Originally posted by Faceman2000:You are rock 'n roll.
Heaven on earth
We need it now
I'm sick of all of this
Hanging around
Sick of sorrow
Sick of pain
Sick of hearing again and again
That there's gonna be
Peace on earth
Originally posted by Faceman2000:You are rock 'n roll.
Originally posted by Faceman2000:You are rock 'n roll.
Originally posted by u2_michaelc:[..]
U2 - peace On Earth.
Heaven on earth
We need it now
I'm sick of all of this
Hanging around
Sick of sorrow
Sick of pain
Sick of hearing again and again
That there's gonna be
Peace on earth
Originally posted by iTim:[YouTube Video]
I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms
Always loved this song.
I do not fear the coming winter
in the heat of midsummer
because I know that the present
will go on in the future,
like an immovable chain,
in a line the instants form,
until everything becomes the present,
in the root of mortal beings.
I do not fear, during dawn,
the icy white breath,
when the immensity of nature
seems lifeless, like a corpse
Because the heart has the light
of all the beautiful, long gone suns
and the memories of the past
like a thousand spirits in the eyes.
It doesn't frighten me
having to lose my breath at the last moment,
even if the cliff
is at the end of the simple path,
the new wine will sweeten
the old branches of the vineyards,
our present will give meaning
to the future of others.
It doesn't sadden me
to pick the last flowers in the garden,
to wander, breathless,
beyond any confinement ,
To surrender all senses
in the middle of the sunset light,
Because death brings with it a dream
that calms all the other dreams forever.
Originally posted by cesar_garza01:While reading a novel, I stumbled upon the Basque folk singer Mikel Laboa. He has really beautiful songs like this one (lyrics are from Xabier Lete)
[YouTube Video]
I translated the lyrics for you (starting with a translation from Euskara) and it goes like this:
[..]
Those are some of the best lyrics I've seen, even if I'm butchering the translation, and that's how you write about mortality.
Originally posted by cesar_garza01:While reading a novel, I stumbled upon the Basque folk singer Mikel Laboa. He has really beautiful songs like this one (lyrics are from Xabier Lete)
[YouTube Video]
I translated the lyrics for you (starting with a translation from Euskara) and it goes like this:
[..]
Those are some of the best lyrics I've seen, even if I'm butchering the translation, and that's how you write about mortality.
Originally posted by MacStripey:[..]
These are some of the most poetic words I have ever read. And believe me, I have assimilated countless poems, dramas, tragedies, etc that writers have provided mankind with over many centuries. This is among the most touching, thoughtful and inspiring works I know. Thanks so much for sharing.