Tot uw dienst Vind dat dus ook één van de mooiste teksten ooit.

49.

October
And the trees are stripped bare
Of all they wear
What do I care
October
And kingdoms rise
And kingdoms fall
But you go on


U2 - October

Zo eenvoudig, maar ook zo mooi

50.

Frank Boeijen - Robert Zimmerman

Soms op van die avonden
Na een donkere dag
Sluit ik me op
En luister naar jou
Ik hoorde jouw stem
Als kind dat niet slapen kon
En had geen idee
Waar jij over zong
Ik drink op toen
Nu ik je stem weer hoor
Ik drink op jou
Twintig jaar later
Twintig jaar ouder
En de Kennedy's werden
vermoord
En Martin Luther King
Enelke avond
De hel van Vietnam
En Johnson was een
moordenaar
En Nixon en Watergate
En Crosby, Stills,
Nash and Young
En love enpeace en
LSD
Ik was zo jong
Alles was zo duidelijk oh
Ik was zo jong
Het is twintig jaar later
Twintig jaar ouder
Alles liep anders
Dan men had verwacht
Alhoewel de aarde
Nog steeds draait om haar as
Maar er is een verschil
Wat is er aan de hand
Weet jij wat het is?
Robert Zimmerman?
Zimmerman waar ben je nou
Soms op van die avonden
Na een donkere dag
Sluit ik me op
En luister naar jou
Ik hoorde jouw stem
Als kind dat niet slapen kon
En had geen idee
Waar jij over zong
Ik drink op jou
Nu ik je stem weer hoor
Ik drink op toen
Twintig jaar later
Aan het eind van de eeuw
Aan het eind van de eeuw

51. Uit Story of an artist van Daniel Johnston

They sit in front of their TV
Saying, "Hey! This is fun!"
And they laugh at the artist
Saying, "He doesn't know how to have fun."
The best things in life are truly free
Singing birds and laughing bees
"You've got me wrong", says he.
"The sun don't shine in your TV"

52.

Jeff Buckley met het nummer last goodbye...

`This is our last goodbye
I hate to feel the love between us die
But its over
Just hear this and then I`ll go
You gave me more to live for
More than you will ever know

This is our last embrace
Must I dream and always see your face
Why cant we overcome this wall
Well, maybe it`s just because i didn`t know you at all

en nu t allermooiste gedeelte:

Kiss me, please kiss me
But kiss me out of desire,babe,and not consulation
You know it makes me so angry `cause i know that in time
I`ll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye

Did you say`no, this can`t happen to me,
And did you rush to the phone to call
Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind
Saying maybe you didn`t know him at all
You didn`t know him at all,oh, you didn`t know

Well, the bells in the church tower chime
Burning clues into this heart of mine
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and the memories
Offer signs that it`s over.................it`s over.

Ik blijf er toch bij, dit vind ik een hele mooie tekst!

53. Saybia - 'Stranded'

I took a life for granted
Untill it slipped right through my fingers
Although forever parted
I feel your presence more than ever

There's no return from where you went
And it leaves me stranded

It's written in my heart
It's written in my soul now
All the memories torn in me
A constant overload

It's written in the sky
It's written in the stars now
I'm haunted by the things I know
I should've done
All the time we should have had
Is gone

Tonight
In me
Your light will shine, will shine

And with a beautifull sky above
I was reduced to being human

I feel I'm ten feet under
And I long for your embrace
In the absence of your love
I pretend to be alright

But it's written in my heart
It's written in my soul now
All the memories torn in me
A constant overload

It's written in the sky
It's written in the stars now
I'm haunted by the things I know
We should've done
And all the time we should have had
Is gone

Tonight
In me
Your light will shine, shine

In me now
Your living in me
Right in here in the bottom of my heart

And with a beautiful sky above
I was reduced to being
Human

54. Counting Crows - Round here

Step out the front door like a ghost
into the fog where no one notices
the contrast of white on white.

And in between the moon and you
the angels get a better view
of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.

I walk in the air between the rain,
through myself and back again.
Where? I don't know
Maria says seh's dying.
Through the door, I hear her crying
Why? I don't know

Round here we always stand up straight
Round here something radiates

Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand
She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis
She walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land
Just like she's walking on a wire in the circus
She parks her car outside of my house,
takes her clothes off,
Says she's close to understanding Jesus
She knows she's more that just a little misunderstood
She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous

Round here we're carving out our names
Round here we all look the same
Round here we talk just like lions
But we sacrifice like lambs
Round here she's slipping through my hands

Sleeping children got to run like the wind
Out of the lightning dream
Mama's little baby better get herself in
Out of the lightning

She says, "It's only in my head."
She says, "Shhh....I know it's only in my head."

But the girl on the car in the parking lot
says: "Man, you should try to take a shot
Can't you see my walls are crumbling."

Then she looks up at the building
and says she's thinking of jumping.
She says she's tired of life;
she must be tired of something.

Round here she's always on my mind
Round here I got lots of time
Round here we're never sent to bed early
Nobody makes us wait
Round here we stay up very very late

1 van de weinige mooie nummers ook van de CC

55. Manic street preachers - A design for life

Libraries gave us power
Then work came and made us free
What price now for a shallow piece of dignity

I wish I had a bottle
Right here in my dirty face to wear the scars
To show from where I came

We don’t talk about love we only want to get drunk
And we are not allowed to spend
As we are told that this is the end

A design for life
A design for life
A design for life
A design for life

I wish I had a bottle
Right here in my pretty face to wear the scars
To show from where I came

We don’t talk about love we only want to get drunk
And we are not allowed to spend
As we are told that this is the end

A design for life
A design for life
A design for life
A design for life

We don’t talk about love we only want to get drunk
And we are not allowed to spend
As we are told that this is the end

A design for life
A design for life
A design for life
A design for...

Ik moet het ook niet te vaak horen die muziek en ik ga absoluut voor de live-versie van 10 minuten op cd 2 van Across a wire: live in NY

Helemaal mee eens!

Dat wou ik ook zeggen!

54. Lullaby Of London (The Pogues)


As I walked down by the riverside
One evening in the spring
Heard a long gone song
From days gone by
Blown in on the great North wind
Though there is no lonesome corncrake's cry
Or sorrow and delight
You can hear the cars
And the shouts from bars
And the laughter and the fights

May the ghosts that howled
Round the house at night
Never keep you from your sleep
May they all sleep tight
Down in hell tonight
Or where ever they may be

As I walked on with a heavy heart
Then a stone danced on the tide
And the song went on
Though the lights were gone
And the North wind gently sighed
And an evening breeze coming from the East
That kissed the riverside
So I pray now child that you sleep tonight
When you hear this lullaby

May the wind that blows from haunted graves
Never bring you misery
May the angels bright
Watch you tonight
And keep you while you sleep


(simpel slaap liedjes maar zo beeldend. Je ziet hem daar ook echt lopen)

Goed dat Shane MacGowan hier eens wordt genoemd! Toch een van de betere tekstschrijvers van de jaren 80; tegelijk modern en puttend uit een eeuwenoude bron.

Vind ik ook.
Vooral wat je zegt over eeuwen oud maar tegelijk van nu.

mooie voorbeelden: The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn, Sally MacLennane, If I Should Fall From Grace With God, Thousands Are Sailing

Shane MacGowan is toch wel een held van me, jammer dat het zo tragisch met hem afgelopen is. Hij had nog veel moois kunnen maken

Savatage - Heal My Soul (akoestich, enkel begeleid door piano)

I've been waiting
Long forgotten
Shipwrecked on
A distant shore
Am I drifting
No more wanted
Floating outward
Evermore

All the dreams
That I've harbored
In the labyrinths
Of my soul

Gone forever
Not discarded
Only sleeping
Till they're whole

In the graveyard
Of my heart now
Sleep the years
That I've long sold

Father hear me
I am tired
Shall I waken
In thy home

Hold me closer
I am trying
Sweet Lord Jesus
Heal my soul...

56. Wake Up - The Arcade Fire

Somethin’ filled up
my heart with nothin’,
someone told me not to cry.

But now that I’m older,
my heart’s colder,
and I can see that it’s a lie.

Children wake up,
hold your mistake up,
before they turn the summer into dust.

If the children don’t grow up,
our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up.
We’re just a million little god’s causin rain storms
Turnin’ every good thing to rust.

I guess we’ll just have to adjust.

With my lighnin’ bolts a glowin’
I can see where I am goin’ to be
when the reaper he reaches and touches my hand.

With my lighnin’ bolts a glowin’
I can see where I am goin’
With my lighnin’ bolts a glowin’
I can see where I am go-goin’

You better look out below!

57. I've Seen It All - Björk & Thom Yorke

I've seen it all, I have seen the trees,
I've seen the willow leaves dancing in the breeze
I've seen a man killed by his best friend,
And lives that were over before they were spent.
I've seen what I was - I know what I'll be
I've seen it all - there is no more to see!

You haven't seen elephants, kings or Peru!
I'm happy to say I had better to do
What about China? Have you seen the Great Wall?
All walls are great, if the roof doesn't fall!

And the man you will marry?
The home you will share?
To be honest, I really don't care...

You've never been to Niagara Falls?
I have seen water, its water, that's all...
The Eiffel Tower, the Empire State?
My pulse was as high on my very first date!
Your grandson's hand as he plays with your hair?
To be honest, I really don't care...

I've seen it all, I've seen the dark
I've seen the brightness in one little spark.
I've seen what I chose and I've seen what I need,
And that is enough, to want more would be greed.
I've seen what I was and I know what I'll be
I've seen it all - there is no more to see!

You've seen it all and all you have seen
You can always review on your own little screen
The light and the dark, the big and the small
Just keep in mind - you need no more at all
You've seen what you were and know what you'll be
You've seen it all - there is no more to see!

Jongens, het is echt toeval dat ook ik met The Pogues kom. Ik wordt geraakt door teksten die gaan over dingen die tegen mijn gevoel van rechtvaardigheid indruisen. Zoals het verhaal van Rubin Carter in Bob Dylan's Hurricane. Of het nummer Tuesday Morning van Melissa Etheridge, over een homosexuele man die een heldendaad verricht, maar niet als held word geëerd in het homofobe Amerika. En zeker ook Biko van Peter Gabriel.

Maar bovenal krijg ik elke keer weer kippevel als ik The Birmingham Six voorbij hoor komen van The Pogues. De mannen (voor zover nog in leven) zijn inmiddels vrij, maar staan tot in lengte van jaren in dit lied symbool voor iedereen die de gerechtelijke dwalingen in de wereld moeten ondergaan:

57. Birmingham Six - The Pogues
There were six men in Birmingham
In Guildford there's four
That were picked up and tortured
And framed by the law
And the filth got promotion
But they're still doing time
For being Irish in the wrong place
And at the wrong time
In Ireland they'll put you away in the Maze
In England they'll keep you for seven long days
God help you if ever you're caught on these shores
The coppers need someone
And they walk through that door

You'll be counting years
First five, then ten
Growing old in a lonely hell
Round the yard and the stinking cell
From wall to wall, and back again

A curse on the judges, the coppers and screws
Who tortured the innocent, wrongly accused
For the price of promotion
And justice to sell
May the judged by their judges when they rot down in hell

May the whores of the empire lie awake in their beds
And sweat as they count out the sins on their heads
While over in Ireland eight more men lie dead
Kicked down and shot in the back of the head

58. Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance


Well oh they might wear classic Reeboks
Or knackered Converse
Or tracky bottoms tucked in socks
But all of that's what the point is not
The point's that there ain't no romance around there

And there's the truth that they can't see
They'd probably like to throw a punch at me
And if you could only see them, then you would agree
Agree that there ain't no romance around there

You know, oh it's a funny thing you know
We'll tell 'em if you like
We'll tell 'em all tonight
They'll never listen
Cause their minds are made up
And course it's all okay to carry on that way

And over there there's broken bones
There's only music, so that there's new ringtones
And it don't take no Sherlock Holmes
To see it's a little different around here

Don't get me wrong, oh there's boys in bands
And kids who like to scrap with pool cues in their hands
And just cause he's had a coupla cans
He thinks it's alright to act like a dickhead

Don't you know, oh it's a funny thing you know
We'll tell em if you like
We'll tell em all tonight
They'll never listen
Cause their minds are made up
And course it's all okay to carry on that way

I said no
Oh no!
Oh you won't get me to go!
Anywhere, said anywhere
I won't go
Oh no no!

Well over there there's friends of mine
What can I say, I've known 'em for a long long time
And yeah they might overstep the line
But I just cannot get angry in the same way
Not in the same way
Not in the same way
Oh no, oh no no


Don't get me wrong, ik weet ook wel dat deze gasten geen Dylan-achtige teksten schrijven. Maar hun teksten voelen voor mij uniek aan, een zin als:

There's only music, so that there's new ringtones

zie ik een andere band niet zo gauw schrijven, dat maakt dit bandje juist zo leuk

Ik wou hem ook plaatsen maar toen zag ik dat hij al was geplaatst. Dat heb je natuurlijk met grootse teksten.

Birmingham Six van The Pogues raakt mij ook (sommige andere songs van ze trouwens ook wel). Ik zou me bijna hardop af gaan vragen hoe het mogelijk is dat onschuldigen zo lang, zonder uitzicht op vrijlating, kunnen worden vastgezet.

Mijn bijdrage komt van de, schromelijk ondergewaardeerde, band Thunder. Hun song It Happened In This Town gaat over de moord op onschuldige kinderen. Eigenlijk kan ik het woord onschuldig wel weglaten, want kindermoordenaars zijn echt het laagste van het laagste. Zanger/frontman Daniel Bowes over deze song:

"De tragedie van de moord op peuter James Bulgar en alle kinderen die de afgelopen jaren vermoord zijn. Eén van die kinderen is in de buurt van onze woonplaats vermoord en dan kijk je ineens heel anders naar het nieuws, want een gebeurtenis in je buurt lijkt je veel meer aan te grijpen dan de rest van de ellende op de wereld. Mensen beginnen zich dan ook schuldig te voelen, alsof zij er iets aan gedaan hadden kunnen hebben. De essentie van het nummer is, dat mensen pas gaan nadenken als er iets in de buurt van ze gebeurt."

Nu dan een stukje van de songtekst:
Goodbye little angel, so young and so sweet
What makes somebody do that? What makes that kind of a man?
But you're gone and things will never be the same
I feel your tears when it rains
And though I try I can't explain
Where's the sense in it all?

We cover our eyes, cover our eyes
Cos' we don't wanna see this
We hope it's a lie, hope it's a lie
Cos' our world isn't like this

ACROSS THE LINES - TRACY CHAPMAN

Across the lines
Who would dare to go
Under the bridge
Over the tracks
That seperates whites from blacks

Choose sides
Or run for your life
Tonight the riots begin
On the back streets of America
They kill the dream of America

Little black girl gets assaulted
Ain't no reason why
Newspaper prints the story
And racist tempers fly
Next day it starts a riot
Knives and guns are drawn
Two black boys get killed
One white boy goes blind

Little black girl gets assaulted
Don't no one know her name
Lots of people hurt and angry
She's the one to blame

REM - The Great Beyond

I've watched the stars fall silent from your eyes
All the sights that I have seen
I can't believe that I believed I wished
That you could see
There's a new planet in the solar system
There is nothing up my sleeve

I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs
I'm tossing up punch lines that were never there
Over my shoulder a piano falls
Crashing to the ground

In all this talk of time
Talk is fine
But I don't want to stay around
Why can't we pantomime, just close our eyes
And sleep sweet dreams
Me and you with wings on our feet

I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs
I'm tossing up punch lines that were never there
Over my shoulder a piano falls
Crashing to the ground

I'm breaking through
I'm bending spoons
I'm keeping flowers in full bloom
I'm looking for answers from the great beyond

I want the hummingbirds, the dancing bears
Sweetest dreams of you
I Look into the stars
I Look into the moon

I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs
I'm tossing up punch lines that were never there
Over my shoulder a piano falls
Crashing to the ground

I'm breaking through
I'm bending spoons
I'm keeping flowers in full bloom
I'm looking for answers from the great beyond

I'm breaking through
I'm bending spoons
I'm keeping flowers in full bloom
I'm looking for answers from the great
Answers from the great, answers

I'm breaking through
I'm bending spoons
I'm keeping flowers in full bloom
I'm looking for answers from the great beyond

I'm breaking through
I'm bending spoons
I'm keeping flowers in full bloom
I'm looking for answers from the great
Answers from the great, answers

I'm breaking through
I'm bending spoons
I'm keeping flowers in full bloom
I'm looking for answers from the great beyon

Bruce Springsteen - Independence Day

Well papa go to bed now it’s getting late
Nothing we can say is gonna change anything now
I’ll be leaving in the morning from st. mary’s gate
We wouldn’t change this thing even if we could somehow
`cause the darkness of this house has got the best of us
There’s a darkness in this town that’s got us too
But they can’t touch me now and you can’t touch me now
They ain’t gonna do to me what I watched them do to you

So say goodbye it’s independence day
It’s independence day all down the line
Just say goodbye it’s independence day
It’s independence day this time

Now I don’t know what it always was with us
We chose the words and yeah we drew the lines
There was just no way this house could hold the two of us
I guess that we were just too much of the same kind

Well say goodbye it’s independence day
All boys must run away come independence day
So say goodbye it’s independence day
All men must make their way come independence day

Now the rooms are all empty down at frankie’s joint
And the highway she’s deserted down to breaker’s point
There’s a lot of people leaving town now
Leaving their friends their homes
At night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone

Well papa go to bed now it’s getting late
Nothing we can say can change anything now
Because there’s just different people coming down here now
And they see things in different ways
And soon everything we’ve known will just be swept away

So say goodbye it’s independence day
Papa now I know the things you wanted that you could not say
But won’t you just say goodbye it’s independence day
I swear I never meant to take those things away

Talk Talk - Happiness is easy

Makes you feel much older
Sublime the blind parade
It wrecks me how they justify
their acts of war they assemble, they pray

Take good care of what the priests say
After death
it's so much fun'
Little sheep
don't let your feet stray

Happiness is easy

Joy be written on the earth
And the sky above
Jesus star that shines so bright
Gather us in love


Guilt upon their shoulders
How well the cause evades
Infecting your religions,
claiming pacts
It's easy to shoulder the blame

Happiness is easy
Jesus came to Galilee
Happiness is easy
sailing on the sea
Happiness is easy
Jesus came to save our souls
Happiness is easy
and be a friend to me

(Instrumental)


Try to teach my children
To recognise excuse before it acts
From love and conviction to pray
Take good care of what the priests say
After death
it's so much fun'
Little sheep
don't let your feet stray

Happiness is easy

Jesus came to Galilee
sailing on the sea
Jesus came to save our souls
and be a friend to me
Jesus came to Galilee
sailing on the sea
Jesus came to save our souls
and be a friend to me
Joy be written on the earth
And the sky above
Jesus star that shines so bright
Gather us in love,
Gather us in love


Pierre en JonnieBrasco noemden dit nummer ook al bij de huilnummers, maar wat een fantastische tekst is dit ook!

Ik heb deze pagina al aardig wat gepost, maar toch kan ik het niet laten:

George Michael - You have been loved

She takes the back road and the lane
Past the school that has not changed
In all this time
She thinks of when the boy was young
All the battles she had won
Just to give him life

That man
She loved that man
For all his life
But now we meet to take him flowers
And only god knows why

For what's the use in pressing palms
When children fade in mother's arms
It's a cruel world
We've so much to lose
And what we have to learn, we rarely choose

So if it's god who took her son
He cannot be the one living in her mind

Take care my love, she said
Don't think that god is dead
Take care my love, she said

You have been loved

If i was weak, forgive me
But i was terrified
You brushed my eyes with angels wings, full of love
The kind that makes devils cry

So these days
My life has changed
And i'll be fine
But she just sits and counts the hours
Searching for her crime

So what's the use of pressing palms
If you won't keep such love from harm
It's a cruel world
You've so much to prove

And heaven help the ones who wait for you

Well i've no daughters, i've no sons
Guess i'm the only one
Living in my life

Take care my love, he said
Don't think that god is dead
Take care my love, he said

You have been loved


Ik ben zeker geen fan van al zijn werk, maar dit vind ik toch wel een mooi nummer.

Jamie lidell - multiply tja kan nergens tekst vinden maar ik vind het wel goed

There's a quiet storm
And it never felt like this before
There's a quiet storm
That is you
There's a quiet storm
And it never felt this hot before
Giving me something that's taboo
(Sometimes I think you're just too good for me)

Sade - Sweetest Taboo.
Het hele nummer, zang en muziek, sprak al ontzettend tot mijn verbeelding toen ik nog een klein jongetje was