18.02.2012: Ohrwürmer und anderes #12 | Powertool & Friends | For all Man-kind

10. Marc Ribot & My Brightest Diamond -Bird On A Wire

http://www.marcribot.com/

Bird On The Wire
Like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Like a worm on a hook,
like a knight from some old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee.
If I, if I have been unkind,
I hope that you can just let it go by.
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you.

Like a baby, stillborn,
like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
But I swear by this song
and by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee.
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch,
he said to me, „You must not ask for so much.“
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
she cried to me, „Hey, why not ask for more?“

Oh like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choirhave tried in my way to be free.

Hier nochmal einige Geaphiken von LC

11. Dan Michaelson -Avalanche

(Original wiederum aus dem Album Songs of Love and Hate )

http://www.danmichaelsonandthecoastguards.co.uk/

Avalanche
Well I stepped into an avalanche,
it covered up my soul;
when I am not this hunchback that you see,
I sleep beneath the golden hill.
You who wish to conquer pain,
you must learn, learn to serve me well.

You strike my side by accident
as you go down for your gold.
The cripple here that you clothe and feed
is neither starved nor cold;
he does not ask for your company,
not at the centre, the centre of the world.

When I am on a pedestal,
you did not raise me there.
Your laws do not compel me
to kneel grotesque and bare.
I myself am the pedestal
for this ugly hump at which you stare.

You who wish to conquer pain,
you must learn what makes me kind;
the crumbs of love that you offer me,
they’re the crumbs I’ve left behind.
Your pain is no credential here,
it’s just the shadow, shadow of my wound.

I have begun to long for you,
I who have no greed;
I have begun to ask for you,
I who have no need.
You say you’ve gone away from me,
but I can feel you when you breathe.

Do not dress in those rags for me,
I know you are not poor;
you don’t love me quite so fiercely now
when you know that you are not sure,
it is your turn, beloved,
it is your flesh that I wear.

waHelau!

Heute gibt’s für mich ken Karneval,
des is für mich ne echte Qual,
aber mei Alte hat ein Ekzem,
drum hör ich jetzt Stone Effeem.

[Tusch]

:party:

So, das war meine ruhige Stunde. Demnächst sicher wieder was anderes. Mir hat es Spaß gemacht, außerdem fand ich die Coverversionen wirklich hörenswert.

Und hier zu stöbern lohnt auch:

http://www.leonardcohen.com/us/music/songs-leonard-cohen/hey-thats-no-way-say-goodbye

Danke Leonard für die tollen Songs.

Playlist „Ohrwürmer und anderes vol. 12“
1. Neil Young & Crazy Horse – From Hank To Hendrix
2. Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Pocahontas
3. Neil Young & Crazy Horse -After The Goldrush
4. Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo -Master Song
5. The Miserable Rich -The Stranger Song
6. Liz Green -Sisters Of Mercy
7. Bill Callahan -So Long Marianne
8. Michael Kiwanuka -Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye
9. Diagrams -Famous Blue Raincoat
10. Marc Ribot & My Brightest Diamond -Bird On A Wire
11. Dan Michaelson -Avalanche

danke august, das war eine wunderschöne sendung