Lyrics Of The Week, Episode 367 – ‘Under the Cloud of Mystery’

Sometimes mysterious events strike us in a completely unexpected way and make us lose ground. We have absolutely no influence on the situation. We feel but we can’t act. We get to know what was previously beyond our perception and imagination. It changes us forever. We are somehow suspended between life&death and wait helplessly for someone to free us from the nightmare.

In such moments our regular defensive mechanisms stop working. There is nothing to protect us anymore; neither reason nor the outer image we built will ease our inner struggles. The only way to alleviate our pain is to let emotions flow, often literally in the form of tears streams down our cheeks. Facing the Inevitable hurts to the bone and never leaves us unchanged. It consumes our emotions&energy and makes us powerless.

In those difficult moments it is worth to remember the words of Martin Luther King

And to trust the Mystery no matter how dark this cloud may seem.

Maximo Park ‘Under the Cloud of Mystery’

UNDER THE CLOUD OF MYSTERY

Maximo Park

Calm those vowels down
No one’s thinking of you right now.
She’s dressed up
It’s her duty to the town.
It’s empty. It’s vast.
But it imposes its will.

In a crowded room
Her painted features smothered in the groom
Already resigned
At night she strips away the face
That she creates
The mirror sighs

Why can’t we always meet
Under a cloud of mystery?
The noise from a hundred miles
Working through memories

Big budget, Showbiz exit
She’ll go far.
Acting coy was her favourite ploy
It quickly loses its charm.

The frosted cheek
You turned, will add
To your mystique
He burns for you
I threw myself into your world
Only to come up short.

Why can’t we always meet
Under a cloud of mystery?
The noise travelled a hundred miles
Working through memories

Kept for a Thursday afternoon
Before the time when you withdrew
Why can’t we always meet
Under a cloud of mystery?

Bathroom lights start the evening
Where the buildings skim the air
Hairspray curls push the cheek
As they swoon on a wooden dance floor
There’s nothing worse than taking a chance
On an outdated dance.

Why can’t we always meet
Under a cloud of mystery?
The noise travelled a hundred miles
Cursing through memories

Kept for a Thursday afternoon
Before the time when you withdrew
Why can’t we always meet
Under a cloud of mystery?

Lyrics Of The Week, Episode 366 – ‘Stone Cold Metal’

If anyone told me it is possible to marry happily symphonic metal with country&western music, I’d say it is the biggest rubbish I’ve ever heard. But a couple of weeks ago I heard Ensiferum’s Stone Cold Metal and it turned out this is one of those little cheeky songs which goes behind you, kicks you in your butt and make you throw your hair in the air  .

And apparently I am not the only person who feels energized by Ensiferum’s songs 

(picture taken from Folk/Viking/Pagan Metal)

Ensiferum ‘Stone Cold Metal’

STONE COLD METAL

Ensiferum

Howl of a coyote wakes up a man,
A haggard shadow in this wasted land.
Vultures rise with the scorching sun.
A dry wind blows in a silent town.

Some Whiskey to clear his head
And some for the brothers who are dead.
Another day, another chase,
Vigilantes will meet their fate.

Saddle your steed
We are riding tonight
Be ready to kill
Don’t flee from a fight.
Pillaging is in our blood,
We bow to no one and no one at all!

Stone cold metal in his hand,
Stirs wild rival of righteous man.
Life of an outlaw; the gallows await.
Until then they shall reign!

No border is too sacred
To cross and to spill the cup of hatred.
Days to come are still unveiled,
Take whats yours, no time to bewail!

Waning daylight, time to move on
Under a looming crescent moon.
Another town, again to raze,
Surely someone will pass deaths gate.

In the silence of the night
Treacherous lady of the evening,
Deceived the whereabouts of marauders.

Ten bounty hunters are heading to the hideaway.
A dark red desert moon
Shimmers it gloomy light.
Upon a baneful affair of honour.

For a fleeting moment, eye meets eye.
Silent respect before an inevitable solution.
Dead or alive, Its all the same…

Lyrics Of The Week, Episode 365 – ‘Free Your Mind’

This nasty April has finally finished. The anniversaries of Layne, Kurt and Peter’s deaths have passed so I could post the cheerful lyrics today but the truth is that the world hasn’t changed much when one month turned into another. People won’t become happier, wiser and more symapthethic just because it’s May. In fact I have impression that the more rainbow – coloured we become, the more people will try to classify us only as the Red One, the Green One or the Blue One. They will refuse to see other colours or, even worse, they will try to drag us down to the shadows where they live to take the colours away from us. If they don’t shine themselves, no one will shine. Does it mean we should stop being multi – coloured and radiant? I don’t think so. I suspect we should rather avoid shadowy figures appearing on our lifepaths and hope that still there are wise and deep people out there that we will sooner or later come across. And even if you don’t meet them, you will have enough colours to shine just for yourself.

I can’t change your mind, you can’t change my color

En Vogue ‘Free Your Mind’

FREE YOUR MIND

En Vogue

Prejudice, wrote a song about it.
Like to hear it? Here it go.

I wear tight clothing, high heeled shoes
It doesn’t mean that I’m a prostitute, no no
I like rap music, wear hip hop clothes
That doesn’t mean that I’m out sellin’ dope no no
Oh my forgive me for having straight hair, no
It doesn’t mean there’s another blood in my heir yeah yeah
I might date another race or color
It doesn’t mean I don’t like my strong black brothers

Why oh why must it be this way
Before you can read me you gotta learn how to see me, I said
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be color blind, don’t be so shallow.
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be color blind, don’t be so shallow

So I’m a sistah
Buy things with cash
That really doesn’t mean that all my credit’s bad, oooh
So why dispute me and waste my time
Because you really think the price is high for me
I can’t look without being watched, and oh
You rang my buy before I made up my mind, OW!
Oh now attitude, why even bother
I can’t change your mind, you can’t change my color

Why oh why must it be this way?
Before you can read me you gotta learn how to see me, I said
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be color blind, don’t be so shallow…

Why oh why must it be this way?
Before you can read me you gotta learn how to see me, I said
Free your mind and the rest will follow
Be color blind, don’t be so shallow… FREE YOUR MIND!