The Smiths - A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours
Oh hello...
I am the ghost of Troubled Joe
Hung by his pretty white neck
Some eighteen months ago
I travelled to a mystical time zone
And I missed my bed
And I soon came home
They said :
"There's too much caffeine
In your bloodstream
And a lack of real spice
In your life"
I said :
"Leave me alone
Because I'm alright, dad
Surprised to still
Be on my own..."
Oh, but don't mention love
I'd hate the strain of the pain again
A rush and a push and the land that
We stand on is ours
It has been before
So it shall be again
And people who are uglier than you and I
They take what they need, and just leave
Oh, but don't mention love
I'd hate the pain of the strain all over again
A rush and a push and the land that
We stand on is ours
It has been before
So why can't it be now ?
And people who are weaker than you and I
They take what they want from life
Oh, but don't mention love
No - no, don't mention love !
A rush and a push and the land that
We stand on is ours
Your youth may be gone
But you're still a young man
So phone me, phone me, phone me
So phone me, phone me, phone me
Oh, I think I'm in love
Oh, I think I'm in love
Oh, I think I'm in love (think I'm in love)
Urrgh, I think I'm in lerv
Oh ...
[on "Strangeways, Here We Come", 1987]
And, to celebrate recent events the only way I deem fittingly, one of the most beautiful poems written about a President of the United States, followed by one of the truest about the nation itself:
Walt Whitman: Oh Captain My Captain
Allen Ginsberg: America
Here, read by the author with music by Tom Waits (I always find his voice strangely haunting)
4 comments:
Smiths <3 <3
(sogar mein Lieblingslied von ihnen)
Hoe vreemd mijn liefste! Ik was het bijna gepost deze video ... hoop dat jullie genieten ervan. Pas op jezelf
German, not Dutch! So close, yet so different.
It's my favourite too. "There's A Light That Never Goes Out" and "William It Was Really Nothing" are close.
Ini, magst du Morrissey ohne Smiths auch? Liebe Grüße!
Ja, mag ich auch :) Gibt nichts besseres als "everybody's lost but they're pretending they're not" zu singen wenn man sich verlaufen hat. Obwohl ich bei "Ringleader of the Tormentors" eine Weile brauchte, um mich daran zu gewöhnen.
(P.S. have you seen http://www.vulgarpicture.com/ ?)
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