ΓΙΑ ΤΟΝ HOUSE

Ερώτημα: μπορεί ο εγωισμός να οδηγήσει σε οριακά σημεία αυτοσυνείδησης;

I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
you are someone else
I am still right here

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

Δείτε το και ακούστε και την πρωτότυπη εκτέλεση από τους Nine Inch Nails, του Trent Reznor. Είναι το original από το Downward spiral.


Μια και δεν παίρνουμε τους εαυτούς μας στα σοβαρά, ας ακούσουμε δύο τραγούδια από to συγκρότημα του Matt Johnson, τους The The, ένα από τα μεγαλύτερα συγκροτήματa όλων των εποχών. Μελωδία, ρυθμός, στίχος και όμως παντελώς άγνωστοι, τουλάχιστον στην Ελλάδα που η νεολαία μετά τη συναυλία των James πάει να ακούσει Πετρέλη.

The more I see
The less I know
About all the things I thought were wrong or right
& carved in stone

So, dont ask me about
War, religion, or god
Love, sex, or death
Because....

Everybody knows whats going wrong with the world
But I dont even know whats going on in myself.

Youve gotta work out your own salvation.
With no explanation to this earth we fall
On hands & knees we crawl
And we look up to the stars
And we reach out & pray
To a deaf, dumb & blind God who never explains.

Every body knows whats going wrong with the world
But I dont even know whats going on in myself.

Lord, Ive been here for so long
I can feel it coming down on me
Im just a slow emotion replay of somebody I used to be.


I followed that bead of sweat,
to the small of your back,
from the nape of your neck,
Lightin' it up, with every drag upon my cigarette.

It can run, but it can't hide--
Like the unspoken feelings on your mind.
I'm too tense to be tender,
your too weak to be true.
You try to make it easier upon yourself,
By makin' it hard on you!
but it's the lies in your eyes
that make me wanna cry--
It's just sometimes I get so lonesome
--I could die.

I'm just another western guy,
with desires that I can't satisfy
So all the love I gave to you
Means nothing at all.
Dear God, God, God, this slow train to dawn.

So are you lying when you say you love me.
I'm lying when I say I don't--
We've opened our hearts to let each other look in,
To have and to hold,
but it's the words that remain unsaid,
that are the words I wanna hear you speak,
I bet the birds start singing, & the sun comes up,
before we fall asleep--

Oh the tears in your eyes, just make me wanna cry,
It's just sometimes I get so lonesome--I Could Die!!

Παρασέρνομαι με τόσο μεγάλα συγκροτήματα. Φυσικό είναι αφού δεν ξέρεις τι να πιάσεις και τι να αφήσεις. Ο Johnson είχε το καταπληκτικό χάρισμα να συνδυάζει δαιμονιώδη ρυθμό και μεγαλειώδεις στίχους. Ακούστε το Sweet bird of truth και θα καταλάβετε.

6 oclock in the morning & Im the last person in this plane
Still awake
Yknow I can almost smell the blood washing against the shores,
Of this land that cant forget its past.
Oh the wind that carries this plane, is the wind of change,
Heaven sent and hell bent!
Over the mountain tops we go, just like all the other gi joes

Ee-ay-ee-ay----adios!

Chorus
This is your captain calling--with an urgent warning
Were above the gulf of arabia--our altitude is falling
& I cant hold her up--theres no time for thinking
All hands on deck--this bird is sinking

Across the beaches and cranes, rivers and trains
All the money Ive made--bodies Ive maimed.
Time was when I seemed to know,
Just like any other gi joe
Should I cry like a baby, or die like a man
While all the planets like wars start joining hands,
Oh what a heaven--what a hell!!
Yknow theres nothing can be done in the whole wide world.

I dont know whats wrong or right,
Im just a regular guy, with bottled up insides,
I aint ever been to church or believed in
Jesus christ
But Im praying that gods with you when you die!!!