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Tämän levyn sinkkulohkaisua You're beautiful on soitettu jo kyllästymiseen saakka, mutta ostin levyn silti iTunesista. Helvetin hienoja kappaleita ja tunnelmia, mutta omalla kohdalla yksi biisi nousee ylitse muiden.

Goodbye My Lover on kappale, joka kuvaa kauniisti sen mitä joskus ei ole pystynyt tekemään sanoiksi tai sanomaan ääneen. Minimalistisella säestyksellä kappale toimii kuin pommi, ja varmaankin toimisi - vaikka taustalle laittaisi pelkän metronomin naksuttamaan tahtia - sillä voima on ääneen tulkinnassa ja sanoissa.

James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover Lyrics

Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun,
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.
So I took what's mine by eternal right.
Took your soul out into the night.
It may be over but it won't stop there,
I am here for you if you'd only care.
You touched my heart you touched my soul.
You changed my life and all my goals.
And love is blind and that I knew when,
My heart was blinded by you.
I've kissed your lips and held your head.
Shared your dreams and shared your bed.
I know you well, I know your smell.
I've been addicted to you.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

I am a dreamer but when I wake,
You can't break my spirit - it's my dreams you take.
And as you move on, remember me,
Remember us and all we used to be
I've seen you cry, I've seen you smile.
I've watched you sleeping for a while.
I'd be the father of your child.
I'd spend a lifetime with you.
I know your fears and you know mine.
We've had our doubts but now we're fine,
And I love you, I swear that's true.
I cannot live without you.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

And I still hold your hand in mine.
In mine when I'm asleep.
And I will bear my soul in time,
When I'm kneeling at your feet.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
I'm so hollow, baby, I'm so hollow.
I'm so, I'm so, I'm so hollow.



Toimii.

Voiko kliseisempää lässyä tekstiä enää kuvitella? Minä en ainakaan. Toivottavasti itse sävellys on parempi.

No jaa.. itse olen jumittunut tähän vaiheeseen:
EDIT. tämä siis EI ole BLUNT, mikälienee

Out in the garden
There's half of a heaven,
And we're only bluffing.
We're not ones for busting through walls,

But they've told us
Unless we can prove
That we're doing it,
We can't have it all.

He's gonna wangle
A way to get out of it.
She's an excuse
And a witness who'll talk when he's called.

But they've told us
Unless we can prove
That we're doing it,
We can't have it all.
We can't have it all.

"I caught a glimpse of a god, all shining and bright."

Suddenly my feet are feet of mud.
It all goes slo-mo.
I don't know why I'm crying.
Am I suspended in Gaffa?
Not until I'm ready for you,
Not until I'm ready for you
Can I have it all.

I try to get nearer,
But as it gets clearer
There's something appears in the way,
It's a plank in me eye,

With a camel
Who's trying to get through it,
Am I doing it?
Can I have it all now?

I pull out the plank and say
"Thank you for yanking me back
To the fact that there's
Always something to distract."

But sometimes it's hard
To know if I'm doing it right.
Can I have it all?
Can I have it all now?
We can't have it all.

"We all have a dream...maybe."

Suddenly my feet are feet of mud.
It all goes slo-mo.
I don't know why I'm crying.
Am I suspended in Gaffa?
Not until I'm ready for you,
Not until I'm ready for you
Can I have it all.

I won't open boxes
That I am told not to.
I'm not a Pandora.
I'm much more like

That girl in the mirror.
Between you and me
She don't stand a chance of getting anywhere at all.
Not anywhere at all.
No, not a thing.
She can't have it all.

"Mother, where are the angels? I'm scared of the changes."

Suddenly my feet are feet of mud.
It all goes slo-mo.
I don't know why I'm crying.
Am I suspended in Gaffa?
Not until I'm ready for you,
Not until I'm ready for you
Can I have it all.

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Parhaimmillaan olen päässyt vasta tähän:

"It's in the trees!
It's coming!"

When I was a child:
Running in the night,
Afraid of what might be

Hiding in the dark,
Hiding in the street,
And of what was following me...

Now hounds of love are hunting.
I've always been a coward,
And I don't know what's good for me.

Here I go!
It's coming for me through the trees.
Help me, someone!
Help me, please!

Take my shoes off,
And throw them in the lake,
And I'll be
Two steps on the water.

I found a fox
Caught by dogs.
He let me take him in my hands.

His little heart,
It beats so fast,
And I'm ashamed of running away

From nothing real--
I just can't deal with this,
But I'm still afraid to be there,

Among your hounds of love,
And feel your arms surround me.
I've always been a coward,
And never know what's good for me.

Oh, here I go!
Don't let me go!
Hold me down!
It's coming for me through the trees.
Help me, darling,
Help me, please!

Take my shoes off
And throw them in the lake,
And I'll be
Two steps on the water.

I don't know what's good for me.
I don't know what's good for me.
I need your love love love love love, yeah!
Your love!

Take your shoes off
And throw them in the lake!

Do you know what I really need?
Do you know what I really need?
I need love love love love love, yeah!

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Kun haluaisin olla tässä:

It lay buried here. It lay deep inside me.
It's so deep I don't think that I can speak about it.
It could take me all of my life,
But it would only take a moment to

Tell you what I'm feeling,
But I don't know if I'm ready yet.
You come walking into this room
Like you're walking into my arms.
What would I do without you?

Take away the love and the anger,
And a little piece of hope holding us together.
Looking for a moment that'll never happen,
Living in the gap between past and future.
Take away the stone and the timber,
And a little piece of rope won't hold it together.

If you can't tell your sister,
If you can't tell a priest,
'Cause it's so deep you don't think that you can speak about it
To anyone,
Can you tell it to your heart?
Can you find it in your heart

To let go of these feelings
Like a bell to a Southerly wind?
We could be like two strings beating,
Speaking in sympathy...
What would we do without you?
Two strings speak in sympathy.

Take away the love and the anger,
And a little piece of hope holding us together.
Looking for a moment that'll never happen,
Living in the gap between past and future.
Take away the stone and the timber,
And a little piece of rope won't hold it together.

We're building a house of the future together.
(What would we do without you?)

Well, if it's so deep you don't think that you can speak about it,
Just remember to reach out and touch the past and the future.
Well, if it's so deep you don't think you can speak about it,
Don't ever think that you can't change the past and the future.
You might not, not think so now,
But just you wait and see--someone will come to help you.

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Puskakatihan se tuo..

Taisi olla viikko sitten, kun James Blunt oli Experience-shown vieraana.
Charmin ja kiintoisan oloinen mies, jota paremmin (mikä tahansa olisi ollut parempaa) haastattelemalla olisi saatu Bluntista musiikkeineen jotain vähän selvillekin. "Heko he.. You like Finland?"-tyyppisillä kysymyksillä niin ei päässe tapahtumaan.
Aivan sattumaa että satuin näkemään Bluntin saati Experience-shown, vahingossa avasin teeveen juuri silloin.. muutoin Experienceä vältän, jos suinkin mahdollista. Tänään tosin näin taas pätkän siitä ohjelmasta.
"Nyt meillä on tässä tämä kirjailija Sofi Oksanen ja se on aika outo tyyppi, goottiksä sanoit olevasi vai mikä? Ja sit on täs tää Miss Kissanristiäiset ja sil on poikaystävä Lapista ja viimoseks täs on joku gubbe tuolta rapakon takaa. Okke, nyt näytetään Juuson ja mun tekemä pilajutska missä me mennään gootteina pitkin kyliä ja sit meitä kuvataan. Oli kyl aika hauskaa. Hei psst gubbe, älä ryystä sitä vettä niinku öljyä. Aika epeli joo, mut takas tohon pilapätkään.."

Joo.. sori.. huima saa tuosta jotain omaan elämäntilanteeseensa sopivaa, niinkuin me kaikki jostain. En minä sitä hänen tunnetilaansa pilkkaa. Tuo teksti on vaan niin... äh...

Back to Bedlam on ehdottomasti hankintalistalla. Muutama biisi on koneella, ja erityisesti tämä on iskenyt kovaa ja korkealta:

"Cry"

I have seen peace, I have seen pain
Resting on the shoulders of your name
Do you see the truth through all their lies?
Do you see the world through troubled eyes?

And if you want to
talk about it anymore,
lie here on the floor
and cry
on my shoulder
I'm a friend

I have seen birth, I have seen death.
Lived to see a lover's final breath.
Do you see my guilt? Should I feel fright?
Is the fire of hesitation burning bright?

And if you want to
talk about it once again
on you I depend
I'll cry
on your shoulder
you're a friend

You and I have lived through many things
I'll hold on to your heart
I wouldn't cry for anything
but don't go tearing your life apart

I have seen fear, I have seen faith
Seen the look of anger on your face

And if you want to
talk about what will be
come and sit with me
and cry
on my shoulder
I'm a friend

And if you want to
talk about it anymore
Lie here on the floor
and cry
on my shoulder
once again
cry
on my shoulder
I'm a friend.

Bluntin hittibiisin video kolahti kyllä muhun. SyNpaattisen oloinen kaveri. Miehen musa on juuri sellaista, joka kolisee tämän tädin pään sisään. Vastaavia tunteita herättää tietysti Cardigansin levyt.

Hellbell, olen samaa mieltä tästä Juuso & Enbusken ohjelmasta. Miksi helvetissä rumat miehet revitään radiosta televisioon? Ko. miehet ovat kuvottavan näköisiä ja heidän journalisminsa taso lähentelee vessanpönttöni sisältöä aamuisin.

Viimeeksi muhun kolahti Eamonin Fcuk it hemmon albumilta "I Don't Want You Back". Kovin aidon oloisesti kuvaili nuoren miehen tuskaansa tyttöystiksen petettyä. Tiedä sitten, onko kaveri tehnyt mitään muuta kuolematonta musiikin saralla:

Whoa oh oh
Ooh hooh
No No No

See I don't know why I liked you so much
I gave you all of my trust
I told you I loved you now that's all down the drain
You put me through the pain, I wanna let you know how I feel

[chorus:]
Fuck what I said, it dont mean shit now
Fuck the presents might as well throw em out
Fuck all those kisses, it didnt mean jack
Fuck you, you hoe, I dont want you back
(repeat 2x)

You thought, you could
Keep this shit from me, yeah
You burned bitch, I heard the story
You played me, you even gave him head
Now you're askin for me back
You're just another jack, look elsewhere
Cuz you're done with me
[Chorus: 2x]

Oh oh Oh oh
Uh hun yeah
Oh oh Oh oh
Uh hun yeah
Oh oh Oh oh
Uh hun yeah
Oh oh Oh oh
Uh hun yeah

You questioned, did i care
You could ask anyone, I even said
You were my great one
Now it's over, but I do admit I'm sad
It hurt real bad, I cant sweat that, 'cuz I loved a hoe
[Chorus]

Oh oh Oh oh
Uh hun yeah
Oh oh Oh oh
Uh hun yeah
Oh oh Oh oh
Uh hun yeah
Oh oh Oh oh
Uh hun yeah
[Until the end]