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Thursday, November 26, 2015

John Cale sings: I keep a close watch

Whisper me, Wim Mertens



The Doors - Love Street

John Lee Hooker - Dimples

Dead Can Dance - The Song Of The Sibyl

i do not believe that i am saved by the blood of Jesus Christ

nor do i wish to drink his blood,

i believe in the love he preached,

love is salvation.

i do not believe in doomsday:

doomsday, hell, all is always now.





Dead Can Dance - Ulysses





Wipe the sleep from your eyes
And embrace the light
You have slept now
For a thousand years
Beneath starless nights
And now it's time for you
To renounce the old ways
And see a new dawn rise.....

Just like Ullyses
On an open sea
On an odyssey
Of self discovery

Gulf of Araby - Natalie Merchant





If you could fill a veil with shells from Killiney's shore
And sweet talk in a tongue that is no more
If wishful thought could bridge
The Gulf of Araby Between
Between what is
What is
What is
And what can never be
If you could hold the frozen flow of New Hope Creek
And hide out from the world they said you might meet
If you could unlearn all the words
That you never wanted heard
If you could stall the southern wind
That's whistling in your ear
You could take what is
What is
What is
To what can never be
One man of seventy whispers free at last
Two neighbours who are proud of their massacres
Three tyrants torn away in a winter's month
Four prisoners framed by a dirty judge
Five burned with tyres
Six men still Alive
And seven more days to shake at the great divide
The Gulf
The Gulf of Araby
The Gulf The Gulf
Of Araby
We would plough and part the earth to bring you home
And would harvest every miracle ever known
If they laid out all the things
That these ten years were to bring
We would gladly give them up
To bring you back to us
O, there is nothing we would not give
To kiss you and to believe we can take what is
What is
What is
To what can never be

silence is sacred