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TS trapt af met de Simple Minds - Bellfast Child
When my love said to me
Meet me down by the gallow tree
For it's sad news I bring
About this old town and all that it's offering
Some say troubles abound
Some day soon they're gonna pull the old town down
One day we'll return here,
When the Belfast Child sings again
Brothers sisters where are you now
As I look for you right through the crowd
All my life here I've spent
With my faith in God the Church and the Government
But there's sadness abound
Some day soon they're gonna pull the old town down
One day we'll return here,
When the Belfast Child sings again
When the Belfast Child sings again
Some come back Billy, won't you come on home
Come back Mary, you've been away so long
The streets are empty, and your mother's gone
The girls are crying, it's been oh so long
And your father's calling, come on home
Won't you come on home, won't you come on home
ome back people, you've been gone a while
And the war is raging, in the Emerald Isle
That's flesh and blood man, that's flesh and blood
All the girls are crying but all's not lost
The streets are empty, the streets are cold
Won't you come on home, won't you come on home
The streets are empty
Life goes on
One day we'll return here
When the Belfast Child sings again
When the Belfast Child sings again
Love represents the essential,
the beginning
Love gives you strength, wings that carry,
nothing stops you
Love motivates, keeps you moving
And triggers action
Love makes you weak,
the impression of being only half
Light as a feather
Hard to catch before she blows away
Deep as the ocean
Swallows you and pulls you away
Can anything else really help us-
love is the way
Here's waiting for the wonder to happen-
love is the way
Love is the test, are you worth it,
can you hold it tight
Love harbours pain, never known
Such a longing and desire
Love's a carress, lasting longer
Than the hand that touches
Love is the way, love is beauty,
Love in ev'rything
Light as a feather
Hard to catch before she blows away
Deep as the ocean
Swallows you and pulls you away
Can anything else really help us-
love is the way
Here's waiting for the wonder to happen-
love is the way
betekenis van vrijwel alle metallica liedjes, Motorbreath wordt bijvoorbeeld uitvoerig beschreven
There are no set territories and no rules of engagement.
quote:De zanger verwoord de pijn die hij voelt wanneer zijn stad door geweld en oorlog verscheurd wordt. En hij legt de vinger op de zere plek. Er zit immers altijd maar één groep echt in de hoek waar de klappen vallen. Hij houdt van zijn stad maar kan pas terugkeren als de kinderen er weer kunnen zingen.
Op zaterdag 17 januari 2004 19:34 schreef Rider_on_the_storm het volgende:
Leg de boodschap even uit dan. Motiveer 't eens iets gedetailleerder.
Die maatstaf overtreft alle andere: Pas als het kind in Bellfast weer kan zingen.
quote:Vooruit dan
Op zaterdag 17 januari 2004 19:34 schreef Rider_on_the_storm het volgende:
Leg de boodschap even uit dan. Motiveer 't eens iets gedetailleerder.
Het eerst rapnummer met een maatschappijkritische boodschap heette The Message, voor die tijd draaide rap alleen maar om dingen als "After school i take a dip in the pool" "I''m the #1 B-Boy and the lady's choice" en "All my fly boys en girls gonna' move and shake it"
De tekst luidt als volgt, toendertijd een doorbraak in de hiphop:
Broken glass everywhere
People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don't care
I can't take the smell, I can't take the noise
Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
Junkie's in the alley with a baseball bat
I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far
Cause the man with the tow-truck repossessed my car
Chorus:
Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to loose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window
Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow
Crazy lady, livin' in a bag
Eating out of garbage piles, used to be a fag-hag
Search and test a tango, skips the life and then go
To search a prince to see the last of senses
Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps
So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
She went to the city and got Social Security
She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own
Chorus:
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from goin' under
My brother's doing fast on my mother's T.V.
Says she watches to much, is just not healthy
All my children in the daytime, Dallas at night
Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
Bill collectors they ring my phone
And scare my wife when I'm not home
Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
Neon King Kong standin' on my back
Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
Midrange, migraine, cancered membrane
Sometimes I think I'm going insane, I swear I might hijack a plane!
Chorus:
My son said daddy I don't wanna go to school
Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool
And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
I dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
They push that girl in front of a train
Took her to a doctor, sowed the arm on again
Stabbed that man, right in his heart
Gave him a transplant before a brand new start
I can't walk through the park, cause it's crazy after the dark
Keep my hand on the gun, cause they got me on the run
I feel like an outlaw, broke my last fast jaw
Hear them say you want some more, livin' on a seesaw
Chorus:
A child was born, with no state of mind
Blind to the ways of mankind
God is smiling on you but he's frownin too,
Cause only god knows what you go through
You grow in the ghetto, living second rate
And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
The places you play and where you stay
Looks like one great big alley way
You'll admire all the number book takers
Dogpitchers, pushers and the big money makers
Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
And you wanna grow up to be just like them
Smugglers, scrambles, burglars, gamblers
Pickpockets, peddlers and even pan-handlers
You say I'm cool, I'm no fool
But then you wind up dropping out of high school
Now you're unemployed, all null 'n' void
Walking around like you're pretty boy Floyd
Turned stickup kid, look what you done did
Got send up for a eight year bid
Now your man is took and you're a May tag
Spend the next two years as an undercover fag
Being used and abused, and served like hell
Till one day you was find hung dead in a cell
It was plain to see that your life was lost
You was cold and your body swung back and forth
But now your eyes sing the sad sad song
Of how you lived so fast and died so young
Chorus:
quote:En meteen een klassieker !
Op zaterdag 17 januari 2004 19:34 schreef nozem het volgende:
The Message natuurlijk
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 
quote:Interessant.
Op zaterdag 17 januari 2004 19:44 schreef Captain_Chaos het volgende:[..]
De zanger verwoord de pijn die hij voelt wanneer zijn stad door geweld en oorlog verscheurd wordt. En hij legt de vinger op de zere plek. Er zit immers altijd maar één groep echt in de hoek waar de klappen vallen. Hij houdt van zijn stad maar kan pas terugkeren als de kinderen er weer kunnen zingen.
Die maatstaf overtreft alle andere: Pas als het kind in Bellfast weer kan zingen.
Zo krijg je een hele andere kijk op een nummer.
are you still mad I kicked you out of bed?
are you still mad I gave you ultimatums?
are you still mad I compared you to all
my forty year old male friends?
are you still mad I shared our problems
with everybody
are you still mad I had an emotional affair?
are you still mad I tried to mold you into
who I wanted you to be?
are you still mad I ddn´t trust your intentions?
of course you are
of course you are
are you still mad that I flirted wildly?
are you still mad I had a tendency to mother you?
are you still mad that I had one foot out the door?
are you still mad that we slept together even after
we had ended it?
of course you are
of course you are
are you still mad I wore the pants most of te time?
are you still mad that I seemed to focus
only on your potential?
are you still mad that I threw in the towel?
are you still mad that I gave up long before yoo did?
of course you are
of course you are
Niet een hele grote boodschap maar ik vind hem wel herkenbaar
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