A keresés eredménye oldal 6

Why my thoughts fight

Why my thoughts fight
Experience tells me,do not speak
Run both of you now
Let my heart speak.
 
The first look of your eye
suitable to the bright sun
he captivated my heart,
made him a slave.
 
To love you, ah, the only one
I will tell the whole world,
Just from you, ah,my sweetheart,
This secret I will hide
 

Disco Balloon

I hate it, I hate it, I hate you.
I wish that you would've disappeared somewhere.
The you that I hate is like a balloon.
You seem to be empty, no matter where you are.
 
The front and back of your coin
both seem to be the same.
A broken antenna on the dance floor
where there are only cheap vinyl balloons.
 
One of my shoes slipped off and disappeared somewhere.
Swung down from a shining, spinning globe.
 
Let's gather the tremoring voices
and go play a little.
With a dream that I know nothing about
I would've been happy If I could've passed away.
 
I hate it, I hate it, I hate you.
I wish that you would've disappeared somewhere.
The you that I hate is like a balloon.
You're empty, no matter where you are.
 
The front and back of your coin
both seem to be the same.
A broken antenna on the dance floor
where there are only cheap vinyl balloons.
 
I don't want the likes of virtue at all, and I don't want to get a heart.
A shining, spinning globe fell.
 
Hold the growing industrial waste fire
and go play a little.
With a dream that I know nothing about
I would've been happy If I could've passed away.
 
The voices are passing through the west
Let's go play a little.
With a dream that I know nothing about
I would've been happy If I could've passed away.
 
Let's gather the tremoring voices
and go play a little.
With a dream that I know nothing about
I would've been happy If I could've passed away.
 

Thursday of Corpus*

They came out of the caverns,
the Hawks1 came and killed
a cloud of fledglings2
studying in the sky,3
my children are dead,
Tlatelolco, I remember you.4
 
Hearts were torn out
from their places by predators,
[torn] from living beings
in a flash,5
my children are dead,
Tlatelolco, I remember you.
 
It was on a Thursday, on the Feast of Corpus Christi6
when they revealed themselves,7
they [spilled] the blood from the flesh of the young
and freedom from their bodies.
 
Now the mornings are dark,
and the dawn is in mourning,
now there are four colors
on the flag of Iguala8
 
Zapata, I no longer dream of you,
Hidalgo I can no longer remember,
freedom has come to an end,
I don't know where Madero is,
my children are dead,
Tlatelolco, I remember you.
 
And where are those rights
for children who were [once] born?
they are the headboard of the Hawks
who sleep well-protected,9
my children are dead,
Tlatelolco, I remember you.
 

• 1. this refers to a paramilitary group called ' Los Halcones' ('The Hawks' who massacred 120 people / student demonstrators).
• 2. the fledglings or younglings = student demonstrators
• 3. going with the theme of 'fledglings', the 'sky' refers to several universities that the students attended at, since it was more than one where strikes were being called out at.
• 4. this line refers to the Tlatelolco massacre of 1969 where the death toll was around 300+ (estimated to have been more) where 'Los Halcones' massacred student demonstrators and student faculty alongside other protestors. The massacre occurred two years prior to 'The Corpus Christi Massacre' (also known as 'El Halconazo') of 1971, which this song is about.
• 5. lit. 'souls that [once] lived/existed were wiped out in the same duration that lightning happens' = basically, in a flash they were wiped out.
• 6. The day of the massacre fell on the day of the Corpus Christi festival.
• 7. lit. 'they bore their beaks'
• 8. By four colors, it means that now there is black (sign of mourning) on the Mexican flag (red, white and green). The author of the song passed away in 2010, so a reference to the 2014 mass kidnapping couldn't have been made. Still, it is an strange coincidence.
• 9. Los Halcones were never brought to justice for the killings they were responsible for because they were under the command of the then Deputy Director of General Services of the Department of the Federal District (Mexico City) Colonel Manuel Díaz Escobar until their disbandment in 1971, a day after the massacre.

Hibák

[Verse 1]
Én vagyok apám legrosszabb félelme
'Ne szaladj ollóval!'
Szóval cipőt fogtam
'Menj takarítsd ki a szobádat'
A ruhákat fegyverrel dobta ki az ablakon
 
[Pre-Chorus]
Szia, hum, szia, hum
Szeretek elszökni, veled maradok
Hé, ó, hé, ó
Akarsz játszani?
 
[Chorus]
Szabályokat megszegek, szíveket elfogadok
Tévedésekbe öltöztem
Harapd meg az ajkad, ne adj szart
Tévedésekbe öltöztem
Szabályokat megszegek, szíveket veszek át
Tévedésekbe öltöztem
Harapd meg az ajkad, ne adj szart
Tévedésekbe öltöztem
 
[Verse 2]
Elloptam a szüleim autóját
Nem rendelkezek engedéllyel ,hogy szar is érdekeljen
Rajzolok a falakra
Leszedem a fejeit minden Barbie babámnak
 
[Pre-Chorus]
Szia, hum, szia, hum
Szívesen menekülnék
Veled maradok
Hé, ó, hé, ó
Akarsz játszani?
 
[Chorus]
Szabályokat megszegek, szíveket elfogadok
Tévedésekbe öltöztem
Harapd meg az ajkad, ne adj szart
Tévedésekbe öltöztem
Szabályokat megszegek, szíveket veszek át
Tévedésekbe öltöztem
Harapd meg az ajkad, ne adj szart
Tévedésekbe öltöztem
 
[Bridge]
Haha, hum
Haha, ó
Ha, hum (Haha, uh-hum)
 
[Chorus]
Szabályokat megszegek, szíveket veszek át
Tévedésekbe öltöztem
Harapd meg az ajkad, ne adj szart
Tévedésekbe öltöztem
Szabályokat megszegek, szíveket veszek át
Tévedésekbe öltöztem, harapd az ajkad
Ne adj szart
Tévedésekbe öltöztem
 
[Outro]
Haha, hum (Ha, hum)
 

My Love

Versions: #1
Oh absent, why you don't ask
On your beloved ones who love you
On who don't sleep the night for your eyes (for you)
I'm thinking of you.
 
Going away from me and forgetting about me
I need you beside me, take care of me
Make me forget my wounds and sorrows
I'm missing your eyes
 
Oh love, don't go away
You're my fortune (my one), in my heart you're the only one
You're the one who is in my heart I swear the whole world for you
Yaaay yay yay yay yay
 
When I’m with you
then I see things different
You really change my pain
I don’t give up
I don’t give up on our love
This is love
This is love
 
Oh love, don't go away
You're my fortune (my one), in my heart you're the only one
You're the one who is in my heart I swear the whole world for you
Yaaay yay yay yay yay
 
My love don’t go away
Where do I need to go
If you don’t here
My love don’t go away
Where do I need to go
 
When I’m with you
When I’m with you
Then I’m complete
 
Oh absent, why you don't ask
On your beloved ones who love you
On who don't sleep the night for your eyes (for you)
I'm thinking of you.
 
Going away from me and forgetting about me
I need you beside me, take care of me
Make me forget my wounds and sorrows
I'm missing your eyes
 
Oh love, don't go away
You're my fortune (my one), in my heart you're the only one
You're the one who is in my heart I swear the whole world for you
Yaaay yay yay yay yay
 

In The Dark...

In the dark...
Your hands caressing my waist,
My body which, naked, belongs to you

Two snowflakes

Baby, I always remember you when it snows
Two snowflakes, me and you
We were flying among the stars
We melted between the fingers
Ohhh
 
Do you remember that December
and the leather coat
which I gave you
 
Do you still think of all the polar lights?
Does someone wrap you around as I did?
 
I would give it all
All, to fly one more time
Catch your innocent soul
 
Baby, I always remember you when it snows
Two snowflakes, me and you
We were flying among the stars
We melted between the fingers
Baby, I always remember you when it snows
We were falling, me and you
Frozen in eternity
We melted between the fingers
Ohhh
 
I'm still dreaming, it still haunts me
Because every time the leaves fall off
Memories are back
 
And I am waiting, that you come back to me again
like flowers in autumn
you will fall head over hills in love
 
I would give it all
All for one more flight with you
To go with you, across the sky
Now I hate December, because
 
Baby, I always remember you when it snows
Two snowflakes, me and you
We were flying among the stars
We melted between the fingers
Baby, I always remember you when it snows
We were falling, me and you
Frozen in eternity
We melted between the fingers
 

Forgive Me

People can't change history
But they can clean up their house
The tears in our closet
Are too much
 
People can't change history
But they can change their tone
Say, it's never too late
For forgiveness?
 
I never wanted to break anything
Except the sound of my voice
Saying to all the people I have hurt
 
Forgive me
Forgive me
Forgive me
Forgive me
 
In the name of the arrogance
People torn families apart
As if the world lacked wars
Or junks
 
Rather than silence
Rather than sticking out your chest
Giving yourself a new chance
Would be sublime
 
I never wanted to break anything
Except the sound of my voice
Until you hear it
 
Forgive me
Forgive me
Forgive me
Forgive me
Ah-ah-ah
 
Forgive me
Ah-yeah
 
People can't change history
But they can clean up their house
The tears in our closet
Are too much
 
People can't change history
But they can change their tone
Say, it's never too late?
 
Forgive me
Forgive me
Forgive me
Tou-lou-lou-lou-lou-lou
Forgive me
Tou-lou-lou-lou-lou-lou
Forgive me
 

My love

Versions: #1
Oh absent why do you ask
On your loved ones who love you
Won’t sleep tonight to your eyes
I'm thinking about you
 
Away from me and forget me
Need you beside me, take care of me
Forget me my wounds and sorrows
I miss your eyes
 
My love, don't go far
You are my share and my only heart
You are the one in my heart, by God, you are in my heart
Yay yay yay yay yay yay
 
When I’m with you
then I see things different
You really change my pain
 
I don’t give up
I don’t give up on our love
This is love
This is love
 
My love, don't go far
You are my share and my only heart
You are the one in my heart, by God, you are in my heart
Yay yay yay yay yay yay
 
Ohhh my love don’t go away
?Where do I need to go
If you don’t here
Ohhh my love don’t go away
?Where do I need to go
 
When I’m with you
When I’m with you
Then I’m complete
 

I'll dream of you, so dream of me

Was I dreaming
When I kissed you
Or was I really
Waking up next to you
(2x)
 
Chorus
They'll take you, I know
With you, my heart, my soul, all of it
But at least one thing will remain
I'll dream of you, so dream of me
 
Did you really whisper to me
Or did I dream that
Did you really love me
Or did I lie to myself
Did I really mean something to you
Or did it just seem that way
Did you really earnestly
Hug and kissed me
 

I believe in myself

Versions: #1
I've been told that I'm good for nothing,
that I waste air each time I breath.
I've been pinned to the wall with a sword,
I've even lost the desire to cry.
 
But I'm back.
I'm standing, I'm on alert.
Being the zero at the left doesn't suit me.
 
Oh, oh, I believe, I believe, I believe in myself.
Oh, oh, I believe, I believe, I believe in myself.
 
I'm not scared of missiles or bullets,
so much war has given me metal wings.
I fly free, I fly over the grenades,
you won't drag me on the floor anymore.
 
I'm no longer on sale.
I'm standing, I'm on alert.
Being the zero at the left doesn't suit me.
 
Oh, oh, I believe, I believe, I believe in myself.
Oh, oh, I believe, I believe, I believe in myself.
 
We're all so different, so unique, so original.
If you don't like that, I can't care less
about what happened in the past, the best is yet to come.
 
Ooh, ooh.
 
Oh, oh, I believe, I believe, I believe in myself.
Oh, oh, I believe, I believe, I believe in myself.
 

Accused

[Hook]
And she says, I only hang out with gangsters
And again I am accused
Thinking nothing will change
Maybe we will see another time
And because I don't have time for you anymore
I'll just write it on a piece of paper
Do yourself a favour and finish it
Because no one ever managed to change me
 
[Part 1]
I don't live this life since yesterday
Yes, I know, everything is my fault
Always walking around like a businessman (Hahaha)
From where do you get all this patience from?
I'll pay you a operation if you want
Can totally understand if you go, yeah
Almost schizophrenic, how I am
I really like you, but I cant see a point, no
Coming over, if you cry in your bed
Again way to high and I fall asleep after the sex
Baby, I don't have time for stress
You're trying to get to me, but the line is busy
 
[Pre-Hook]
Please save your tears
for someone who deserves them
Because I can't give you anymore
I'm sorry that you love me
 
[Hook]
And she says, I only hang out with gangsters
And again I am accused
Thinking nothing will change
Maybe we will see another time
And because I don't have time for you anymore
I'll just write it on a piece of paper
Do yourself a favour and finish it
Because no one ever managed to change me
 
[Part 2]
Get in touch, then maybe we will see us
But please go and get yourself a hobby (Schach, Schach)
Ey, don't you notice yourself? You're sticking on me, baby
I'm not good enough, so I'm sorry
I'm always on the road (Yeah), wishing you a good boyfriend
One which cares for you, one which won't let you down
I never been loyal, you don't deserve that
I only infected you, because of me, you smoke weed
I am such a bad influence
Asking myself if it should be like that
You say: 'Please, baby, stay!'
But I already have to go the whole time (Oh, oh-oh)
 
[Pre-Hook]
Please save your tears
for someone who deserves them
Because I can't give you anymore
I'm sorry that you love me
 
[Hook]
And she says, I only hang out with gangsters
And again I am accused
Thinking nothing will change
Maybe we will see another time
And because I don't have time for you anymore
I'll just write it on a piece of paper
Do yourself a favour and finish it
Because no one ever managed to change me
 

I ask for nothing

There are no more regrets and no last-minute wishes...
Horses of life fly by - don’t expect a reprieve.
Perhaps, will be fruitful the remaining moment,
Perhaps there’s something I could learn from what was long-ago weaved.
 
There are no more regrets and no last-minute wishes -
What we had back then cannot be brought back.
What we had back then, I won’t be able to forget:
Neither stone-cold lies, nor the truth melancholy-black.
 
They say that memory grows weaker with age,
All that’s so difficult to forget dissipates in the haze!
It’s as if though time carries away old grief’s rage,
And wounds can be healed under time’s watchful gaze.
 
Time quietly went by. My hair highlights are silver grays.
But, sharper is the recollection of the bygone days.
There are no more regrets, and no last-minute wishes,
Perhaps the remaining moment will be fruitful.
Maybe, there is something to be learned from what memory unleashes.
 

Cry about Kyiv

1
Hervé Saint-Patron of the Bards
Gave me the inspiration
He gave me the inspiration again
To compose a song
To compose a new song
A Gwerz on famine
On the large famine of Kiev, Ukraine
That took away three million people
That took away three million people
By the order of one man
 
2 Woe, a thousand misfortunes, men in red
Woe, woe, men in red in December
When they came into the country
To take away all our property
To take away our animals and our wheat
They left nothing at all
And here we are in misery!
 
3 If a traveler asks the way to Kiev
Tell him so: 'Follow the ravens in the sky
They will lead you readily
Follow the wild dogs in the fields,
They will get you there easily! '
And when you arrive in Kiev
You will find endless despair
On the streets
You will only see dead people
Thousands of people starved to death
Scavengers feed on them
As never before
You will also see a small child
Crying, calling out to his mother
Ravens all around him
They will not have long to wait
 
4 'Who is that knocking at my door so late
Who wants to come in?
If it is Death
May she enter fast
May she enter fast
To shorten my suffering
Madam, I am not Death
But a traveler
A traveler benighted
Looking for a place to sleep
Looking for a bed
And a little food
'I am left with nothing to eat
Only the cold earth
I have nothing to offer, today is the funeral
Of my three children
My three children are wrapped in a shroud
My husband is lying next to them '
 
5 Where there were seven children in a house
There remained only three
Their father looked with sorrow
And said to his wife: 'Which of the three should I kill
To let the two others have food,
Who should I sacrifice,
I cannot choose,
The small one or the big one? '
As he spoke he took a knife
And plunged it into his own chest
 
6 Here comes the summer
And the wheat that grows
This year
Will get lost in the wind
Will get lost in the wind
But the memory of the people of Kiev will live
Until these words are sung
In tribute to the millions of those
Who died in winter ...
 

Clown

They say that I am a clown
that I am dying for you
and you don't even pay me any attention,
they say I am a clown
because all of my fantasy
is to have you in my arms,
they say I am a clown
because of your love
I go from failure to failure,
they say I am a clown
that is looking for value
at the bottom of the stairs
and in reality I am a clown
but what can I do
if one does not want it
then it cannot be
 
They say that I am a clown
that I am dying for you
and you don't even pay me any attention,
 
they say that I am a clown
that follows you around
with a shattered soul
 
They say that I am a clown
that love laughs at me
you go wasting your time
they say that I am a clown
that I have no courage
to get tangled up in someone else's arms
and in reality I am a clown
but what can I do
if one does not want it
then it cannot be
it's true I am a clown
but what can I do
if one does not want it
then it cannot be
it's true I am a clown
 
I was a clown to you and I was never happy,
in your life's failures this is the one that made you laugh the most,
 
I was a clown to you and I was never happy,
it was a fake mask and crying i laughed,
 
I was a clown to you and I was never happy,
I was a clown in your shadow and I never quit
 
I was a clown to you and I was never happy,
Look at the new jester that works for you
 
I was a clown to you and I was never happy,
lower the curtain in your life that someone else tried to raise
 
I was a clown to you and I was never happy,
my mask my mask my clown mask I broke in a thousand pieces
 
I was a clown to you and I was never happy,
and my performance in your life I did not want to follow anymore
 
I was a clown to you and I was never happy,
but in the end the curtain fell and I left running
 
I was a clown to you and I was never happy,
they said I was your clown but that came to an end.
 

Tenderness

Versions:
The Earth is empty now without you.
How would I live a few hours without you?
In the gardens, leaves are falling the same way,
And taxis are rushing somewhere as before.
But being alone on the Earth causes a feeling of emptiness,
Meanwhile you're flying, and the stars
Give you their tenderness.
 
The Earth was just as empty
When Exupery was flying,
In the gardens, leaves were falling the same way,
And the Earth didn't know how to be without him
While he was flying
He was flying, and all the stars
Were giving him their tenderness.
 
The Earth is empty now without you.
Come back, as soon as you can.
 

Tenderness

Versions: #2
The Earth is empty now without you.
How would I live a few hours without you?
In the gardens, leaves are falling the same way,
And taxis are rushing somewhere as before.
But being alone on the Earth causes a feeling of emptiness,
Meanwhile you're flying, and the stars give you their tenderness.
 
The Earth was just as empty
When Exupery was flying,
In the gardens, leaves were falling the same way,
And the Earth didn't know how to be without him
While he was flying
He was flying, and all the stars were giving him their tenderness.
 
The Earth is empty now without you.
Come back, as soon as you can.
 

HopeLand

In a place where no one will accept anyone being irregular,
You must have refrained from going anywhere, holding your breath...
 
However ordinary something was, it always tormented you,
So you just tried to live honestly, and nothing else...
 
You hear unfounded rumors and disgraceful words,
But don't be bewildered by them - that's not all the world is...
 
A song for you, can you hear it?
You can always come here...
Once that song reaches your ears,
The rest is up to you...
 
They're always looking for an enemy just right to hate,
And so they hang someone up, laughing all together...
 
Not loving yourself, not choosing anything,
You couldn't even run away - and I was always watching you...
 
Good and bad are up to everyone, and bad kids can't be let free
Things made in that way have taken away many a voice...
 
A song for you, do you remember?
This isn't our first time meeting...
Carrying the same things,
We're connected far away...
 
A voice is calling from the terrace where you can see the ocean...
A cat is meowing down in the listless shadows...
A bird is flying like a white piece cut out of a blue sky...
 
This town sings your song, wherever you may be...
On and on...
 
A song for you, can you hear it?
You can always come here...
Once that song reaches your ears,
The rest is up to you...
 
A song for you, do you remember?
This isn't our first time meeting...
Carrying the same things,
We're connected far away...
 

Sunflower

Overwhelmed with sadness, kicking off the ground strongly
Springing back up, raising a finger to the light
Wanting to love, berated deep within my windpipe
Well now, that sight was overly beautiful
 
Clicking your tongue, in a wasteland, against the wind
Singing all night with a hoarse newborn's cry
Distantly, distantly I was staring fixedly towards the frozen planet
Let your heart covered in bruises shine!
 
I was always chasing after that sight of you
Piercing through lines only to fall over, the piercing point of a sword
A sunflower that bloomed in the shade awaits summer even now
Tear through this stuffy air and smile for me, deep within in, once more
 
Scatter away, break through with shotguns to tomorrow
Cough it up, take the rudder in your hands to Polaris
 
Getting wounded by electricity coursing through your veins
Scratching off, blowing fiercely, a resounding elegy
It hasn't died out one bit since the last time I listened to it
No need to tremble just how everything won't disappear
 
That sight of you always showed me in it
If we were born in the same town, could I have become like you?
A sunflower that bloomed in the shade gazes at the sea even now
If you can hear me, fiercely shout my name once more
The cry, naively play on the road under the scorching heat
Let go, diffusely reflect far, resound
 
I was always chasing after that sight of you
Piercing through lines only to fall over, the piercing point of a sword
A sunflower that bloomed in the shade awaits summer even now
Tear through this stuffy air and smile for me, deep within in, once more
 
Scatter away, break through with shotguns to tomorrow
Cough it up, take the rudder in your hands to Polaris
 

Campanella

Versions: #1
Campanella, I was dreaming
Gentian is blooming after you're gone
The town's transition never stops
With no intention, but leaving you behind
 
A swarm of nocturnal insects sleeping under midday sea
I think about the day that never comes back
Statue dancing to the sound of the organ
Time just passes by
 
Just as I was told, my hands are getting dirty
Blown by the wind at my back, I will go on living
To cuddle with you until the end of the day
I want to remember you
 
Campanella, is your place affluent?
Does that affluence dazzle you?
Heat devil shimmering on the tar
The light of summer is like an explosion
 
Conifer trees singing with a spotless white bird
Everything I gaze at is reduced to vestiges
I saw a button lying where the waves meet the beach
The loneliness you gave me
 
Just as I was told, some wounds never heal
Every time I look back to the twilight, I will realize my mistakes
Days go on without you
I'm left alone in dead silence
 
Shinning crystal catches and reflects lights
The scratch you made is now a part of the sparkle
 
Just as I was told, my hands are getting dirty
Blown by the wind at my back, I can still live
 
Just as I was told, some wounds never heal
Every time I look back to the twilight, I will realize my mistakes
 
To cuddle with you until the end of the day
I want to remember you
 
Campanella
 

Refund the world

Darwin: He bought a pice of junk, and it becomes
Gumball: Even little Jimmy, as a customer has rights
Darwin: In the box, he must live now
Gumball: It seems to that it wad a scam
Both: Even though he has a valid receipt
 

Canary

To the point that I felt nostalgic over those mundane days
In the smoke-stained, sinking night
I looked upon the flowers
 
Walking with you through the stuffy air
And the smiling face I saw as I looked back
For some reason I remembered these things
 
On the white promenade that everyone forgets, that the canary sings on in the end of April
I think I want to remember that your fingertips were trembling
 
It's OK, if it's with you it's OK
Even if I can't return to this place again
If I'm with you, it's OK
Let's walk together until the end
 
You pick up the glass that tumbled down and shattered
In those eyes of yours I could see tears
And still you said nothing
 
In the corners of the lake-shore where the foliage resounds, and the canary disappears at the end of May
I think that I really want to support you, more than anything
 
It's OK, because it's you it's OK
Even if no one were to find us
Since it's you, it's OK
Towards the beckoning voice of the fluttering wind
 
Both me and you, we'll probably change
We'll sometimes quarrel, and maybe hurt each other
But losing each other we will fall in love again
And I want us to make sure of that
 
It's OK, if it's with you it's OK
Even if there was nothing at the end,
It's OK
 
It's OK, because it's you it's OK
Even if no one were to find us
Since it's you, it's OK
Let's walk together until the end
 
Towards the beckoning voice of the fluttering wind
 

Stray sheep

Hey, can you remember the day that you were born?
The first line of the scenario
The stage circles around it and the play continues
And the Virgin Mary isn't in the dressing room
 
Even though you can't sing your first and last song
The overseers protect the silence
The end of the script hasn't been written up yet
So as if to pray, I opened my mouth
 
「In the future, a thousand years from now, we no longer live
So my friends, know that I love you no matter when」
 
Someone out there is waiting for our story
 
A machine that has lost its spine
Beautifully steps through the city
The festival stands collapse and light falls upon the earth
The audience looking upon it have white eyes
 
The play continues, forming lines of people, and now in a new way, the sheep lose their way
Let us sing songs, as long as we can endure, as the film continues to make its rounds
 
「In the future, a thousand years from now, we no longer live
So my friends, know that I love you no matter when」
 
「The loneliness you hold now, in a distant time
It will save someone, and I wait for that day, forever」
 

Metronome

I wonder if it was fated that we would meet
And that such a day would come, was that also decided by fate?
 
Thoughts that would never come true growing stronger
Hurting each other, torturing each other
I couldn't even make excuses like 'I was just thinking about it'
And the hem of your sleeve as you ran away, I couldn't grasp it
I was weak
 
No matter what day it is, or what I'm trying to do
I'll end up trying to search for you,
While the thoughts I want you to know grow ever stronger
Not one of them decreasing
I want you to laugh me off
 
When I think about what kind of place this would be, it becomes dull
Even though we just went back to how it was before we met, why does it feel like something is different?
 
I'm sure that we're just like two metronomes
Our tempos were the same, ticking away together
But before we knew, we started to get misaligned
And the more time that passed, the further away we grew
And we couldn't stop it
 
I wonder where we will go from now on
Can we forget everything and keep on living?
No matter how happy you are right now
I don't want you to forget
Since it's always inside me
 
Passing by each other back to back we walk on
And gradually stop being able to see each other
If, from now on, we keep on living at the same tempo
On the other side of the earth
Would we be able to meet again
 
No matter what day it is, or what I'm trying to do
I'll probably end up loving you,
While the thoughts I want you to know grow ever stronger
Not one of them decreasing
I want you to laugh me off
 
I want you to be here
 

A Tender Vampire

Versions: #2
The window is open,
And cold is the wind.
Shadows grew longer
Across the desk’s lid.
I’m a mysterious guest
In a silvery gown,
And you know for sure
Why I visit you now.
 
To give you power,
To give you strength.
I will kiss you wildly,
I will kiss on the neck!
 
Like a tender vampire…
Like a tender vampire…
Like an innocent child,
Like a tender vampire…
 
Rise!
 
The girlfriends of yours
Are high on glue.
With every day,
They are becoming dull-witted and blue.
And in this land,
Sticky like dirt,
You can get chubby,
You can get lost…
But I can ignite
The flames in your eyes.
I’ll give you power,
I’ll give you force…
I’ll push you to be
Distinct from the rest!
Like a lamb to the slaughter,
I came as your guest.
 
To give you power,
To give you strength.
I will kiss you wildly,
I will kiss on the neck!
 
Like a tender vampire…
Like a tender vampire…
Like an innocent child,
Like a tender vampire…
 

Electric Shock

Versions: #1
Night traffic that I want to escape, still not sure where I am
Wandering, wandering around with no purpose, like a worried little doggy
I didn’t mean to lose anything but there’s a feeling of something missing
Strangely getting high, like a revved-up car
 
Brothers, do something, it seems I can’t think of anything anymore
Goodbye, I'm off to the edges of the Milky Way
Truth, morals, and even on this unmoving crazy night
We’ll clap and laugh together
Unknown by anybody
 
This sparkle that lasts only for a moment
Let’s eat it up, the two of us, until we kick the bucket
And good fortune, a prayer for ourselves
Let's keep on going at a speed that can’t be followed
 
I just want to live like a bolt of lightning
What do you want to do? I don’t need you to reply
 
A view outside the rolled up car window, it's still unclear what my motives are
Like a troublesome, irritated lost little kitty
Did anybody see the wallet I dropped around here?
I'm like an unlucky idiot, make fun of me, Highway Star
 
Hey partner, one more time let’s fight like we’re in a manga
As a test to those who don’t have style
This city that can’t tell apart reason from irrationality
We’ll escape it and laugh together
What we’re aiming for is a mellow ending
 
It’s something that shakes up your heart in an instant
And when you try to chase it it escapes out of sight in a blink
I’m sure thinking that eternity is out there somewhere
And searching for the day after tomorrow isn’t bad
 
Rather than the morning you went and disappeared somewhere
This sort of night is still better
 
Water lilies in my lungs, a faraway siren
And resounding boundary lines
Let’s fight like we love each other
And drag our helplessness out
 
Water lilies in my lungs, a faraway siren
And resounding boundary lines
Let’s fight like we love each other
And drag our helplessness out
 
This sparkle that lasts only for a moment
Let’s eat it up, the two of us, until we kick the bucket
And good fortune, a prayer for ourselves
Let's keep on going at a speed that can’t be followed
 
It’s something that shakes up your heart in an instant
And when you try to chase it it escapes out of sight in a blink
I’m sure thinking that eternity is out there somewhere
And searching for the day after tomorrow isn’t bad
 
I just want to live like a bolt of lightning
What do you want to do? I don’t need you to reply
 

The Street is Waiting for the Night...

The street is waiting for the night.
All is history and silence.
The trees along the walk
are asleep along the sky.
 
And the sad sky is violet.
an April sky, beautiful
violet sky with gentle
preludes of starlight.
 
Now the lamps are shining
at the barred windows. A dog whines
at a closed door. A black cat
twirls in the smooth sky ...
 
Ah! that yellow lamp,
the peace of the blind children,
the nostalgia of the widows,
the presence of the dead!
 
And the stories that we told
on those April evenings
that have never returned,
while we gazed at the stars!
 
And the darkness is falling,
sweet and great and peaceful,
among the distant murmurs
of the little villages ...
 

Festival of Saint Jerome

Festival of Saint Jerome
you make me remember:
beneath a beautiful curtain
how the Ixtepecana1 sways her dress2
to the son3 of the Zandunga4,
your night is the lover of my song.5
 
Festival of Saint Jerome
you make me remember:
the carving of the wax,6
the mayordomos7 and the corral
where the wild bulls
will be mounted by the Zapotec men.
 
I remember a beautiful bygone era8
with its delicately lit lanterns,
the enchantment of its castles9
and the happiness they'd bring when lit.10
 
Festival of Saint Jerome
you make me remember:
the tossing of the fruit11
the fishermen12 and their offerings,
when a delicious stew
beneath an arbor13 tastes exquisite.
 
Festival of Saint Jerome
I shall never forget you
because your traditions
are of the people who live in me,
and should I not attend one day,
my sons are there, they're yours too.
 
I remember a beautiful bygone era
with its delicately lit lanterns,
the enchantment of its castles
and the happiness they'd bring when lit.
 

• 1. a demonym for a woman from Ixtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico.
• 2. the traditional Oaxacan dress consists of two piece: the huipil (a blouse usually made from velvet and embroidered with colorful flowers) and a long skirt (also made of velvet and embroidered with the same colorful flowers). At the bottom of the skirt, intricate lace frills are sown at it's edges. This part is what's called an 'olán'. For a visual, see .
• 3. refers to the 'son Mexicano' (the Mexican son) which is a category of Mexican folk music and dance that encompasses various regional genres, all of which are called son. The word 'son' means 'sound'.
• 4. a traditional Mexican folk song and 'son' (see note for 'son Mexicano')
• 5. lit. 'the night [that your festival falls on] is the bride to whom I sing of. The night of the festival is personified as a lover of the singer, who he sings for.
• 6. the community comes together and makes candles to offer them to the saint that's being celebrated. The day is signaled with a flute and a pre-Hispanic drum being played early in the morning. The candles are hung on a circular band made of wood or rope to let the candles drip and dry. For a visual see .
• 7. lit. 'butlers', they serve a different purpose in Oaxacan culture. 'Mayordomos' are men selected to be in change of overseeing all kinds of festivals and ceremonies.
• 8. the act of saints
• 9. not actual castles, they're just called that. They're decorated with fireworks, when they're lit they burst into different colors to illuminate the shape of the structure (could be flowers, crosses etc.) and some will even move by spinning as they burn. See .
• 10. could refer to the actual lighting up of the castles with the lanterns or the fireworks in the background.
• 11. a tradition in Oaxaca where women prove themselves to the men by climbing onto rooftops and tossing over fresh fruit to the men below.
• 12. also spelled 'tarrayeros', these are fishermen who catch fish (and shrimp) with a specific kind of net, a red cone-shaped fishing net. The word literally means 'person who casts [a red cone-shaped fishing net] in a circular motion'. For a visual see .
• 13. constructed with wood and dried palm leaves. See for a visual.

The son* of the carbon man

I'm the carbon man, gentlemen, indeed
and I've come from La Ventosa,
I'm the carbon man, gentlemen, indeed
and I've come from La Ventosa,
I've come to sell my carbon, gentlemen
and I'm also looking for some roses,
and I'm the carbon man from La Ventosa, indeed.
 
I'm the carbon man, gentlemen, indeed
and I've come from La Ventosa,
I'm the carbon man, gentlemen, indeed
and I've come from La Ventosa,
I've come to sell my carbon, gentlemen
and I'm also looking for some roses,
and I'm the carbon man from La Ventosa, indeed.
 

Is it your (fault) or mine?

(Arabic)
Is it your (fault) or mine?
I don't care about you anymore
Sir, don't torment me
Everything between us is over
Don't come to me, neither will I
Just go and let me in peace
You made my eyes cry
I made my heart a mess
 
I'm bored of your love, go!
I can't bear you anymore
You will never find
such bearing heart
I'm bored of your love, go!
I can't bear you anymore
You will never find
such bearing heart
 
Is it your (fault) or mine?
 
(Dutch)
It’s a long time ago
That I still worked with my heart
That you meant the whole world to me
It is much deeper in me
I let you play with my heart
And now I never use it again
Never again, never again
 
(French)
My love, you. My love
Our life is none of their business
If you want us together forever
Beware of people’s eyes
To keep the vultures away
It’s up to us to be smart
My love, you. My love
Our life is none of their business
 
(Arabic)
You were everything in my life
You sh*t and forget everything
You were everything in my life
You sh*t and forget everything
 
And you don’t win, win, win
And forget about everything, everything, everything
 

Forgive Me

They can talk to me about love that doesn't exist,
about the modernity which fastly progresses,
about the reinforced concrete over the favelas.
I do nothing but listen to my surroundings.
 
They can talk to me again about idyllic places,
about people who live all year long out of music
near the barbed wire over the Pacific.
I do nothing but listen to what they explain to me.
 
I can dream if they tell me how.
I can love if they tell me why.
I've dreamed it all, it's been a long time now.
I listen to you without being there.
Forgive me.
 
They can talk to me about the love we receive
and recite to me all the rights we all have.
They can sing them out loud at the favelas.
I do nothing but listen one more time.
 
I can dream if they tell me how.
I can love if they tell me why.
I've dreamed it all, it's been a long time now.
I listen to you without being there.
Forgive me.
 
I can dream if they tell me how.
I can love if they tell me why.
I've dreamed it all, it's been a long time now.
I listen to you without being there.
Forgive me.
 
Forgive me.
Forgive me.
Forgive me.
 

Owl

A dark thought entered my forehead,
like a nyctalope1 bird, in a room, during the day.
 
I don't know what I can do to make it go away!
 
It is here, still and silent, without seeing the waters or the roses.
 

• 1. Nyctalopes can see better at night