Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Viktor Tsoi - A star Called Sun / Виктор Цой Звезда по имени солнце

Great song by Russian rock legend Виктор Цой (Viktor Tsoi). 

The song is about cycle of human history, meaningless wars, unachievable dreams and inevitable death under the star called sun.

White snow and black ice
On the cracked earth.
As a patchwork blanket lays on it -
And this city is in the road loop.
Floating clouds over the city,
Closing the heavenly light.
Over the town - yellow smoke
And the city two thousand years old,

Lived under the light of a star named the Sun

And for two thousand years there is war,
War without special reasons.
War is a matter of the young,
İt's medicine against wrinkles.
The red, red blood -
In an hour is simply earth,
And after two on it is flowers and grass,
And after three it is alive again

And warmed by the rays of star called the Sun

And we know that it has always been,
That the fate would like special ones,
Those who lives by the other rules and laws ,
And who were born to die young.
He did not know the words "yes" and "no"
He did not know the orders and ranks,
And he was able to reach the stars,
He did not think it was a dream.

And he fell scorched by a star called Sun

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

The Beatles - Across the Universe (My Favorite Beatles Song)

John Lennon got the idea to write this song when he heard phrase "words are flowing out like endless rain into paper cup" from his first wife Cynthia while talking about something. Shortly after that while in bed, Lennon kept hearing the phrase "flowing like an endless stream" again and again. This led him to write this cosmic song. According to Lennon, this is his best, most poetic lyric he ever wrote. The line Kay Guru Deva Om is in Sanskrit and it means glory to the shining remover of darkness. Oh and Fiona Apple's cover of this song is also very good. Enjoy!

Words are flowing out like 
Endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe.
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
Are drifting through my opened mind
Possessing and caressing me.

Jai Guru Deva. Om
Nothing's gonna change my world x4
Images of broken light, which 
Dance before me like a million eyes,
They call me on and on across the universe.
Thoughts meander like a 
Restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe.

Jai Guru Deva. Om
Nothing's gonna change my world x4


Sounds of laughter, shades of life
Are ringing through my opened ears 
Inciting and inviting me.
Limitless undying love, which
Shines around me like a million suns,
It calls me on and on across the universe

Jai Guru Deva.
Nothing's gonna change my world x4

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Kyu Sakamoto - Ue o Muite Arukou (I look up as I walk) - aka Sukiyaki


This is a wonderful Japanese song by Kyu Sakamoto. This song was a 1963 hit in the USA and reached the top of Billboard Hot 100 Chart (#3) and Billboard Soul Chart (#1)!!! More amazingly, this is the only foreign song that reached this status in the US chart. The official title of this song is Ue o Muite Arukou (上を向いて歩こう) and it means "I look up as I walk". This song is also known as "Sukiyaki" in English-speaking countries primarily because the word "Sukiyaki" was short and easier for non-Japanese people to recognize. "Sukiyaki" is a Japanese beef dish and has no relation with this song.This song immediately caught my attention after only hearing just few second parts of it in a film scene. I was delighted when I found the name of this song because it took me a quite some time to find it. Enjoy and oh yeah welcome to my Blog!!! :D