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Pink Floyd
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Vanavond naar The Pink Project geweest in het Omniversum in Den Haag. Live muziek van dé Pink Floyd coverband in twee delen met twee films megagroot op de achtergrond; The living sea en Ring of fire.
Afsluiter was mijn favoriete nummer van Pink Floyd: Comfortably numb
Hier de tekst.
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Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?
Come on, now,
I hear you’re feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I’ll need some information first.
Just the basic facts.
Can you show me where it hurts?
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There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying.
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I’ve got that feeling once again
I can’t explain you would not understand
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.
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O.K.
Just a little pinprick.
There’ll be no more aaaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick.
Can you stand up?
I do believe it’s working, good.
That’ll keep you going through the show
Come on it’s time to go.
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There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying.
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb
Try
Try : Nelly Furtado
Sommige liedjes zijn tekstueel kleine juweeltjes. Zo ook Try van Nelly Furtado, niet alleen tekstueel maar ook muzikaal meer dan de moeite waard.
Try
All I know
Is everything is not as it’s sold
But the more I grow the less I know
And I have lived so many lives
Though I’m not old
And the more I see, the less I grow
The fewer the seeds the more I sow
Then I see you standing there
Wanting more from me
And all I can do is try
Then I see you standing there
Wanting more from me
And all I can do is try, try
I wish I hadn’t seen all of the realness
And all the real people are really not real at all
The more I learn the more I learn
The more I cry the more I cry
As I say goodbye to the way of life
I thought I had designed for me
Then I see you standing there
Wanting more from me
And all I can do is try
Then I see you standing there
I’m all I’ll ever be
But all I can do is try
Oh, try, try
All of the moments that already passed
We’ll try to go back and make them last
All of the things we want each other to be
We never will be, we never will be
And that’s wonderful, and that’s life
And that’s you, baby
This is me, baby
And we are, we are, we are, we are
We are, we are
Free
In our love
We are free in our love
Poëzie in muziek
John Watts
Gisteravond naar een concert geweest van een van mijn muzikale helden van vroeger John Watts van Fisher Z.
Hier een voorbeeld van een songtekst die ook als gedicht niet zou misstaan.
A face to remember
The light creeps in / Through the broken glass / In the sleeping ward.
Finnegan’s voice / Is an endless whine / Through a hardboard barricade.
I throw a cigarette to make him quieten down.
And i search for that photo of you.
And your face is a symbol.
A place to remember.
Your face is a symbol for me now.
Radio blares.
There is not much time.
And the children play you up.
Buses and trains / On commuter lines / Through the condensation.
I know what you’re doing now / And i follow you in your routine.
And your face is a symbol.
And your eyes make me strong again / I can look at the world full of confidence.
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