Posted on 01/22/2015 6:05:35 PM PST by fatima
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Poem by Mayrhofer, and one of Schubert's best. My favorite line is, "The earth is surpassingly beautiful, but safe it is not!"
I’m just doing a lot of Schubert. Out of 650+ songs he wrote, there must be a hundred songs about different kinds of bodies of water.
I played that album down to the end of the grooves! LOL!
My license plate is
40+pir8
Can’t tell you how many people have actually gotten out of their cars to ask me what it means. On the other hand I get honks when going on the freeway from Parrotheads. Lol
Suzanne is one of my all time favorite songs.
The original by Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otJY2HvW3Bw
And this duet with Judy Collins
Leonard Cohen and Judy Collins “Suzanne” 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UASy-aY2T0
As for the meaning.
I hear it as a story of love, temptation and redemption.
My favorite verse:
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
Blind Faith
Sea of Joy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOZ5VcQIiFc
Great tunes, Fiji...((HUGS))...thank you.
That’s awesome! I knew you’d have a great bunch of tunes that just fit the bill! :)
Mine too. I remember when that came out in 78 when I was in HS. I was just getting away from bubble gum pop music and rebelling against Disco and discovering bands and artists like the Talking Heads, The Police, Blondie, Warren Zevon, Dire Straits, The Cars, Kate Bush, Little Feat, Patti Smith Group, Elvis Costello
also very into early Rush.
Try Post #171. It’s a piano arrangement by Liszt of a Schubert song, and it’s amazingly beautiful.
Beautiful tune, Zeneta...thank you. ((HUGS))
The Perfect Storm - James Horner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOOzRx-QkjU
Master and Commander - Man Overboard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNB0LDIeIwM
Master and Commander- Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Full), composed by Ralph Vaughn Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS8Sd8amxcU
Victory at Sea - Main Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-EXNounv-U
I will have to bookmark this thread for later...i am so tired! Time for bed...Eastern Time, you know!
(((HUGS))))
I “discovered “ Leonard Cohen about 6 years ago.
Everything he does is incredible and his world tour a couple of years ago was a sellout.
Another one of his that I adore is “Who by Fire?”. That one I can understand .
Thanks for your information and the links.
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STRANGER ON THE SHORE - ACKER BILK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUXmj3Fl7x0
“Valparasso” - Sting
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