Bara för att Johan spelar den för mig

Glimmande nymf blixtrande öga
svävande hand på bolstrarna höga
menlösa styrka
kom, kom nu att dyrka
vin besmakt och utsläckt ljus
sömnens gud vår Morfeus.

Luckan ren stängd porten tillsluten
natthuvan ren din hjässan kringknuten
ring Norströms piskperuk
den hänger på sin spik.
Sov, somna in vid min musik
sov, somna in vid min musik.

Bofinken nyss, nyss Kajsa-Lisa
slumrande slött sin kvittrande visa
solen nyss slocknat
och föste torft tjocknat
enslighetens tystnad rår
jag tillfröjes dyrkan går.

Regnet nedöst i mullrande låga
välver i skyn sin brandgula båga
som randas lugnt och skönt
i purpur guld och grönt
sen jorden jo fus åska rönt
sen jorden jo fus åska rönt.

Somna min nymf dröm om min lyra
tills dess vår sol går upp klockan fyra
och du dig sträcker
och armarna räcker
till min kanna och min famn
eldad av mitt blod och namn.

Kajsa du dör himmel hon andas
döden ger liv åt kärlek bortblandas
men fast din puls slår matt
så blundar ögat glatt
håll med fiolen gonatt, gonatt
håll med fiolen godnatt, god natt

Vi måste höja våra röster

Och vi lär oss ingenting

Babylon brinner i girighetens glöd
Demokratier, eller hur var det det löd
Så säljer vi vapen med statligt understöd
Underbygger krig och sprider vår död
Stora Babylon, beskåda din prakt
På toppen av världen berusad av makt
Sprider din terror, en hänsynslös slakt
Suger folkets blod, med slavkontrakt
Nu har ni brutit allt som ni sagt

Dessa rader från Svenska akademiens "Och vi lär oss ingenting" känns skrämmande relevanta, inte minst dessa dagar då vi "uppdagar" (påminns) om hur svenska staten fortsätter att agera mot mot världen och mot de värderingar vi så stolt påstår oss ha och vilja sprida. Att Moderaterna och övriga i Alliansen tycks stå bakom den politik som förs är tämligen uppenbar men frågan om inte tidigare regeringar med Socialdemokraterna i spetsen också varit usla följa de lagar regler och rekommendationer (för att inte tala om moraliskt ansvar). Med en vapenlobbande Göran Persson blir inte förtroendet för Socialdemokraterna bättre, för har de blivit bättre utan Göran?

Nej, vi lär oss ingenting.

Everlong x 2

The former blogpost gave me a taste for posting Foo Fighters songs and as natural develoment of that is posting Everlong. It's beautiful. I simply can't choose which version to post so you get both. The first is the original and the second one is the acoustic version. I might not have been as huge fan as this guy but Nirvana, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters is one heck of a fine development. The video is very good!

Breathe out
So I could breathe you in
Hold you in

Hello
I've waited here for you
Everlong

Tonight
I throw myself into
And out of the red, out of her head she sang

Come down
And waste away with me
Down with me

Slow how
You wanted it to be
I'm over my head, out of her head she sang
Chorus-

And I wonder
When I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again

The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang
Verse 2-

Breathe out
So I could breathe you in
Hold you in

And now
I know you've always been
Out of your head, out of my head I sang
Chorus-

And I wonder
When I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again

The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang
Chorus-

And I wonder
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again

The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when
She sang

Best of You

What energy! I'm not an over all fan of them but when they do something good, they do it very good.

Oppochner

Feels appropriate at the moment.

Love for all

Manson & friends

1999. MTV. TV-couch. Mexico.

I'm using my friend Björn's Spotify list as my main playlist at the moment. Not that you can tell what kind of music he likes by looking at him but me playing his list is definitely a good sign. Manson, Slipnot and Inflames are good energy kicks when a sharp mind is required. While writing my application letter to work as a volunteer for the Amnesty's international council meeting this year (as I did 2009), the tunes of Manson's music and voice fills the apartment. I think it is a good thing that I live on the top floor (8th) and therefore have no neighbor on top and thick cement walls on the sides.

Why I chose to post "The Dope Show" is because it is the song that made me aware of Manson's existence and it was when I started to like him. It was played frequently on MTV which was a good friend of mine during my time in Mexico 1998-99. I watched/listened to the MTV music quite a lot in lack of other good music sources and it also to keep me company at times. Not always easy to find ways to keep busy when everyone else have their own lives, their own friends and things to do.

In my class in school, Promedac, there was a girl who some called Marilyn Manson because of her gothish style. I felt a little sorry for her because she felt like an outcast even though she was part of one of the larger groups in the class. Hm, what did that make me then? I never really belonged to any of the groups there even if I started out in the same group when I came there. Still I don't think I was as big of an oddball as she was and I am pretty sure I got more friends than she had...more than several people I got to know there actually.

I have managed to find quite a few friends and my host family on Facebook but there are still a handful of people I don't know how to get in touch with. There are especially two people I really would like to know what have become of them. They were special and important to me but yet another reason for me wanting to get back in touch is because of their backgrounds and their peculiarities. How did their lives turn out?

Natasja's in the teddy crowd

Teddybears @ Malmöfestivalen 28/8-2010 kl 00:08

Click to enlarge.

Disco in my head

Umbrella - the good version

Long time no see. Plenty of things going on at work, at home and in Amnesty but I have not forgotten you dear INCH-blog. I often think of you and save links and articles to insert in you and write about.

Yesterday a colleague asked me if I wanted to see these guys in Liseberg but I had already made other plans. This cover is so much better than the original (by Rihanna).

Landets krona

Crown of the Country - Landets krona (Landskrona) and sure it it ;-). I used to live there and it's where Svenska Akademien come from. Just too bad they are not playing together anymore. Although I had the privilege of seeing Sture Allén live last week. He was just helping another Swedish reggeaband out a bit and he got the last 15 min to himself. I was one of the few who seemed to really know who he was and appreciate him - in other words I was the most enthusiastic and energetic (= getting Tigger tail) person in the quite young crowd. And what songs he chose to sing! A great live artist deserves a jumping and singing Natasja :-)

Buarque & Veloso

They sing both "Võce não entende nada" (You don't understand anything) and "Cotidiano" in 1986.

Left of Center

Serj Tankian's new single from the album Imperfect Harmonies.




Swimming in theocracy
We are far from holy
The wholeness of one
Repeat after me
We lost the key of sight
Now blind, we fear in flight
We are far from love
But silence is golden
Please observe

Fighting your empire
Defending your vampires
Far away, we're going too far
Bombing your ignorance
And feeding your insolence
Far away, we're going too far
We're going too far

If today I die
And can not deny
The life that I live for what
I say, not befit myself in time
No time to die our
No structures of a pyramid
No train, horses to rise
Surmise my position
My words define

We go forward
We go backward
Living, dying
We're dying, we're living
We're living, we're dying
We're crying, we're seeing
We're living, we're breathing
Dying, seeing

We don't speak americano

The Stone In My Hand

by Everlast. A tip from my peace loving and acting friend P. Love his voice.

Borders are - Serj Tankian

Just gotta love the voice and the mind of this man.



"Fear is the cause of separation"...a sentence to bare in mind for my next blog post, even though Serj is not singing about the same thing I am thinking about.

Tänkande människa

Lyrics to listen to and a video to see. It's nicely done.

Illumination

Rollings Band.

I walked green miles of jungle / I walked through yellow miles of pain
I crossed starvation's desert / Watched dead rivers swell with rain
The song of insects filled the air / Nights in cites of despair
Where killer's sons said, son beware / And all the roads from here to there
I sailed the sea of desolation / Dropped my anchor there
Plumbed the depths of isolation / Walked its length and was not scared
Went from end to end to end / And then from there I went again
The road that only this one knows / Off to nowhere here I go
Illumination comes so hard / Makes me see but leaves its scars
At times I wish that I didn't know what I know now
Thought and thought until I lost my mind
Looked and looked until I went near blind
The path is fair but so unkind
At night the highway's diesel roar / Speaks to me and tells me more
Than any book I've ever read / Or anything you ever said
With silent eyes inside / I watch myself and worlds collide
The seasons burn and crack my skin / I stay outside and live within

Muppet Rhapsody

For all that love either you mother, the Muppets or Bohemian Rhapsody!