Posted in God, History, Lyrics, Music, Mystery, Poetry, Syncretism, Words, World, tagged Buffy Sainte-Marie, communication, God, space travel, telephone, wireless, wonder on May 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’m going to let Buffy Sainte-Marie speak on the topic of telephone – because this song is what came to my mind first when I read Sunday Scribblings‘ invitation …
Moonshot
Off into outer space you go my friends
we wish you bon voyage
and when you get there we will welcome you again
and still you’ll wonder at it [...]
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Posted in Blabla, Humor, Life, Music, World, tagged Alice in Chains, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, L'ham de foc, Music, Pat Metheny on April 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Thanks to my American colleague and friend Christopher, my musical horizon has expanded greatly over the past year or so. I’ve come to know bands I’d never heard of before, such as Pearl Jam (I always think of ‘toe jam’ first), Alice in Chains and, an oddball combo from Catalonia, L’ham de foc.
Believe it or [...]
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Not my own take for One Single Impression, but Shawn Colvin’s – worlds colliding, worlds apart, a relationship two light years past…
Stranded
Was it really two summers ago
Or was it outer space
We both had nowhere to go
In search of a state of grace
All in all we never had time
When we met each other we stopped
On a [...]
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When I visited One Single Impression today and saw the “kindness” prompt, I immediately thought of this Richard Thompson song. It is actually a hard-hitting, rocky number. But kindness doesn’t necessarily have to be meek and mild, does it?
Hand of kindness
Well I wove the rope
And I picked the spot
Well I stuck out my [...]
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Posted in Hermeticism, Imagination, Love, Music, tagged Earth, esoteric, infinity, Love, Sun, thought, tolerance, waves on February 13, 2008 | No Comments »
It radiates in warmth,
it rises on effortless wings,
it spreads in soothing waves
both major and minor,
it gains momentum,
it turns with the Earth,
it is at once reflected by the clouds
and transcends them, reaching the Sun,
reaching infinity,
it connects the ones specifically included
and touches everyone else
in love, forgiveness, tolerance.
– Niebla
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Posted in Life, Lyrics, Music, Mysticism, Poetry, Sufism, tagged Linda Thompson, Lyrics, moon, Music, pour down like silver, Richard Thompson, Sufism, Thompson on March 24, 2007 | No Comments »
This old house is falling down around my ears
I’m drowning in a river of my tears
When all my will is gone you hold me sway
I need you at the dimming of the day
You pull me like the moon pulls on the tide
You know just where I keep my better side
What days have come to [...]
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Posted in Bible, History, Lyrics, Music, tagged Carthage, Egypt, Hannibal, Jefferson Airplane, Lyrics, Moses, Music, Red Sea on March 20, 2007 | No Comments »
The J.A. in possibly the configuration (with Papa John Creach)
in which they recorded 30 Seconds Over Winterland in the early 1970s.
Is this Jefferson Airplane song simply an example of drug-induced hallucination or does it actually have a deeper – possibly even esoteric – meaning?
In golden Hannibal Carthage days marchin’ onto Rome
Knockin’ on the [...]
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The lyrics of one of Richard Thompson’s greatest songs have a mystic or sufi ring:
Beat the Retreat
I’m beating my retreat
Back home to you
I’m beating my retreat
Back home to you
I’m burning all my bridges
I’m burning all my bridges
I’m burning all my bridges
I’m running back home to you
I’m trailing my colours
Back home to you
I’m trailing my [...]
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Whatever we do,
whether we sing,
write, dance, plant,
slice vegetables,
bake, cook,
it is all one.
There is no need
to kneel on a
carpet, no need
to enter a church
or temple.
It is all one.
But it needs
to be lived
fully and
completely.
– St. Nieves
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