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I always loved music, I always will.
There are few songs I can't get enough of them.  Sometimes music plays in the background and in a split second I start listening, caught in the moment by the voice, by the melody, sometimes I even don't understand everything the artist is singing but I can imagine what he or she means.

Last week I've found such a jewel, a singing poet with a great voice.
I only knew his song "Take me to church" and it took me quite a time to understand the sense of it. So I got myself his CD - best choice in months. I translated every song and wow - there's so much heart in the lyrics. If he wouldn't sing, he had to be a poet.

I picked up one song for today - it such a fanfic song *g*.

"Like Real People Do"
I had a thought, dear
However scary
About that night
The bugs and the dirt
Why were you digging?
What did you bury
Before those hands pulled me
From the earth?

I will not ask you where you came from
I will not ask and neither should you

Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips
We should just kiss like real people do

I knew that look dear
Eyes always seeking
Was there in someone
That dug long ago
So I will not ask you
Why you were creeping
In some sad way I already know

So I will not ask you where you came from
I would not ask and neither would you

Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips
We should just kiss like real people do

I could not ask you where you came from
I could not ask and neither could you

Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips
We could just kiss like real people do


Here's the link to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlJBDeI3fjc
(I hope it works).

Who could be meant? Any suggestions?

noten

Date: 2014-12-31 01:38 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] jan-u-wine.livejournal.com
.......and in the haunting,
fingers dally upon a Resonator's
neck....

oh, but that echo isn't buried,
is it,

no,
it isn't buried
as the sweet-voiced women
add their golden intonation
to the mix

and the bows pull quiet sorrow
from a cello's *hole-y* face.....

>>>>that's really a beautiful song indeed. I always wonder at people who write lyrics, since they are constrained to tell a story in about 3 minutes. It's a wonderful feat. I really can't speak to what the lyrics mean (sometimes poets write nonsensical stuff pulled from the fabrics of their dreams....this almost feels like that), but other people have *lots* of opinions:

http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859469340/

Date: 2014-12-31 02:08 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] julchen11.livejournal.com
*sighs* so so so true, dear. People writing lyrics like that are fascinating.

"since they are constrained to tell a stroy in about 3 minutes" - I couldn't have said it better.

I'm glad you like it, Jan. See you later and now - enjoy the rest of the year *g*
I really do. Kitties are playing with my socks and Wolfgang's jeans, Wolfi takes a shower and is singing along :-)

I'll be back later, won't miss the start in 2015 - celebrating it with my family friends.

Date: 2014-12-31 05:21 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] jan-u-wine.livejournal.com
have a wonderful new year, dear, with the Wolfie and the kittehs! see you in...... Two Oh One Five!

Happy New Year!!!

Date: 2015-01-01 10:15 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] julchen11.livejournal.com
Happy New Year to you, Jan!
May it be as beautiful as life is!
*cheers*

Date: 2014-12-31 02:32 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] addie71.livejournal.com
Thanks for the link, I'd never heard of Hozier before. :)

Date: 2014-12-31 03:26 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] julchen11.livejournal.com
My pleasure, dear. You know me - I can't keep something wonderful for myself. I just had to share it with my friends.
Have a lovely day!

Date: 2014-12-31 03:20 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] bellewood.livejournal.com
You have a poet's soul my dear, you really have. You make sense of the nonsensical. You see sunshine when there is rain. You make life a happier place to be :) Thank you for the link. I had not heard him before. He has such passion in his music and his voice was meant to be heard x

Date: 2014-12-31 03:25 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] julchen11.livejournal.com
You are such a darling! Thank you so much for your lovingly words.
It makes a cold winter day very warm and sunny.

"He has such passion in his music and his voice" - that's what I wanted to say but I couldn't find the wright words.

I'm glad you enjoyed the song.
Have a fantastic day!

Date: 2014-12-31 07:49 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] mews1945.livejournal.com
I love that song, and I'm glad to know what the lyrics say. The thing I like most about poetry is that it can be interpreted in many different ways, especially something as ambiguous as this one. Haunting is the word for it.

Date: 2015-01-01 10:19 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] julchen11.livejournal.com
That's so true - that's why I love poetry so much.
"Hauting is the word for it" - that's it!
Thanks a lot, Julia.

Date: 2015-01-01 05:02 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] yeuxdebleu.livejournal.com
Hozier is very popular in the US. I love his custom made guitar. It has strings like a guitar but a banjo resonator. That gives it a very unusual sound. Thank you for posting the song, he has a beautiful voice.

Date: 2015-01-01 10:27 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] julchen11.livejournal.com
Thank YOU my dear for stopping by. The voice full of soul and very strong.
... to me he allows us to have a peek through a keyhole into his world.
As Julia said his songs/poetry can be interpreted in many ways.

Happy New Year, my friend!

Date: 2015-01-01 02:24 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] naemi.livejournal.com
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Well, if that song isn't about Casey and Zeke, and Zeke's horrible past with horrible parents that Casey helps him to overcome, then I don't know :o)

Date: 2015-01-01 02:54 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] julchen11.livejournal.com
That's my girl! I felt it in my bones you'd say this *g*

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