[Teksten] Wat vind jij mooi?
 

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Welke teksten vind jij mooi?
En om anderen dan mee te laten genieten (of walgen, smaken verschillen immers ;)), plaats de teksten in dit topic!

De volgende tekst komt uit Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers. Sowieso vond ik het boek én de film al heel indrukwekkend, maar door dit nummer kan het helemaal niet meer stuk! :) Ik vind dit echt één van de mooiste teksten die ik ooit gelezen heb... :o

Gollum's Song

Where once was light
Now darkness falls
Where once was love
Love is no more
Dont't say - goodbye
Don't say - I didn't try

These tears we cry
Are falling rain
For all the lies
You told us
The hurt, the blame!

And we will weep
To be so alone
We are lost!
We can never go home

So in the end
I will be - what I will be
No loyal friend
Was ever there for me

Now we say - goodbye
We say - you didn't try

And you will weep
When you face the end alone
You are lost!
You can never go home

Als ik het zo doorlees, lijkt het alsof het metrum helemaal niet klopt, maar als je het nummer hoort, klopt het weer precies.

ida gerhardt - de gestorvene

freek de jonge - wees niet bang

gun's n' roses - november rain

u2 - I need you

ach het zijn er zoveel...

Ik vond dat nummer van Youp van 't Hek over 'Johannes' in z'n oudejaarsconference mooi! (maar ik heb het nog niet op internet kunnen vinden :()

Just make sure dont tell on me
especcially the members of your familie
we best keep this to ourselves
and not tell any members of our inner posse
i wish i could tell it the world
cuz you're such a pretty thing
when you do on properbly
i might want to merry you one day
when you watch that weight
and keep your firm body

Is van Hands Clean van Alanis Morissette. Sorry voor alle spelfouten, ik sta een 3,5 voor Engels en ik doe dit uit mijn hoofd:) Met een woordenboek heb ik dit couplet vertaald en ik moet zeggen: het is zeer herkenbaar en mooi!!!!!!

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Rock Of Gibraltar

Let me say this to you
I'll be steadfast and true
And my love will never falter

The sea would crash about us
The waves would lash about us
I'll be your Rock of Gibraltar

Sometimes it's hard
And we're both caught off guard
But there's nothing I would ever alter

The wind could howl round our ears
For the next thousand years
I'd still be your Rock of Gibraltar

The best thing I done
Was to make you the one
Who I'd walk with down to the altar

You'd stand by me
And together we'd be
That great, steady Rock of Gibraltar

Under the big yellow moon
On our honeymoon
I took you on a trip to Malta

And all through the night
You held me so tight
Your great, steady Rock of Gibraltar

Could the powers that be
Ever foresee
That things could so utterly alter?

All the plans that we laid
Could soon be betrayed
Betrayed like the Rock of Gibraltar

zie signature

en:

The phone slips from a loose grip
Words were missed then, some apology
I didn’t want to tell you this
No, it’s just some guy she's been hanging out with
I don’t know, the past couple weeks I guess
Well, thank you and hang up the phone
Let the funeral start
Hear the casket close
Let’s pin split-black ribbon to your overcoat
Well, laughter pours from under doors
In this house, I don’t understand that sound no more
It seems artificial, like a T.V. set
Well, haligh, haligh, haligh, haligh
This weight it must be satisfied
You offer only one reply
You know not what you do
But you tear and tear your hair from roots
From that same head you have twice removed now
A lock of hair you said would prove
Our love would never die
Well ha ha ha
I remember everything
The words we spoke on freezing South Street
And all those mornings watching you get ready for school
You combed your hair inside that mirror
The one you painted blue and glued with jewelry tears
Something about those bright colors
would always make you feel better
But now we speak with ruined tongues
And the words we say aren’t meant for anyone
It’s just a mumbled sentence to a passing acquaintance
But there was once you
You said you hate my suffering
And you understood
And you’d take care of me
You'd always be there
Well where are you now?
Haligh, haligh, haligh, haligh
The plans were never finalized
But left to hang like yarn and twine
Dangling before my eyes
As you tear and tear your hair from roots
From that same head you have twice removed now
A lock of hair you said would prove
Our love would never die
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings
As my fingers press onto the strings
In yet another clumsy chord
Haligh, haligh, an awful lie
This weight will now be satisfied
I'm gonna give you only one reply
I know not who I am
But I talk in the mirror
To the stranger that appears
Our conversations are circles
Always one sided
Nothing is clear
Except we keep coming back
To this meaning that I lack
He says the choices were given
Now you must live them
Or just not live
But do you want that?

(Bright Eyes - Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh)