"BE FREE"

WEYES BLOOD

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOWcOfEBqcg 

It's sad to dream
It constantly seems
Like there's no light at the end of my tunnel
False dreams and promises
How do I get through to you?
Tried to do the best I could
Loved you just like a girl should
Somewhere I got stuck on you

It's just the two of us
And I want you to be free
Don't worry about me
I got my thing

Stay close to the edge and try to admit it
That you gave it away when you started to care and I cared
A long, long time of mine I waited for you to come around
I found a one-way street, that's me
Still hanging on to set you free, make you believe
I'm yours

It's just the two of us
And I want you to be free
Don't worry about me
I got my thing
I will never fear when you're not with me

Symphonie confinée - La tendresse

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEjvRktXeis 

 

"I'M MARRYING MYSELF"

KAROL GREEN 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqo97lN6Jgc 

 

"IN THE BEGINNING"

WEYES BLOOD 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT4iGmVlwS8

I gave my strength.

For years like an ox I pushed,
And for years like a ship I sank
To the bottom of that unknown sea.

I'm still learning to be free and not so somber.
Every night I stay up a little longer
Searching on that field of stars.

Do you know who you are?
Can you dig up my tree?
Can you find what's inside of me?
Find the origin of my defeat.

In the beginning
I was all dreams
Times have changed—
I'm no longer the same

I don't want you to leave.
It's so bittersweet that this is the time you met me;
I'm going through a long phase:

I don't try to relate,
I don't really try to find someone to sedate me.
Hard out for remedy, it's so bittersweet (you and me).

In the beginning
I was all dreams
Times have changed—
I'm no longer the same

Every day's a lesson in giving away.
Stripes on my floor, dark shots at my door.
Have you ever walked in on a queen before?

I just went through the valley,
(I know it's changed me)
Fire from eternity, the origin of my dreams.

In the beginning
I was all dreams.
Time caught up with me
And I can finally see.

"ASHES"

WEYES BLOOD 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiDd7b6jmDE 

Lead astray
By a turn in the wheel
And now I'm afraid
By how you made me feel

How bad to dream
More of things untrue
Ashes of you
Still haunt me this way
Still haunt me this way

Stained by your sun
With your eyes open wide
You once let me inside
Now the time passes me by

How bad to dream
More of things untrue
Ashes of you
Still haunt me this way
Still haunt me this way
This way now
Still to this day
Still to this day

In my own tomb
Where I like to keep you
All tangled into
My own very vision of loss

How bad to dream
More of you today
I'll throw your ashes away
Right now
Right this day
I'll let them blow away
Away

Now I'm on my own
Now I'm all alone
My heart longs for
Where the grass is green
The meadow I destroy
So that I am free

"MAYBE LOVE"

WEYES BLOOD

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlv02C0Xn8c 

Maybe love, your eyes
Are sweet and glimmer in the light
I don't doubt in my mind
That you know
That deep down inside we have chemistry

I like seeing you notice me
When i'm feelin better about
Who i am

Baby love take my hand
We are friends
Till the end
Darling my dear
My heart strings bend
You'll be my friend till the end

Darling how sweet
We can talk of anything
How I love to hide how much I think of you
In the night I can be true to good meaning
Friendship is healing
Lust isn't true

Baby love take my hand
We are friends
Till the end
Darling my dear
My heart strings bend
You'll be my friend
Till the end

You got a lot of woman
Under your belt
I can see that
You got a lot of history
With pretty ladies and dreams that won't ring your bell

Maybe love, baby love
I can't have you
But it don't
Bother me now
We can share friendship
Lonesome friendship
I think you know
Just how, special I am...

Baby, baby, I'll give you everything, don't expect nothin' I'll, just be waiting...

"WHEN THY SONG FLOWS THROUGH ME"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdaOyc4He4U

O life is sweet
And death a dream
O life is sweet
And death a dream
When thy song flows through me, my lord
When thy song flows through me

Then health is sweet
Sickness a dream
Then health is sweet
Sickness a dream
When thy song flows through me, my lord
When thy song flows through me

Then joy is sweet
Sorrow a dream
Then joy is sweet
Sorrow a dream
When thy song flows through me, my lord
When thy song flows through me

Then praise is sweet
And blame a dream
Then praise is sweet
And blame a dream
When thy song flows through me, my lord
When thy song flows through me

"(KEEP EYE ON) OTHER'S GAIN"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kscwW6klBBA 

Others don't have a bed like mine
They sleep out in the rain

And others hearts are guarded from
The blows of random pain

But mama made my arm so strong
And papa taught me oft and long

That if you are to stay ahead
Keep eye on other's gain
Keep eye on other's gain and know
There's only so much here upon the earth
To go around

And keep your loved ones near
And keep your loved ones near
And let them know just where you be
Cause others need you right near by
Just as you need me

You need me at the table
Sitting down and nodding grace

And holding you just by
Laying ksses on your face

And kisses on your face
And elbows to fend way
Your eyes and mouth from harmful blows
And body from decay

Keep eye on other's gain and know
There's only so much here upon the earth
To go around

And keep your loved ones near
And keep your loved ones near
And let them know just where you be
Cause others need you right near by
Just as you need me

"YOU REMIND ME OF SOMETHING 

(THE GLORY GOES)"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OcXJzPbLlA 

Well the glory goes to those
Who do not seek it
Reveling in midnight clothes
Among the wicked
Picking scabs from off their skin
And rolling holy deeply in
To the rhythm called the song
That does not end

You remind me of something
A song that I am and you
Sing me back into myself
When I wake, when I'm sleeping
The song is a man and a woman
And everything else

And my mother is a good one
As they go
She does not condone the actions
That I do that she don't know
She swears nightly before resting
That I give her soul a testing
When I sing this song
That does not end

You remind me of something
A song that I am and you
Sing me back into myself
When I wake, when I'm sleeping
The song is a man and a woman
And everything else

It's been years since I found it
I still go where it pounded
My ears pressed to the chest
Of that one womans of song
She adores me, she ignores me
And I revel on
In wonder at something
So sweet and so long

I like the places where the night
Does not mean an end
Where smiles break free
And surpirse is your friend
And dancging goes on in the kitchen
Until dawn
To my favorite song
That has no end

You remind me of something
A song that I am and you
And you sing me back into myself
When I wake, when I'm sleeping
The song is a man and a woman
And everything else

"BEWARE YOUR ONLY FRIEND"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYzd8at8BhI 

I want to be your only friend
(Is that scary?)
My active mind don't wish it so
Watch out for these silent thoughts
That's where the seed of soul-sucking grows

When each who comes around you,
Takes some of your life
That's when I get angry
An outfit for my fright

You want to be my daughter
(Come sit up on me)
I hate it, but it's so
And I wanted you as my mother
Cheering me as I go

When each who comes around you,
Takes some of your life
That's when I get angry
An outfit for my fright

Picture us lounging just sitting and listening
And loving what we hear
That has never happened,
We both flail too much
We flail too much to let the other near.

I want to be your only friend
(Beware of me)
My quiet mind is not fit to lead
Take the warning I've seen fit to lend
And from this thing we have been freed

"JOLLY ONE (2/15)"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hz0gd-yv1w 

 When you ask me to sing
It feels like my heart would burst with pride
And I look in your face
And tears come to my eyes
All that's harsh in wrong in my life melts into one sweet song
And my love sets wings
Like a glad bird flying over the road

I know you take pleasure in my singing
I know that only when I sing do you hear me
'cause then I touch things I can't touch
I touch parts of you I can't really touch

And drunk with the joy of singing
I forget myself and call you my friend

I'm here to sing you songs
In your room I have a corner seat
In your world I have no work to do
My life can only break out in songs
That have no purpose

"JOLLY FIVE (64)"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvMEMeo_0Ak 

 On the slope of the creek I ask her "Where are you going, hiding your flashlight with your coat?
My house is all dark and lonesome, lend me that light."

She raised her dark eyes for a moment and looked at my fave through the dusk
"I've come to the creek" she said
"to shine my flashlight on the animals in the water when it gets dark."

It got darker and I asked again if she would bring her light to my house
'cause there were no animals in the water
There was nothing living, moving

She said "I'm gonna shine it on the sky, it will reach a star."
I watched her shine the light uselessly into the sky

And in the moonless gloom of midnight
I asked her why she held the light still, close to her chest
"My house is all dark and lonesome, lend me your light."

"I need it to walk home with" she said
"I can't see in the dark, like a cat"
And I watched get lost among the trees and into the lights of the houses

"NO MORE WORKHORSE BLUES"

PALACE BROTHERS 

(BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqzwaLzjdvU 

Many lights up today
Many lights up this way

What is this road here,
Where have I come?

I am a rich man
I am a very rich man
I have good pants on
Stitched and stitched;
I am in stitches
I am laughing at you
I am in britches

I've written books for you
I held my own for you
Where is my tongue?

I am no more workhorse
I am no more workhorse
I am no more workhorse
I am no more workhorse

I am a grazing horse
I am a grazing horse
I am your favorite horse

"DEATH TO EVERYONE"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY/MATT SWEENEY 

 

 

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjHrYinPShk

  

I am here
Right here
Where God puts non asunder
And you
In black dress & black shoe
You do
Invite me under
Go on
Go there
You can see me aging
Stars turn
Balls burn
Coming kids are raging

death to everyone
Is gonna come
And it makes hosing
Much more fun

every terrible thing
Is a relief
Even months on end
Buried in grief
Are easy, light times
Which have to end
With the coming
Of your death friend

death to everyone
Is gonna come
And it makes hosing
Much more fun

so strap me on
And raise me high
'cause buddy, I'm not
Afraid to die
'cause life is long
And it's tremendous
And we're glad
That you're here with us
And since we know
An end will come
It makes our living
Fun

Death to me
And death to you
Tell me what else can we
Do die do?
Death to all
And death to each
Our own God-bottle
S'within reach

Death to everyone
Is gonna come
And it makes hosing
Much more fun

"THE SEARCHERS"

JOHN  FORD (1956)

 Escenes inicial i final

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_j3NrcDiS4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvfIsbhIQLA 

"PUSHKIN"

MATT SWEENEY/BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69aM6_vzU4M 

God is the answer
God is the answer
God is the answer
God lies within

And you can't say
That I didn't learn from you
And you can't say
That I didn't learn from you
And you can't say
That I didn't learn from you
And you can't say
That I didn't learn from you

God is the answer
God is the answer
God is the answer
God lies within

And I will not
Have a good time
But leave me just the same
The statue marks the place here
Where Pushkin took his claim

God is the answer
God is the answer
God is the answer
God lies within

And I guess that
She couldn't tell me
Because she found it
Very frightening
And though a lead slug
Would have felled me
Pushkin
Rides the lightning

 

"A ROOM WITH A VIEW"

JAMES IVORY (1985)

“Chi il Bel Sogno di Doretta” (Puccini)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US1isbaN38I 

"AFTER I MADE LOVE TO YOU"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSO2SqwI-cI 

Eloquent, I soon retire
To nothing else I may aspire
After I've made love to you

In the dark I see you glisten
To your breath I lay and listen
After I've made love to you

In your arms I'm softly resting
Memories of you undressing
And your lips my final blessing
I never knew
The embrace that I'd been lacking
Has been found with kisses smacking
And two bodies there attacking
I and you

Baby why don't we feel guilty
Why's it seem we're doing right
When we're doing something filthy
In a rented room tonight

I think it's 'cause we love the now
We love forever love, and how
And my life's your love, anyway
And your life's my love, everyday

You are mine o now forever
Think of you always wherever
After I've made love to you
After I've made love to you

"WHAT ARE YOU?"

MATT SWEENEY/BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzBPFL_CG0Q 

 What are you waiting for if not for me?
What are you waiting for? It must be me

To take you over my knee
And spank you mercilessly
I can do that, oh you'll see

And everyday will be like free
And sleep, adventure you will see
And I'll have you and you'll have me

On a bench with your twisted fingers in me
In the rain with my sundress torn off of me
Sliding down grassy slopes where we can be alone

You say I am evil, you know that I'm stupid
I don't appear given and I don't appear lucid
Yet I give you all
The truth is I give you everything

 

"A HORA FOSCANT"

JOSEP CARNER 

 

 És tard, els camins ja no em tempten.-
I us sé, del verger dins el clos,
caiguts, trepitjats en la boira,
oh dies, oh fulles, oh flors!
Mes passes es tornen furtives
com d'un indecís estranger.
Sospiren espectres de dàlies
enmig del foscam ploraner.
Al lluny neda un so de campanes
que uneix els vivents als caiguts.
S'escampa la nit invencible,
mar d'illes que són solituds.
I em criden el llum a la taula
i algun voleiant pensament,
la vella cadira malmesa
i un full de paper malcontent.

"NO GOLD DIGGER"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY 

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDctMBjAP5A

 

"66"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDspFkSk1Pc 

She who remained in the depth of my being
In the twilight of gleams and glimpses
She who'd never smiled
But given it up in denial
Will be my last gift to you
Folded into the last song

Words have wooed her, but haven't won her
Persuasion has reached to her, but come up empty
And I've gone from country to country
Keeping her in the core of my heart
And around have risen and fallen the growth and decay of my life

And all over my thoughts and actions, my slumbers and dreams
She ruled, yet dwelled alone and apart
And she stayed alone in whatever you call it
Waiting for you to see her

I found a joy of my own
I found a joy of my own
I found a joy of my own
I found a joy of my own
I found a joy of my own
I found a joy of my own
I found a joy of my own
I found a joy of my own

"LOVESKULLS"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY & MARIEE SIOUX 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnHLCXoz_d8 

 

 

 

"NOT MOCKED"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY & MARIEE SIOUX 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdIQnorDW5c 

 

"SON TUS PERJÚMENES, MUJER"

CARLOS MAJÍA GODOY 

Y LOS DE PALACAGÜINA

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS9G14Nnii8 

 Son tus perjumenes mujer
Los que me sulibellan
Los que me sulibellan
Son tus perjumenes mujer.

Son tus perjumenes mujer
Los que me sulibellan
Los que me sulibellan
Son tus perjumenes mujer.

Tus ojos son de colibrí
A como me aletellan
A como me aletellan
Tus ojos son de colibrí.

Son tus perjumenes mujer
Los que me sulibellan
Los que me sulibellan
Son tus perjumenes mujer.

Tus labios pétalos en flor
Como me soripellan
Como me soripellan
Tus labios pétalos en flor.

Son tus perjumenes mujer
Los que me sulibellan
Los que me sulibellan
Son tus perjumenes mujer.

Tus pechos cantaros de miel
Como reververellan
Como reververellan
Tus pechos cantaros de miel.

Son tus perjumenes mujer
Los que me sulibellan
Los que me sulibellan
Son tus perjumenes mujer.

Tu cuerpo chucaro mi bien
A como me almarella
A como me almarella
Tu cuerpo chucaro mi bien.

Son tus perjumenes mujer
Los que me sulibellan
Los que me sulibellan
Son tus perjumenes mujer.

Son tus perjumenes mujer
Son tus perjumenes mujer
Los que me sulibellan.

"BETTER DAYS"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC0ljqK2IS0 

"LILY"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAw7ptC2PJY 

"PEOPLE LIVING"

BONNIE "PRINCE" BILLY 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbyxb45imPc 

Who is God and what is God and what is he doing for you?
Is it easy to pretend?
Is it harder to look back at you?

What is real and what is good for all of us?
How can it be
That your convictions are gonna be valid to me?
How can it be?
How can it be?

People living on the outside
Living on the wrong side
Living on the outside
Living on the wrong side

What is true and who is true and where is the truth now for you?
Is it hard to confess to yourself?
Is it easy to view?
Who are wrong in your eyes and what will do to satisfy?

How can it be that you want us to simplify?
How can it be?
How can it be?

People living on the outside
Living on the wrong side
Living on the outside
Living on the wrong side

People living on the outside
Living on the wrong side
Living on the outside
Living on the wrong side

"RIGHT FROM THE START"

TANGO WITH LIONS

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW6enoEXLPo 

 I've got a secret to tell you
but I won't say it
until I'm deaf and greyish and old
I need your love
and I need your hug
I need your love and I love your touch

"POLICEMAN"

TANGO WITH LIONS 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZxydsF9zIc 

There's someone knocking on my door
There's a footprint on my floor
lookin' all around
the place is haunted
I hear voices, I see shapes
Come policeman and save me
A hat is sitting on the chair
A magazine I never put there
There's someone knockin' on my door
There's something frightening 'round the hall
Come policeman and save me

"PRAYERS"

TANGO WITH LIONS 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hg9FrnG5lk

I once was blue
then I found you
How long to go?
I used to tickle by the clock
now I jumped off that dock
How high, how low does your wind blow?
In the prayers they say you get a new day everyday
We used to tickle by the clock
now we jumped off that dock
How high, how low does the wind blow?
In the prayers they say you get a new day everyday
In the prayers they say...

 "SAND"

HOLLY GOLIGHTLY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCM_Qlz_olA 

"LAUGHING TO KEEP FROM CRYING"

HOLLY GOLIGHTLY, DAN MELCHIOR & BRUCE BRAND 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UAowU-RyJc

You don’t know, you don’t know  

You don’t know my troubled mind  

You don’t know, you don’t know my mind  

When you see me laughin’, well I’m a laughin’ just to keep from cryin’  

The woman that I’m lovin’ she’s the height of me  

Put my heart in trouble down in misery  

You don’t know, you don’t know my mind  

When you see me laughin’, well I’m a laughin’ just to keep from cryin’  

You can take my money, steal my clothes  

Mistreat me like you did, some other man before  

You don’t know, you don’t know my mind  

When you see me laughin’, well I’m a laughin’ just to keep from cryin’  

Don’t mistreat me ‘cause I’m young and wild  

You must remember that you once was a child  

You don’t know, you don’t know my mind  

When you see me laughin’, well I’m a laughin’ just to keep from cryin’  

Early in the mornin’ and it look like rain ‘round the corner come a passenger train  

You don’t know, you don’t know my mind  

When you see me laughin’, well I’m a laughin’ just to keep from cryin’  

You don’t know, you don’t know  

You don’t know my troubled mind  

You don’t know, you don’t know my mind  

When you see me laughin’, well I’m a laughin’ just to keep from cryin’

"NO BIG THING"

HOLLY GOLIGHTLY 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ssaCGw8rjk 

You Ain't no Big Thing Baby,
To me no more

You Ain't no Big Thing Baby,
Like you were before

I gave you all of my money,
And you took every dime

Well I musta been crazy
Yeah outta my mind

You Ain't no Big Thing Baby,
Like a movie star

You Ain't no Big Thing Baby,
Like you think you are

You got my door wide open,
But now it's closed

Someone else gets a lovin',
That used to be yours

I want to tell you one more time,
Before I go and leave you behind
You wasn't real
You wasn't true
And everything you do well I was doin' it too
I said
You Ain't no Big Thing No More

You Ain't no Big Thing Baby,
To me no more

You Ain't no Big Thing Baby,
Like I said before

You got my door wide open,
But now it's closed

Someone else gets a lovin',
That used to be yours

You Ain't no Big Thing Baby
You Ain't no Big Thing Baby
You Ain't no Big Thing Baby
You Ain't no Big Thing Baby

"I CAN'T BE TRUSTED"

HOLLY GOLIGHTLY 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SlO0HyczMo 

 

"NO HOPE BAR"

HOLLY GOLIGHTLY 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRfSvMpJoa0 

Now thinkin'
Makes your head spin
The nights are long
The days are gone
And you don't know
What place you're in

And it's now
And it's a shame
And your so broke
And incomplete
That you don't know
Night from day

'Cause you've been drinkin'
At the No Hope bar
Your so drunk
It's sad to see
You don't know
Who you are

You don't know your way home
You don't know your way home
You don't know your way home

"FANTASMES"

JOSEP-RAMON BACH (1946-2020)

 

Fantasmes

Han cremat els rostolls
del meu paisatge.

L’escena ara és buida.

Invisibles, passen
sota la pancarta de meta
tots els personatges
d’aquesta infantesa muda.

Han arribat tard
a la cita de la memòria,
però un cop a casa
volen donar testimoni
d’una època de la vida.

Agafats de la mà,
dansant al ritme
frenètic dels timbals,
els fantasmes
se’n van a dormir
al rebost dels miracles.

Josep-Ramon Bach, El laberint de Filomena (Edicions Proa, 2010)

 

"WATERFALL"

THE STONE ROSES 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w25UA7YxwJs 

Chimes sing Sunday morn
Today's the day she's sworn
To steal what she never could own
And race from this hole she calls home

Now you're at the wheel
Tell me how, how does it feel?
So good to have equalized
To lift up the lids of your eyes

As the miles they disappear
See land begin to clear
Free from the filth and the scum
This American satellites won

She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall

She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall

See the steeple pine
The hills as old as time
Soon to be put to the test
To be whipped by the winds of the west

Stands on shifting sands
The scales held in her hands
The wind it just whips her and waits
And fills up her brigantine sails

She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall
She'll carry on through it all

She's a waterfall

MAX VON SYDOW

(1929-2020)