lørdag den 15. marts 2008

Musikken på min blog

Sangen du hører her på min blog er Leonard Cohens "To a teacher". Leonard Cohen er for mig den største sangskriver nogensinde, på trods af at hans tekster er svære at analysere.




Hurt one and for all into silence.
A long pain ending without a song to prove it.
Who could stand beside you so close to Eden.
When you glinted in every eye the held-high razor,
shivering every ram and son?
And now the silent loony bin, where
the shadows live in the rafters like day-weary bats,
until the turning mind, a radar signal lures them to exaggerate
mountain-size on the white stone wall your tiny limp.
How can I leave you in such a house?
Are there no more saints and wizards
to praise their ways with pupils,
no more evil to stun with the slap of a wet red tongue?
Did you confuse the Messiah in a mirror
and rest because he had finally come?
Let me cry help beside you, Teacher.
I have entered under this dark roof
as fearlessly as an honoured son enters his fathers house.

Dette er et af mine yndlingsnumre (skrevet i 2004), men hvad handler sangen i grunden om?

2 kommentarer:

Kristoffer Harboe sagde ...

Jeg har det helt bestemt et bud på, hvad sangen handler om, men det er hemmeligt!

Lines Blog sagde ...

Hallo!! Det kan jeg jo ikke bruge til ret meget :-) Jeg tror faktisk ikke, du har regnet ud hvad den handler om ;-] Og hvis!! så speak up!