What are you listening to?


Dear life, I wish you have told me
'Bout the beautiful ways
I'm not the best at falling
Most of the time
The best times hide in mistakes

Sometimes I wish I was blind
To see the others' beauty
 
"Courage is undeniable.
They cannot be defeated in a one-on-one fight.
Our youth for a thousand years.
How can we deliver the news?
This is not a flock of migratory birds.
Star sign in the sky

Ahmet Arif



We're [I'm] glad to be here, Hosbulduk/Hosgorduk . it is said here
 

One one tank (of gasoline)
Everyone takes one tank
No more full
Now its one tank one tank
***
One egg one egg
Everyone takes one egg
No more boxes of 6
Now its one egg one egg
 
Bruce Springsteen - "Ghosts" (from the new album "Letter to You")

I saw this in the comments section of YouTube for this video: "A while back someone asked me what with all the terrible shit going on how you can be even remotely happy and I said well, Springsteen has a new album coming out so there’s reason for optimism. True then, true now."
 

"Lunatic Fringe"


Lunatic fringe
I know you're out there
You're in hiding
And you hold your meetings
I can hear you coming
I know what you're after
We're wise to you this time (wise to you this time)
We won't let you kill the laughter

Lunatic fringe
In the twilight's last gleaming
But this is open season
But you won't get too far
'Cause you've got to blame someone
For your own confusion
We're on guard this time (on guard this time)
Against your final solution

We can hear you coming (we can hear you coming)
No, you're not going to win this time (not gonna win)
We can hear the footsteps (we can hear the footsteps)
Hey, out along the walkway (out along the walkway)

Lunatic fringe
We all know you're out there
Can you feel the resistance
Can you feel the thunder​
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I posted once before, many moons ago, concerning this piece but as no matter what phase I go through in life I always come back and back to it decade by decade, year in year out, and as once again today I find myself drawn to its haunting solace, I thought I'd share here anew as I am indeed listening to - or more accurately being with it as I write.

I fell into it first by a strange series of chance happenings when about 15 and instantly felt it as deep as blood and bone and stone. Since then it has never wavered as the signature calling of my life. For me it also represents a profound homily and dream rekindled concerning the lost (or abandoned) soul of England; as she once was and should ever have been.

This is by far the finest, most appropriate version yet recorded; for it was composed for performance precisely as in the video below - upon the sacred floor of Gloucester Cathedral, where in 1910, it was first played and conducted by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. However even then they did not manage the full effect that this masterful performance does for they were allowed to remove all the seating and thereby returned this magnificent sacred space to its original state which allowed the strings of a double orchestra to be laid out in this exact spatial arrangement as intended by the composer, so creating maximum depth and movement as befitting the ultimate (for me) in quest surround sound.


And for those who know nothing of Thomas Tallis, (16th century weaver of spiritual magic) here in parting is the original source that so inspired Vaughan Williams followed by his mathematically perfect Spem in Alium, a homage to the perfection of the divine universe. May they wash over you.


 
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