| Jacques Brel – Ne Me Quitte Pas Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Quite a good translation actually, this song is absolutely astonishing- On a vu souvent Rejaillir le feu De l'ancien volcan Qu'on croyait trop vieux Il est paraît-il Des terres brûlées Donnant plus de blé Qu'un meilleur avril Et quand vient le soir Pour qu'un ciel flamboie Le rouge et le noir Ne s'épousent-ils pas I know of no-one else who could ever have written anything as powerful as these lines. |
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| Jack Johnson – Supposed To Be Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love how he even acknowledges the traps of looking back on things. He thinks of everything-never an incomplete thought in any of his songs. Mad props to my fave artist. Aloha | |
| Iron & Wine – Sixteen, Maybe Less Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The story of life in this effects me so much that I feel physically ill. I seriously just became nauseous because of the overwhealming wrenching of my stomach into knots. It is so beautiful, this song of loss. When it gets to where he sings of his wife who he met at a party when he drank too much, it just becomes overwhealing. Too real I think, too painful. He is certainly saddened by his loss of the subject of the song, and she is still waiting... |
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| Paul Simon – Homeless Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Does anyone know the translation for the Zulu? I had a friend explain it to me when I was in Swaziland, but I have managed to forget everything precisely. I think there was something about "We sleep in the caves," but I just can't remember. |
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| Iron & Wine – Sixteen, Maybe Less Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Correction: the last stanza differs from the third stanza in the last 3 lines. I dreamed that I traveled and found you there In the woods, morning on Christmas Eve Waiting Lovely song, though it doesn't pack the literary punch of other Iron and wine songs. This last album was just slightly dissapointing. Still incredible, just not quite up to the standards that Sam Beam has set forward in his previous songs. |
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| Iron & Wine – Southern Anthem Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Just a thought- might this be of war (possibly the civil) and of a man who left his home and lady to fight? "Freedom, a fever you suffered through" IE fighting for the south's independance. And when he returns home (or dies and sees his home from death) he finds it was destroyed during the war. He talks of the shift in his own faith, using the transfer of the Jesus line; talks of the eventual loss of the war with the freedom line. I love how it transfers the usual "The south will rise again" to a peaceful and more potent resulotion when he says "and the guitar rose again." Absolutey spectacular song- just as every other one by Iron and Wine. | |
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