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Friday, January 28, 2011

The Trick Is To Keep Breathing




The Trick Is To Keep Breathing

She's not the kind of girl
Who likes to tell the world
About the way she feels about herself
She takes a little time in making up her mind
She doesn't want to fight against the tide

And lately I'm not the only one
I say never trust anyone

Always the one who has to drag her down
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around

Can't bear to face the truth
So sick he cannot move
And when it hurts he takes it out on you

And lately I'm not the only one
I say never trust anyone

Always the one who has to drag her down
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around

The trick is to keep breathing
The trick is to keep breathing

She knows the human heart
And how to read the stars
Now everything's about to fall apart
I won't be the one who's going to let you down
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around
I won't be the one who's going to let you down
Maybe you'll get what you want this time around

The trick is to keep breathing

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Merenneidosta vaahdoksi merensä laineille

Leonard Cohen: Suzanne

"Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river/
You can hear the boats go by/
you can spend the night beside her/
And you know she's half crazy/

It's that's why you want to be there/
And she feeds you tea and oranges/
that come all the way from China/

And just when you mean to tell her/
that you have no love to give her/
Then she gets you on her wave length/
and she lets the river answer/
that you've always been her lover/

And you want to travel with her/
And you want to travel blind/
And you know she will trust you/
for you've touched her perfect body with your mind/

And Jesus was a sailor/
when he walked upon the water/
And he spent a long time watching/
from his lonely wooden tower/

And when he knew for certain/
only drowning men could see him/
he said "all men will be sailors then/
until the sea shall free them"/

But he himself was broken/
long before the sky would open/
Forsaken, almost human/
he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone/

And you want to travel with him/
And you want to travel blind/
And you think maybe you'll trust him/
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind/

Now Suzanne takes your hand/
and she leads you to the river/
She is weaving rags and feathers/
from salvation army counters/

And the sun pours down like honey/
on our lady, lady of the harbour/
And she shows you where to look/
among the garbage and the flowers/

There are heros in the seaweed/
there are children in the morning/
They are leaning out for love/
and they will lean that way forever/
while Suzanne holds the mirror/"


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On pieniä merenneitoja, jotka sukivat aamulla hiuksensa peittääkseen sen, mikä piiloutuu suortuvain alle. On pieniä merenneitoja, jotka eivät astele liki kohisevaa vettä - sellaiset pienet merenneidot pelkäävät vielä vastaavansa vaahtopäiden kutsuun. Sellaiset pienet merenneidot ovat moderneja; ne pyrkivät säilyttämään turvavälin elementtiin, joka on viedä ne muassaan.

Ketiapiini. Bentsodiatsepiini. Antidepressantti.

Pienillä merenneidoilla on simpukkasermejä, joita asetella itsensä ja kuohujen kutsun väliin. Sellaiset pienet merenneidot yrittävät uskoa loitsujensa auttavan.

Sellaisia pieniä merenneitoja ei katsova löydä Disneyn hymyileväin punatukkien tai taideteosten suloseireenien joukosta. Sellaiset pienet merenneidot löydät H.C. Andersenin tekstistä - siitä alkuperäisestä, jota ei vielä ilman immin ole pehmitelty soveliaaksi myös perheen pienimmille.

Sellaiset pienet merenneidot ovat tavanneet tehdä sen saman virheen: uskoa noidan sanoihin. Uskoa mahdottomaan, siirtymään meren maailmasta maalla kulkevien joukkoon. Ja sellaiset pienet merenneidot - ne ovat oppineet virheistään. Ja, toisinaan, vain juuri ja juuri välttäneet kohtalonsa hajota vaahdoksi meren laineille kuvitellessaan tavoittelevansa maallakävijäin rakkautta.

Sellaiset pienet merenneidot kieltäytyvät melodramaattisen lapsukaisen kaavusta. Ne tietävät riskinsä ja ristinsä liian hyvin, suhtautuakseen vakaviin asioihin kevyesti.

Traumaperäinen stressi. Trisyklinen masennuslääke. Mirtatsapiini. Sitalopraami. Serotoniini. Noradrenaliini.

Sellaiset pienet merenneidot tapaavat saada toisia loitsuja apteekin paperille kirjailtuina. Mutta niiden usko loitsuihin tapaa olla silkkaa satua.