Poetry on the Rock

Spirit

2012-01-31T20:31:00.003+02:00

Man gets tired
Spirit don't

Man surrenders
Spirit won't

Man crawls
Spirit flies

Spirit lives when man dies

Man seems
Spirit is

Man dreams
The spirit lives

Man is tethered
Spirit is free

What spirit is, man can be

1985, Mike Scott (The Waterboys)

Locomotive Breath

2009-02-07T11:20:00.011+02:00

In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath,
Runs the all-time loser,
Headlong to his death.
He feels the piston scraping
Steam breaking on his brow

Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train won't stop going
No way to slow down.

He sees his children jumping off
At the stations, one by one.
His woman and his best friend
In bed and having fun.
He's crawling down the corridor
On his hands and knees

Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train won't stop going
No way to slow down.

He hears the silence howling
Catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls.
He picks up Gideon's Bible
Open at page one

God stole the handle and
The train won't stop going
No way to slow down.

1971, Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson)

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Ελεύθερη Μετάφραση από panosx.blogspot.com

Στήν παράνοια που σύρεται
Απ' την ανάσα της ατμομηχανής
Τρέχει ο Αιώνια Χαμένος,
Κατ'ευθείαν στό Θάνατό του.
Νιώθει το συριγμό τού πιστονιού
Τον ατμό να απλώνεται στά τσίνορα του

Ο Γερο-Τσάρλυ έκλεψε το χειρόφρενο καί
Το τρένο δεν θα σταματήσει,
Δεν υπάρχει τρόπος να επιβραδύνει.

Βλέπει τα Παιδιά του να πηδούν
Απ' τούς σταθμούς,ένα προς ένα,
Η γυναίκα κι' ο καλύτερος φίλος του
περνούν καλά στο κρεβάτι.
Έρπει κάτω στον διάδρομο,
στα χέρια καί στα γόνατα

Ο Γερο-Τσάρλυ έκλεψε το χειρόφρενο και
Το τρένο δεν θα σταματήσει,
Δεν υπάρχει τρόπος να επιβραδύνει.

Ακούει το ουρλιαχτό της σιωπής,
Πιάνει αγγέλους όπως πέφτουν
Καί ο Αιώνια Κερδισμένος
Τον έχει απλά στο χέρι.
Αρπάζει τού Γεδεών την Βίβλο
Την ανοίγει στην Σελίδα Ένα

Ο Θεός έκλεψε το χειρόφρενο καί
Το τρένο δεν θα σταματήσει,
Δεν υπάρχει τρόπος να επιβραδύνει.

I'm So Afraid

2008-05-28T12:30:00.006+03:00

Για τον Γιάννη...

I been alone
All the years
So many ways to count the tears
I never change
I never will
I'm so afraid the way I feel

Days when the rain and the sun are gone
Black as night
Agony's torn at my heart too long
So afraid
Slip and I fall and I die

I been alone
Always down
No one cared to stay around
I never changeI never will
I'm so afraid the way I feel

Days when the rain and the sun are gone
Black as night
Agony's torn at my heart too long
So afraid
Slip and I fall and I die

Early 70s, Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac)

Blind

2008-04-04T11:41:00.007+03:00

I see reflections in the water
Autumn colours, summer's daughter
And as as the year is growing older
I see winter on my shoulder
I stand in the haze
Watching stormy ripples grow on my own
Never knew your needed
Till I found myself standing here alone

And in the water, such a sad face
Slowly drowning, such a sad face
If only I could change the seasons
Like a poet, I've my reasons
It started to snow in the middle of July
Wonder why
Never did understand you
My sorrow is hanging in the grey sky

In the summer days we flew to the sun
On melting wings
But the seasons changed to fast
Leave us all behind
Blind

But then the stone fell on the water
Putting end to summer's daughter
And me, I turn away remembering
All the seasons, such a sad thing
It started to rain in the middle of the sun
Winter's begun

Never did understand you
My sorrow is hanging in the grey sky

In the summer days we flew to the sun
On melting wings
But the seasons changed to fast
Leave us all behind
Blind

1969, Deep Purple (J. Lord)

Stairway To Heaven

2008-04-03T13:45:00.007+03:00

There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heavenWhen she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who standing looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon
If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go
In case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow,
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How ev'rything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

1971, Led Zeppelin (J.Page, R.Plant)

Wish You Were Here

2008-04-03T11:39:00.013+03:00

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell
Blue skies from Pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail ?
A smile from a veil ?
Do you think you can tell
And did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts ?
Hot ashes for trees ?
Hot air for a cool breeze ?
Cold comfort for chains ?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found ?
The same old fears
Wish you were here

1975, Pink Floyd