A keresés eredménye oldal 52

It Was...

For a few weeks now
I've already felt like another woman
That everything was going to pot
Now, now, now
 
There I am, next to you
Lover, I'm all yours
And it almost feels like a century
When making love
 
It was kissing at the cinema
It was my Sunday
It was finding a hidden corner
It was, it was
 
It was blushing in public (Love)
It was speaking in code (About love)
It was going back home before the evening
It was
 
The stories that I made up for my folks
The friends I never even knew
The letters hidden in the laundry
It was now, now
 
Now I'm facing the world
When a love is mine, mine
And it almost feels like a century
When making love
 
It was kissing at the cinema
It was my Sunday
It was finding a hidden corner
It was, it was
 
It was blushing in public (Love)
It was speaking in code (About love)
It was going back home before the evening
It was, It was
 
Na na nanana nana… (Love)
Na na nanana nana… (About love)
It was going back home before the evening
It was, It was
 
Na na nanana nana…
Na na nanana nana…
Na nana nana na…
It was, it was, it was
 

Long I heard, now I see

Long I heard, now I see
Dievs's grey horses
Dievs's grey horses
Adorned with silver droplets
 
In darkness Dievs arrived
Don't know where to put his horse
Ride sister at night watch at grass
Let him into the apple grove
 
Dievs placed his horse
On a stone to rest
So his hooves wouldn’t rust
In the tillable land
 
On the road I found
The horse Dievs had ridden
Golden saddle on its back
Silver bridle
 

How Ravishing The Russian Evenings Are

How ravishing the Russian evenings are
Love, and champagne, and sunsets over alleys
And walks and the amusements in the summer -
How ravishing the Russian evenings are.
 
Beautiful women, lackeys, servants, there they are
The waltz of Schubert and the crumbling of french bread and
Love, and champagne, and sunsets over alleys -
How ravishing the Russian evenings are.
 
How ravishing the Russian evenings are
Sunset aflame and shining like a band and
Only the heavens in the blue eyes of the poet -
How ravishing the Russian evenings are
 
May all be dream, may love be game - wherefore
For you are all my passion and embraces?
But in this world my memory remains of
How ravishing the Russian evenings are.
 
May all be dream, may love be game - wherefore
For you are all my passion and embraces?
But in this world my memory remains of
How ravishing the Russian evenings are.
 

Even if were to understand why you left

Will you say the spoken words were all lies,
Who would you say suffers more, the one who stays or the one Who leaves
Who will you say is torn to pieces
The one who breaks or the one who is broken
Even if you talk of spring or summer, why is it always winter then?
 
Did the wind take away the smell of your hair?
I cannot feel your scent anymore
Did the snow melt your footprints
Even if I search for you, I will not be able to find you
 
Even if I'd understand why you left, accepting it is not easy
Even if you hurt me, I love eternally, it doesn't go away in a day
Even if i cry, each tear will burn out the memories
Even if i face toward your pillow, next to me there is only emptiness
No one can replace you.
 

Unexpected

I searched already, I waited already
I walked uphill
I get tired of suffering
 
I keep the faith in a drawer
and I put my heart on pause
I get tired of feeling
 
I let myself go and without warning
the ice become a fire
unexpectedly you came
like a miracle, like a light
you´re with me
the sky is mine
 
Unexpected, it´s dawn
and from nothing your love shone
unsuspected
unexpected
 
I discovered that on a some natural way in the end
everything finds its place
 
I let myself go and without warning
the ice become a fire
unexpectedly you came
like a miracle, like a light
you´re with me
the sky is mine
 
Unexpected, it´s dawn
and from nothing your love shone
unsuspected
unexpected
 
I learned thah everything´s posible
unexpectedly you came
like a miracle, like a light
you´re with me
the sky is mine
 
Unexpectedly you came
like a miracle, like a light
you´re with me
the sky is mine
 
Unexpected, it´s dawn
and from nothing your love shone
unsuspected
unexpected
 
Unsuspected, unexpected
 
Unexpected, unexpected
 
Unsuspected
unexpected
 

So Gipsy

May the wind continues to blow
until there is no air existing anymore
May only this ghost who I am feeling in you stays and nothing else
 
So gipsy...
 
May the sunrise whisper
May they pull me out at night
May the wet breeze brings your scent to the bed
 
So gipsy...
 
May the hours lie to me
May the days take me away
The small parts of the stretched cloth sketch your body
 
So gipsy...
 
May the branches remain silent
May the waves don't crash down
May the sound I hear again comes from your mouth
 
May there be no need of anything for me
May I have it all *
May the small sweet-smelling burning branches remind me your face
 
So gipsy....
 
Why did you leave here?
I miss your gipsy love
If you don't come back I can't keep going
There are lots of men who are desiring to be with me
 

Faithful Dog

Versions: #2
All sorts of things happen to us
They're blunting our brains
Only some of us get a start in this life
Only a faithful dog makes it in this life
 
I study to learn
That education is shit
They teach me in school
Who makes it in this life
 
Only some of us make it in this life
Only a faithful dog makes it in this life
 
The day will arrive
When people will instead
Instead of talking
Begin to bark
 
Only some of us make it in this life
Only a faithful dog makes it in this life
 
Only some of us make it in this life
Only a faithful dog makes it in this life
 

Boomerang

Wing wing wing wing
Boomerang
Hey, I’m going crazy
Boom boom boom boom
I threw it toward your heart, oh my god
But the arrow came back to me like pyoo
And it tortures me, no no no no
 
What are you? What
You drive me crazy, drive me crazy
I’m pretty decent too, hey
But how come you make me feel so small?
I don’t know Know
 
Oh your face, your actions, every single thing, love it
No no no no no
No no no no no
Look at me, only look at me
Only stick close to me
Oh my love, don’t go
 
Wing wing wing wing
Boomerang
Hey, I’m going crazy
Am I the one who’s spinning or the one who’s throwing?
Hey, I’m going crazy
Boom boom boom boom
Boomerang
 
I’m running to you, oh baby, come into my arms
I’ll be honest with you, there’s no other guy like me
Never let you go
 
I’m a fool who only looks at you, oh what
People keep teasing me
But I don’t care, whatever they say
I only need you, all I wanna do
 
Oh your face, your actions, every single thing, love it
No no no no no
No no no no no
Look at me, only look at me
Only stick close to me
Oh my love, don’t go
 
Wing wing wing wing
Boomerang
Hey, just throw it
Am I falling for you or bewitched by you?
Hey, just throw it
Boom boom boom boom
Boomerang
 
Baby, do you know? Don’t you know?
How much I want you?
I promise you, I only have you
I promise, wherever it is, I’ll take you there
Whatever anyone says, I don’t care
I can put a ring on your finger
 
Wing wing wing wing
Boomerang
Hey, I’m going crazy
Am I the one who’s spinning or the one who’s throwing?
Hey, I’m going crazy
Boom boom boom boom
Boomerang
 

Inini territory

Warm as nest
Inini territory
Everything ends there
Sinks in the immensity
Squared-off trunk
Glides over the river Maroni
Seasoned canoeists
The shaman will heal them
 
Relentless rains
Over rio Camopi
Breasts as round as fruits
Bathing naked in the river Inini
Dances and sorcery
All night long
Ashes over felled timber
And the plane took off
Over the sleeping village
 
One night in a hut
By candlelight
Women exchanged without a word
For beads and guns
Rain on the felled timber
Over the sleeping village
Fevers and diseases
 
Over the sleeping village
Ashes over felled timber
Fevers and diseases
And the plane took off
Cry and pray
Arawaks, Guaranis
Guayaras, Galibis
For the Amazonian Indians
 
Deep down their sinister night (bis)
It's like a piece
Of paradise
Like a piece...
Cry and pray
Arawaks, Guaranis
Round as fruits
Guayaras, Galibis
Cry and pray
Arawaks, Guaranis
Guayaras, Galibis
For the Amazonian Indians
Round as fruits....
 

Friends

Friends who look away
'Cause you don't know
Or perhaps
You can't believe it
 
Friends, perhaps there won't be
For us together
Anymore Sundays or holidays
Will die out
 
Friends who look away
Tell me
Where could she have gone?
Time for me has come to a halt
Like a headless bird
Like a headless bird
 
Friends who spotted her
Weeping
On her seat
If you took her with you
 
Friends, perhaps tomorrow
You'll be left with a headless bird
In your hand
 
Friends, what's the point of loving
If I need to say it
And repeat it
If I need to write it down?
 
Friends, what's the point of loving
If I need to say it
And repeat it
If I need to write it down?
 

Desperately alone

Nothing special
a matter of hours without you
it´s hard to realize
that the wound´s still open here
that time doesnd´t change the need
to see me in your eyes and not be hurted
 
One constant imagine you
one obsession is that I cannot stop thinking about you
one constant remembering you
one obsession with makes me forget to forgetting you
 
Desperately alone
with my crazed madness
with my sad sadness
empty and without you all the hours of the day
 
Desperately alone
with my faded moral
with my sad sadness
empty and without you all the hours of the day
 
All is fatal and I´m still here
where I can´t find the answer
if my life is still gray
and nobody understands the calamity
to be locked in so much freedom
 
One constant imagine you
one obsession is that I cannot stop thinking about you
one constant remembering you
one obsession with makes me forget to forgetting you
 
Desperately alone
with my crazed madness
with my sad sadness
empty and without you all the hours of the day
 
Desperately alone
with my faded moral
with my sad sadness
empty and without you all the hours of the day
 
Desperately
with my crazed madness
desperately
with my crazed madness
completely insolvent
oh
 
Desperately alone
desperately
with my crazed madness
crazed madness
with my sad sadness
eh, eh, eh, he
empty and without you all the hours of the day
all hours of the day
 
Desperately alone
desperately
with my crazed madness
with my crazed madness
with my sad sadness
eh, eh, eh, he
empty and without you all the hours of the day
all hours of the day
 
Desperately alone
desperately
with my crazed madness
with my crazed madness
with my sad sadness
eh, eh, eh, he
empty and without you all the hours of the day
all hours of the day
 
Desperately alone
desperately
with my faded moral
 

Wait till time gobbles you

Wait
Till time gobbles you
Like an egg
Crawl out of your shell
Like a dog
In a china shop
Forget where you come from
 
Iron and railings
The new building
A sort of weapon shines
In your hand
On the dampish wall
Chart
Your own way
 
But keep in mind
That time will transform you
Yes, keep in mind
That time
 
Wait
Till life grabs you
In its hand
Till your fist breaks
Against its own
You've got into the habit
They know where you come from
 
But iron and railings
It's a door that finally opens
The shadow of a girl
Running along a train
In that game of skittles
They point at you
You are done for
 
But keep in mind
That time wil transform you
Yes, keep in mind
That time
In that game of skittles
They point at you
 
Iron and railings
The new building
At dawn they dress you
You stand up
And walk towards
The shining post, it's all over
 
But keep in mind
That time wil transform you
Yes, keep in mind
That time
 

Stripper

Today, nothing can stop us
This is our night (Show me)
If you can please me
And you are as sexy as they say, then show me
I’ve been told that you
Move in the bed like a stripper
I just talk and I make you get wet
With me it’s easy, don’t get complicated
I’ve been told that you
Move in the bed like a stripper
I just talk and I make you get wet
With me it’s easy, don’t get complicated
No-No-Noriel
They’ve told me a lot of things about her
And I want to see all these things
If she really moves in the bed like everyone says
I want to have her
I wanted to have her before I even saw her
That devil still isn’t mine
And I already feel like I don’t want to lose her
I want to be a part of her horniness
I have a thousand ways to make you come
Everything’s easy with me, ask for what you want
With you, everything is considered, baby, I don’t fail
Is someone disagrees, calmly, I’ll shut it down myself
And to go in search of all of this, I moved from PR
And I stayed in Medallo because...
We haven’t done it yet and I already want it again
Curiosity kills and with you I’m dying
I know that you’ve already been told the same thing about me but until we do it...
I’ve been told that you
Move in the bed like a stripper
I just talk and I make you get wet
With me it’s easy, don’t get complicated
I’ve been told that you
Move in the bed like a stripper
I just talk and I make you get wet
With me it’s easy, don’t get complicated
You’ve got me thinking about all of the things I want to do to you
And I’m here imagining things that you wouldn’t believe
And if you give me the opportunity, I’ll be your best necessity
And it depends on what you give me
I’ve been told that you have initiative
It’s a sin how good you look
Do things to me that make me write to you again tomorrow
If you see me, it’s true that you have initiative
It’s a sin how good you look
Do things to me that make me write to you again tomorrow
I’ve been told that you
Move in the bed like a stripper
I just talk and I make you get wet
With me it’s easy, don’t get complicated
No-No-Noriel!
Andy Rivera
What’s up Andy
From PR to Medallo you heard the ones that never fail
The rude boys...
 

Am I bad? [How bad can I be?]

*Am I-I-I bad?
I'm just doing what's good for me
Am I-I-I bad?
My destiny, I follow until the end
Am I-I-I bad?
I'm just doing what's good for me
Am I-I-I bad?
Am I really that bad?
 
There's a law of the nature (law of the nature)
There's no exception for it
Survival of the fittest (survival of the fittest)
Who knows it, won't forget it
The animal that wins it scratches, and bites, and eats up to the bone
And the animal that loses...
Well, the animal that loses
Is soon turning into...
La-la-la lunch (bone, bone, bone, bone, bone)
Say it!
 
Am I-I-I bad?
I'm just doing what's good for me
Am I-I-I bad?
My destiny, I follow until the end
Am I-I-I bad?
I'm just doing what's good for me
Am I-I-I bad?
Am I really that bad?
 
It's a principle of the business (principle of the business)
That we all must face
It says that people with money (people with money)
Are responsible for making this world go round
I will grow my enterprise, i will grow my wealth
Look at how my billboard has grown (a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot)
Everybody out there, take care od yours
And I take of what's mine, mine, mine, mine, mine (ny economies have grown)
 
I want to hear:
Smougulous smoke (smougulous smoke)
Schloppity schlop (schloppity schlop)
Why conplain? If this is never, never, never gonna stop (no)
So am I bad?
 
Am I-I-I bad?
I just want to earn more **money
Am I-I-I bad?
Look at the good boy I can be
Am I-I-I bad?
A portion of the profit, we do donate
Am I-I-I bad?
Am I that bad?
Tell me!
 
The customers are buying
And the money is increasing
The propaganda is deceiving
Lawyers are only denying
The forests, I will be taking down
And I keep on profiting
Tell me!
Is this really that bad?
 

Waiting for the miracle

Night voices say
that it doesn't matter where you come from,
if you bring money you can feed,
the man lives next to misery.
 
Without turning around,
distant intuition because you were right.
Inside the palace the judges laugh at you,
finally we discovered something.
 
Waiting for the miracle
of believing that someday
you'll fill the fountain,
you'll change your life
over the ledge,
over the ledge.
 
Waiting for the miracle,
sighing pains
almost without breath nor faith.
You'll spend the days
over the ledge,
without knowing where,
sighing pains,
almost without breath,
almost without breath nor faith.
Over the ledge,
over the ledge.
 

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Quinceañera ( I don't know why)

Versions: #2
I don't know why
Today I feel so different
I do not want anything from people
What can it be?
 
I don't know why
My body changes from day to day
I feel that I am no longer the same
What can it be? What can it be?
 
Now
The Woman in me Awakens
And slowly, oh slowly the little girl dies
So Begins the Adventure of life
 
Now
I light up like a Sun in the Springtime
My dreams become Promises
My heart changes to that of a Quinceañera
 
I don't know why
My body changes from day to day
I feel that I am no longer the same
What can it be?
What can it be?
 
Now
The woman in me awakens
And slowly, oh slowly the little girl dies
So Begins the Adventure of life
 
Now
I light up like the Sun in the Springtime
My dreams become Promises
My heart changes to that of a Quinceañera
Quinceañera...
 

Gabino Barrera

Gabino Barrera wouldn't listen to reason
when he was drinking
He carried a pistol with six clips,
He could please anyone.
He wore a mustache in the shape of a square
His kerchief around his neck
clothes made out of cotton, a leather jacket
His hat rolled up.
 
He put on huaraches on his peasant feet
And sometimes he walked barefoot
But he loved to pay for the Mariachi bands
He didn't care about money.
While holding a bottle of sugar-cane alcohol
he would shout: 'Long live Zapata!'
because he was a peasant, that southern indian
he was a fine man.
 
He was tall, strong, broad-shouldered
His face was very unfriendly
His dark gaze made him
look like a mountain vulture.
Gabino Barrera would leave behind
many women with his children
That's why the people in the area
had put a price on his head.
I remember the night he was shot to death
He had just been with his woman
Eighteen rifle shots rang
and he had no chance.
Gabino Barrera died the way
real men die
For a woman he lost his bet,
just as they are lost in cockfights.
 

Elsewhere

Elsewhere, elsewhere
Elsewhere, you imagine the world is better
And there's nothing to scare
Nothing to scare
Elsewhere, you imagine the world is... better, better
Elsewhere, you imagine the world is much better
There are no motorbikes
They wake up early
They are in a good mood
They live, they die
And nobody ever cries
They make flower garlands
And children sing in unisson
 
Elsewhere, elsewhere
Elsewhere, you imagine the world is better
And there's nothing to scare
Nothing to scare
Elsewhere, you imagine the world is... better, better
Elsewhere, you imagine the world is much better
There are no critics
No valuables
No burglars
They live, they die
And nobody ever cries
They make flower garlands
And children sing in unisson
 
Elsewhere, elsewhere
Elsewhere, you imagine the world is better
And there's nothing to scare
Nothing to scare
Elsewhere, you imagine the world is... better, better
Elsewhere, you imagine the world is much better
They talk to fishermen
About sea-shells and flowers
About colored fishes
Children play for hours on end
But no one ever cries
There are neither winners nor losers
And everybody sings...
 

Tonight

Tonight I will drink 'till the end.
To us.
Our days are gone with the wind.
And when you close your eyes
And let the black circles take you
To remember
What do friends mean.
 
Tonight, tonight, tonight for the last time
Be, be, be my best friend.
Tonight, tonight, tonight for the last time
Be, be, be my best friend.
 
When you lean your head on the window
And tears roll down your face
You'll see images trough the fog
In the distance, you'll see me.
You'll see us.
 
Tonight, tonight, tonight for the last time
Be, be, be my best friend.
Tonight, tonight, tonight for the last time
Be, be, be my best friend.
 
And after everything
There will be me
And there will be you.
But we
Will never be again.
 
Lights trough the night flicker dimly
The street will not remember the sound of your footsteps.
So come once again, let me hug you
Tonight you will be my best friend.
 
Tonight, tonight, tonight for the last time (Within me)
Be, be, be my best friend.
Tonight, tonight, tonight for the last time
Be, be, be my best friend.
 
Like bird the sky
Like stars the night
So much I love you
And you're leaving.
 

Blue silts

Because you care so much about people
You grit your teeth, you keep head up
Maps, marbles and pencils are the centre of your world
You use them with clenched fist like a bomb
You walk sideways like a crab
And the sea recedes
Farewell blue silts, dragging feet
Shifting sands, happy sands
Wind sands of blue silts
 
You fall asleep with your hair as a helmet
On your body a shirt, in your heart a wound
Prisoner with his feet caught in the flow
Packed or empty suitcase at low tide
You walk sideways like a crab
And the sea recedes
Farewell blue silts, dragging feet
Shifting sands, happy sands
Wind sands of blue silts
 
You walk sideways like a crab
And the sea recedes
Farewell blue silts, dragging feet
Shifting sands, happy sands
Wind sands of blue silts
 
Men, animals and women are at war
And the sea recedes
Lifes lost in iron waves
And the sea recedes
You forget to empty your glass
And the sea recedes
You walk sideways like a crab
And the sea recedes
You walk sideways like a crab
And the sea recedes
Farewell blue silts, dragging feet
Shifting sands, happy sands
Wind sands of blue silts
 

Nothing to declare

I have nothing to declare
I live an everlasting summer
Not grey, not blue, not deserved
That has been lasting for so many years
 
I have nothing to declare
I am the biter bit
The cobbler going barefoot
The dog given a new collar
 
Nothing either to declare
To authorities, I can't take any more
I am an exhausted horse
That is led to the visitors' lobby
 
I have nothing to declare, too bad
I didn't understand anything to mankind
I am an exhausted animal
Limping along, let me go
 
I have nothing to declare
Local events, news items
The Times, The Guardian
Ask somebody else
 
I have nothing to declare
I did not want anything, asked for nothing
I am not, I've never been
Neither maker, nor made-up
 

My voice will be reborn

Nights of peace is what our people hopes
Nights of love our heart
a people that souffers, warm wound
the child who doesn't silence is born.
 
The won't make me feel the cold of loneliness
neither the punishment of locking me in some place,
my voice will be reborn.
 
Nobody wants to listen, nobody learns to scream
Glory to the being who wakes up and loves in peace
Christmas of doves, I need hope,
I won't hide, I'll go out and sing.
 

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Life is whole

The day starts well, a coffee is enticing me at breakfast
The music is pulsating, and it almost caresses as the brain races
In a few minutes I will fly, I will jump into the bathtub
I immediately submerge, I too would perhaps deserve a good day
 
Life is whole without you, well, go, nobody will call you, goodbye
Life is whole, I deserve it too
Since you don’t tell me what, where, and why anymore
Well, go, go...
 
It doesn’t hurt anymore, since a happy day is waiting for me
Messages don’t come about where you are loafing around
Nobody calls me, my day is calm
When my cell phone rings, I immediately cancel the call
Peace falls upon me, I enjoy it, nobody can hurt me anymore, make plans
the way you want to, from now on, I will live for the moment
Life is whole without you, well, go, nobody will call you, goodbye
 
Life is whole, I deserve it too
Since you don’t tell me what, where, and why anymore
Well, go, go. It doesn’t hurt anymore, since a happy day is waiting for me
 

Poppy

Daughter of the sun, eyes like the sea
Coloured hair, like moon in summer
Sing me about the wind that blows gently
Sing me about the golden wheat in summer
 
Daughter of the sun, in the middle of a field
Shaking your dress, shaking your hips
You’re like a dream, I can’t grasp you
Your breast in a linen dress enchants me
 
In the fields, red poppies
dance, shaken by the wind,
they dance with you
who are like a poppy.
I look for you, but where are you?
 
Daughter of the sun, jewel of life
Mild like the light in a summer night
You’re like a dream, I can’t grasp you
Your breast in a linen dress enchants me
 
In the fields, red poppies
dance, shaken by the wind,
they dance with you
who are like a poppy.
I look for you, but where are you?
 

A strange man

He is a strange man
Nothing disturbs him
When he sleeps he dreams
He lives within a bottle
 
He is a strange man
He never eats
Behaves like a celery branch
But beware if you laugh
 
The man in his grey suit
Hates any kind of joke
And those making fun of him
 
He is an embittered man
Was born under grape-shots
But how could you think
His shirt may fit him
He often had to switch sizes
And fought so many so many
So many so many battles
 
He is a straw man
You put him on a rail
And you push him along
The railroad
That leads to the battlefield
 
A strange man
Was swept away on Sunday
By an avalanche
Of white paper sheets
Covered with invoices
 
He takes his car
Drives to the countryside
Where everything is green
At dazzling speed
He flies away towards the blue trees
In the sky above him
 
He is an embittered man
Was born under grape-shots
How could you think
His shirt may fit him
He often had to switch sizes
And fought so many so many
So many so many battles
A straw man
 
He is an embittered man
Was born under grape-shots
How could you think
His shirt may fit him
He often had to switch sizes
And fought so many so many
So many so many battles
 
He is an embittered man
Was born under grape-shots
How could you think
His shirt may fit him
He often had to switch sizes
And fought so many so many
So many so many battles
A straw man
 
A straw man
 

The black magpie

Gather the fruits of your orchard
Let the black magpie fly away
Bring water, place them
On a chair and eat them
Gather flowers from your garden
Leave the corridors, the smokes
What's wrong with the whole world
This morning?
 
A man with a long face
In a city, has given up
Motionless, he speaks about mankind
Lets the black suit fall at his feet
Summer is there, the sun is hot
Under the shady arbor
What's wrong with the whole world
This morning?
 
Keep away from the city, forgotten
Gather the fruits of your orchard
And when the snow will have snowed
Let the black magpie fly away
What's wrong with the whole world
This morning?
 

Winter trysts

Where did the autumn trysts go
And the daylight.. Rain, and shivering children
Where did the autumn trysts go
Secrets, morning frosts, and deserted gardens
 
People are reaching out
Tree trunks are cracking
And you, you break bricks
You don't care about the garden
Your hands are bloody
You dream of America
 
Some days you would like
To exchange secrets
To tell each other stories
To send makeshift boats
Float away on lakes
In evening gardens
 
Where did the winter trysts go
And the cold... The child blowing in his hands?
Where did the autumn trysts go
The frozen fences, the lakes, the snowy moons?
 
Some days you can't take any more
But the nightmare goes on
Your heart keeps pounding
The smokes, the fogs
And old men's hands
Caressing children
 
You remember the pathways
The horse chestnut-trees
The bandstands
High up in the sky
You watch birds
Flying to America
 
Where did the autumn trysts go
And the wind...
 
Where did the autumn trysts go
And the wind?
 
People are reaching out
Tree trunks are cracking
And you, you break bricks
You don't care about the garden
Your hands are bloody
You dream of America
 
Some days you can't take any more
But the nightmare goes on
Your heart beats too fast
High up in the sky
You watch birds
Flying to America
 
People are reaching out
Tree trunks are cracking
And you, you break bricks
You don't care about the garden
Your hands are bloody
You dream of America
Flying to America
 
Some days you can't take any more
But the nightmare goes on
Your heart beats too fast
High up in the sky
You watch birds
Flying to America
America
 

The dance hall

Polenta and salted fish 1, bled out bottles,
a drunk orchestra and possessed dancers
Over there in the dance hall the night is spinning,
spinning and dancing and eating the clocks.
 
The accordion [player] huffs and puffs and then catches a break
a martian mazurka under multicoloured lights.
The skirt flies up, the garter is showing
the eyes of the man in the undershirt are popping out.
 
'May I have this dance?'
(what a nice ass, what a nice ass)
'But I brought the police chief as my date'
(good for him, good for him)
'Young lady, you have beautiful eyes'
(and a nice ass too, and a nice ass too)
'Yes, but don't touch me'
(oh Jesus, oh Jesus)
 
The skirt is dancing and the undershirt is dancing
she smells of bubble bath, he reeks of Barbera wine
'Young lady, where have you been all these years?
I have never met a woman like you.'
 
'May I have this dance?'
(what a nice ass, what a nice ass)
'But I brought the police chief as my date'
(good for him, good for him)
'Young lady, you have beautiful eyes'
(and a nice ass too, and a nice ass too)
'Yes, but don't touch me'
(oh my gosh, oh my gosh)
 
And their eyes go 'Pakk!' like two bocce balls on the playing field
they meet halfway and there's a flash
The daughter of a wealthy family is dancing with a peasant
he looks like a sweaty tree, yet she wants him to stay closer.
 
'I'm happy to dance'
(nice, broad shoulders, nice, broad shoulders)
'I am very glad to dance too'
(police chief, get out of my hair)
'I don't want to stop'
(neither do I, neither do I)
'and I want to kiss him too'
(I think it's a great idea)
 

• 1. a Lombard dish:

The Emerald City

Elphaba:
Come with me…
 
Glinda: To where?
 
Elphaba: To the Emerald City..
 
Ensemble:
See the Emerald City today!
 
Glinda:
I always wanted to see the Emerald City!
 
Ensemble:
See the Emerald City today!
The Emerald City!
 
See the Emerald City today!
See what it can offer today.
Come today, to the Infinite city!
The exquisite Jewel
today it invites you, there is much to do…
 
Elphaba:
What you could teach….
 
Glinda:
To dress
 
Elphaba:
To study
 
Glinda:
Palaces!
 
Elphaba:
Museums!
 
Elphaba and Glinda:
and much more!
 
Elphaba:
and time is not lost here!
 
Glinda
Everything is...
 
Elphaba:
very green here!
 
Elphaba and Glinda:
and as you see, I shall never leave!
I want to live in a great swing!
 
Elphaba:
And I swear I will return
 
Glinda:
and never, I will never leave.
 
Elphaba and Glinda:
Today I only know that dream, for good!
 
Ensemble:
See today, the Emerald City!
Watch today, the fun you'll have!
See today!
 
Elphaba and Glinda:
As this maiden
this star…
will leave a print!
 
Ensemble:
They will not forget!
 
Glinda:
Oh, the nightlife, the coming and going!
Everything is so... Ozmopolitan!
Elphis, we're going to be late for the Wizardmanía!
 
Elphaba:
I want to remember this moment always, nobody looks at me
nobody points at me. For the first time... I feel at home.
 
Glinda:
You're totally emerald!
 
Ensemble:
Who is it that heats you up every night, Oz...
and gives you more encouragement?
Who's good, too?
Thanks to him, he sings our voice!
Who came with his huge balloon
us in Oz, he makes us silly!
Wooooooo
the Wizardtastic!
Wonderful Wizard!
 
Female Ensemble:
See today, the Emerald City!
Watch today, the fun!
 
Male Ensemble:
Who is it that heats you up every night, Oz...
and gives you more encouragement?
Who's good, too?
Thanks to him, he sings our voice!
 
All:
Look today, the Emerald City!
 
Glinda and Elphaba
Here, everything happens...
It is our house
here and now I give you…
my friendship
 
Elphaba:
Our friendship
 
Glinda:
The greatest friendship….
 
All:
All this happened only...
 
Guard:
The Wizard wants to see them!
 
All:
Today!
 

Wherever I go

Wherever I go
Wherever I am
In my inner silence
I'll always find you
 
You're my cloud of peace
You're the shadow that gives
You're the light that behind
Shines on the immensity
 
Wherever I go
Wherever I am
I always hear your voice
Talking to me for good
 
Your name shines in the light
The echo makes it sound
And from the north to the south
It seems to span everything
 
Wherever I go
Wherever I am
In my inner silence
I'll always find you
 
You're my superior being
I go to reach you
Trying to give love
Among today's cold
 

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A bird has landed

A bird has landed
It was holding in its beak
A kind of folded paper
A messenger that knew nothing
Of the place you have left
Or of the fever and the cold
It had never known anything worse
It had never known anything as strange
As the fate of men
Of women they love and forget
 
A bird has landed
It was holding in its beak
In the sudden cold in which men are born
It was a wren I believe
It was shivering in the storm
It had travelled from the limbo of bygone days
It told me perhaps you would come back
To look at me through its eyes
 
It had never known anything as strange
As the fate of men
Of women they love and forget
Lke a paper will fold or unfold
 
A bird has landed
With a shiver just as you used to have
In the sudden chill that bites you
In the sudden chill
 
It had never known anything as strange
As the fate of men
Of women they love and forget
Like a paper will fold
 
Of women they love and forget
Like a paper will fold
 
As the fate of men
Of women they love and forget
 

Orphic Hymn to Hera

O Royal Juno of majestic mien,
Aerial-form'd, divine, Jove's blessed queen,
Thron'd in the bosom of cærulean air,
The race of mortals is thy constant care.
The cooling gales thy pow'r alone inspires,
Which nourish life, which ev'ry life desires.
Mother of clouds and winds, from thee alone
Producing all things, mortal life is known:
All natures share thy temp'rament divine,
And universal sway alone is thine.
With founding blasts of wind, the swelling sea
And rolling rivers roar, when shook by thee.
Come, blessed Goddess, fam'd almighty queen,
With aspect kind, rejoicing and serene.
 
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