"WINTER NOCTURNE"

PHILIP LARKIN

Mantled in grey, the dusk steals slowly in,
Crossing the dead, dull fields with footsteps cold.
The rain drips drearily; night's fingers spin
A web of drifting mist o'er wood and wold,
As quiet as death. The sky is silent too,
Hard as granite and as fixed as fate.
The pale pond stands; ringed round with rushes few
And draped with leaning trees, it seems to wait
But for the coming of the winter night
Of deep December; blowing o'er the graves
Of faded summers, swift as the wind in flight
Ripples its silent face with lapping waves.
The rain falls still: bowing, the woods bemoan;
Dark night creeps in, and leaves the world alone.

"BUSTIN' SURFBOARDS"

THE TORNADOES 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=butyYRz4sgw

 

 "TAKE FLIGHT"

ALICE PHOEBE LOU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPHtnjNlr2M

 

I treated you bad, my dear, I'll blame it on fear
To help my own ears and I put myself first, my love
I pushed and I pushed and I
Shoved and I shoved

Sometimes I can't breathe
And I push you out to sea
And leave you drowning
Drowning

And you, you shook my soul, my friend
You know that I know that this ain't the end
And you opened my heart again
But things they have changed now and we can't pretend

But we've got mountains to climb
And sure I'm happy when you're mine
But we're drowning
Drowning

 "SHE"

ALICE PHOEBE LOU 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPH9j0qVM3A

 

She, she
She, she
She cut a hole in the fence and she ran
She left her troublesome prison behind
She didn't wanna fuel the fire
She didn't wanna lose her desire
She, she
She, she
She looked out to the horizon
She didn't have much left to see
Greed had taken the trees away
Greed had taken the bees away

She, she
She, she
She don't know where she gonna go now
She looked up to what should've been stars
She said I wanna go to Mars
And this, this planet, it ain't ours

She said I, wanna go to Mars
And this, this planet, it ain't ours
She said I wanna go to Mars
And this, this planet, it ain't ours
Ours

"TRAPÈ LE VERITÈ"

YEMEN BLUES 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DGajk8JMpQ

 

"LOOK OUT THERE'S A MONSTER COMING"

BONZO DOG DOO-DAH BAND  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBzUsN6qV80 

 

Lonely, unmarried, looking for love,
Life was passing me by.
So I sent off my photo, hobbies and age;
Magazine marriage I tried.
They say for centuries lovely Japanese girls
Have been trained in the art of pleasing men.
Be lonely no more, open destiny's door.
For one dollar they arrange a meeting.

My image was wrong, I didn't like me,
So I changed my personality.
I bought a delux Merseybeat wig
But it was a size too big.
What confidence in my new built-up shoes,
So smart for winter or summer.
Undetectable in normal everyday use.

Look out there's a monster coming!

Bye-bye binoculars and macintosh,
Everything is just great.
I take elocution, learn to speak posh
But still I can't find a mate.
Be popular, learn to play the guitar,
In seven days you could be strumming.
Be sociable, learn kissing technique.

Look out there's a monster coming!

Carnaby clothes, I reshaped my nose,
Plastic surgery's best.
To cut down my weight off comes my left leg.
I pass a swimming costume test.
Are my sideboards too long,
Don't my aftershave pong?
I know my new nose ain't runnin'.
What's wrong with my tie?
Am I getting too high?

Look out there's a monster coming!

Disfiguring and ugly, my facial hair
I had removed electrically.
I rejuvenated my energy cells
And regained my virility (grunt grunt).
(He put my hand on my heart?),
(I am changing the part?).
He had a machine for a mummy.
Please be gentle with me:
I come to pieces literally.

Look out there's a monster coming!
Look out there's a monster coming!
Look out there's a monster coming!
(...fade)

 "IS THAT ALL THERE IS?"

PEGGY LEE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCRZZC-DH7M

 I remember when I was a little girl
Our house caught on fire
I'll never forget the look on my father's face
As he gathered me up in his arms and
Raced through the burning building out to the pavement
And I stood there shivering in my pajamas and
Watched the whole world go up in flames
And when it was all over, I said to myself
“Is that all there is to a fire”

Is that all there is
Is that all there is
If that's all there is, my friends
Then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is

And when I was twelve years old
My daddy took me to a circus
“The Greatest Show on Earth”
There were clowns and elephants and dancing bears
And a beautiful lady in pink tights flew high above our heads
And as I sat there watching
I had the feeling that something was missing
I don't know what
But when it was all over, I said to myself
“Is that all there is to a circus”

Is that all there is
Is that all there is
If that's all there is, my friends
Then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is

And then I fell in love
With the most wonderful boy in the world
We'd take long walks down by the river
Or just sit for hours gazing into each other's eyes
We were so very much in love
And then one day, he went away
And I thought I'd die, but I didn't
And when I didn't, I said to myself
“Is that all there is to love”

Is that all there is
Is that all there is
If that's all there is, my friends
Then let's keep

I know what you must be saying to yourselves
“If that's the way she feels about it
Why doesn't she just end it all”
Oh, no, not me
I'm in no hurry for that final disappointment
Cause I know just as well as I'm standing here talking to you
That when that final moment comes and I'm breathing my last breath
I'll be saying to myself

Is that all there is
Is that all there is
If that's all there is, my friends
Then let's keep dancing
Let's break out the booze and have a ball
If that's all there is

 

MONICA VITTI

(1931-2022)