We are like roses that have never bothered to
bloom when we should have bloomed and
it is as if
the sun has become disgusted with
waiting
– Charles Bukowski
Varje söndag är förlamande lång tid, ögon som öppnas i gryningen, rader som faller mellan raderna, en mobil som aldrig blinkar och böcker som hånflinar åt mig – alltmedan kuken dinglar obesudlad.
Sedan jag slutade supa hatar jag söndagar.
Basattuvet.
”How fickle my heart and how woozy my eyes
I struggle to find any truth in your lies
And now my heart stumbles on things I don’t know
This weakness I feel I must finally show”
Mumford & Sons
”Awake My Soul”
Sigh No More (2009)
”Everywhere I am is just another thing without you in it”
The National
”Fashion Coat”
Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (2003)
”Well my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing there’s been some kind of pain
She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind
She put down in writing what was in her mind
I just don’t see why I should even care
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there”
Bob Dylan
”Not Dark Yet”
Time Out of Mind (1997)
”Well I have a good time
when I go out of my mind.
And it’s a wonderfull place
and I can’t wait to be there.
And I hear beautiful sounds
coming outa the ground.
Gonna take us a while
but we’ll go hundreds of times.”
Talking Heads
”Pull Up the Roots”
Speaking in Tongues (1983)
”I always kinda, sorta wished I looked like Elvis
and in my head there’s all these classic cars
and outlawed cowboy bands
I always kinda, sorta wished I was someone else”
The Gaslight Anthem
”High Lonesome”
The ‘59 Sound (2008)
”Sometimes when you’re doing simple things around the house
Maybe you’ll think of me and smile
You know I’m tied to you like the buttons on your blouse
Keep me in your heart for while”
Warren Zevon
”Keep Me In Your Heart”
The Wind (2003)
Fotnot: Warren Zevon spelade in The Wind efter att han hade diagnosticerats med en obotlig typ av lungcancer. Albumet släpptes 26 augusti 2003. Två veckor senare, 7 september, avled han.
”Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin’ to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we’re all doin’ our best to deny it”
Bob Dylan
”Visions of Johanna”
Blonde on Blonde (1966)
”Your world is in danger
But your world isn’t real
You see what is imagined
Dreaming what you feel”
Joseph Arthur
”I Am”
Our Shadows Will Remain (2004)
”She’s so many women
He can’t find the one who was his friend
So he’s hanging on to half her heart
He can’t have the restless part
So he tells her to hasten down the wind”
Warren Zevon
”Hasten Down the Wind”
Warren Zevon (1976)
”Somliga säger ‘vi lever i evighet’,
fast döden är det sannaste som de vet.
Andra säger ‘lyckan finns i ett ögonblick’,
fast de aldrig hann i fatt det de fick.”
Peter R. Ericson (till Cornelis Vreeswijk)
”Sommarkort (En stund på jorden)”
Eldorado – Äventyret fortsätter (1987)
”Lost in fog and love and faithless fear
I’ve had kisses that make Judas seem sincere”
The Hold Steady
”Citrus”
Boys and Girls in America (2006)
Lord: it is time. The huge summer has gone by.
Now overlap the sundials with your shadows,
and on the meadows let the wind go free.
Command the fruits to swell on tree and vine;
grant them a few more warm transparent days,
urge them on to fulfillment then, and press
the final sweetness into the heavy wine.
Whoever has no house now, will never have one.
Whoever is alone will stay alone,
will sit, read, write long letters through the evening,
and wander on the boulevards, up and down,
restlessly, while the dry leaves are blowing.
Rainer Maria Rilke
”Autumn Day”
The Book of Pictures (1902)
Översatt från tyska av Stephen Mitchell
”I keep drinking the ink from my pen
and I’m balancing history books up on my head
but it all boils down to one quotable phrase
‘If you love something give it away’”
Bright Eyes
”Landlocked Blues”
I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2005)
”One more drink and I’ll be fine
One more girl to take you off my mind”
The Magic Numbers
”The Mule”
The Magic Numbers (2005)
”I drink good coffee every morning
Comes from a place that’s far away
And when I’m done I feel like talking
Without you here there is less to say”
Colin Hay
”I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You”
Transcendental Highway (1998)
”Take me out tonight
Where there’s music and there’s people
And they’re young and alive
Driving in your car
I never, never want to go home
Because I haven’t got one
Anymore”
The Smiths
”There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”
The Queen Is Dead (1986)
”I don’t care what you do, I don’t care what you say
I don’t care where you go or how long you stay
Someday baby, you ain’t gonna worry po’ me any more”
Bob Dylan
”Someday Baby”
Modern Times (2006)
Fotnot: po’ är kort för poor.
”I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It’s cloud illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds at all”
Joni Mitchell
”Both Sides, Now”
(1968)
”There is no knowledge but I know it
There’s nothing to learn from that vacant voice
That sails to me across the line
From the ridiculous to the sublime
It’s good to hear you’re doing so well, but really
Can’t you find somebody else that you can ring and tell?”
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
”Far From Me”
The Boatman’s Call (1997)
”I’ve been looking so long at these pictures of you
That I almost believe that they’re real
I’ve been living so long with my pictures of you
That I almost believe that the pictures are
All I can feel”
The Cure
”Pictures of You”
Disintegration (1989)
”Turn the light out, say goodnight
No thinking for a little while
Let’s not try to figure out everything at once
It’s hard to keep track of you falling through the sky”
The National
”Fake Empire”
Boxer (2007)
”She was married when we first met
Soon to be divorced
I helped her out of a jam, I guess,
But I used a little too much force.
We drove that car as far as we could
Abandoned it out West
Split up on a dark sad night
Both agreeing it was best.
She turned around to look at me
As I was walkin’ away
I heard her say over my shoulder,
‘We’ll meet again someday on the avenue,’
Tangled up in blue.”
Bob Dylan
”Tangled Up In Blue”
Blood on the Tracks (1975)
Mhm. Två Dylan i rad. Lev me’t.
”People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m outta range
I used to care, but things have changed.”
Bob Dylan
”Things Have Changed”
Wonder Boys OST (2000)
Visst var det dags för lite mer Dylan? Han hörde av sig i går, allmänt missnöjd över att jag inte nämnt honom på en vecka. Men det är ju lite så han är – gubbgrinig – och det är därför vi älskar honom. Right? Bra, bra.
Just ja. Låten spelades in till den mediokra rullen Wonder Boys. Filmen är lättglömd, låten vann en Oscar. Lyssna på den här.
”No woman, no cry”
Bob Marley & The Wailers
”No Woman, No Cry”
Natty Dread (1974)
Höhö, som att jag kunde låta bli? Erkänn, det är fyra ord som innehåller bra mycket mer än vad fyra ord borde kunna förmedla.
”Did they get you to trade
your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
a walk on part in the war,
for a lead role in a cage?”
Pink Floyd
”Wish You Were Here”
Wish You Were Here (1975)
”The Devil and John Berryman took a walk together
They ended up on Washington talking to the river
He said ‘I surrounded myself with doctors and deep thinkers
But big heads with soft bodies make for lousy lovers’.
There was that night that we thought that John Berryman could fly.
But he didn’t so he died.
She said ‘You’re pretty good with words but words won’t save your life’.
And they didn’t so he died.”
The Hold Steady
”Stuck Between Stations”
Boys and Girls in America (2006)
Fotnot: John Berryman var en amerikansk poet som begick självmord genom att hoppa från Washington Avenue Bridge, Minneapolis.
”Well, now what’s the use in dreamin’?
You got better things to do
Dreams never did work for me anyway
Even when they did come true”
Bob Dylan
”I Feel a Change Comin’ On”
Together Through Life (2009)
”I look at you and you look at me and
deep in our hearts know it
That you weren’t much of a muse,
but then I weren’t much of a poet”
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
”There She Goes, My Beautiful World”
Abattoir Blues (2004)
Fotnot: I morgon, lördag, spelar Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds i Stockholm på Where The Action Is. Av en massa skäl missar jag. Har du chansen att se, gör det.
”Every terrible thing is a relief
Even months on end, buried in grief
Are easy light times which have to end
With the coming of your death, friend”
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
”Death to Everyone”
I See a Darkness (1999)
Fotnot: Skivan har plats #9 på Pitchfork Medias ”Top 100 Albums of the 1990’s” och plats #20 på Mojos ”The 100 Greatest Albums of Our Lifetime”. Har du hört den? Det är en skiva som får mig att förlora både tid och rum.
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