Percées de lumière

Alcest:"Percées de lumière", (fra albummet "Écailles de lune", 2010):

Au bord de l´onde

La chaleur intense

Du soleil m´enivre.

Je m´abreuve à sa lumière,

Et laisse ses rayons et ardents

Délier mes membres engourdis

Pour m´offrir une seconde naissance.

Là haut un ciel

Sans nuages,

D´un bleu étourdissant

Se fond avec la mer.

Ivre de lumière,

J´ai maintenant l´impression

De ne plus marcher sur votre sol,

Et entends les cris

De mon âme non humaine

Implorer sa libération.

(tekst: Neige)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7t2U3pBHHo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l_8Ie2vl74

(Det er virkelig et vidunderligt album, franskmanden Neige udgav her i foråret: "Écailles de lune". Stille og utroligt smukke mørke rock-melodier blandet med black metal-passager, og man sidder bare og godter sig over, at man rent faktisk ejer et eksemplar af dette mesterværk. :-) "Écailles de lune" indeholder 6 numre, og specielt "Percées de lumière" får mit hjerte til at hoppe af glæde!).

July

Katatonia:"July", (fra albummet "The great cold distance, 2006):

You come clean
Waves collide now
Defenseless numb arms
& no voice of reason

So how come you invited me too
You knew I wanted you
You glide above
So this night belongs to you
I know this isn´t through
Are you dead to love

I see the bright lights
It´s the month of july
It´s violent here
Why have you left me
If only you could stay
& keep me in
It´s violent here
Why did you run from me

Heat
Night devour me
Repeat
Repetition

(tekst: Jonas Renkse)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjAXYIH9dMA

(Jeg ved ikke, om det kun er mig, der har det sådan, men det er min erfaring, at det er betydeligt nemmere at være ked af det i november måned end i juli. Når solen skinner fra en skyfri himmel og det er bagende varmt, er det rimelig svært at håndtere, at en dårlig oplevelse har gjort én trist til mode....Men så er det jo godt, at man har et band som Katatonia og en sang som "July" til at bekræfte, at éns følelser er helt okay :-)).

In the white

Katatonia:"In the white", (fra albummet "The great cold distance", 2006):

Are you in or are you out

The words are stones in my mouth

Hush little baby don´t you cry

Truth comes down

Strikes me in the eye

Turning season within

Brand new nails across my skin

But who am I to imply

That I was found

That I found you in the white

To overcome this

I become one with

The quiet cold of late november

If you don´t see

I´ll remain unseen

Untill there´s time to be remembered

So I had a green light

I was lost in city lights

Not so far from a try

This is not our last goodbye

So I found you

Found a way all through

The quiet cold of inner darkness

& now that you´re here

It becomes so clear

I have waited for you allways

(tekst: Jonas Renkse)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qm61Mkv1iw

(Jeg sad i går aftes og lyttede til Katatonia´s album fra 2006 "The great cold distance", og da jeg vågnede i morges, havde jeg nummeret "In the white" kørende oppe i hovedet....Det er langt fra den allerførste sang, man kommer i tanker om, når man tænker på "The great cold distance", men det er nok et af de mest langtidsholdbare numre fra opfølgeren til "Viva emptiness", og så beviser forsanger Jonas Renkse endnu engang sit store talent som lyriker).

Omerta

Katatonia:"Omerta", (fra albummet "Viva emptiness", 2003):

Come by you have come far
All I had I lost in the flood
Come sit with me at the bar
Tell me of progress strengthen my blood
No one here knows my name
I have traded my memories for things
But I remember you clearly
Do you remember that I used to sing

Why have you waited so long

Come by you have come far
Long since I saw you so how have you been
Come sit with me at the bar
How long since they told you that they had found him
No one here knows my name
I gave up my worries for one good thing
But I remember you clearly
Do you remember that I used to sing

Was it because I never told you
I was going away
That you waited so long
Was it because your fucking dreams
Meant nothing to me
That you waited so long

It runs from the top of my fingers
Into my hands
What is it I have been drinking
I do not understand
I thought I´d lost you my brother
I´m so glad you came
My regards to the ones that I love I miss them
Tell them I love them I miss them

(tekst: Jonas Renkse)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_CaroxE3XI

(Et af de heavy metal-albums, som jeg lyttede allermest til i 2003, var Katatonia´s "Viva emptiness", og når jeg tænker tilbage på dengang, er der et helt bestemt nummer, som står lysende klart i min erindring, og det er "Omerta". Det kan godt være, at teksten til "Omerta" er mystisk og kompliceret, men selve sangen er meget enkel og utroligt smuk, og så er det et vidunderligt nummer at have kørende oppe i hovedet, når man er ked af det).