ich wusste gar nicht, dass Du (nur) einen Tag nach Bob Dylan Geburtstag hast. Dylan hat, als er nur wenige Jahre älter war als Du heute wirst, “Forever Young” geschrieben.
Der Song ist einerseits ein Wunsch an jemand, der jünger ist. Es ist aber auch eine Richtschnur, wie man jung bleibt.
In dieser Version: Dylan zusammen mit Bruce Springsteen:

Springsteen-Dylan "Forever young" von betterday

May God bless and keep you always
May your wishes all come true
May you always do for others
And let others do for you
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.

May you grow up to be righteous
May you grow up to be true
May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you
May you always be courageous
Stand upright and be strong
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.

May your hands always be busy
May your feet always be swift
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift
May your heart always be joyful
And may your song always be sung
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.

Dick Gaughn haben wir zusammen in Hockenheim gesehen. Da war Weltmeisterschaft und wir hörten Fussball auf dem Rückweg im Auto nach Kirchwald. Damals schon dabei und heute gut passend Gaughns Song ” What You Do With What You’ve Got”

You must know someone like him
He was tall and strong and lean
With a body like a greyhound
And a mind so sharp and keen
But his heart, just like a laurel,
Grew twisted round itself
Till almost every thing he did
Caused pain to someone else
It’s not just what you’re born with
It’s what you choose to bear
It’s not how big your share is
But how much you can share
And it’s not the fights you dreamed of
But those you really fought
It’s not what you’ve been given
It’s what you do with what you’ve got
Now what’s the good of two strong legs
If you only run away?
And what use is the finest voice
If you’ve nothing good to say?
And what good is strength and muscle
If you only push and shove?
And what’s the use of two good ears
If you can’t hear those you love?
Between those who use their neighbours
And those who use a cane
Between those in constant power
And those in constant pain
Between those who run to evil
And those who cannot run
Tell me which ones are the cripples
And which ones touch the sun?

In diesem Sinne stolz auf “the fights you really fought” gratuliere ich Dir zum Geburtstag und wünsche Dir to stay forever young.

The Window

Why do you stand by the window
Abandoned to beauty and pride
The thorn of the night in your bosom
The spear of the age in your side
Lost in the rages of fragrance
Lost in the rags of remorse
Lost in the waves of a sickness
That loosens the high silver nerves

Oh chosen love, Oh frozen love
Oh tangle of matter and ghost
Oh darling of angels, demons and saints
And the whole broken-hearted host
Gentle this soul

And come forth from the Cloud Of Unknowing
And kiss the cheek of the moon
The New Jerusalem glowing
Why tarry all night in the ruin
And leave no word of discomfort
And leave no observer to mourn
But climb on your tears and be silent
Like a rose on its ladder of thorns

Oh chosen love, Oh frozen love…

Then lay your rose on the fire
The fire give up to the sun
The sun give over to splendour
In the arms of the high holy one
For the holy one dreams of a letter
Dreams of a letter’s death
Oh bless the continuous stutter
Of the word being made into flesh

Oh chosen love, Oh frozen love…

Was almost sure to know every song by Leonard Cohen. The greater the joy to discover “the Window today…

Chilitetime Lyrics

Need to find a way
Find another time
There’s nothing I could say
To give her peace of mind
Need to find the words
Need to find a way
But only those
With nothing to say
Can look into her eyes
And not turn away
For only those
Have nothing to say

I can see them now
I can find the words
But I turn away
With nothing to say
Come home again
Still I’m lost here
Nothing stays the same

She has my love
She needs something more
And the time is mine
Nothing to say
Can’t hide this feeling

Running through my mind
Still I can’t believe

I’m here
I got this feeling now
It’ll never stay long
It’ll never stay long
I’m here
No matter how I try
I can never forget
The reasons why

It’s that fear again
It’s coming like a train
Every time I believe
It starts bearing down
Leaves nothing to say
There’s nothing to tell that I don’t know
That hurt the feeling of love and
I don’t know why I feel
You took it all away

Come closer again

Come running from my mind
That’s the way it’s always been

I’m here
I’ve got that feeling now
But it’ll never stay long
It’ll never stay long
I’m here
No matter how hard I try
I can never forget
The reasons why

You say you got love
Got a love to set you free
I can feel it, darling
It runs all over me
I got a smile that says I’m feeling good
You know I’m feeling good
You know I’m feeling good

I’m here
I got this feeling now
But it’ll never stay long
It’ll never stay long
I’m here
No matter how hard I try
I can never forget
The reasons why

I’m here
I got this feeling now
But it’ll never stay long
It’ll never stay long
I’m here
No matter how hard I try
I can never forget
The reasons why

Come home again
Still I’m lost here
Nothing stays the same

Can’t hide this feeling
Come running through my mind
Still I couldn’t believe

And I could be gone another day
I could turn round and then walk away
I don’t have to go
You can make me stay
There’s nothing to say that you don’t know
That hurt my feelings, loving
I don’t know why it stays
You took it all away
And I know that I am leaving
I know the place you were heading
Ain’t there no more
I took it all away
Come into me
Come to me come to me

Yes I understand
Come closer to me

Go running from my mind
That’s the way it’s always been
Touch the feeling
Can’t stop here
That’s the way it’s always been
Always stays the same
I’m here
I got this feeling now
But it’ll never stay long
It’ll never stay long
I’m here
No matter how I try
I can never forget
Forget

Coming round again
Gonna break apart

Can’t hide this feeling
Running through my mind
Still I can’t believe
Come in to me
Come closer baby come
Yes I understand
Come closer
Come into me
Go running from my mind
That’s the way it’s always been
Nothing stays the same
It’s hard again
Your lips apart

Dann natürlich Leonard Cohen. Aus dem Alter für einiges, was er in “Dance me to the end of love” beschreibt, sind wir (zum Glück?) raus. Das meiste praktizieren, produzieren wir. Ausführlich und mit lyrics ist Cohens Liedvor knapp einem Jahr hier in “Triumph and Disaster” gewürdigt worden. Dieses Video ist die (traurige) Version, die wahrscheinlich zum Release von  “Various Positions”, Cohens LP, die mit “Dance me to the end of love” beginnt 1984 entstanden:

Various Positions erschien damals nur in Canada und Europa. In den USA weigerte sich Cohens Plattenfirma: dir Platte passe nicht in die Zeit. In seinen Erinnerungen beschreibt C. das vernichtende Urteil des damaligen Chefs von Columbia Records Walter Yetnikoff : “Leonard, we know you’re great, but we don’t know if you’re any good”.
Die von uns oft gehörte (Live)Version ist von 1993. Perla Batalla and Julie Christensen waren für mich die besten Sängerinnen die Cohen je hatte. Und dann diese Interaktion der drei:  Cohen singt die erste, dritte undletzte  Strophe alleine. Die zweite Strophe ist ein “Duett mit offenen Augen” zwischen Christensen und Cohen Damit das gelingt tritt Batalla aus dem Weg und einen Schritt zurück. Ohne  Blickkontakt: das Duett Batalla/Cohen: “Eyes wide shut”.  Für die Wiederholung der ersten Strophe als Trio geht Cohen zwischen die beiden Sängerinnen. Nach den Duetten und im Anschluss an das Trio: die Geigensoli. Perfekt!! Die Geige habe ich vermisst auf Cohens Tournee 2008. 

Schliesslich noch ein Zitat von Cohen selbst über die Entstehung des Liedes aus einem meiner Lebensthemen:

‘Dance Me to the End Of Love’ … it’s curious how songs begin because the origin of the song, every song, has a kind of grain or seed that somebody hands you or the world hands you and that’s why the process is so mysterious about writing a song. But that came from just hearing or reading or knowing that in the death camps, beside the crematoria, in certain of the death camps, a string quartet[2] was pressed into performance while this horror was going on, those were the people whose fate was this horror also. And they would be playing classical music while their fellow prisoners were being killed and burnt. So, that music, “Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin,” meaning the beauty there of being the consummation of life, the end of this existence and of the passionate element in that consummation. But, it is the same language that we use for surrender to the beloved, so that the song — it’s not important that anybody knows the genesis of it, because if the language comes from that passionate resource, it will be able to embrace all passionate activity.

Freue mich sehr auf unser Essen heute abend und die Party am Samstag. Bis dann!

One by one, the guests arrive
The guests are coming through
The open-hearted many
The broken-hearted few

And no one knows where the night is going
And no one knows why the wine is flowing
Oh love I need you
I need you
I need you
I need you
Oh . . . I need you now

And those who dance, begin to dance
Those who weep begin
And “Welcome, welcome” cries a voice
“Let all my guests come in.”

And no one knows where the night is going …

And all go stumbling through that house
in lonely secrecy
Saying “Do reveal yourself”
or “Why has thou forsaken me?”

And no one knows where the night is going …

All at once the torches flare
The inner door flies open
One by one they enter there
In every style of passion

And no one knows where the night is going …

And here they take their sweet repast
While house and grounds dissolve
And one by one the guests are cast
Beyond the garden wall

And no one knows where the night is going …

Those who dance, begin to dance
Those who weep begin
Those who earnestly are lost
Are lost and lost again

And no one knows where the night is going …

One by the guests arrive
The guests are coming through
The broken-hearted many
The open-hearted few

And no one knows where the night is going …

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zum Geburtstag Dir:
Liebe , Gesundheit, Freunde, Glück, und Klarheit!

Den musikalischen Teil hat, ihr dafür ganz herzlichen Dank, die von mir hoch verehrte
Marianne Faithfull übernommen. Zunächst Ihre Interpretation des John Lennon Klassikers
“Working Class Hero”:

Lyrics

Dann natürlich: die Liebe!. One of my favorite love songs and poems: “Crazy Love”:

Lyrics:
Hated by all and everywhere he goes
Blazing contempt for human life and lies
Murder as art and what he knows he knows
from life and fear in other people’s eyes

Crazy love is all around me
Love is crazy love is kind
But I know somehow you’ll find me
Love is crazy love is blind

She walks the boulevard without a care
Knowing too much but having come so far
Pretending life is just a game you play for nothing
Loving no-one and no-where

Crazy love is all around me
Love goes crazy given time
But I know somehow you’ll find me
Love is crazy love is blind

She looks as if expecting a surprise
Maybe an encounter that will change her life
Not knowing hot from cold or good from bad
If life is just a joke or if it makes her sad

Crazy love is all around me
Love is crazy love is kind
But I know somehow you’ll find me
Love is crazy love is blind

Crazy love is all around me
Love goes crazy given time
But I know somehow you’ll find me
Love is crazy love is blind

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Susanna and the Magical Orchestra with a cover of Leonard Cohens famous song: Hallelujah. Heard it live yesterday at the Neuwied Jazz Festival.

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Ich liess meinen Engel lange nicht los

Ich liess meinen Engel lange nicht los,
und er verarmte mir in den Armen
und wurde klein, und ich wurde groß:
und auf einmal war ich das Erbarmen,
und er eine zitternde Bitte bloß

Da hab ich ihm seine Himmel gegeben, -
und er liess mir das Nahe, daraus er entschwand;
er lernte das Schweben, ich lernte das Leben,
und wir haben langsam einander erkannt…

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Jetzt liegt die Ära Bush hinter uns. Das konnte im April/Mai 2006 (noch) niemand ahnen, als Neil Young in wenigen Tagen sein Album  “Living with War” heraus rotzte. Young hatte Bushs “Patriots Act” unterstützt. Um  so bedeutender dann seine Kehrtwende. Getreu seinem Bekenntnis, “I don’t have a view, I have an opinion that changes because everyday is a different day”, heist es im song “shock and awe” selbstkritisch:
“We had a chance to change our minds / but somehow wisdom was hard to find.” Zu Youngs Projekt gehört eine bis heute fortgeführte und im Film immer wieder zitierte “Living with War” Webseite. Lieder und Songtexte waren bereits per Internet über eine Million mal verbreitet, bevor das Album veröffentlicht wurde.

Yesterday on Germans TV channel 3sat: “deja vue”, music documentary about the “Freedom of speech” Tour of Crosby Stills Nash and Young in 2006.

Die Stimmung, die ein Liedtitel “Lets impeach the President for lying…” auslöst, ebenso wie Youngs Intentionen  zeigt dieser Ausschnitt aus der TV serie “showbiz today” noch vor Veröffentlichung des Projektes:

So intim hatte es mit diesem Song bei den recording sessions  für
“Living with war” begonnen:

Hier ist das offizielle Release Video des Songs von Neil Youngs
“Living with war” Webseite:

Und so fühlt sich das ganze live auf der “Freedom of speech” Tournee an,
für die Neil Young dann auch seine Freunde CS&N gewonnen hat,
um die Titel von “Living with war” live zu spielen.

Immer wieder schafft es Neill Young unterbewusste Wünsche und
Hoffnungen der American People auf den Punkt zu bringen,
wie in der Beschreibung der Leerstelle, “Looking for a Leader”.
Darin die (fast) visionären Zeilen:
And maybe it’s a woman
Or a black man after all

Yeah maybe it’s Obama
But he thinks that he’s too young
Maybe it’s Colin Powell
To right what he’s done wrong

America has a leader
But he’s not in the house
He’s walking here among us
And we’ve got to seek him out

Das -für mich- Beeindruckenste  dieser Dokumentation:

Neil Young, wie Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen verbalisieren, was andere
nur diffus fühlen. Young formuliert diese Fähigkeit in einem Interview
mit Charlie Rose:

“This is the essence of his feeling (…), you can not keep that. That comes
and goes through you. You can not strive to be that. There is no way you
own it. It is a gift that keeps on giving, then it goes away. Then it comes
back. And if you are ready to accept it, it is there.”

Weiterführend:
Neil Young Interview im “Rolling Stone”:
I never want to do another tour like that in my life…

“New York Times” über die hohe Suizidrate unter amerikanischen Kriegsverteranen:
“After Combat, Victims of an inner war”

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Schade eigentlich. Unvergleichlich? Das stimmt doch auch jetzt.
Für Dich, P:

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