CocoRosie

GOOD FRIDAY




I once fell in love with you
Just because the sky turned from gray
Into blue
It was a good friday
The streets were open and empty
No more passion play
On st. Nicholas avenue
I believe in st. Nicholas
Its a different type of santa claus



BLACK RAINBOW




In these times of evil spirits
Of material thugs and mischief
Fear Saint Noni's wisdom
And his love for rainbow spirits
Jealous of their faithful heart-bond
And their dancing and their laughing
Made at last a league against them
To molest them and destroy them
Saint Noni wise and heart-strong
Often said to Rainbowarrior
Oh my brother do not leave me !
Lest the evilspirits harm you !
Rainbowarriors of two spirits
Gentle hand and lion-hearted
He laughed and then he answered
Like a child he softly whispered

We are rainbowarriors
Evil come not near
Rainbow love awaits us
With hearts of love and tearz

He's dead our sweetest mother
Loving father and our teacher
He's gone from us forever
He has moved a little nearer
To the master of all laughter
To the master of all song
Oh my brother, Oh my brother
Crystal brother of two spirits
Then we gathered in a circle
Stood round the rainbow fire
Burning embers hearts united
We remembered mystical beauty
If you look hard you can find a
Rainbow trail it's deep inside ya
Goldenlight on everything gleaming

We are rainbowarriors
Evil come not near
Rainbow love awaits us
With hearts of love and tearz

We are rainbowarriors
Evil come not near
Rainbow love awaits us
With hearts of love and tearz



GALLOWS




It was just before the moon hung
Her weary heavy head in
The gallows and the graves of
The milky milky cradle
His tears have turned to poppies
A shimmer in the midnight
A flower in the twilight
A flower in the twilight

And our screaming
Is in his screaming
Our screaming in the willow

They took him to the gallows
He fought them all the way though
And when they asked us how we knew his name
We died just before him
Our eyes are in the flowers
Our hands are in the branches
Our voices in the breezes

And our screaming
Is in his screaming
Our screaming in the willow tree

We're waiting by the willow
Our milky milky cradle
Our lockets long have rusted
His picture worn and weathered
Our hair is in the garden
The roses in our toeses
Our heart are in the blossoms
Our eyes are in the branches

And our screaming
Is in his screaming
Our screaming in the willow tree

Edward Steichen

Coheed & Cambria

PEARL OF THE STARS




Each night, I wish to God he'd let her rest.
Oh, this hurts me more than any man can bear.
She's my angel from the west.
There will never be one to take her place.

When you go, I will know.
Follow you to the stars.
And when the world burns apart,
There will be a place for your car.

I'd give you everything,
If only I'd have known you'd take it.
But you don't, 'cause you're you.
That's why I'll always love you.
My pearl of the stars.

Oh, the pills she takes, the pain of which she drowns.
A baby sleeps next door, she's new in town.
I'll tell her how wonderful you were.
I'll remember everything you were to me.

When you go, I will know.
Follow you to the stars.
And when the world burns apart,
There will be a place for your car.

I'd give you everything,
If only I'd have known you'd take it.
But you don't, 'cause you're you.
That's why I'll always love you.
My pearl of the stars.

[Solo]

When you go, I will know.
Follow you to the stars.
And when the world burns apart,
There will be a place for your car.

I'd give you everything,
If only I'd have known you'd take it.
But you don't, 'cause you're you.
That's why I'll always love you.

When you go, I will know.
Follow you to the stars.
And when the world burns apart,
There will be a place for your car.

I'd give you everything,
If only I'd have known you'd take it.
But you don't, 'cause you're you.
That's why I'll always love you.
My pearl of the stars.



THIS SHATTERED SYMPHONY



Oh, I'm giving up the one I love
I'll conduct the great disaster
to scar my skin to own this hurt

They offered their hearts
and we tore them apart,
They offered their blood
and we left them so parched
I don't know if I can give you anything you want.

Go on and give me the gun!
Never mind what I've done
They left me no choice,
oh, they left me no choice,

Go on and give me the gun!
Let me blow them open
It's out of my reach,
never mind what they think about me

I don't want to say that with mercy we decay
Converging closer and faster,
does all I touch turn to dust?

And she confessed her love,
only I shut her up
as I took all her words,
and allowed them to rust
I don't know if I'm the man you truly want to love

Go on and give me the gun!
Never mind what I've done
They left me no choice,
oh, they left me no choice,

Go on and give me the gun!
Let me blow them open
It's out of my reach,
never mind what they think about me

Little have they learned anything about me
Meddling eyes that judge mistakes
What awful things they say when backs are turned
and no one's looking.

Go on and give me the gun!
Never mind what I've done
They left me no choice,
oh, they left me no choice,

Go on and give me the gun!
Let me blow them open
it's out of my reach,
nevermind what they think about me
in this shattered symphony.
In this shattered symphony.

Jakobe Mansztajn - Znikniecie

zaczyna się od wyjścia na balkon. mówię sobie:
na końcu tego pokoju jest balkon. można spróbować
wyjść, przewietrzyć się. może coś więcej.
pooddychać, chociaż nie, zaziębić się jak te chude
barierki, które mnie trzymają. nie uwierzysz,
ale słupek w gdańsku wskazuje minus trzydzieści.
zima dopadła nawet najlepiej ubranych,
nawet najlepiej ubranych, co jakby nas zbliża

tutaj, w gdańsku, sprawy mają się tak: nic nie jest
na swoim miejscu, wszystko jest gdzie indziej.
nie ma cię kolejny miesiąc, kolejny miesiąc
przewala się po mnie jak czołg. podobno była wojna,
podobno rozstrzelano wszystkie ucieczki.
miałem ci napisać, że już w porządku. dużo wychodzę,
powoli wracam do siebie. próbuję odespać,
tylko ten wiecznie cieknący kran jest za głośno

zaczyna się zniknięciem. nie panikuję, mówię sobie:
rzeczy dzieją się nadal. śniadanie, studia,
przyszłość. że mogę zaczekać, bo nic nie jest
na pewno. że zaczekam, a gdy znów nie przyjdziesz,
wyjdę na balkon wyszukać cię gdzieś
między dworcem a napisami końcowymi.
upewnić się, że to czym bolisz, ten mały kamień
między palcami w bucie, to wciąż nagroda

Pain of Salvation - Sisters

When all are dizzy and happy from too much wine
I leave the party behind
To be alone with my thoughts and this spinning mind
Through this cold night
But there she stands

And she walks like you
And she smiles almost like you
A child of the wild just like you
Yes.

For a second I think I get a glimpse
Of the real her, behind
She's warm and fragile
With smiles that reach to her eyes
But just this moment,
A change so sublime

If she looked me deep into my eyes
And softly asked me too
I'd be in her bed and in her flesh
And waste a life I knew

So I hold my breath and close my eyes
And focus on the wine
Let this trembling moment pass us by
So I could say goodnight

But then, an impulse
I almost touched her face
Before I pulled back my hand
And we get nervous
We laugh and she spills her wine
Both so awkward, for what's on our mind

And she talks like you
And she smells almost like you
A child of the wild just like you
But she's not all you
Even strives not to be you
Just like every sister would do

And perhaps it's the want
Of you in her eyes
But I want her this one single time
...Just this one time

If she looked me deep into my eyes
And softly asked me too
I'd be in her bed and in her flesh
And waste a life I knew

So I hold my breath and close my eyes
And focus on the wine
Let this trembling moment pass us by
So I could say goodnight

If I'd looked into her eyes
And softly asked her too
She would give herself and give her flesh
And waste a life she knew

So we hold our breath, and close our eyes
And take a sip of wine
But this thirst has emptied every glass
And we should say goodnight

...God, help me say goodnight.