15.01.2010., petak

Kazimierz, Part 11 – We Gather Up Our Hearts and Go…


Leonard Cohen - A Thousand Kisses Deep

The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat.
You win a while, and then it’s done –
Your little winning streak.

And summoned now to deal
With your invincible defeat,
You live your life as if it’s real,
A thousand kisses deep.

I’m turning tricks, I’m getting fixed,
I’m back on Boogie Street.
You lose your grip, and then you slip
Into the Masterpiece.

And maybe I had miles to drive,
And promises to keep:
You ditch it all to stay alive,
A thousand kisses deep.

And sometimes when the night is slow,
The wretched and the meek,
We gather up our hearts and go,
A thousand kisses deep.

Confined to sex, we pressed against
The limits of the sea:
I saw there were no oceans left
For scavengers like me.

I made it to the forward deck.
I blessed our remnant fleet –
And then consented to be wrecked,
A thousand kisses deep.

I’m turning tricks, I’m getting fixed,
I’m back on Boogie Street.
I guess they won’t exchange the gifts
That you were meant to keep.

And quiet is the thought of you,
The file on you complete,
Except what we forgot to do,
A thousand kisses deep.

And sometimes when the night is slow,
The wretched and the meek,
We gather up our hearts and go,
A thousand kisses deep.

The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat.
You win a while, and then it’s done –
Your little winning streak

And summoned now to deal
With your invincible defeat,
You live your life as if it’s real,
A thousand kisses deep.

************

His whole body was weary, but the weariest part of it was his heart. Well, I shall finally take some rest… The road was long, and now I feel that there is nothing left to do. All the things said and all the things done now belong to the past… And since the future does not exist except in our hopes, all that I have in my possession is this present moment, in which I can only say a prayer and retain a single whish to myself… Please, God, don't let me turn my heart to stone, and scatter it into dust…

'We Gather Up Our Hearts and Go…'

…Said the man… but the other one replied:

'Where Do We Go But Nowhere'


Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Where Do We Go But Nowhere

I remember a girl so very well
The carnival drums all mad in the air
Grim reapers and skeletons and a missionary bell
O where do we go now but nowhere

In a colonial hotel we fucked up the sun
And then we fucked it down again
Well the sun comes up and the sun goes down
Going round and round to nowhere

The kitten that padded and purred on my lap
Now swipes at my face with the paw of a bear
I turn the other cheek and you lay into that
O where do we go now but nowhere

O wake up, my love, my lover wake up
O wake up, my love, my lover wake up

Across clinical benches with nothing to talk
Breathing tea and biscuits and the Serenity Prayer
While the bones of our child crumble like chalk
O where do we go now but nowhere

I remember a girl so bold and so bright
Loose-limbed and laughing and brazen and bare
Sits gnawing her knuckles in the chemical light
O where do we go now but nowhere

You come for me now with a cake that you've made
Ravaged avenger with a clip in your hair
Full of glass and bleach and my old razorblades
O where do we go now but nowhere

O wake up, my love, my lover wake up
O wake up, my love, my lover wake up

If they'd give me my clothes back then I could go home
From this fresh, this clean, antiseptic air
Behind the locked gates an old donkey moans
O where do we go now but nowhere

Around the duck pond we grimly mope
Gloomily and mournfully we go rounds again
And one more doomed time and without much hope
Going round and around to nowhere

From the balcony we watched the carnival band
The crack of the drum a little child did scare
I can still feel his tiny fingers pressed in my hand
O where do we go now but nowhere

If I could relive one day of my life
If I could relive just a single one
You on the balcony, my future wife
O who could have known, but no one

O wake up, my love, my lover make up
O wake up, my love, my lover make up

************

His love was not there to wake him up… Blessed, as the night that silently falls upon the town, the sleep finally came along

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(1) In principio erat Verbum,
Et Verbum erat apud Deum,
Et Deus erat Verbum.
(2) Hoc erat in principio apud
Deum.
(3) Omnia per ipsum facta sunt:
Et sine ipso factum est nihil,
quod factum est.
(4) In ipso vita erat,
Et vita erat lux hominum:
(5) Et lux in tenebris lucet,
Et tenebrae eam non
comprehenderunt.

Biblia Sacra,
Novum Testamentum,
Evangelium secundum Ioannem
(1, 1-5)


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