Lyrics at its Best

[BBQ.Master]

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Hier sind zwei weitere, sehr gute Texte von Neil Young:

"Love And Only Love"

Long ago in the book of old,
Before the chapter where dreams unfold
A battle raged on the open page,
Love was a winner there overcoming hate
Like a little girl who couldn't wait.

Love and only love will endure
Hate is everything you think it is
Love and only love will break it down
Love and only love, will break it down
Break it down, break it down.

Tomorrow is a long long time if you're a memory
Trying to find peace of mind
Spirit come back to me,
Give me strength and set me free
Let me hear the magic in my heart.

Love and only love will endure
Hate is everything you think it is
Love and only love will break it down
Love and only love, will break it down
Break it down, break it down.

Long ago in the book of old,
Before the chapter where dreams unfold
A battle raged on the open page,
Love was a winner there overcoming hate
Like a little girl who couldn't wait.

Love and only love will endure
Hate is everything you think it is
Love and only love will break it down
Love and only love.

"Love To Burn"

Late one night I was walking in the valley of hearts.
A spirit came to me and said: You gotta move to start
You gotta take the first step
You gotta grow to be tall
And then she me told something, something that I'll never forget.

You got love to burn.
You better take your chance on love.
You got to let your guard down
You better take a chance,
A chance on love.
Take chance on love
On love.

In the valley of hearts there's a house full of broken windows
And the lovers inside just quarrel all the time
Why'd you ruin my life?
Where you takin' my kid?
And they hold each other saying: How did it come to this?

You got love to burn.
You better take your chance on love.
You got to let your guard down
You better take a chance,
A chance on love.
Take chance on love
On love.

Late one night I was walking in the valley of hearts.
A spirit came to me and said: You gotta move to start
You gotta take the first step
You gotta grow to be tall
And then she me told something, something that I'll never forget.

[SOON]

Um mir ein Urteil über einen Liedtext zu bilden ist m.E. das gesungene Wort notwendig.

Von Neil Young gefällt mir der Song Thrasher besonders gut.
Es ist diese bildhafte Sprache die es mir hier imponiert.

Neil Young - Thrasher

They were hiding behind hay bales,
They were planting
in the full moon
They had given all they had
for something new
But the light of day was on them,
They could see the thrashers coming
And the water
shone like diamonds in the dew.

And I was just getting up,
hit the road before it's light
Trying to catch an hour on the sun
When I saw
those thrashers rolling by,
Looking more than two lanes wide
I was feelin'
like my day had just begun.

Where the eagle glides ascending
There's an ancient river bending
Down the timeless gorge of changes
Where sleeplessness awaits
I searched out my companions,
Who were lost in crystal canyons
When the aimless blade of science
Slashed the pearly gates.

It was then I knew I'd had enough,
Burned my credit card for fuel
Headed out to where the pavement
turns to sand
With a one-way ticket
to the land of truth
And my suitcase in my hand
How I lost my friends
I still don't understand.

They had the best selection,
They were poisoned with protection
There was nothing that they needed,
Nothing left to find
They were lost in rock formations
Or became park bench mutations
On the sidewalks
and in the stations
They were waiting, waiting.

So I got bored and left them there,
They were just deadweight to me
Better down the road
without that load
Brings back the time
when I was eight or nine
I was watchin' my mama's T.V.,
It was that great
Grand Canyon rescue episode.

Where the vulture glides descending
On an asphalt highway bending
Thru libraries and museums,
galaxies and stars
Down the windy halls of friendship
To the rose clipped by the bullwhip
The motel of lost companions
Waits with heated pool and bar.

But me I'm not stopping there,
Got my own row left to hoe
Just another line
in the field of time
When the thrasher comes,
I'll be stuck in the sun
Like the dinosaurs in shrines
But I'll know the time has come
To give what's mine.

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Man hätte übrigens auch diesen Thread wieder aufleben lassen können!
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[SOON]

hier wird eine Geschichte erzählt, ich finde den Song grandios!

The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Virgil Kane is the name
And I served on the Danville train
'Till Stoneman's cavalry came
And tore up the tracks again

In the winter of '65
We were hungry, just barely alive
By May the 10th, Richmond had fell
It's a time I remember, oh so well

The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"

Back with my wife in Tennessee
When one day she called to me
"Virgil, quick, come see,
There goes Robert E. Lee!"

Now, I don't mind chopping wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
You take what you need and you leave the rest
But they should never have taken the very best

The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"

Like my father before me
I will work the land
And like my brother above me
Who took a rebel stand

He was just 18, proud and brave
But a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the mud below my feet
You can't raise a Kane back up when he's in defeat

The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"

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[Aprilfrost]

The Night They Drove... stammt aus der Feder von Robbie Robertson von "The Band", dem wir auch noch andere große Songs zu verdanken haben.
Kennt eigentlich von den Küken noch jemand "Am Tag als Conny Kramer starb"?

[Roland]

The Night They Drove... stammt aus der Feder von Robbie Robertson von "The Band", dem wir auch noch andere große Songs zu verdanken haben.
Kennt eigentlich von den Küken noch jemand "Am Tag als Conny Kramer starb"?

Küken...hüstel....ich bin damit groß geworden und hüstel, hüstel, habe eine CD wo es drauf ist...

Frosti, Du wirst es nicht glauben, Roli hat das Original eben das erste mal in seinem Leben gehört.....

[SOON]

Lennon kann sich sehr direkt ausdrücken.
Besonders gut finde ich die Hinführung zur Hauptaussage:
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe in me
Yoko and me
And that's reality.

John Lennon- God

God is a concept,
By which we measure
Our pain.
I'll say it again.
God is a concept,
By which we measure
Our pain.

I don't believe in magic
I don't believe in I-Ching
I don't believe in Bible
I don't believe in Tarot
I don't believe in Hitler
I don't believe in Jesus
I don't believe in Kennedy
I don't believe in Buddha
I don't believe in Mantra
I don't believe in Gita
I don't believe in Yoga
I don't believe in Kings
I don't believe in Elvis
I don't believe in Zimmerman
I don't believe in Beatles
I just believe in me
Yoko and me
And that's reality.

The dream is over,
What can I say?
The dream is over
Yesterday
I was the dreamweaver,
But now I'm reborn.
I was the walrus,
But now I'm John.
And so dear friends,
You just have to carry on
The dream is over.

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[BBQ.Master]

In dem Text zu "Thrasher" gibt es erneut viele Motive, aber wie so oft frage ich mich, was Neil uns genau damit sagen will.

[Fragile]

The Night They Drove... stammt aus der Feder von Robbie Robertson von "The Band", dem wir auch noch andere große Songs zu verdanken haben.
Kennt eigentlich von den Küken noch jemand "Am Tag als Conny Kramer starb"?

Küken...hüstel....ich bin damit groß geworden und hüstel, hüstel, habe eine CD wo es drauf ist...

Frosti, Du wirst es nicht glauben, Roli hat das Original eben das erste mal in seinem Leben gehört.....

Da gesell' ich mich doch gern zu den Nur-Juliane-Werding-Version-Kennern dazu.
Als ich übrigens das erste Mal den Genesis-Non-Album-Track "Me And Virgil" gehört habe, fühlte ich mich doch sehr an diesen Track erinnert und dachte mir: "Tony, Phil und Mike hören doch nicht etwa heimlich Juliane Werding?"

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Hat übrigens auch sehr gute Lyrics, der Track, wenn man vielleicht von "you're a big boy now" und "pa, you broke her heart" absieht:


Me And Virgil

Ma would never say what happened
And we knew better than push too hard
We knew we had all the chores to tend to
Like fixing fences and helping her
Washing dishes and making coffee
Me and Virgil'd chop some wood
But we'd stop our swinging
Just to listen to her crying
It didn't sound too good
I can remember, too well

But we never thought to pay much heed
We learned to live life the best we could
But then one day pa upped and left us
High and dry without a word
Seemed a pity
My ma was pretty
But I soon learned life ain't that way
And I can remember hearing her weeping
While we were sleeping next to her

I can remember
I'll never forgive and I'll never forget
Cos pa you broke her heart
Ooh pa you broke her heart
You broke her heart
Ooh pa you broke her heart

Well the years rolled by
And 'fore we knew it
Our sister got married and moved out west
I stayed with ma, cos I couldn't desert her
I knew it would hurt her to be alone
So we pulled tighter
We said we'd try to make things easy
And raise a smile
But as the night came
We'd hear her crying
Praying for pa to come back again

I can remember
I'll never forgive him and I'll never forget
Cos pa you broke her heart
Oh pa you broke her heart

And then the winter came
I'd never known it colder
Ooh it seemed the worst for years
And the night she died I swear I saw her smiling
Saying I was a big boy now, no tears

So I packed up all we had, and Virgil got the horses
And we paid our last respects and gave the whip a crack
Ooh, seemed a big bad world, we were riding into
Me and Virgil both agreed, we best head off
And don't look back

Nothing but desert all around
Oh it made me wonder
Lord it's hard to carry on
When you're sick with hunger

Weeks and months of sleeping rough
Keeping clear of danger
Seems we were miles from anywhere
And too far gone to change it
We'd best keep going, don't look back

Well me and Virgil we beat the desert
Riding fast and riding hard
We hit the city, the past behind us
So we raised some hell, we had some fun
But real soon I met a lady oh so pretty, and oh so fine
'fore too long I found myself married
With a home of my own and a blue eyed son
And 'til this day I can hear ma saying to me -
"You're a big boy now"

[BBQ.Master]

Noch ein Text vom großen Neil Young, der mit gerade eingefallen ist:

"Lost In Space"

Live with me, live with me
Live with me, live with me
Live with me.

Lost in space
I heard you were lost in space
That's such a lonely place for you to be.

Out of control
Singin' with too much soul
I heard you got out on parole
Workin' for the queen.

Gardening again
Landscape again
Keepin' all the grounds around her clean
Workin' for the queen.

Don't take out the magic pen
Don't draw on the infinity board
Your buildings, if they rise again
Would do much better on the ocean floor
They'll never feel the way they did before
They did before.

Out on the ocean floor, out on the ocean floor
What could be stranger than the unknown danger
That lies on the ocean floor?

Breakers crash on the beach
I count them like lambs in my sleep
They come at me steady
They know I'm not ready
They pound on my mattress door
Have they got a big one in store.

Losing you
I heard I was losing you
That's not the only thing that I got to lose
I got to lose
The deep see blues
Look at these blues
The deep see blues

Live with me, live with me.

[SOON]

In dem Text zu "Thrasher" gibt es erneut viele Motive, aber wie so oft frage ich mich, was Neil uns genau damit sagen will.

ich glaube da kann sich jeder ein bisschen seinen eigenen Reim drauf machen.
Vermutlich ist es ein Antidrogen Song, ein Thema welches Young über das ganze Tonight's the night-Album behandelte.
Diese ganzen Assoziationsketten geben wohl sein persönliches Umfeld wieder.

[SOON]

kein Sänger bringt derart intensiv Textinhalte zum Ausdruck wie Van the Man.
Diese Lyrics sind für Morrison-Verhältnisse fast zugänglich, was vielleicht an der optimistischen Stimmung liegt in der er sich damals befand.
Genial wie Van hier mitten im Song den Musikfluß unterbricht und spricht "Wait a minute, Wait a minute" dann Flüstert "listen, listen,listen, listen" und dann wieder mit dem nächsten Vers fortfährt.
Solche fesselnden Elemente kenne ich nur von ihm, da kommt keiner sonst ran.

Van Morrison - And The Healing Has Begun

And we`ll walk down the avenue again
And we`ll sing all the songs from way back when
And we`ll walk down the avenue again and the healing has begun

And we`ll walk down the avenue in style
And we`ll walk down the avenue and we`ll smile
And we`ll say baby ain`t it all worthwhile when the healing has begun

I want you to put on your pretty summer dress
You can wear your Easter bonnet and all the rest
And I wanna make love to you yes, yes, yes when the healing has begun

When you hear the music ringin` in your soul
And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows
And it comes from the backstreet rock & roll and the healing has begun
I want you to put on your pretty summer dress
You can wear your Easter bonnet and all the rest
And I wanna make love to you yes, yes, yes and the healing has begun

We`re gonna make music underneath the stars
We`re gonna play to the violin and the two guitars
We`re gonna sit there and play for hours and hours when the healing has begun

Wait a minute, listen, listen,
I didn`t know you stayed up so late.
I just got home from a gig and I saw
you standing on the street.
Just let me move on up to this window-sill a lot yeah, I got some sherry.
You want a drop of port.
Let`s move behind this door here.
Let`s move on up behind this letter-box behind this door.
Let`s go in your front room,
let`s play this Muddy Waters record you got there,
if you just open up a little bit
and let me ease on in this backstreet jellyroll....

We`re gonna stay out all night long
And then we`re gonna go out and roam across the field
Baby you know how I feel when the healing has begun

When the healing, when the healing
We`re gonna stay out all night long
We`re gonna dance to the rock & roll
When the healing when the healing has begun