You make the music in me

Dette er eit innlegg eg har brukt ganske så lang tid på, og likevel kunne eg ha fortsatt langt inn i evigheita. Har lenge tenkt på det med å lage eit eige der eg (som brukar litt for mykje tid på å leve i fantasiane som kjem til meg via musikken) skriv ned nokre av dei etter mi meining finaste sanglinjene gjennom alle tider. Her er resultatet. 

(Eg er ikkje så veldig flink til å finne fram til kven som eigentleg har opphavsrett til ein song. Og sidan eg uansett har ein tendens til å høyre på coverlåtar (og deira endring frå originalen kanskje utgjer akkurat det som eg synest er så fint) er det desse eg kjem til å forholde meg til).

 

There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror

"Suzanne" av Leonard Cohen

 

And now I know

that there's a link between the two:

Being close to craziness

and being close to you

"Closest Thing To Crazy" av Katie Melua

I build walls with happiness

Build walls with pain

And with things beyond my understanding

But through all of that

You say "lady of my life

Lady of my life, will you follow me"

"Lady Of My Life" av Maria Solheim

Denne uro uro er ein gnist

som tenner opp bålet

og blir ein brann til sist.

Denne uro er ein del

av livet eg har levd i.

For den som setter alt på spel

har ein uro i sjel.

"Denne uro" av Helene Bøksle

He grabs my wrists

As my fingers turn into angry fists

And I whisper, "why can't you love me, I'll change for you

I'll play the part"

"Sorry" av Maria Mena

 

Men det äter upp dig 

när du ligger i din säng.

Åh gud det gör så ont 

att nåt så nära kan va så långt bort.

 "Kom igen, Lena" av Håkan Hellström

 

And Jesus was a sailor

When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them"

"Suzanne" av Leonard Cohen

And if the chance should happen

That I never see you again

Just remember that

I'll always love you

"A Minor Incident" av Badly Drawn Boy

You're beautiful, so silently

It lies beneath a shade of blue

It struck me, so violently

When I looked at you

But others pass, they never pause

To feel that magic in your hand

To me you're like a wild rose

They'll never understand

"I Cried For You" av Katie Melua

I could have been someone

Well so could anyone 

You took my dreams from me

When I first found you

I kept them with me, babe

I put them with my own

Can't make it all alone

I built my dreams around you

"Fairytale of New Work" av The Pogues

 

I can't live

With or without you

"With Or Without You" av U2

Sometimes I believe in fate

But the chances we create

Always seem to ring more true

You took a chance on loving me

I took a chance on loving you

"If You Were A Sailboat" av Katie Melua

You think your days are ordinary
And no one ever thinks about you
But we're all the same
And she can hardly breathe without you

"She Has No Time" av Keane

Säg, är det långa nätters fara

att se det man vill se

och var den man vill vara

"Långa Nätter" av Melissa Horn

Lykka starta aldri ein revolusjon
men stulla i hagen og raka i tun

"Lykkeliten" av Odd Norstoga

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in. 

"Anthem" av Leonard Cohen

Why do you weep?

What are these tears upon your face?

Soon you will see

All of your fears will pass away

Safe in my arms

You're only sleeping

What can you see

On the horizon?

Why do the white gulls call?

Across the sea

A pale moon rises

The ships have come to carry you home

And all will turn

To silver glass

A light on the water

All souls pass

"Into the West" av Annie Lennox

And all of this world
Is for children who play
Days that never end
always should remain

"Perfect Day" av Miriam Stockley

It started out as a feeling
Which then grew into a hope
Which then turned into a quiet thought
Which then turned into a quiet word

And then that word grew louder and louder
'Til it was a battle cry

I'll come back
When you call me
No need to say goodbye

"The Call" av Regina Spektor

But the sun's been quite kind

While I wrote this song

It's for people like you 

That keep it turned on

"Your Song" av Elton John

 

This is the land of a thousand words
But it seems so few are worth the breath to say
Except I'll be looking after my own world
And you just keep on saving the day
I'll try to stay but it's in vain when you're far
I'm on the run to wherever you are

"Land Of A Thousand Words" av Scissor Sisters

 

It's a major minor detail
Like erasing that old ghost trail
So one day I can be with you

"Minor Detail" av Sondre Lerche

Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe his name
I opened up my eyes
 
I found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only boy I loved
And drowned him deep inside of me

You, soft and only
You, lost and lonely
You, just like heaven

"Just Like Heaven" av Katie Melua

You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Among the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky
When we walked in fields of gold

So she took her love for to gaze awhile
Among the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down
Among the fields of gold

"Fields Of Gold" av Eva Cassidy

Og så, kanskje den vakraste av dei alle: 

Mothers have woven a black velvet ocean
And spread it between the night and day shores
So that children might sleep, gently rocked by the motion
Of waves beneath boats built by fathers like yours


With you safe aboard by the shore we will linger
And watch as your breathing it fills up the sail
You loosen the moorings, your grip on our finger
And leave on the velvet a silvery trail

Alone on the shore with our heart close to breaking
We stand in the wake as you glide from our reach
Calmed by the thought that the voyage you're taking
Will bring you at dawning back safe to this beach


 

We cannot sail with you, be there to guide you
Or pilot your boat through the black of the night
But no ocean can keep you, no darkness can hide you
Away from our love and its undying light

"Lullaby To Erle" av Silje Nergaard