Monday, June 11, 2007

dos canciones

dance me to the end of love
by leonard cohen

(there is some chick who sings this song, i forget her name, but i'll try to nail it down. it's an awesomely sad song. poetry set to music. her name is: madeline peyroux. here is a snippet of the song)

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love


...

my immortal
by evanescence


i'm so tired of being here
suppressed by all of my childish fears
and if you have to leave
i wish that you would just leave
because your presence still lingers here
and it won't leave me alone

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
and i've held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me

you used to captivate me
by your resonating light
but now i'm bound by the life you left behind
your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
your voice it chased away all the sanity in me

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
and i've held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me

i've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
and though you're still with me
i've been alone all along

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mary DeMuth says you are "the best poet I know" so I thought I should swing by.

Leonard Cohen is awesome. My favorite is "Hallelujah"--especially the version Jeff Buckley recorded on his album Grace.

siouxsiepoet said...

mark, welcome.
i'm not posting poetry here. my style has really changed. but you can read my work in the next paterson literary review or LIPS poetry journal.

alternately, you can eme offlist and i can show you some of what i've got going on now.

peace.
suz.