Lyrics at its Best

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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

[Fragile]

Ist auch gerade in der aktuellen eclipsed-Augabe vertreten:


Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat

It's four in the morning, the end of December
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
New York is cold, but I like where I'm living
There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening.

I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert
You're living for nothing now, I hope you're keeping some kind of record.

Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?

Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older
Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
You'd been to the station to meet every train
And you came home without Lili Marlene

And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
And when she came back she was nobody's wife.

Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
One more thin gypsy thief
Well I see Jane's awake --

She sends her regards.
And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
What can I possibly say?
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
I'm glad you stood in my way.

If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me
Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.

Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear

Sincerely, L. Cohen

[BBQ.Master]

Als Neil Youngs Vater 2005 gestorben ist, hat Neil ihm dieses Stück geschrieben:

"Prairie Wind"

Trying to remember what my daddy said
Before too much time took away his head
He said we're going back and I'll show you what I'm talking about
Going back to Cypress River, back to the old farmhouse

(Prairie wind blowing through my head)
(Prairie wind blowing through my head)
(Trying to remember what Daddy said)
(Prairie wind blowing through my head)

I tried to tell the people but they never heard a word I say
They say there's nothing out there but wheat fields anyway
Just a farmer's wife hanging laundry in her back yard
Out on the prairie where the winds blow long and hard

(Prairie wind blowing through my head)
(Prairie wind blowing through my head)
(Trying to remember what Daddy said)
(Prairie wind blowing through my head)

Late at night, lights dancing in the northern sky
Like the Indian spirits trying to show me how to fly
You can see into the future but it may be a mirage
Like a new car sitting there in your old garage

(Prairie wind blowing through my head)
(Prairie wind blowing through my head)
(Prairie wind blowing through my head)
(Trying to remember what Daddy said)

There's a place on the prairie where evil and goodness play
Daddy told me all about it but I don't remember what he said
It might be afternoon and it might be the dead of night
But you'll know when you see it 'cause it sure is a hell of a sight

(Prairie wind blowing through my head)
(Prairie wind blowing through my head)
(Prairie wind blowing through my head)
(Trying to remember what Daddy said)

Ein sehr intensives Stück ist auch "Spirit Road":

There's a long highway in your mind
The spirit road that you must find
To get you home to peace again
Where you belong my love lost friend

When you're alone
You cheat yourself
You paint yourself in a dark, dark place

You get your shoes
And get your hat
Get out here while you still can
There's nothin' right that you can say
You keep on talkin' anyway and everyone seems to turn on you
There's nothing right that you can ever do

Spirit road
Spirit road
Spirit road
Spirit road

Now you're on that long highway in your mind
The spirit road that you had to find
You're headed home to peace again
Where you belong my love lost friend

You stop to eat
You start to drink
But you don't stop and you don't think
You lost your keys
You're on your knees
You're on your back and lookin' up in the trees

And the night swirls for a little girl
A speck of dust in the giant world
There's a spirit road that you must find
A long highway in your mind

Spirit road
Spirit road
Spirit road
Spirit road

There's a long highway in your mind
The spirit road that you must find
To get you home to peace again
Where you belong my love lost friend

Don't feed that snake
That turns on you
You starve it out, that's what you do

And it makes you lie
It makes you cheat
It steals your shoes and cuts your feet

The snake keeps feeding through the night
You lose your soul without a fight
There's nothin' right that you can say
You keep on talkin' anyway

There's a long highway in your mind
The spirit road that you must find
Peace again
Peace again

There's a long highway in your mind
The spirit road that you must find
To get you home to peace again
Where you belong my love lost friend

When you're alone
You cheat yourself
You paint yourself in a dark, dark place

Get your hat
Get your shoes
Get out here while you still can still choose

Und noch ein brillanter Text:

"Don't Let It Bring You Down"

Old man lying by the side of the road
With the lorries rolling by,
Blue moon sinking from the weight of the load
And the building scrape the sky,
Cold wind ripping down the allay at dawn
And the morning paper flies,
Dead man lying by the side of the road
With the daylight in his eyes.

Don't let it bring you down
It's only castles burning,
Find someone who's turning
And you will come around.

Blind man running through the light of the night
With an answer in his hand,
Come on down to the river of sight
And you can really understand,
Red lights flashing through the window in the rain,
Can you hear the sirens moan?
White cane lying in a gutter in the lane,
If you're walking home alone.

Don't let it bring you down
It's only castles burning,
Just find someone who's turning
And you will come around.

Don't let it bring you down
It's only castles burning,
Just find someone who's turning
And you will come around.

[BBQ.Master]

Tom Waits - Road To Peace

Young Abdel Madi Shabneh was only 18 years old
he was the youngest of 9 children
he'd never spent a night away from home
and his mother held his photograph
up in the New York Times
you see the killing has intensified
along the road to peace

he was a tall thin boy with a wispy moustache
disguised as an Orthodox Jew
on a crowded bus in Jerusalem
some had survived World War II
and the thunderous explosion
blew out windows 200 yards away
more retribution and 17 dead
along the road to peace

now at King George Avenue and Jaffa Road
passengers boarded bus 14A
in the aisle next to the driver Abdel Madi Shabneh
the last thing that he said on earth
was God is great and God is good
and he blew them all to kingdom come
upon the road to peace

now in response to this
another kiss of death was visited upon
Yashir Tehah Israel said is an
Hamas Senior militant
Israel sent 4 choppers in
flames engulfed his white Opel
and it killed his wife and his 3-year-old child
leaving only blackened skeletons

they found a toddler's bottle
and a pair of small shoes
and they waved them in front of the cameras
but Israel said they did not know that
his wife and child were in the car
there are roadblocks everywhere
and only suffering on TV
neither side will ever give up their smallest right
along the road to peace

Israel launched its latest campaign
against Hamas on Tuesday
two days later Hamas shot back
and killed five Israeli soldiers
though thousands dead and wounded on both sides
most of them Middle Eastern civilians
they fill their children full of hate
to fight an old man's war and die
upon the road to peace

this is our land we will fight with all our force
say the Palastinians and the Jews
and each side will cut off the hand of
anyone who tries to stop the resistance
if the right eye offends thee
then you must pluck it out
And Machoud Abbas and Sharon had been lost
along the road to peace

once Kissinger said
we have no friends
America only has interests
and now our president wants to be seen as a hero
and he's hungry for re-election
Bush is reluctant to risk his future
with the fear of his political failures
so he plays chess at his desk
and poses for the press
ten thousand miles
from the road to peace

in a video that they found
at the home of Abdel Madi Shabneh
he held a Kalashnikov rifle
and he spoke with the voice like a boy
he was an excellent student
he studied so hard
it was as if he had a future
he told his mother
he had a test that day
out along the road to peace

the fundamentalist killing on both sides
is standing in the path of peace
and tell me
why are we arming the Israeli army
with guns and tanks and bullets
if God is great and God is good
why can't he change the hearts of men
well maybe God himself
is lost and needs help
maybe God himself
he needs all of our help
maybe God himself
is lost and needs help
he's out upon the road to peace

maybe God himself is lost and needs help
maybe God himself he needs all of our help
and he's lost upon the road to peace
and he's lost upon the road to peace
out upon the road to peace

[Fragile]

Harry Chapin - Cats In The Cradle (manch ein Elternteil findet sich sicherlich dort wieder)

My child arrived just the other day
He came to the world in the usual way
But there were planes to catch and there were bills to pay
He learned to walk while I was away

And he was talking 'fore I knew it and as he grew
He'd say, "I'm gonna be like you, dad
You know, I'm gonna be like you"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
"When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when
We'll get together then, son, you know we'll have a good time then"

When my son turned ten just the other day
Said, "Thanks for the ball, dad, come on and let's play
Can you teach me to throw?" I said, "Not today
I got a lot to do" he said, "That's okay"

And he walked away but his smile never dimmed
Said, "I'm gonna be like him, yeah
You know, I'm gonna be like him"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
"When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when
We'll get together then, son, you know we'll have a good time then"

Well, he came from college just the other day
So much like a man I just had to say
"Son, I'm proud of you, can you sit for a while?"
He shook his head and he said with a smile

"What I'd really like, dad, is to borrow the car keys
See you later
Can I have them please?"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
"When you coming home, son?" "I don't know when
But we'll get together then, dad, We're gonna have a good time then"

Well, I've long since retired and my son's moved away
Called him up just the other day
I said, "I'd like to see you if you don't mind"
He said, "I'd love to, dad, if I could find the time"

"You see, my new job's a hassle and the kid's got the flu
But it's sure nice talking to you, dad
It's been sure nice talking to you"

And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me

Yeah, and the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man in the moon
"When you coming home, son?" "I don't know when
But we'll get together then, dad, we're gonna have a good time then


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