Friday, November 27, 2009

2D Abstract #116

I commonly never tell that I utterly love every song from this album; so much that I keep it secret and very mine, because it's an intimate pleasure anyway. This time I say it only for once. It's so widely beautiful in its sad and joyful expression altogether; and I'm only pushed to do it now to do company, less to the image, than to the fact that I've been laughing of joy and crying of sadness, both at the same puzzling and beautiful time; and the aesthetics of this song goes with the beauty of that. A few times this had happened before, to let me know that I'm living a remarkable milestone in my life.
Give yourself four minutes and play the song here:





It's up in the morning and on the downs
Little white clouds like gambolling lambs
And I am breathless over you

And the red-breasted robin beats his wings
His throat it trembles when he sings
For he is helpless before you

The happy hooded bluebells bow
And bend their heads all a-down
Heaved by the early morning dew

At the whispering stream, at the bubbling brook
The fishes leap up to take a look
For they are breathless over you

Still your hands
And still your heart
For still your face comes shining through
And all the morning glows anew

Still your mind
Still your soul
For still, the fare of love is true
And I am breathless without you

The wind circles among the trees
And it bangs about the new-made leaves
For it is breathless without you

The fox chases the rabbit round
The rabbit hides beneath the ground
For he is defenseless without you

The sky of daytime dies away
And all the earthly things they stop to play
For we are all breathless without you

I listen to my juddering bones
The blood in my veins and the wind in my lungs
And I am breathless without you

Still your hands
And still your heart
For still your face comes shining through
And all the morning glows anew

Still your soul
Still your mind
Still, the fire of love is true
And I am breathless without you


Nick Cave, "Breathless".

2 comments:

Will Doohan said...

As you already know, I am strange.
..-}
One of my oddities is that I rarely listen to the words of songs, just the music. That's why I prefer Classical and Jazz music. But that is just me.

runnerfrog said...

I also like Jazz and Classical. Maybe you could find something interesting in a instrumental rock band called Caspian. Maybe.
I could upload some Classical, Jazz and Instrumental Rock albums to a server, for everyone who wants it. :-)