Παρασκευή 28 Σεπτεμβρίου 2007
Ήταν μόνο ένα φλέρτ,
το 'ξερες αυτό-
κάποιος πληγώθηκε
εδώ και καιρό.
Όλα είναι ίδια
κι ο χρόνος διαβαίνει-
μια μέρα γεννιέσαι,
μια μέρα πεθαίνεις.
Εδώ και καιρό
κάποιος πέθανε-
κάποιος προσπάθησε,
μα δεν έμαθε.
.....
Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go by Jason Molina
Wait behind
Wait behind
Wait behind
Shadows still with us
The tides are with us
Silent sorrow with us
As long as there’s no forgiveness
Wait behind
Owl above places of the dead
And I have to believe everything she said
As long as there’s no forgiveness
Wait behind
Hymns still close to your ears
That you can still hear
Graves still close to the water
Moon still walking the shore
That mule’s head still in the sycamore
Waiting behind
Let me go, let me go, let me go
So I can wait behind.
Κυριακή 16 Σεπτεμβρίου 2007
Είκοσι Ερωτικά Ποιήματα by Pablo Neruda
[...] Μπορώ να γράψω τους πιο θλιμμένους στίχους απόψε.
Να γράψω, για παράδειγμα: «Η νύχτα ειν'αστερόεσσα,
και τρέμουνε, γαλάζια, τ'αστέρια μακριά».
Ο άνεμος της νύχτας γυρνάει στον ουρανό και τραγουδά.
Μπορώ να γράψω τους πιο θλιμμένους στίχους απόψε.
Την αγάπησα, και φορές μ'αγάπησε κι εκείνη.
Νύχτες όπως αυτή την είχα μες στα χέρια μου.
Τη φίλησα τόσες φορές κάτω από τον απέραντο ουρανό.
Μ'αγάπησε, κάποιες φορές κι εγώ την αγαπούσα.
Πώς να μην αγαπήσω τα μεγάλα μάτια της τα έντονα.
Μπορώ να γράψω τους πιο θλιμμένους στίχους απόψε.
Να σκεφτώ πώς δεν την έχω. Να νιώσω πώς την έχω χάσει.
Ν'ακούσω την τεράστια νύχτα, πιο τεράστια χωρίς αυτήν.
Κι ο στίχος πέφτει στην ψυχή όπως στη χλόη η δροσιά.
Τι πειράζει που η αγάπη μου δεν γινόταν να την κρατήσει.
Η νύχτα ειν'αστερόεσσα κι αυτή δεν είναι πια μαζί μου.
Αυτό ειν'όλο. Στο βάθος κάποιος τραγουδά. Στο βάθος.
Δεν το δέχεται η ψυχή μου ότι πια την έχει χάσει.
Σαν για να την πλησιάσει η ματιά μου την ψάχνει.
Η καρδιά μου την ψάχνει, και δεν είναι πια μαζί μου.
Ίδια η νύχτα που λευκαίνει τα ίδια δέντρα.
Εμείς, εκείνοι από το παρελθόν, δεν είμαστε πια ίδιοι.
Πια δεν την θέλω, είναι σίγουρο, μα πόσο την αγάπησα.
Γύρευε άνεμο η φωνή μου την ακοή της για ν'αγγίξει.
Του άλλου. Θα 'ναι του άλλου. Όπως πριν των φιλιών μου.
Η φωνή, το φωτεινό κορμί της. Τ'απέραντα μάτια της.
Πια δεν την αγαπώ, είναι σίγουρο, μα ίσως να την αγαπώ.
Είναι τόσο μικρή η αγάπη, κι είναι μεγάλη η λησμονιά.
Γιατί νύχτες όπως αυτή την είχα μες στα χέρια μου,
και δεν το δέχεται η ψυχή μου ότι πια την έχει χάσει.
Αν και αυτός θα 'ναι ο τελευταίος πόνος που μου δίνει,
κι αυτοί θα'ναι οι τελευταίοι στίχοι που της γράφω. [...]
.....
Oh, My Lover by PJ Harvey
Oh, my lover, don't you know it's alright.
You can love her, and you can love me at the same time.
Much to discover, I know you don't have the time.
Oh, my lover' don't you know it's alright.
Oh, my sweet thing, oh my honey thighs.
Give me your troubles, I'll keep them with mine.
Take at your liesure, take whatever you can find but
Oh, my sweet thing, don't you know it's alright.
It's alright
It's alright
There's no time
So it's alright.
What's that color, forming around your eyes?
Waltz my lover, tell me that it's alright.
Just another, before you go, go away.
Oh, my lover, why don't you just say my name?
And it's alright
Say it's alright
There's no time.
Τρίτη 11 Σεπτεμβρίου 2007
Η Ποίηση είναι μια πόρτα ανοιχτή.
Πολλοί κοιτάζουν μέσα χωρίς να βλέπουν
τίποτα και προσπερνούνε. Όμως μερικοί
κάτι βλέπουν, το μάτι τους αρπάζει κάτι
και μαγεμένοι πηγαίνουνε να μπούν.
Η πόρτα τότε κλείνει. Χτυπάνε μα κανείς
δεν τους ανοίγει. Ψάχνουνε για το κλειδί.
Κανείς δεν ξέρει ποιός το έχει. Ακόμη
και τη ζωή τους κάποτε χαλάνε μάταια
γυρεύοντας το μυστικό να την ανοίξουν.
Φτιάχνουν αντικλείδια. Προσπαθούν.
Η πόρτα δεν ανοίγει πια. Δεν άνοιξε ποτέ
για όσους μπόρεσαν να ιδούν στο βάθος.
Ίσως τα ποιήματα που γράφτηκαν
από τότε που υπάρχει ο κόσμος
είναι μια ατέλειωτη αρμαθιά αντικλείδια
για ν'ανοίξουμε την πόρτα της Ποίησης.
Μα η Ποίηση είναι μια πόρτα ανοιχτή.
.....
Common People by Pulp
She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge,
she studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College,
that's where I,
caught her eye.
She told me that her Dad was loaded,
I said "In that case I'll have a rum and coca-cola."
She said "Fine."
and in thirty seconds time she said,
"I want to live like common people,
I want to do whatever common people do,
I want to sleep with common people,
I want to sleep with common people,
like you."
Well what else could I do?
I said "I'll see what I can do."
I took her to a supermarket,
I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere,
so it started there.
I said pretend you've got no money,
she just laughed and said,
"Oh you're so funny."
I said "yeah?
Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here.
Are you sure you want to live like common people,
you want to see whatever common people see,
you want to sleep with common people,
you want to sleep with common people,
like me."
But she didn't understand,
she just smiled and held my hand.
Rent a flat above a shop,
cut your hair and get a job.
Smoke some fags and play some pool,
pretend you never went to school.
But still you'll never get it right,
'cos when you're laid in bed at night,
watching roaches climb the wall,
if you call your Dad he could stop it all.
You'll never live like common people,
You'll never do whatever common people do,
You'll never fail like common people,
You'll never watch your life slide out of view,
and then dance and drink and screw,
because there's nothing else to do.
Sing along with the common people,
sing along and it might just get you through.
Laugh along with the common people,
laugh along although they're laughing at you
and the stupid things that you do,
because you think that poor is cool.
Like a dog lying in a corner
they will bite and never warn you,
look out,
they'll tear your insides out.
'Cos everybody hates a tourist,
especially one who thinks it's all such a laugh.
Yeah,and the chip stain's grease will come out in the bath.
You will never understand
how it feels to live your life,
with no meaning or control
and with nowhere else to go.
You are amazed that they exist
and they burn so bright whilst you can only wonder why.
Rent a flat above a shop,
cut your hair and get a job.
Smoke some fags and play some pool,
pretend you never went to school.
But still you'll never get it right,
cos when you're laid in bed at night,
watching roaches climb the wall,
if you call your Dad he could stop it all.
You'll never live like common people,
you'll never do what common people do,
you'll never fail like common people,
you'll never watch your life slide out of view,
and dance and drink and screw,
because there's nothing else to do.
I want to live with common people like you
I want to live with common people like you
I want to live with common people like you...
Πέμπτη 6 Σεπτεμβρίου 2007
Η Μουσική by Charles Baudelaire
Με συνεπαίρνει η μουσική σαν θάλασσα συχνά!
Τότε, προς το χλομό μου αστέρι,
κάτω από καταχνιάς σκεπή ή στον αιθέρα, να,
ανοίγω τα πανιά στ’αγέρι˙
και με τα στήθια καταμπρός και τα πλεμόνια φουσκωτά
σαν τ’ανοιχτά πανιά μου,
σκαλώνω απά’ στα κύματα που ‘ρχονται απανωτά
και μου τα κρύβει η νύχτα απ’τη ματιά μου˙
όλα τα πάθη μέσα μου τα νιώθω να τρεμίζουν˙
σαν πλοίο πονεμένο με λικνίζουν
το πρίμο αγέρι, η θύελλα με κάθε της σπασμό,
απάνω από το βάραθρο που χάσκει ολανοιχτό.
Κι άλλοτε η κάλμα, ίσιος, τρανός καθρέφτης ομπροστά μου,
όλη η απελπισιά μου!
.....
The Mariner's Revenge Song by The Decemberists
We are two mariners
Our ships' sole survivors
In this belly of a whale
Its ribs are ceiling beams
Its guts are carpeting
I guess we have some time to kill
You may not remember me
I was a child of three
And you, a lad of eighteen
But I remember you
And I will relate to you
How our histories interweave
At the time you were
A rake and a roustabout
Spending all your money
On the whores and hounds
Oh Ohhhhh
You had a charming air
All cheap and debonair
My widowed mother found so sweet
And so she took you in
Her sheets still warm with him
Now filled with filth and foul disease
As time wore on you proved
A debt-ridden drunken mess
Leaving my mother
A poor consumptive wretch
Oh Ohhhhh
And then you disappeared
Your gambling arrears
The only thing you left behind
And then the magistrate
Reclaimed our small estate
And my poor mother lost her mind
Then one day, in spring
My dear sweet mother died
But before she did
I took her hand as she, dying, cried:
Oh Ohhhhh
"Find him, bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole until he
Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling
Of his grave"
It took me fifteen years
To swallow all my tears
Among the urchins in the street
Until a priory
Took pity and hired me
To keep their vestry nice and neat
But never once in the employ
Of these holy men
Did I ever, once, turn my mind
From the thought of revenge
Oh Ohhhhh
One night I overheard
The prior exchanging words
With a penitent whaler from the sea
The captain of his ship
Who matched you toe to tip
Was known for a wanton cruelty
The following day
I shipped to sea
With a privateer
And in the whistle
Of the wind
I could almost hear...
Oh Ohhhhh
"Find him, bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole until he
Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling
Of his grave"
"There is one thing I must say to you
As you sail across the sea
Always, your mother will watch over you
As you avenge this wicked deed"
And then that fateful night
We had you in our sight
After twenty months at sea
Your starboard flank abeam
I was getting my muskets clean
When came this rumbling from beneath
The ocean shook
The sky went black
And the captain quailed
And before us grew
The angry jaws
Of a giant whale
Don't know how I survived
The crew all was chewed alive
I must have slipped between his teeth
But, oh! What providence!
What divine intelligence!
That you should survive
As well as me
It gives my heart
Great joy
To see your eyes fill with fear
So lean in close
And I will whisper
The last words you'll hear
Ohh Ohhhhh
Τετάρτη 5 Σεπτεμβρίου 2007
Κι αν γεννηθείς κάποια στιγμή
Μιαν άλλη που δε θα υπάρχω
Μη φοβηθείς
Και θα με βρείς είτε σαν άστρο
Όταν μονάχος περπατάς στην παγωμένη νύχτα
Είτε στο βλέμμα ενός παιδιού που θα σε προσπεράσει
Είτε στη φλόγα ενός κεριού που θα κρατάς
Διαβαίνοντας το σκοτεινό το δάσος.
Γιατί ψηλά στον ουρανό που κατοικούνε τ'άστρα
Μαζεύοντ'όλοι οι ποιητές
Και οι εραστές καπνίζουν σιωπηλοί πράσινα φύλλα
Μαζεύοντ'όλοι οι ποιητές
Και οι εραστές καπνίζουν σιωπηλοί πράσινα φύλλα
Μασάν χρυσόσκονη πηδάνε ποτάμια
Και περιμένουν
Να λιγωθούν οι αστερισμοί και να λιγοθυμήσουν
Να πέσουν μεσ'στον ύπνο σου
Να γίνουν αναστεναγμός στην άκρη των χειλιών σου
Να σε ξυπνήσουν και να δείς απ'το παράθυρο σου
Το πρόσωπο μου φωτεινό
Να σχηματίζει αστερισμό
Να σου χαμογελάει
Και να σου ψιθυρίζει
Καλή νύχτα.
.....
East Hastings by Godspeed You Black Emperor!
[instrumental]
Κυριακή 2 Σεπτεμβρίου 2007
.....
The Guilt by Migala
If I could for a minute, succumb to the disaster of everyday, to let me go, let of cling to... I guess it would be possible to crash with one of the strangers that I cross by the street and have a premonition of happiness. But now, it's sure that I can't, and probably that's why one ghost comes every night to rock my stupid guilt, and why its way's a ring of fire. And when I finally sleep it's always the same dream, sand falling fast in a glass bell. The sand very clean, the glass so weak.
Τελικά τούς έκλεισα τήν πόρτα «τί νά τήν κάνω τήν πραγματικότητα, τούς λέω - εγώ έχω το όνειρο».
Ίσως γι' αυτό αγαπώ τα νεκροταφεία, γιατί βάζουν τέλος στίς λεπτομέρειες.
Ένα τραγούδι λυπημένο τή νύχτα είναι πάντα ένας αποχαιρετισμός.
.....
The Eternal by Joy Division
Procession moves on, the shouting is over,
Praise to the glory of loved ones now gone.
Talking aloud as they sit round their tables,
Scattering flowers washed down by the rain.
Stood by the gate at the foot of the garden,
Watching them pass like clouds in the sky,
Try to cry out in the heat of the moment,
Possessed by a fury that burns from inside.
Cry like a child, though these years make me older,
With children my time is so wastefully spent,
A burden to keep, though their inner communion,
Accept like a curse an unlucky deal.
Played by the gate at the foot of the garden,
My view stretches out from the fence to the wall,
No words could explain, no actions determine,
Just watching the trees and the leaves as they fall.
Ένας τύπος μου έστειλε με το ταχυδρομείο
ένα μαχαίρι
κι έλεγε πως μου το χάριζε
επειδή εκτιμούσε τη δουλειά μου.
Έχει ένα μικρό μοχλό στο πλάι, τον σπρώχνεις απαλά
και πετάγεται η λεπίδα
κι έτσι είσαι γρήγορος,
κι έτσι είσαι πάντα έτοιμος.
Αμφιβάλλω αν θα χρησιμοποιήσω ποτέ μου αυτό το όπλο˙
χαίρομαι που έχω έναν αναγνώστη
που ανησυχεί τόσο πολύ
για την ασφάλειά μου.
Πάντως, σοβαρά, προτιμώ τους αναγνώστες
που μου στέλνουνε κρασιά
έστω κι αν μερικά φτάνουν σπασμένα. Ωστόσο,
δεν πρέπει να πίνεις ποτέ κάτι που σου έστειλε
με το ταχυδρομείο
ένας άγνωστος, μπορεί να θέλει να σε δηλητηριάσει.
Τελικά
όλα είναι προτιμότερα απ'τον ίδιο
τον αναγνώστη
που εμφανίζεται με σάρκα και οστά
μπροστά στην πόρτα σου.
Αυτό με αναστατώνει
στ'αλήθεια με θυμώνει.
Στον κόσμο αυτό, κι ο πιο μικροκαμωμένος
άνθρωπος μπορεί ν'αποδειχτεί το πιο μεγάλο πρόβλημα.
Τέλος πάντων,
τώρα καθαρίζω
τα νύχια μου
με το μαχαίρι
που μου έστειλε ο αναγνώστης.
Καλύτερα
παρά να ξεκοιλιάζω κόσμο.
Για το ξεκοίλιασμα
έχω τα ποιήματα.
.....
The Piano Has Been Drinking by Tom Waits
The piano has been drinking
my necktie is asleep
and the combo went back to New York
the jukebox has to take a leak
and the carpet needs a haircut
and the spotlight looks like a prison break
cause the telephone's out of cigarettes
and the balcony's on the make
and the piano has been drinking
the piano has been drinking...
and the menus are all freezing
and the lightman's blind in one eye
and he can't see out of the other
and the piano-tuner's got a hearing aid
and he showed up with his mother
and the piano has been drinking
the piano has been drinking
cause the bouncer is a Sumo wrestler
cream puff casper milk toast
and the owner is a mental midget
with the I.Q. of a fencepost
cause the piano has been drinking
the piano has been drinking...
and you can't find your waitress
with a Geiger counter
And she hates you and your friends
and you just can't get served
without her
and the box-office is drooling
and the bar stools are on fire
and the newspapers were fooling
and the ash-trays have retired
the piano has been drinking
the piano has been drinking
The piano has been drinking
not me, not me, not me, not me, not me.