What are you listening to?

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall

Bob Dylan

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucalBOd-9VU&feature=related

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it,
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin',
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin',
I saw a white ladder all covered with water,
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin',
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin',
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin',
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin',
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter,
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony,
I met a white man who walked a black dog,
I met a young woman whose body was burning,
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow,
I met one man who was wounded in love,
I met another man who was wounded with hatred,
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin',
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden,
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
Where black is the color, where none is the number,
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',
But I'll know my song well before I start singin',
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
 
St. Vincent - The Strangers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&hl=en&v=mb6T0pMOc0s)

Lover, I don’t play to win
For the thrill until I’m spent
Paint the black hole blacker (2x)
I threw flowers in your face
on my sisters wedding day
Paint the black hole blacker (2x)

You showed up with a black eye
Looking to start a fight
Paint the black hole blacker (2x)
Playboys under your mattress
Like I wouldn’t notice
Paint the black hole blacker (2x)

What do I share?
What do I keep from all the strangers
Who sleep where I sleep

Desperate don’t look good on you
Neither does your virtue
Paint the black hole blacker (2x)
Good souls have more better sons
Better sons were worse once
Paint the black hole blacker (2x)

What do I share?
What do I keep from all the stranger
who sleep where I sleep

You showed up with a black eye
Looking to finish a fight
Lover I don’t play to win
For the thrill until I’m spent
Paint the black hole blacker (2X)
 
Be Still My Soul - Piano - Carlton Forrester:
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAHGvNrd-1A


This beautiful piano piece is an arrangement of a piece of music that is embedded towards the end of Jean Sibelius' "Finlandia Op.26", a symphonic poem, composed in 1899.

The first version of Finlandia was written in 1899, and revised in 1900. The piece was composed for the Press Celebrations of 1899, a covert protest against increasing censorship from the Russian Empire.
Most of the symphony consists of rousing and turbulent music, evoking the national struggle of the Finnish people. But towards the end, a calm comes over the orchestra, and the serenely melodic Finlandia Hymn is heard.It was meant to be played majestically as it represents a hard-won peace for the soul after long, hard struggles. Considered in this context, the music is extremely enjoyable and may connect with the listener on a deep level.

Sibelius later reworked the Finlandia Hymn into a stand-alone piece. This hymn, with words written in 1941 by Veikko Antero Koskenniemi, is one of the most important national songs of Finland (though Maamme is the national anthem). With different words, it is also sung as a Christian hymn (Be Still, My Soul), and was the national anthem of the short-lived African state of Biafra (Land of the Rising Sun). Also, in 2006, choral composer Ken Galbreath wrote a song entitled "O Michigan, Our Home" to the tune of Finlandia.

Sibelius' musical compositions have often been attacked by critics, sometimes severly, yet some critics have decided to re-evaluate Sibelius's music citing its self-contained internal structure, which distills everything down to a few motivic ideas and then permits the music to grow organically. The severe nature of Sibelius's orchestration is often noted as representing a "Finnish" character, stripping away the superfluous from music. [emphasis mine]

Sibelius has been quoted as saying: "Pay no attention to what critics say. No statue has ever been put up to a critic."

Jean Sibelius (8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957)
and his Finlandia Op.26, a symphonic poem, composed in 1899. Finlandia appears on the album Symphony No. 4, Luonnotar, Finlandia.

Sources:
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Sibelius
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandia_(symphonic_poem)
The Essential Canon of Classical Music, David Dubal,p. 466. New York: North Point Press, 2001.

Well-deserved thanks go to Laura for the lessons in re-wiring the brain. I have found the application to regaining my connection to the emotions of the universe - the world's most beautiful music.
 
Invincible - Muse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRDk5K-u6NI

Follow through
Make your dreams come true
Don't give up the fight
You will be all right
Cause there's no one like you
In the universe

Don't be afraid
What your mind conceals
You should make a stand
Stand up for what you believe
And tonight we can truly say
Together we're invincible

And during the struggle
They will pull us down
But please, please let's use this chance to
Turn things around
And tonight we can truly say
Together we're invincible

Do it on your own
Makes no difference to me
What you leave behind
What you choose to be
and whatever they say
Your soul's unbreakable

And during the struggle
They will pull us down
But please, please let's use this chance to
Turn things around
And tonight we can truly say
Together we're invincible
Together we're invincible

And during the struggle
They will pull us down
Please, please let's use this chance to
Turn things around
And tonight we can truly say
Together we're invincible

All at Once - Jack Johnson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7ERQlRj9YA

All at once,
The world can overwhelm me
There's almost nothin' that you could tell me
That could ease my mind

Which way will you run
When it's always all around you
And the feelin' lost and found you again
A feelin' that we have no control
Around a sun
Some say
There's gonna be the new hell
Some say
It's still too early to tell
Some say
It really ain't no myth at all

Keep askin' ourselves are we really
Strong enough
There's so many things that we got
Too proud of
We're too proud of
We're too proud of

I wanna take the preconceived
Out from underneath your feet
We could shake it off
Instead we'll plant some seeds
We'll watch em' as they grow
And with each new beat
From your heart the roots grow deeper
The branches will they reach for what
Nobody really knows
But underneath it all
There's this heart all alone

What about is gone
And it really won't be so long
Sometimes it feels like a heart is no place to be singin' from at all

Theres a world we've never seen
Theres still hope between the dreams
The weight of it all
Could blow away with a breeze
If your waitin on the wind
Don't forget to breathe
Cause as the darkness gets deeper
We'll be sinkin as we reach for love
At least somethin we could hold
But I'll reach to you from where time just cant go

What about when it's gone
And it really won't be so long
Sometimes it feels like a heart is no place to be singin' from at all
 
Bad Moon Rising, 16 Horsepower (Creedence Clearwater Revival cover)
I see the bad moon arising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightnin.
I see bad times today.

Chorus:
Dont go around tonight,
Well, its bound to take your life,
Theres a bad moon on the rise.

I hear hurricanes ablowing.
I know the end is coming soon.
I fear rivers over flowing.
I hear the voice of rage and ruin.

Chorus
All right!

Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like were in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye.
 
"I Grieve"

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwz5q8Oh2ug&feature=related

it was only one hour ago
it was all so different then
there's nothing yet has really sunk in
looks like it always did
this flesh and bone
it's just the way that you would tied in
now there's no-one home

i grieve for you
you leave me
'so hard to move on
still loving what's gone
they say life carries on
carries on and on and on and on

the news that truly shocks is the empty empty page
while the final rattle rocks its empty empty cage
and i can't handle this

i grieve for you
you leave me
let it out and move on
missing what's gone
they say life carries on
they say life carries on and on and on

life carries on
in the people i meet
in everyone that's out on the street
in all the dogs and cats
in the flies and rats
in the rot and the rust
in the ashes and the dust
life carries on and on and on and on
life carries on and on and on

it's just the car that we ride in
a home we reside in
the face that we hide in
the way we are tied in
and life carries on and on and on and on
life carries on and on and on

did I dream this belief?
or did i believe this dream?
now i can find relief
i grieve
 
Van Halen: 5150

_http://www.dailymotion.com/user/JetInhumanUncle/video/x8q6q3_5150_lifestyle

The love line is never straight and narrow
Unless your love is tried and true
We take a chance with new beginnings

Still we try
Win or lose
Take the highs
With the blues

Always one more
You're never satisfied
Never one for all with you
It's only one for me
So, why draw the line?
Meet you half the way
And you don't know what that means

I feel like a running politician
Oh! Just tryin' to please you all the time
I given you my self with no conditions

Runnin' wide
Been goin' long
Feelin' lost
But not for long

Always one more
You're never satisfied
Never one for all with you
It's only one for me
So, why draw the line?
Meet you half the way
When you don't know what that means
 
There's a lot more information in the singing, if you listen to it, as opposed to simply reading the lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8NavxD5fpw

Neil Young

"Look Out For My Love"

There's a lot to learn
For wastin' time
There's a heart that burns
There's an open mind.


Look out for my love,
look out for my love
Look out for my love,
look out for my love
You own it
You own it now
You own it.

There's a weight on you
But you can't feel it
Livin' like I do
It's hard for you to see it.

Was I hurt too bad
Can I show you daylight
How could I be sad
When I know that you might.

Look out for my love,
look out for my love
Look out for my love,
look out for my love.

Look out for my love
It's in your neighborhood
I know things are gonna change
But I can't say bad or good.

Silver wings of mornin'
Shinin' in the gray day
While the ice is formin'
On a lonely runway.

Hydraulic wipers pumpin'
'Til the window glistens
Somethin' sayin' somethin'
No one seems to listen.

Men with walkie-talkies
Men with flashlights wavin'
Up upon the tower
Time reads daylight savings.

I'm home again to you babe
You know it makes me wonder
Sittin' in the quiet slipstream
In the thunder.

Look out for my love,
look out for my love
Look out for my love,
look out for my love.
 
Hi to all you... this song call: LA PODEROSA MUERTE

Song: LA PODEROSA MUERTE ("The Powerful Death") inspired by Pablo Neruda's Poem (From "The Heights of Machu Picchu")

Band: Los Jaivas

Year: 1980

This band from Chile is one of the most interesting blends of folk and symphonic rock. The band featured Claudio Parra, Gabriel Parra, Gato Alquinta, Eduardo Parra and Mario Mutis (this line-up is from the LP "Cancion Del Sur"), they are playing many instruments including the ethnic tutruka, charanjo, tarka, tumbadore, bongo and maracas. In '73 the legal government was overthrown very bloody by a new, 'CIA sponsored' militarian dictatorship and Los JAIVAS had to flight. They first went to Argentina and then to France. In the Seventies en Eighties Los JAIVAS made a serie of LP's, recorded in all aforementioned countries. They gradually incorporated more progressive elements into their rock and folk based sound. Eventually Los JAIVAS developped a very unique sound that is hard to compare with known progrock bands. Perhaps you could say "Los Incas meet Mike OLDFIELD"? On their own site I read that Los JAIVAS released the live-CD "Los Jaivas: en vivo Chile" '88 and in '97 they made a record with many friends (like the band Congreso) entitled "Trilogia: El Reencuentro".

It sounds very progressive and symphonic (native South-American instruments and flute along electric guitar and synthesizers).

"La Poderosa Muerte", a melodic and harmonic composition (around 12 minutes) that starts with the typical sound of the panflute and melancholic piano notes, very beautiful and moving, followed by emotional Spanish vocals. The build up is magnificent with propulsive drums and sparkling piano play, soon accompanied by a fat sounding synthesizer and fiery electric guitar. The dramatic atmosphere is emphasized by pathetic vocal harmonies. The moods keep on shifting with lots of (ethnic) instruments, a very emotional experience and a fine proove that progrock has emotion!

The Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AO8pY09h_Y

What was the man?
What part of your open conversation
between stores and whistles,
in which their metallic movements
it was indestructible,
the imperishable,
life?

All falter
waiting for his death,
death of their short daily
and its tragic loss of every day
it was like drinking a glass black shaking

Then in the scale of the stone I uploaded
Among the appalling mass of the forests lost
to you, Machu-Picchu
city of rocks high scalar
Finally it's home ground
not hiding in the sleeping garments.
In you, as two parallel lines
the cradle of lightning and man
Meciar was in the wind of thorns.
Mother of stone, foam of condors
High reef of the human aurora.

When the clay color hand
became clay
and when small palpebral
closed
filled with rough walls,
villages of castles
and when every man
became entangled in his hole
accuracy was hoisted:
The high site of the human aurora:
The highest vessel that contained the silence
life of a stone after so many lives.
 
John Mayer - Quiet

very beautiful and calming

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIq1Wly2aTc

Midnight
Lock all the doors
And turn out the lights
Feels like the end of the world
This Sunday night

There's not a sound.
Outside the snow's comin' down
Somehow I can't seem to find
The quiet inside my mind

3:02
The space in this room
Has turned on me
And all my fears
Have cornered me here
Me and my TV screen

The volume's down
Blue lights are dancing around
And still I can't seem to find
The quiet inside my mind

Daylight is climbing the walls
Cars start and feet walk the halls
The world wakes and now I am safe
At least by the light of day
At least by the light of day
 
Find the lyrics quite striking at the moment......

Bat for Lashes - Travelling Woman

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4XXkz4iFUM

Hang on travelling woman
Don't sacrifice your plan
'Cause it will come back to you
Before you lose it on the man

Never fall in love with potential
‘Cause you can’t see with your own eyes
All the pretty faces and sorry words
Can take away your pride

Got to listen
To the vision
Some may say a dream
Words for the unseen

Or it can make you tired, tell you lies, make you fall
Make you tired, tell you lies, make you fall
Make you tired, tell you lies, make you fall

Hang on travelling woman
Don't sacrifice your plan
'Cause it will come back to you
Before you lose it on the man

Got to listen
To the vision
Play in the ashes
Of what you once were

Got to listen
To the vision
Play in the ashes
Of what you once were
 
Harry Manx - Roses Given

From the cd 'Wise and Otherwise'

_http://www.dailymotion.com/user/JetInhumanUncle/video/x9tmc4_roses-given_lifestyle

Lines were drawn, forces gathered
All at the foot of our bed
Planned attacks without retreats
Battles were fought deep in our heads

Spoke of war, rattled our swords
Brought out the great big guns
Halfway through a long campaign
We got tired, of the bloody fun

Roses Given

A truce was signed without a shot
We drank to our new deal
Felt so good about what we got
We ended up oh lord half peeled

Silence rules my day
Give me some more of the same
The prize is not so much in the goal
As the playing of the game

Roses Given

Sure we bark and sometimes bite
But we never use our teeth
Ain't it lovely that the war is over
Now we can get us some god damn relief

Days of struggle cast aside
Still I can get the shakes
Tell the next one Learns to Fly
I'm here....with what it takes

Roses Given.
 
Rush

Armor And Sword

The snakes and arrows a child is heir to
Are enough to leave a thousand cuts
We build our defenses, a place of safety
And leave the darker places unexplored

Sometimes the fortress is too strong
Or the love is too weak
What should have been our armor
Becomes a sharp and angry sword

Our better natures seek elevation
A refuge for the coming night
No one gets to their heaven without a fight

We hold beliefs as a consolation
A way to take us out of ourselves
Meditation, or medication
A comfort, or a promised reward

Sometimes that spirit is too strong
Or the flesh is too week
Sometimes the need is just too great
For the solace we seek
The suit of shining armor
Becomes a keen and bloody sword

A refuge for the coming night
A future of eternal light
No one gets to their heaven without a fight

Confused alarms of struggle and fright
Blood is drained of color
By the flashes of artillery light
No one gets to their heaven without a fight
The battle flags are flown
At the feet of a god unknown
No one gets to their heaven without a fight

Sometimes the damage is too great
Or the will is too weak
What should have been our armor
Becomes a sharp and burning sword :(
 
Trivium - Down from the Sky

A chasm grows
In the cavity of serpentine teeth
Hunger pangs strike
For the sweet feast of innocent blood
Of innocent bloodshed
Now here we go

The vampires feed off the wars of mankind
The vampires feed off the wars of mankind

Growing fat on the throne of an empire
Tyrant rules with the threat of a great fire

I've opened up my eyes
Seen the world for what it's worth
Tears rain down from the sky
They'll blow it all to bits
To prove whose God wields all the power
Fire rains down from the sky

The gaping wounds
Hemorrhaging the blood from which they feast
Eat us alive
Consume to feed a hunger with no
A hunger with no end
Let's f***ing go

The vampires feed off the wars of mankind
The vampires feed off the wars of mankind

Growing fat on the throne of an empire
Tyrant rules with the threat of a great fire

I've opened up my eyes
Seen the world for what it's worth
Tears rain down from the sky
They'll blow it all to bits
To prove whose God wields all the power
Fire rains down from the sky

This battle's not the same which they have led us to believe
A synthesis of propaganda, terror, and deceit
We are the cattle
They the slaughter
Our meat: Gasoline

They pump us through the machine's valves
To cleanse the world's "disease"
We are the ammunition
That will cause all life to cease

Annihilate
All those who stand in their way
Obliterate
They'll rain their holocaust down from the sky

Solo: Matt

The vampires feed off the wars of mankind
The vampires feed off the wars of mankind

Solo: Corey
Growing fat on the throne of an empire
Tyrant rules with the threat of a great fire

I've opened up my eyes
Seen the world for what it's worth
Tears rain down from the sky
They'll blow it all to bits
To prove whose god wields all the power
Fire rains down from the sky

Annihilate
All those who stand in their way
Obliterate
They'll rain their holocaust down from the sky
 
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