New Dawn Rising

Read me like a book

 

Lay down your head and show me if you like it. 

Lend me your ears and read me like a book. 

This conversation, it strikes me. 

No need for words it's all understood. 

Lay down your head and show me if you like it. 

Wondering if there is something we did wrong. 

Nothing can stop me from shaking. 

Why did we have to fire that gun? 

Lay down your head and show me if you like it. 

Wondering if there is something we did wrong. 

Nothing can stop me from shaking. 

Why did we have to fire that gun? 

Why did we have to fire that gun? 

Oh, why did we have to fire that gun?

Take hold of me

 

 My existence is screaming, it’s a physical feeling 

of missing out on dance and light. 

Electricity in my hands, on circumstance, 

a scent-filled trance.

Hey, hey, hey... huh...hey, hey, hey, huh...

 I wanna take to the skies, this leaves me so heavy, 

I’m captured by gravity 

and the weight of expectations, 

genes and generations calling my name.

 Hey, hey, hey... huh...hey, hey, hey, huh...

Sometimes it is hard, to know what is fading, 

you measure all that you are 

the density of being. 

So you open all the gates, walk on all the way, 

trusting the answers, will lie there waiting. 

Take hold of me, keep this energy steady..steady...steady..

Hey, hey, hey... huh...hey, hey, hey, huh...

do you read me?

Sweetheart come

Stefanos Rokos

Do you dare to walk through alleys of her mind?

Here she comes again
troubles on her brow
Here she comes again
with worries she can't hide

Who can stop the rain
pouring down inside?
Who can keep her sane
give her peace of mind?

Here she comes again
covered up in black
Such a pretty face
such sorrow in her eyes

Do you wanna know
what's killing her inside?
Do you dare to walk
through alleys of her mind?

Here she comes again
troubles on her brow
Here she comes again
with worries she can't hide

Will you let it show?
Will you cross the line?
Will you take her home
and tell her she'll be fine?

...you covered my skin with your eyes as they found me...

Oh love
Right from the start
We were old love
Like we've never been parted
You kissed me
Your hands down my side to my hips dear
Still shivers inside
All the breathing
From your mouth through mine
About how long
There's hunger for one more time
Lover of mine, when I kissed you
I felt so good

Tell this tale to me
Well I won't believe
That I'm already here
Tell this tale to me
No, I won't believe
That we're already here

Oh love, you covered my skin
With your eyes as they found me
I kissed you, danced in your sand
And fell into a never ending moment
And the whisper from your mouth through mine
With those words that gently filled my lungs
Lover of mine, when I'm with you
I forget how am I to being lonely
Living without you
Spend another day passing by you
Don't wanna know how it feels if I do

Tell this tale to me
No, I won't believe
That I'm already here

Tell this tale to me
I won't believe
That we're already here

Tell me, this is real
No, I won't believe
I won't believe
No, I won't believe
No, I won't believe
No, I won't believe

On the Acropolis

Tod Papageorge

Motorcyclists at Lake Balaton, Gabor Szilasi

I don't know what more to ask for, I was given just one wish

It was me on that road
But you couldn't see me
Too many lights out, but nowhere near here

It was me on that road
Still you couldn't see me
And then flashlights and explosions

Roads are getting nearer
We cover distance but not together

I am the storm and I am the wonder
And the flashlights nightmares
And sudden explosions

I don't know what more to ask for
I was given just one wish

It's about you and the sun
A morning run
The story of my maker
What I have and what I ache for

I've got a golden ear
I cut and I spear
And what else is there

Roads are getting nearer
We cover distance still not together

If I am the storm, if I am the wonder
Will I have flashlights nightmares
And sudden explosion

I don't know what more to ask for
I was given just one wish

Roads are getting nearer
We cover distance still not together

If I am the storm, if I am the wonder
Will I have flashlights nightmares
And sudden explosion

There's no room where I can go and
You've got secrets too

I don't know what more to ask for
I was given just one wish

my heart is not here

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here

My heart's in the Highlands, a chasing the deer

A chasing the wild deer, and following the roe

My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North

The birthpace of valour, the country of worth

Wherever I wander, wherever I rove

The hills of the Highlands for ever I love

Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow

Farewell to the straths and green valleys below

Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods

Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here

My heart's in the Highlands, a chasing the deer

A chasing the wild deer, and following the roe

My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go

So far

So far from who I was
From who I love
From who I want to be

So far from all our dreams
From all it means
From you here next to me

So far from seeing home
I stand out here alone
Am I asking for too much

So far from being free
From the past that's haunting me
The future I just can't touch

And if you take my hand
Please pull me from the dark
And show me hope again

We'll run side by side
No secrets left to hide
Sheltered from the pain

I won't take the easy road

I don't want to wait anymore, I'm tired of looking for answers
Take me some place where there's music and there's laughter
I don't know if I'm scared of dying but I'm scared of living too fast, too slow
Regret, remorse, hold on, oh no, I've got to go
There's no starting over, no new beginnings, time races on
And you've just gotta keep on, keeping on
Gotta keep on going, looking straight out on the road
Can't worry 'bout what's behind you or what's coming for you further up the road
I try not to hold on to what is gone, I try to do right what is wrong
I try to keep on keeping on
Yeah, I just keep on keeping on

I hear a voice calling
Calling out for me
These shackles I've made in an attempt to be free
Be it for reason, be it for love
I won't take the easy road

I've woken up in a hotel room, my worries as big as the moon
Having no idea who or what or where I am
Something good comes with the bad
A song's never just sad
There's hope, there's a silver lining
Show me my silver lining
Show me my silver lining

I hear a voice calling
Calling out for me
These shackles I've made in an attempt to be free
Be it for reason, be it for love
I won't take the easy road

I won't take the easy road
The easy road, the easy road

I won't take the easy road
The easy road, the easy road

Show me my silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on
Show me my silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on
Show me my silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on
Show me my silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on

How could I ever know you?

How could I ever know you?
When everything lies in disguise
How could I ever forget?
Those eyes looking for my weal

How could I ever know more?
When everything is held by threat
How could I ever feel you?
Once again, without losing my mind

Oh empty note
Shadows of my past
Made it to the end

How could I ever know you?
When you are miles and miles away
How could I forgive myself?
How blind and scared I was

Oh empty note
Shadows of my past
Made it to the end

More than this..

I could feel at the time
There was no way of knowing
Fallen leaves in the night
Who can say where they're blowing
As free as the wind
Hopefully learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning

More than this, there is nothing
More than this, tell me one thing
More than this, there is nothing

It was fun for a while
There was no way of knowing
Like a dream in the night
Who can say where we're going
No care in the world
Maybe I'm learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning

More than this, you know there is nothing
More than this, tell me one thing
More than this, you know there is nothing

More than this
Nothing
More than this
More than this
Nothing

She's going to smile to make you frown

Here she comes, you better watch your step 
She's going to break your heart in two, it's true 
It's not hard to realize 
Just look into her false colored eyes 
She builds you up to just put you down, what a clown 

'Cause everybody knows (She's a femme fatale) 
The things she does to please (She's a femme fatale) 
She's just a little tease (She's a femme fatale) 
See the way she walks 
Hear the way she talks 

You're put down in her book 
You're number 37, have a look 
She's going to smile to make you frown, what a clown 

Little boy, she's from the street 
Before you start, you're already beat 
She's gonna play you for a fool, yes it's true 

'Cause everybody knows (She's a femme fatale) 
The things she does to please (She's a femme fatale) 
She's just a little tease (She's a femme fatale) 
See the way she walks 
Hear the way she talks

...να σωθεί ό,τι είναι δυνατό...

Ποια μουσική περπατάει στο πλάι σου,
ποια πυρκαγιά στα μαλλιά.
Ποια σιωπή καταπίνει τα λόγια μου
και ψυθιρίζω φιλιά.
Κάψε τις νύχτες μου,
σβήσε τις μέρες μου,
κάνε το χρόνο στιγμή.
Ό,τι ευχήθηκα κι ό,τι φοβήθηκα
είναι καιρός να φανεί.

Σαν βροχή που πέφτει στα φύλλα,
στα μαλλιά, στο πρόσωπο κυλά,
σαν βροχή σε θέλω απόψε,
να βραχώ ως τη ρίζα της φωνής,
γέλιο μου.
Στη φωτιά που μέσα μου καίει,
μια φωνή γελάει και κλαίει,
στη φωτιά θα πέσω μαζί σου
να σωθεί ό,τι είναι δυνατό,
γέλιο μου, φλόγα μου φλόγα μου.

Ποια μουσική δυναμώνει στο βλέμμα σου κι όλα χορεύουν γλυκά.
Ποιος πυρετός ανεβαίνει
στο αίμα μου
και κοκκινίζει ξανά.
Κάψε τις νύχτες μου,
σβήσε τις μέρες μου,
κάνε το χρόνο στιγμή.
Ό,τι αγάπησα κι ό,τι παράτησα
είναι καιρός να κριθεί.

Σαν βροχή που πέφτει στα φύλλα,
στα μαλλιά, στο πρόσωπο κυλά,
σαν βροχή σε θέλω απόψε,
να βραχώ ως τη ρίζα της φωνής,
γέλιο μου.
Στη φωτιά που μέσα μου καίει,
μια φωνή γελάει και κλαίει,
στη φωτιά θα πέσω μαζί σου
να σωθεί ό,τι είναι δυνατό,
γέλιο μου, φλόγα μου φλόγα μου.

...celebrating summer...

David Alan Harvey. Good friends celebrating summer with a cruise on the Seine. Paris, 1989

Classical music for those with no memory

Michel Piccoli

Untitled, Ed Fairburn

Help me lose my mind

Talk to me and watch me crumble
You will see me come undone
Faithfully I will look over
There I'll find what you've become

 What you've become

You help me lose my mind
And you believe, something I can't define
Help me lose my mind, make me wonder
What I thought before
Keep hiding my time
How much longer?
Have I've been waiting for?

Jealousy will be washed over
Carefully we will come through
Could it be easy to start over?
Somehow I will bring you too

What you've become

You help me lose my mind
And you believe, something I can't define
Help me lose my mind, make me wonder
What I thought before
Keep hiding my time
How much longer?
Have I've been waiting for?

Waiting, waiting
I've been waiting, waiting, waiting
I've been waiting, waiting, waiting
I've been waiting, waiting, waiting
I've been waiting, waiting, waiting
I've been waiting, waiting, waiting
I've been waiting, waiting, waiting
I've been waiting, waiting, waiting

You help me lose my mind
And you believe, something I can't define
Help me lose my mind, make me wonder
What I thought before
Keep hiding my time
How much longer?
Have I've been waiting for?

Close-Up

Les Choses de la vie

Before you slip into unconsciousness
I'd like to have another kiss
Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, another kiss

The days are bright and filled with pain
Enclose me in your gentle rain
The time you ran was too insane
We'll meet again, we'll meet again

Oh tell me where your freedom lies
The streets are fields that never die
Deliver me from reasons why
You'd rather cry, I'd rather fly

The crystal ship is being filled
A thousand girls, a thousand thrills
A million ways to spend your time
When we get back, I'll drop a line

Entretien Avec La Mère

My life is like a wound

My life is like a wound,
I scratch so I can bleed.
Regurgitate my words,
I write so I can feed.
And death grows like a tree,
that's planted in my chest.
Its roots are at my feet,
I walk so it won't rest.

Oh, baby I am lost
I said oh, baby I am lost

I try to push the colours,
through a prism back to white.
To sync our different pulses,
into a blinding light.
And if love is not the key,
if love is not a key.
I hope that I can find,
a place where it could be.

I know that in your heart
there is an answer to a question,
which I'm not as yet aware that I have asked.
And if that tree had not drunk my tears
I would have bled and cried for all the years
that I alone have let them pass.

And oh, baby I am yours
I said oh, baby I am yours
And oh, baby I am yours
I said oh, baby I am yours

My baby looks good with another

The birthmark on your shoulder reminds me

Oh, to see without my eyes 
The first time that you kissed me 
Boundless by the time I cried 
I built your walls around me 

White noise, what an awful sound 
Fumbling by Rogue River 
Feel my feet above the ground 
Hand of God, deliver me 

Oh, woah woe is me 
The first time that you touched me 
Oh, will wonders ever cease? 
Blessed be the mystery of love 

Lord, I no longer believe 
Drowned in living waters 
Cursed by the love that I received 
From my brother's daughter 

Like Hephaestion, who died 
Alexander's lover 
Now my riverbed has dried 
Shall I find no other? 

Oh, woah woe is me 
I'm running like a plover 
Now I'm prone to misery 
The birthmark on your shoulder reminds me 

How much sorrow can I take? 
Blackbird on my shoulder 
And what difference does it make 
When this love is over? 

Shall I sleep within your bed 
River of unhappiness 
Hold your hands upon my head 
'Til I breathe my last breath 

Oh, woah woe is me 
The last time that you touched me 
Oh, will wonders ever cease? 
Blessed be the mystery of love

The spring has sprung, but it’s no fun

It seems a dream 
that we could be 

So far apart, so suddenly 
How quickly life can change 
into something very strange 

The spring has sprung, 
but it’s no fun 

All our plans abruptly turned to none 
Now the sad songs of the war, 
they seem closer than before 

I send my love, 
love from a distance

I send my love, 
love from a distance

I’ll see you soon 
when this is through 

I know you’re there 
inside your room 
And I know you feel me too 

We’ll meet for lunch,
it won’t be long 
More sweet, now we’ve tasted 
things gone wrong 

Like those who’ve lived 
in times of strife 
Who were once just like us 
living the life 
But then the sad songs of the war
they got closer than before 

I send my love, 
love from a distance 

I send my love, 
love from a distance 

I’ll see you soon 
when this is through 
but for now...

We share a love, 
love from a distance 
We share a love, 
love from a distance 
I’ll see you soon 
when this is through

April, come she will

April, come she will
when streams are ripe and swelled with rain

May, she will stay
resting in my arms again

June, she'll change her tune
in restless walks she'll prowl the night

July, she will fly
and give no warning to her flight

August, die she must
the autumn winds blow chilly and cold

September, I'll remember
a love once new has now grown old

5x2

Daydreaming

Un homme et une femme

Boy meets girl

Boy meets girl - from Mars, by Weegee (Arthur Fellig)

Athena

Αθήνα, καραντίνα
Είναι Αύγουστος, μα ξύπνα

Το άγαλμα δεν κουνιέται
κι εκεί το μαγαζί πουλιέται
του 'βαλαν λουκέτο κι εγώ σα συνθέτω

Αθήνα, μαργαρίτα
σου 'καναν μια νίλα, μίλα

Οι άντρες σου πήγαν με άλλες
σου 'καψαν και πεδιάδες
Θάλασσα είσαι ζεστή
και πενθείς κι εσύ

Και νομίζω μια κυρία
σε ένα άλλο γαλαξία
το άσπρο σου στεφάνι
το 'χει για φυλαχτό

Την ημέρα το χτενίζει
και τη νύχτα το κοιμίζει
Αθήνα ήσουν ωραία
σε πάντρεψαν μικρή

Αθήνα, σου φέρνω δώρο μια πασμίνα
είναι μπλε σου πάει πρίμα!

Στον τάφο σου θα σε στολίζει
αχ, πώς θα το αντέξω
σαν το νυφικό κρεβάτι
που 'ναι όμως μονό

Και νομίζω πως το βρήκα
πεταμένο στην πλατεία
το άσπρο σου φουστάνι
σκισμένο, αδειανό

Ένα αγόρι το πατάει
κάποιος άλλος το κοιτάει
Αθήνα ήσουν μοιράια
σε άφησαν γυμνή

Αθήνα ήσουν μοιραία
σε άφησαν γυμνή

Γυμνή, γυμνή , γυμνή
Σε άφησαν γυμνή
Σε άφησαν γυμ...

Sentimental walk

Empty streets

Stava lì nel suo sorriso

È un macaco senza storia
Dice lei di lui

Che gli manca la memoria
In fondo ai guanti bui

Ma il suo sguardo è una veranda
Tempo al tempo e lo vedrai

Che si addentra nella giungla
No, non incontrarlo mai


Ho guardato in fondo al gioco
Tutto qui, ma sai

Sono un vecchio sparring partner
E non l'ho visto mai

Una calma più tigrata
Più segreta di così

Prendi il primo pullmann, via
Tutto il reso è già poesia


Avrà più di quarant'anni
E certi applausi ormai

Son dovuti per amore
Non incontrarlo mai

Stava lì nel suo sorriso
A guardar passare i tram

Vecchia pista da elefanti
Stesa sopra al macadàm

02:22

I draw, and the four winds sigh

Up on a hill, as the day dissolves
With my pencil turning moments into line
High above in the violet sky
A silent silver plane, it draws a golden chain

One by one, all the stars appear
As the great winds of the planet spiral in
Spinning away, like the night sky at Arles
In the million insect storm, the constellations form

On a hill, under a raven sky
I have no idea exactly what I've drawn
Some kind of change, some kind of spinning away
With every single line moving further out in time

And now as the pale moon rides
In the stars, in the stars
Her form in my pale blue lines
In the stars, in the stars

And there, as the world rolls 'round
In the stars, in the stars
I draw, but the lines move 'round
In the stars, in the stars

And there, as the great wheels blaze
In the stars, in the stars
I draw, but my drawing fades
In the stars, in the stars

And now, as the old sun dies
In the stars, in the stars
I draw, and the four winds sigh
In the stars, in the stars

Alone

Eden

Waltz of the eyes...

Αύριο θα φύγω

Αύριο θα φύγω Θα απογειωθώ σαν ένα Boing 747 Σήμερα είναι δύσκολο να μιλάς Μονάχα το σώμα σου μένει Μισθοφόροι αναλύουν το τελευταίο μου μόριο Θα έρθουν καλύτερες μέρες Θα έρθουν οι μέρες που θα συναρμολογήσουμε τις διαλυμένες ατμομηχανές Που θα βάλουμε σελοτέιπ στη γλώσσα του άστρου Που θα κολλήσουμε τις σχισμένες φωτογραφίες

Αύριο θα φύγω
Θα απογειωθώ σαν ένα αερόστατο
Σήμερα είναι δύσκολο να μιλάς
Μόνο το σώμα σου μένει

Μισθοφόροι αναλύουν το τελευταίο μου μόριο Θα έρθουν καλύτερες μέρες
Θα έρθουν οι μέρες που θα συναρμολογήσουμε τις διαλυμένες ατμομηχανές Που θα βάλουμε σελοτέιπ στη γλώσσα του άστρου
Θα έρθουν μέρες που θα κολλήσουμε τις σχισμένες φωτογραφίες

Αύριο θα φύγω

So, what’s wrong with the blueberry pie?

Elizabeth: I guess I’m just looking for a reason.
Jeremy: From my observations, sometimes it’s better off not knowing, and other times there’s no reason to be found.
Elizabeth: Everything has a reason.
Jeremy: Hmm. It’s like these pies and cakes. At the end of every night, the cheesecake and the apple pie are always completely gone. The peach cobbler and the chocolate mousse cake are nearly finished. . .but there’s always a whole blueberry pie left untouched.
Elizabeth: So, what’s wrong with the blueberry pie?
Jeremy: There’s nothing wrong with the blueberry pie. Just, people make other choices. You can’t blame the blueberry pie, just. . .no one wants it.
Elizabeth: Wait! I want a piece.