I Lived On The Moon

Η Γεωργία έχει ποικίλους τρόπους για να σε κάνει κουρέλι εν μία νυκτί. Ένας από αυτούς είναι όταν σου στέλνει τέτοια βίντεο, όπως αυτό που ακολουθεί, και σε κάνει να μένεις ξάγρυπνος μέχρι τις πρώτες πρωινές ώρες



PS>: I HATE YOU!!!! :P

21/07/1978 - 06/05/2010

Ήταν το πρώτο τραγούδι που μου έβαλες να ακούσω...με ρώτησες αν μου αρέσει και σου απάντησα θετικά. Σου φάνηκε περίεργο γιατί στους υπόλοιπους φίλους σου δεν αρέσει. Ας είναι, λοιπόν, το πρώτο τραγούδι που θα ακούσεις από ψηλά... Καλό ταξίδι...

We're walking in the air
We're floating in the moonlit sky
The people far below are sleeping as we fly

I'm holding very tight
I'm riding in the midnight blue
I'm finding I can fly so high above with you

Far across the wold
The villages go by like trees
the rivers and the hills
The forest and the streams

Children gaze open mouth
Taken by suprise
Nobody down below believes their eyes

We're surfing in the air
We're swimming in the frozen sky
We're drifting over icy
mountains floating by

Suddenly swooping low on an ocean deep
Arousing of a mighty monster from its sleep
We're walking in the air
We're floating in the midnight sky
And everyone who sees us greets us as we fly


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Carnival Of Rust

Ευχαριστώ τη Γεωργία που μου...κατέστρεψε το Σ/Κ με αυτό το κομμάτι!!!


D' you breathe the name of your saviour in your hour of need,
And taste the blame if the flavor should remind you of greed?
Of implication, insinuation and ill will, 'til you cannot lie still,
In all this turmoil, before red cape and foil come closing in for a kill

Come feed the rain
'cause I'm thirsty for your love dancing underneath the skies of lust
Yeah, feed the rain
'cause without your love my life ain't nothing but this carnival of rust

It's all a game, avoiding failure, when true colors will bleed
All in the name of misbehavior and the things we don't need
I lust for after no disaster can touch, touch us anymore
And more than ever, I hope to never fall, where enough is not the same it was before

Come feed the rain...
'cause I'm thirsty for your love dancing underneath the skies of lust
Yeah, feed the rain
'cause without your love my life ain't nothing but this carnival of rust
Yeah, feed the rain
'cause I'm thirsty for your love dancing underneath the skies of lust
Yeah, feed the rain
'cause without your love my life ain't nothing but this carnival of rust

Don't walk away, don't walk away, oh, when the world is burning
Don't walk away, don't walk away, oh, when the heart is yearning
Don't walk away, don't walk away, oh, when the world is burning
Don't walk away, don't walk away, oh, when the heart is yearning

In The Dark

Standing in the rain
Thinking of a way
To keep these feelings inside
Walk away from here
Before the words appear
I will be silent

Here in the dark
I feel electric
I sense my skin in between the waves
I am human, I am criminal
But I feel life here in my heart again

I hide behind the walls
So you don't notice me at all
But it hurts me so
I'm waiting in the wind
Whispering the things
I want you to know...

Ναυαγός

Πλέον όχι ακυβέρνητα,
φουσκωμένα, άσπρα,
ικετευτικά κύματα
πάνω από έναν ουράνιο,
κινούμενο ωκεανό.
Ρεύμα του μπλε
πάνω σε μεσόγεια γη.

Πέρα από την απόγνωση,
την άπλετη θλίψη,
για καιρό κατατροπώνεται η πίστη.
Κι έρχεται το αύριο
με άδεια δακρυσμένα φύλλα,
καταμεσής της καταχνιάς.
Η ελπίδα ακόμα αναδύεται.

Καλωσορίζοντας τη γέννηση,
φτάνοντας αργά,
η μητέρα γη αναστενάζει,
βαριά αναπνέει
δίνοντας ζωή στις δροσοσταλίδες

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Αύγουστος 1999

Τι είναι τελικά τα 10 χρόνια;

Πώς περνάει έτσι ο χρόνος...κι είμαι σίγουρος πως οι πληγές ακόμα δεν έχουν γιατρευτεί. Λίγες μέρες μόνο αρκούσαν για να σε αγαπήσει ο καθένας, για το γέλιο σου, τα αστεία σου ακόμα και για τις άσχημες στιγμές σου. Η αγάπη αυτή δεν ήταν ερωτική, δεν ήταν φιλική...η αγάπη αυτή δεν έχει πρόσωπο και δε μετριέται στα δάχτυλα των χεριών.
Ξέρω πως τόσο καιρό δεν είσαι μόνη...γιατί η μοίρα δε θέλησε να φύγεις μοναχή αλλά παρέα με τον άνθρωπο που ανταλλάξατε αιώνιους όρκους αγάπης, συντροφιάς και συμπόνοιας.

Πέρασαν κιόλας 10 γεμάτα χρόνια και τα λόγια μου δεν είναι αρκετά για να σου πω πόσο μας λείπεις...πόσο μου λείπεις...κι ας σε γνώριζα μονάχα λίγες ημέρες. Τα συναισθήματα δεν μετριούνται ημερολογιακά...διαρκούν για πάντα.

Το τραγούδι είναι για σένα. Οι στίχοι θα μπορούσε να είχαν γραφτεί ακόμα και για σένα.

Spend all your time waiting
For that second chance
For a break that would make it okay
There's always one reason
To feel not good enough
And it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
Oh beautiful release
Memory seeps from my veins
Let me be empty
And weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight

In the arms of an angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort there

So tired of the straight line
And everywhere you turn
There's vultures and thieves at your back
And the storm keeps on twisting
You keep on building the lie
That you make up for all that you lack
It don't make no difference
Escaping one last time
It's easier to believe in this sweet madness oh
This glorious sadness that brings me to my knees

In the arms of an angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort there
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here

Καλή αντάμωση...

Song To The Siren

On the floating, shapeless oceans
I did all my best to smile
til your singing eyes and fingers
drew me loving into your eyes.

And you sang "Sail to me, sail to me;
Let me enfold you."

Here I am, here I am waiting to hold you.
Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you here when I was full sail?

Now my foolish boat is leaning, broken love lost on your rocks.
For you sang, "Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow."
Oh my heart, oh my heart shies from the sorrow.
I'm as puzzled as a newborn child.
I'm as riddled as the tide.
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Or shall I lie with death my bride?

Hear me sing: "Swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you."
"Here I am. Here I am, waiting to hold you."

(Performed by This Mortal Coil)

Faerie Queen

Faerie Queen

Over on the hill
There grows a flower
Growing quicker still
More perfect by the hour
Deep within that flower
Is a tiny chair
All a-fringed with gold
The fairy queen sits there…

It is in her breath
That the wind does blow
It is in her heart
As pure as winter snow
It is in her tears
Crystal raindrops fall
And within her years
That she is in us all…

«Oh dark eyes
Help me see
Just one look
She is gone
Look on me
We are one
Fading with the setting sun…»

As the willow bows
To her majesty
All the forest flowers
Love her mystery
Who would not admire
Who could not adore
Who does not desire
Who wishes to see more?

Performed by Blackmore's Night (Album: The Village Lanterne)

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Μπορεί να φαίνεται κουραστικό με τόσα τραγούδια των Blackmore's Night, αλλά πιστεύω πως ταιριάζουν περισσότερο με το ύφος του blog. Με αυτό το τραγούδι θα ξεκινήσω το δεύτερο μέρος της ιστορίας (σαν να λέμε «2η σεζόν» δηλαδή!). Λίγη υπομονή όμως γιατί ακόμα βρίσκομαι στο προσχέδιο!!! Ευχαριστώ που περνάτε μια βόλτα κι από δω! Καλό μήνα!

Peasant's Promise

One warm summer night
He rode into sight
On a wild mare that was so perfectly white
I'd dreamed he'd return and I was right
Wishes can come true when you wish with all your might

One look in his eyes
I had realized

His life was so simple he had no disguise
He lived day to day, no promise he would stay
But in these few words he stole my heart away

He said: My life's not to lead
Through power or greed
I am but a poor man when I'm cut I bleed
A more humble man you never will meet
And here is my heart for only you to keep.

In the shade of the willow tree
My poor peasant promised to me

No scholarly thoughts, he couldn't pay high costs
And sometimes it feels like he's totally lost
But he said this true and he said it loud
I promise you my heart with this solemn vow.

One warm summer night
He rode into sight
On a wild mare that was so perfectly white
I'd dreamed he'd return and I was right
Wishes can come true when you wish with all your might.

In the shade of the willow tree
My poor peasant promised to me.

performed by Blackmore's Night (Album: Secret Voyage)
portrait by J

Lay Your Head Down

Υπάρχουν στιγμές που ένα καλό τραγούδι μπορεί να σημαδέψει τη ζωή σου... Άλλες φορές θετικά κι άλλες αρνητικά.
Στη δική μου περίπτωση, το τραγούδι που μπορείτε να ακούσετε από τον player στο δεξί μέρος της σελίδας το "έλιωσα" μέσα σε ένα βράδυ! Έγινε must hit για τις μοναχικές νύχτες του καλοκαιριού, όπου κι αν παίχτηκε, όποιος κι αν το άκουσε! Θες η φωνή του Peter Bradley Adams που σε ταξιδεύει...θες λίγο η μουσική...λίγο η διάθεση...
Οι στίχοι είναι σχετικά όπως τους περιμένει κανείς σε μια μπαλάντα, αλλά πιστεύω πως στο συγκεκριμένο κομμάτι η φωνή και η μουσική είναι που κάνουν τη διαφορά (είχα να νιώσω έτσι περίεργα με ένα τραγούδι από την εποχή του Chris Isaak με το Wicked Game!)...

Beautiful sleeping baby
don't let it pass you by
when the leaves on the autumn trees all die
what do you find
lay your head down, lay your head down...

Beautiful sleeping baby
sail on the river wide
when the leaves of autumn trees all die
baby don't cry
lay your head down, lay your head down...

Forty One Ways

Forty one ways to die
One strong will to live
World's gone all awry
Faith is the battlefield

Tender, I feel
And the wheels turn
To fortify a design of free will

Forty one ways to die
One strong pain to feel
Strapped to a suicide
With just one more place to be

Tender, I feel
And the wheels turn
To fortify a design of free will

We test, we form, we fear, we tilt
We strive, we fall, we want, we kill
And we hail, and we doubt
And with all waisted
We heal, and we call
We atone kneeled here
And will stray fortified
In a windfall

Where Are We Going From Here...

On a long road, miles to go
It's winding and cold and it's covered with snow
But I ask you what we all want to know
Where are we going from here?...

Lines on my face, lines on my hands
Lead to a future I don't understand
Some things don't go as they're planned...
Where are we going from here?...

Tracing the trails through the mirrors of time
Spinning in circles with riddles in rhyme
We lose our way, trying to find
Searching to find our way home...
Trying to find our way home...

As the day dies, with tears in our eyes
There's too few hellos and too many goodbyes
Silence answers our cries...
Where are we going from here?...

We're all on this road, with miles to go
Braving new pathways into the unknown
But who do you ask, when no one really knows
Where we are going from here?...

If You Forget Me

I want you to know one thing
You know how this is...
If I look at the crystal moon
At the red branch of the slow autumn at my window
If I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log
Everything carries me to you
As if everything that exists - aromas, light, metals
Were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me
Well, now...
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you
If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land
But, if each day, each hour, you feel that you are destined for me
With implacable sweetness
If each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me
Ahh my love, ahh my own, in me all that fire is repeated
In me nothing is extinguished or forgotten
My love feeds on your love, beloved
And as long as you live, it will be in your arms without leaving mine