of America

I really need to know
I may just never see you again, or might as well
You took advantage of a world that loved you well
I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down
I'm so tired of you, America

Making my own way home, ain't gonna be alone
I've got a life to lead, America
I've got a life to lead
I got a soul to feed
I got a dream to heed
And that's all I need

Making my own way home, ain't gonna be alone
I'm going to a town
That has already been burnt down
 
To Hungrig(or someone else from sweden); could you translate this one? Please...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGRSM1m5iMo

Thåström singing for Wiehe
 
clerck de bonk said:
To Hungrig(or someone else from sweden); could you translate this one? Please...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGRSM1m5iMo

Thåström singing for Wiehe
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Hi clerck! Emm I tried to translate the song, but it's just that I haven't translated Eng Voice/texts before.
So I am not sure I got it right.... And also my english is bad.

Here it is:

"I am one of those that slave on King Cheops pyramid
It is us that work down alongside the foot
And we toil and we sweat for not losing time
It's pity for those who not fill in the quotient

Once one gotten here, One never gets more freedom
If one ends up here, One ends up in the hollow
If the king it says, is a son of the sun

Behind fifteen double bolts,
Behind fifteen double locks
Keeps Riches court in power halls.
Here is nothing that's threatening, Here is nothing that interrupt
Here are the thoughts and the space cooled alike

And If Someone must die
and someone’s Got to be striked/(beaten)
There are Others that can carry out the decisions
To Here dares not the (anxiety shouts?) and the screams/ (shrieks)

It seems as if in every times
and in all the different people
There are ones who want to build pyramids
where themselves sits at the top
and has the power in their hand
while the people below they suffer

If them up there in the blue, not further want to understand
but despise all the whom that gives them food
shall the pyramids at the end be their own grave
 
About this giant insane and cruel circus where everyone is set to fight against everyone else

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZybTv4xkWzs

Switch off your consciousness
I don’t ask for your understanding
Now many times we were winning;
Falling down and rising up again

You know, we don’t really need anyone
Ring is undersized and narrowed to insanity
How many times we admitted to ourselves
Falling down and rising up again

[How many] Smashed over corners with arrangement
Prior to ridiculous dodge
How many were scattered like glass
Falling down and rising up again

Shall we not surrender?
Is easier to leave than to remain
We always remained
Falling down and rising up again

For love new generations
Fight undoubtedly
Look back and your hour will strike
You are not alone, you are one of us

And suddenly love is not palpable
Our dependence is mortal
How much they did humiliate us; [we were]
Falling down and rising up again

You know, we should gather ourselves
It is easier to leave than to remain
How many of us were strong-willed
Falling down and rising up again

In the world where those who rule
Do it surprisingly maliciously
Every one of us was burnt at least once
Falling down and rising up again

Let's switch on the extra breathing
Their silencing is meaningless to us
We always remained
Falling down and rising up again

For love new generations
Fight undoubtedly
Look back and your hour will strike
You are not alone, you are one of us

Switch off your consciousness
I don’t ask for your understanding
Now many times we were winning;
Falling down and rising up again

You know, we should gather ourselves
It is easier to leave than to remain
How many of us were strong-willed
Falling down and rising up again
 
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Midnight Black Earth

No Lyrics, all mood.

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_1-zwBsvjw&feature=related
 
Chicane (Album Somersault) - Come Tomorrow

If I talked to god he’d tell me why
There’s something going on
Dark people walking by
This morning is the day after the next
Escape my only dream
Cos I’m the only one again

But life is better spent inside your world
Butterfly that sings
Causes me to fall once more
Tomorrow you are only half a friend
Machines control your mind
And neon strips above my head

Come tomorrow, come tomorrow
There’s never been an answer
There’s always someone else to follow
And you are coming down, and you are coming down
Giving me the reasons for your lies

And when you turn me inside out
Don’t know what you feel or dream about
And then you take me upside down
Remember my face, my name, my town

When i think of god he knows my mind
I’m wondering what’s wrong
What will the devil find
Tomorrow you will find there’s no way out
With nowhere left to turn
There’s no place left to hide from him

In a city made of sand
We found our way out
But without a helping hand
We’re free

Turn me inside out
Don’t know what you dream about
Take me upside down
Take me, take me
And you turn me inside out
Don’t know what you dream about
 
Bat for Lashes - Trophy

The trophy that I made for us in fur and gold
Got into the wrong pair of hands and truth was sold
They bought it for oh so much less than it was worth
And every man that touched it found a heaven on earth

Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms

The queens and the court jesters clapped, adored
Their hearts swelled into overdrive and mercy soared
Mercy this and mercy that, let justice prevail
But I just want my trophy back, it's not for sale

Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms

Creatures of mercy
Shoot shoot
Shoot them down
And set me free

Creatures of mercy
Shoot shoot
Shoot them down
And set me free

And when I got my trophy back it took some time
To polish it to gold from black and shoot the lion
And when I put it back inside I locked the door
A trophy of mercy is a trophy no more

Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms
Heaven is a feeling I get in your arms

Creatures of mercy
Shoot shoot
Shoot them down
And set me free
 
This is for Laura and the group.

Hang in there, this latest guy will find out just how much knowledge protects.

Tom Petty - I Won't Back Down

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJMp5bz9u8


Well I won't back down, no I won't back down
you could stand me up at the gates of hell
but I won't back down

Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around
and I'll keep this world from draggin' me down
gonna stand my ground and I won't back down


Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
hey I will stand my ground
and I won't back down

Well I know what's right, I got just one life
in a world that keeps on pushin' me around
but I'll stand my ground and I won't back down

Hey baby there ain't no easy way out
hey I will stand my ground
and I won't back down
No, I won't back down
 
While searching for hits of the sixties to download on Napster I discovered Nico. I'm not sure how I feel about her yet altogether but this one song of hers really touched me and has been playing in my head on and off for the last few days. I'm a sucker for the introspective stuff.

Nico - 'These Days'

I've been out walking
I don't do too much talking
These days, these days.
These days I seem to think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do
And all the times I had the chance to.

I've stopped my rambling,
I don't do too much gambling
These days, these days.
These days I seem to think about
How all the changes came about my ways
And I wonder if I'll see another highway.

I had a lover,
I don't think I'll risk another
These days, these days.
And if I seem to be afraid
To live the life that I have made in song
It's just that I've been losing so long.
La la la la la, la la.

I've stopped my dreaming,
I won't do too much scheming
These days, these days.
These days I sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten.

Please don't confront me with my failures,
I had not forgotten them.
 
Matchbox 20 "How Far We've Come"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxAGGyrvJ9c

"dude this song rocks it makes me think whats going to happen when or not the metor is coming *peice flys down * holy god it's srating run!!!! *freaks out * " --jokerkjd (2 days ago)
 
Theres alot of really good songs listed here! (glad to see another bat for lashes fan)

Well, for some reason this always reminds me of some of the things the C's have said...perhaps its just me (also the lyrics don't do it justice....)

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcLFWZDu5rc (please note this isn't the music video...I don't even think it has a music video....the video the person put together is a little odd in places)

The Chemical Brothers - Battle Scars

There's no path to follow
There's no path to follow

There's a line in the sand
Put there by a man
By a man whose children who built the castles made of stone

There's a man in the sky
Giving reasons why
That line grows deeper like these shackles round our bones

Move on to my own
Here come battle scars
It's the final charge
Here come battle scars

There's a child born
To a land of scorn
Sneaks past the borders and the lords that hold his hand

He was led like a lamb
All part of the plan
This castle crumbles as he walks out of this land

Move on to my own
Here come battle scars
It's the final charge
Here come battle scars

This is what we own
Here come battle scars
This is where we are
Here come battle scars

There's no path to follow
There's no path to follow
There's no path to follow


Living for the reasons
of the dead that moved to
paper from their heads
into my fingers
and my neck leaving me
strangled by the rent
I have no purpose in this land
have I forgotten how to stand up
with the humor and the need
I've got to find a way to be

I just turn up the stereo
I can't survive without the cold
This culture's fallen off its feet
I've got to find a brand new beat

beat (beat) beat
beat (beat) beat
beat (beat) beat


There's a road ahead
'tween the live and dead
Church bells are ringing like the panic in my head

Step, step, one by one
Walk into the setting sun
Water's rising, rising fast
History catching up at last

Danger ahead, death behind
No one to follow but old man time

Time, time, take us back before the line was drawn
Before the sky turned black
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"Symptom Of The Universe"

Take me through the centuries to supersonic years
Electrifying enemy is drowning in his tears
All I have to give you is a love that never dies
The symptom of the universe is written in your eyes

Yeah

Mother Goose is calling me back to her silver womb
Father of creation takes me from my stolen tomb
Seventh night the unicorn is waiting in the skies
A symptom of the universe, a love that never dies

Yeah

Take my hand, my child of love come step inside my tears
Swim the magic ocean I've been crying all these years
When our love will ride away into eternal skies
A symptom of the universe, a love that never dies

Yeah

Oh my child of love's creation, come and step inside my dreams
In your eyes I see no sadness, you are all that loving means
Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above
We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love
 
"Over To You"

Born in the window
Cold blooded spoof
Raised in the prison
You called the school
Taught young in legends
Told what to do
I handed my childhood
Over to you

Travelling endlessly, I'm searching for mind
I'm almost afraid of what I will find
Wandering aimlessly, oh what can I do?
I handed my future over to you, to you

Over to you
Future looks blue
What can I do?

Watching for freedom
Fighting our wars
Feeding our children
Keeping your laws
Someday you'll suffer
And what I'll do
I'll hand all your promises
Over to you

Standing inside myself, I'm losing control
You made me believe in the stories you told
Waiting impatiently, what else can I do?
I handed my future over to you, to you

Over to you
Future looks blue
What can I do?

Tears filled of sadness
Stealing myself
Which burning secrets?
What to they tell?
Mad politicians
Can tell it true
I handed my children
Over to you

All over, over to you
All over, over to you
All over, over to you...
 
"Hard Road"

Old men crying, young men dying
World still turns as Father Time looks on
On and on
Children playing, dreamers praying
Laughter turns to tear as love has gone
Has it gone?

Oh, it's a hard road
Oh, it's a hard road

Whirlwind churning, lovers learning
On this path of life we can't back down
Is it wrong?
Widows weeping, babies sleeping
Life becomes the singer and the song
Sing along

Oh, it's a hard road
Carry your own load

Why make the hard road?
Why can't we be friends?
No need to hurry
We'll meet in the end

Why make the hard road?
Why can't we be friends?
No need to worry
Let's sing it again

Brother's sharing, mother's caring
Nightime falling victim to the dawn
Shadows small
Days are crawling, time is calling
To the Earth that not that life has gone
Love line drawn

Oh, it's a hard road
Carry your own load
Oh, it's a hard road
Oh, it's a hard road...

We're living in sorrow, we're living the best
And look to the future, `cause life goes together now
We're living in sorrow, we're living the best
And look to the future, `cause life goes together now
We're living in sorrow, we're living the best
And look to the future, `cause life goes together now...
 
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