Quintus Zebra

Äldre 17 Jul 10:23

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Är en textjunkie. Jag kan älska en låt som egentligen är rätt dålig om texten träffar mig. Just nu är det Ani Difrancos fantastiska version av phil Ochs "When i´m gone" som motiverar mig att fortsätta kämpa trots att det kan va lite kämpigt ibland:

"won't see the golden of the sun when i'm gone.
and the evenings and the mornings will be one when i'm gone.
can't be singing louder than the guns when i'm gone.
so i guess i'll have to do it while i'm here.

all my days won't be dances of delight when i'm gone.
and the sands will be shifting from my sight when i'm gone.
can't add my name into the fight while i'm gone,
so i guess i'll have to do it while i'm here.

and i won't be laughing at the lies when i'm gone.
and i can't question how or when or why when i'm gone.
can't live proud enough to die when i'm gone,
so i guess i'll have to do it while i'm here."

Har ni andra textrader som är viktiga för er? Det behöver ju inte vara musik. Poesi, eller ett utdrag ur en bok eller ett citat från en film funkar också.

Annika 78

Äldre 20 Jul 12:01

#11

Jag gillar också musik med texter som känns lite extra. Favoritartister med bra texter är Kasey Chambers, Patty Griffin och Gillian Welch...

KASEY CHAMBERS - Million Tears

Take my hand
Break my stride
Make me smile
For everytime I've cried
Hold my heart
In the palm of your hand
Don't listen to it breakin'
Just listen to the band

Do you wanna ride in my car
Its parked out on the street
Or just stay with me a while
Before I fall asleep
Take these tears
Wash your skin
I'm havin' trouble breathin'
Since you walked in

My hands are tied
My head is reelin'
My eyes have cried
A million tears
From wishin' you were here

All my life
I've welcomed pain
I've made up more excuses
To bring it back again
Now I'm here
And I'll drink to the shame
I'll drink to the madness
That made me this way

PATTY GRIFFIN - Cold As It Gets

To the end of the Earth, I'll search for your face
For the one who laid all of our beauty to waste
Threw our hope into Hell and our children into the fire
I am the one who crawled through the wire
I am the one who crawled through the wire

There's a million sad stories on the side of the road
Strange how we all just got used to the blood
Millions of stories that'll never be told
Silent and froze in the mud
Silent and froze in the mud

I know a cold as cold as it gets
I know a darkness that's darker than cold
A wind that blows as cold as it gets
Blew out the light of my soul
Blew out the light of my soul

I dream in my sleep, I dream in my days
Of some sunny street not so far away
Where up in a window a curtain will sway
And you and I'll meet down below
You and I'll meet down below

I know a cold as cold as it gets
I fight a war, I may never see one
I live only to see you live to regret
Everything that you done
Everything that you done
Everything that you done

GILLIAN WELCH - Caleb Meyer

Caleb Meyer, he lived alone
In them hollarin' pines
And he made a little whiskey for himself
Said it helped to pass the time

Long one evening in back of my house,
Caleb came around
And he called my name 'til I came out
with no one else around

Caleb Meyer, your ghost is gonna
wear them rattlin' chains.
but when I go to sleep at night,
Don't you call my name

Where's your husband, Nellie Kane
Where's your darlin gone?
Did he go on down the mountain side
and leave you all alone?

Yes, my husband's gone to Bowlin' Green
to do some business there.
Then Caleb threw that bottle down
and grabbed me by my hair.

Caleb Meyer, your ghost is gonna
wear them rattlin' chains.
but when I go to sleep at night,
Don't you call my name

He threw me in the needle bed,
across my dress he lay
he held my hands above my head
and I commenced to pray.

I cried My God, I am your child
send your angels down
Then feelin' with my fingertips,
the bottle neck I found

I drew that glass across his neck
as fine as any blade,
and I felt his blood pour fast and hot
around me where I laid.

Caleb Meyer, your ghost is gonna
wear them rattlin' chains.
But when I go to sleep at night,
Don't you call my name

Caleb Meyer, your ghost is gonna
wear them rattlin' chains.
But when I go to sleep at night,
Don't you call my name

lilla hand

Äldre 20 Jul 22:27

#12

Ur Ensammast i Sverige, Kent, så vackert och vemodigt:

och jag drog med dig i mitt fall
och sen gled jag bara undan
så förlåt förlåt för allt
för min förbannade kluvna tunga

jag har ett foto någonstans
där vi är drottningar och kungar
nu ligger bilder överallt
där gamla ansikten är unga

och jag har letat som besatt
efter känslor som är försvunna
och det har varit en lång lång natt
men jag är glad att mina tårar
är behärskade och lugna

firewalkwithme

Äldre 20 Jul 23:54

#13

Quintus Zebra skrev 2008-07-19 11:48:53 följande:

Visst är det kul. Men, men... Vi textjunkies får la ligga i så kanske andra hänger på Är bara tvungen att skriva en text till. Tom Waits fantastiska "Road To Peace" Politik kan vara vackert!Young Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay) was only 18 years old,He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a night away from home.And his mother held his photograph, opening the New York TimesTo see the killing has intensified along the road to peaceThere was a tall, thin boy with a whispy moustache disguised as an orthodox JewOn a crowded bus in Jerusalem, some had survived World War TwoAnd the thunderous explosion blew out windows 200 yards awayWith more retribution and seventeen dead along the road to peaceNow at King George Ave and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14aIn the aisle next to the driver Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)And the last thing that he said on earth is "God is great and God is good"And he blew them all to kingdom come upon the road to peaceNow in response to this another kiss of death was visited uponYasser Taha, Israel says is an Hamas senior militantAnd Israel sent four choppers in, flames engulfed, tears wide openAnd it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only blackened skeletonsIt's found his toddlers bottle and a pair of small shoes and they waved them in front of the camerasBut Israel says they did not know that his wife and child were in the carThere are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TVNeither side will ever give up their smallest right along the road to peaceIsrael launched it's latest campaign against Hamas on TuesdayTwo days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiersSo thousands dead and wounded on both sides most of them middle eastern civiliansThey fill the children full of hate to fight an old man's war and die upon the road to peace"And this is our land we will fight with all our force" say the Palastinians and the JewsEach side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the resistanceIf the right eye offends thee then you must pluck it outAnd Mahmoud Abbas said Sharon had been lost out along the road to peaceOnce Kissinger said "we have no friends, America only has interests"Now our president wants to be seen as a hero and he's hungry for re-electionBut Bush is reluctant to risk his future in the fear of his political failuresSo he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press 10,000 miles from the road to peaceIn the video that they found at the home of Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)He held a Kalashnikov rifle and he spoke with a voice like a boyHe was an excellent student, he studied so hard, it was as if he had a futureHe told his mother that he had a test that day out along the road to peaceThe fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peaceBut tell me why are we arming the Israeli army with guns and tanks and bullets?And if God is great and God is good why can't he change the hearts of men?Well maybe God himself is lost and needs helpMaybe God himself he needs all of our helpMaybe God himself is lost and needs helpHe's out upon the road to peaceWell maybe God himself is lost and needs helpMaybe God himself he needs all of our helpAnd he's lost upon the road to peaceAnd he's lost upon the road to peaceOut upon the road to peace.

Åh, älskar den här!!! Klart politik kan vara vackert!!

firewalkwithme

Äldre 21 Jul 00:35

#14

Och så måste jag ta en av mina allra bästa. Den är inte lång, men säger så mycket. Dels kan jag lyssna på den när jag är ledsen och känna någon slags tröst, men jag tycker också att texten säger något så viktigt om hur människan är funtad. Har för mig att den var med i filmen This is England (ej i orginal), och där passade den ju t.ex. utmärkt. Kort text, stort budskap!

Good times for a change
See the luck I've had can make a good man turn bad
So please, please, please, let me, let me, let me
Let me get what I want this time

Haven't had a dream in a long time
See the life I've had can make a good man bad
So for once in my life, let me get what I want
Lord knows it would be the first time
Lord knows it would be the first time

//Klart det är Morrissey Please, please, please let me get what I want - the Smiths

sasssyy

Äldre 21 Jul 00:41

#15

älskar texter också.. sjunger ju en hel del och har gjort hela livet och då blir det ju att man pluggar texter på ett annat vis än när man "bara lyssnar"... jag är inte så mycket för sån där pretto-musik, alternativ eller djuping *sorry sorry* Lasse Winnerbäck har jag precis lärt mig lyssna på men jag har lite svårt för sån musik ärligt talat.. men smaken är ju som baken.
SJälv har jag fastnat för en Finsk dam som heter Hanna Pakarinen. En av hennes låtar har satt sig som klister i hjärnan, förutom att den är skitkul att sjunga så är texten så mitt i prick hur jag känner för en person som numera bara finns i periferin i mitt liv...

Who are you to think that you own me
You say you care, I couldn't care less
So you know, I'm no one's possetion
You thought you'd leave me in a mess

You can't hold me down

Now when I'm stronger without you
And I finally see we're thru
I know you think I'm weaker so
I'm going without you
Cause I'm stronger without you

I'll do fine, now and forever
Did not think twice of letting you go
Way to smart for you to control me
You took your path, so now I'll take mine

You can't hold me down

Now when I'm stronger without you
And I finally see we're thru
I know you think I'm weaker so
I'm going without you
Cause I'm stronger without you

I will not ever stand aside
And put my will on hold
So how can I be wrong

Won't be crying, save your breath cause I am
Stronger on my own

Now when I'm stronger without you
And I finally see we're thru
I know you think I'm weaker so
I'm going without you
Cause I'm stronger without you

I'm stronger without you

Quintus Zebra

Äldre 21 Jul 00:44

#16

firewalkwithme skrev 2008-07-21 00:35:24 följande:

Och så måste jag ta en av mina allra bästa. Den är inte lång, men säger så mycket. Dels kan jag lyssna på den när jag är ledsen och känna någon slags tröst, men jag tycker också att texten säger något så viktigt om hur människan är funtad. Har för mig att den var med i filmen This is England (ej i orginal), och där passade den ju t.ex. utmärkt. Kort text, stort budskap!Good times for a changeSee the luck I've had can make a good man turn badSo please, please, please, let me, let me, let meLet me get what I want this timeHaven't had a dream in a long timeSee the life I've had can make a good man badSo for once in my life, let me get what I wantLord knows it would be the first timeLord knows it would be the first time//Klart det är Morrissey Please, please, please let me get what I want - the Smiths

Klockren text!

Tråden känns plötsligt lite mer komplett. Vi kan ju inte ha en tråd om bra texter utan lite Morrissey. För egen del är jag tacksam att han inspirerade en av sveriges just nu vassaste författare (John Ajvide Lindqvist) att skriva en av mina absoluta favoritböcker - Låt den rätte komma in

minje

Äldre 21 Jul 00:54

#17

firewalkwithme skrev 2008-07-21 00:35:24 följande:

Och så måste jag ta en av mina allra bästa. Den är inte lång, men säger så mycket. Dels kan jag lyssna på den när jag är ledsen och känna någon slags tröst, men jag tycker också att texten säger något så viktigt om hur människan är funtad. Har för mig att den var med i filmen This is England (ej i orginal), och där passade den ju t.ex. utmärkt. Kort text, stort budskap!Good times for a changeSee the luck I've had can make a good man turn badSo please, please, please, let me, let me, let meLet me get what I want this timeHaven't had a dream in a long timeSee the life I've had can make a good man badSo for once in my life, let me get what I wantLord knows it would be the first timeLord knows it would be the first time//Klart det är Morrissey Please, please, please let me get what I want - the Smiths

Åhhh! Den är sååå bra!!

Likaså There is a light that never goes out!!

Take me out tonight
Where theres music and theres people
And theyre young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I havent got one
Anymore

Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people and i
Want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh, please dont drop me home
Because its not my home, its their
Home, and Im welcome no more

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I dont care
I dont care, I dont care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought oh god, my chance has come at last
(but then a strange fear gripped me and i
Just couldnt ask)

Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere, I dont care
I dont care, I dont care
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I havent got one, da ...
Oh, I havent got one

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

Oh, there is a light and it never goes out
____________

Även denna låt av Carly Simon är fantastisk. Jag upptäckte dock låten när Dinosaur Jr-sångaren J Mascis gjorde en cover.

Anticipation

We can never know about the days to come
But we think about them anyway.
And I wonder if I'm really with you now
Or just chasing after some finer day.

Anticipation. Anticipation
Is making me late
Is keeping me waiting.

And I tell you how easy it feel to be with you.
And how right your arms feel around me.
But I rehearsed those words just late last night
When I was thinking about how right tonight might be.

Anticipation. Anticipation
Is making me late
Is keeping me waiting.

And tomorrow we might not be together.
I'm no prophet; I don't know nature's ways.
So I'll try and see into your eyes right now.
And stay right here, 'cause these are the good old days.
______________

När jag känner mig less är denna underbar (sång av Desaparecidos, ett av Conor Obersts alla sidoprojekt)

Man and Wife, The Latter (Damaged Goods)

"I'm growing out my hair
like it was when I was single
it was longer than I've known you
I had no money then
I had no worries then at all

such a high standard of living
I just feel like I am dying
I start an argument
but you can barely even talk

There's good reason for your silence
have to take care of some business
so I fix your plate
and I stay out of the way

But you'll stay like that forever
right in front of your computer
you'll look up one day
but you won't recognize me

So you want a change?
write a letter from a lawyer
want to take me out to dinner
you want to bury me under a mound of shopping bags

Like it'd really make a difference
or make up for your disinterest
I'm a bill you pay
I'm a contract you can't break

And it's like I'm under water
or on an endless escalator
I just go up and up
but I don't ever reach the top

And it reads just like the bible
twenty centuries of scandal,
yeah, it all depends on how you interpret it

The word is love
The word is loss
The words are damaged goods that's what I am
A lifetime gets chalked up to an experience
coincidence
we're chained to the events
that's it"
________________

Slutligen, the master himself är Will Oldham. Allt han skriver är fenomenalt...

firewalkwithme

Äldre 21 Jul 00:57

#18

Quintus Zebra skrev 2008-07-21 00:44:15 följande:

Klockren text! Tråden känns plötsligt lite mer komplett. Vi kan ju inte ha en tråd om bra texter utan lite Morrissey. För egen del är jag tacksam att han inspirerade en av sveriges just nu vassaste författare (John Ajvide Lindqvist) att skriva en av mina absoluta favoritböcker - Låt den rätte komma in

Åh, jag vet! Var lite sen och läste den boken först i våras, och jag blev ju helt besatt

! Och nej, man kan ju inte ha en tråd om bra texter utan lite Morrissey.

Men nu blev jag ju inspirerad och kom på en till. Nine Inch Nails i orginal, Johnny Cash gjorde covern, Hurt! Jag gillar ju båda versionerna, texten är riktigt, riktigt bra.

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away, but I remember everything

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know, goes away in the end

And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
upon my liars chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else,
I am still right here

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know, goes away in the end

And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

firewalkwithme

Äldre 21 Jul 00:59

#19

minje skrev 2008-07-21 00:54:31 följande:

Åhhh! Den är sååå bra!!Likaså There is a light that never goes out!!

Ja den är en av mina allra, allra bästa också! Men som sagt, Morrissey...kan ju skriva texter!

firewalkwithme

Äldre 21 Jul 01:29

#20

sasssyy skrev 2008-07-21 00:41:37 följande:

älskar texter också.. sjunger ju en hel del och har gjort hela livet och då blir det ju att man pluggar texter på ett annat vis än när man "bara lyssnar"...

Kul med en sångare! Har också sjungit hela livet, och då får man ju onekligen en speciell relation till texten. Även om jag kanske inte tycker att det går att höra på alla sångare att de har den relationen

. Personligen kan jag inte sjunga låtar där jag inte känner för texten, det är den som är nr 1 för mig.

Måste spamma tråden lite och skriva en text till

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I'll be your mirror
Reflect what you are, in case you don't know
I'll be the wind, the rain and the sunset
The light on your door to show that you're home

When you think the night has seen your mind
That inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
Cause I see you

I find it hard to believe you don't know the beauty you are
But if you don't
Let me be your eyes
A hand through your darkness
So you won't be afraid

When you think the night has seen your mind
That inside you're twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
Cause I see you

I'll be your mirror
I'll be your mirror

/I'll be your mirror - Velvet Underground. Kärlek!

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