”Unui predicator îi plăcea să arate că lucrarea Domnului este desăvârşită. Un cocoşat care îl ascultase l-a aşteptat la ieşirea din biserică şi i-a spus: „Zici că Dumnezeu face bine tot ceea ce face, dar uite cum m-a făcut pe mine!„ Predicatorul l-a privit o clipă şi i-a răspuns: „De ce te plângi, prietene? Pentru un cocoşat, arăţi foarte bine!„
Jean-Claude Carriere (povestire filozofică)
”Paul Plopeanu vede şi aeroplanele care soseau ziua deasupra Bucureştilor, ca nişte lari graţioşi rotindu-se la foarte mari înălţimi. Păreau că au pornit un joc nevinovat în liniştea văzduhului. Dar tunurile cetăţii bubuie şi flori de fum nasc ici-colo în limpezimea aerului. Şi-n oraş, în îmbulzeli de mulţime, cad grenatele ca nişte ouă ale morţii zdrobind în sînge snopi de oameni. Şi mult timp după ce larii alburii şi-au luat zborul lin spre Dunăre, s-aud pe străzile înţesate goarnele răguşite ale automobilelor şi trec camioanele spre spitale, încărcate cu zdrenţe sângerate de trupuri.
În ochii mari şi luminaţi ai băiatului, născură apoi umbrele mute ale altor amintiri: tablourile retragerii.
Subt un cer sur, printr-o ploaie rece şi putredă, pe drumuri desfundate de ape, printre sate pustii şi posomorâte, prin hotarul nemărginitului Bărăgan, se înşiră ziua şi noaptea convoiuri de cară, fără sfârşit, fără hodină. Soldaţi cu obrajii supţi şi cu ochii tulburi, cai mărunţi şi slabi întind în ştreanguri, se încordează la roţi. Oamenii strigă cu mânie şi bat fără milă în animale. Şi oameni, şi dobitoace, istoviţi, se opresc în mocirlă, cu capetele plecate, şi aşteaptă parcă sfârşitul.
Pe urmă trenuri pline, covîrşite de oameni, înstrugurate de trupuri, abia înaintînd prin trista lumină de toamnă, ca să se oprească, cu maşinile moarte, în gări fără lumini… Ş-o disperare mohorîtă în toată această mulţime, care pretutindeni, pe toate drumurile, cu spinările încovoiate, căuta o scăpare spre miazănoapte. O disperare mohorîtă şi-n acelaşi timp o sălbatică asprime şi îndîrjire de a trăi cu orice preţ, de a supravieţui nenorocirii obşteşti. Bolnavii sunt abandonaţi fără un gest de compătimire la o margine de drum. Gările şi gospodăriile izolate sunt invadate şi prădate. Tot ce-au aşezat ca omenie în suflete vremurile de linişte şi de ordine dispare în această crâncenă mizerie.
„Cât de răi şi de urâţi sunt uneori oamenii!„ gândeşte Paul, având încă în faţa ochilor aceste cumplite amintiri.”Mihail Sadoveanu, ”Strada Lăpușneanu”
Rumi – ”Inima mea arde”
”Inima mea arde de iubire
Şi toţi pot vedea această văpaie. Inima mea pulsează pătimaşă Ca valurile unui ocean.Prietenii mi-au devenit străini
În jurul meu nu sunt decât vrăjmaşi. Dar eu sunt liber ca vântul,
Căci mustrările lor nu mă mai ating.Mă simt acasă oriunde m-aş afla, Iar în iatacurile iubiţilor
Eu pot vedea cu ochii-nchişi Frumuseţea dansând.În spatele vălurilor, Beat de iubire, Dansez şi eu
În ritmul acestei lumi.Pentru că mi-am pierdut minţile În lumea mea de oameni iubitori.”
Rumi, ”Inima mea arde”
Nina Cassian – ”Noapte de iarnă”
„Calc pe zăpadă și spun: da, e albastră.
Mă uit la lună și spun: o să apună curând.
Dacă-ar fi fost încă trează dragostea noastră,
N-aș fi putut să rostesc nici un cuvânt.Brazii degeaba își sună argintul feeric.
Nopțile-acestea nu le mai merit acum,
Când m-am deprins ca o fiară cu umbletul prin întuneric,
Când nu mai caut sprijinul brațului tău pe drum.Vai, ce folos că-i ninsoarea atât de adâncă?
Poate pe alți-i mai ninge și-i turbură încă.
Noi odihnim pe coperta poveștii în veci,
Ca doua cristale uriașe, severe și reci.”Nina Cassian, ”Noapte de iarnă”
”Bea vin! Curând vei trece şi tu supremul prag.
Şi nu vei lua cu tine nimic din ce ţi-i drag.
Aceasta-i marea taină: laleaua scuturată
Nu înfloreşte iarăşi, o, Saki, niciodată.”Omar Khayyam, ”Vinul eliberator”
„Vrem să fim iertaţi dar nu suntem dispuşi să iertăm şi noi. Vrem să ni se acorde atenţie şi să ne fie luate în seamă toate drepturile, dorinţele, de nu şi capriciile, luăm însă foarte grăbit şi împrăştiat aminte la nevoile, doleanţele şi solicitările celorlalţi. Ceilalţi! Ei ne apar undeva, departe, un soi de fantome pierdute în ceaţă. Ni se pare de fapt, că toţi cei din jurul nostru au obligaţii faţă de noi, iar noi faţă de nimeni, niciodată. Toate ni se cuvin, tot ce facem e bun şi îndreptăţit, numai noi avem întotdeauna dreptate.”
N. Steinhardt
Linkin Park – ”In pieces”
Telling me to go
But hands beg me to stay
Your lips say that you love
Your eyes say that you hate
There’s truth in your lies
Doubt in your faith
What you build you lay to waste
There’s truth in your lies
Doubt in your faith
All I’ve got’s what you didn’t take
So I, I won’t be the one
Be the one to leave this
In pieces
And you, you will be alone
Alone with all your secrets
And regrets, don’t lie
You promised me the sky
Then tossed me like a stone
You wrap me in your arms
And chill me to the bone
There’s truth in your lies
Doubt in your faith
All I’ve got’s what you didn’t take
So I, I won’t be the one
Be the one to leave this
In pieces
And you, you will be alone
Alone with all your secrets
And regrets, don’t lie
So I, I won’t be the one
Be the one to leave this
In pieces
And you, you will be alone
Alone with all your secrets
And regrets, don’t lie
Compozitori: Joseph Hahn, Brad Delson, Mike Shinoda, Robert G. Bourdon, Chester Charles Bennington, David Farrell.
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Date de la: Musixmatch
Sound Garden – ”Pretty noose”
I caught the moon today
Pick it up and throw it away, all right
I got the perfect steal
A cleaner love with a dirty feel, all right
Fallout and take the bait
Eat the fruit and kiss the snake goodnight
Common ruse, dirty face
Pretty noose is pretty hate
And I don’t like what you got me hanging from
And I don’t like what you got me hanging from
And I don’t like what you got me hanging from
Let your motor race
Pick it up and get this mother gone
Out from and far away
The wooden stake, this thing has got me on
Diamond rope, silver chain
Pretty noose is pretty pain
And I don’t like what you got me hanging from
And I don’t like what you got me hanging from
And I don’t like what you got me hanging from
And I don’t like what you got me hanging from
Common ruse, dirty face
Pretty noose is pretty hate
And I don’t care what you got
I don’t care what you need
I don’t want anything
And I don’t like what you got me hanging from
And I don’t like what you got me hanging from
And I don’t like what you got me hanging from
And I don’t like what you got me hanging from
And I don’t like what you got me hanging from
And I don’t like what you got me hanging from
Compozitori: Christopher Cornell.
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Date de la: Musixmatch
Radiohead – ”Street spirit fade out”
Rows of houses, all bearing down on me
I can feel their blue hands touching me
All these things into position
All these things we’ll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out
This machine will, will not communicate
These thoughts and the strain I am under
Be a world child, form a circle
Before we all go under
And fade out again and fade out again
Cracked eggs, dead birds
Scream as they fight for life
I can feel death, can see its beady eyes
All these things into position
All these things we’ll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out again
Immerse your soul in love
IMMERSE YOUR SOUL IN LOVE
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Date de la: azlyrics.com
Radiohead – ”Jigsaw falling into place”
Just as you take my hand
Just as you write my number down
Just as the drinks arrive
Just as they play your favourite song
As your bad day disappears
No longer wound up like a spring
Before you’ve had too much
Come back in focus again
The walls are bending shape
You got a Cheshire cat grin
All blurring into one
This place is on a mission
Before the night owl
Before the animal noises
Closed circuit cameras
Before you comatose
Before you run away from me
Before you’re lost between the notes
The beat goes round and round
The beat goes round and round
I never really got there
I just pretended that I had
Words are blunt instruments
Words are a sawn off shotguns
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Before you run away from me
Before you’re lost between the notes
Just as you take the mic
Just as you dance, dance, dance
Jigsaw falling into place
So there is nothing to explain
You eye each other as you pass
She looks back and you look back
Not just once
Not just twice
Wish away your nightmare
Wish away the nightmare
You’ve got the light you can feel it on your back
A light you can feel it on your back
Jigsaw falling into place
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Date de la: azlyrics.com
Reamonn – ”Broken stone”
She said she wants to get out of the way
And find a new time
She’s searching for the words
She’s out of her mind
She thought she was approachable
She’s feeling so emotional
Throw her hands up, surrenders to the night
She’s lost and lonely no one holds her
As she’s walking home
She sounds so nervous as she’s talking on the telephone
She thought she understood but now she’s just thinking
She’s on a big ship and she feels likes she’s sinking
Cause her heart is a broken stone
Her shooting star is out on loan
There’s nothing left to say
And nothing left to try
No need to walk away
There’s no one else in sight
She feels like she’s disposable
She hated being controllable
Throws her hands up, surrenders to the fight
You know she’s wishing for it
You see it on her lips
She’d dance so slowly
You could feel it in her moving hips
I know she’s dreaming like a cat on the street
It’s only what she’d give is what you can keep
Cause in her heart is broken stone
Here shooting star is out on loan
Cause in her heart is broken stone
Sweet angel, sweet angel
Just find a piece of ground
And make it your own
Just find a piece of ground
And make it your own
Cause in her heart is broken stone
Her shooting star is out on loan
Cause in her heart is broken stone
You can’t mend it, you can’t mend it
Just find a piece of ground
And make it your own
Cause in her heart is broken stone
Her shooting star is out on loan
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“If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practise which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.”
Muriel Spark, ”Memento Mori”
Beverley Knight – ”Down for the One”
Go down for the one
Bump up on the two
Go down for the funk game
Go down for the one
Bump up on the two
Go down for the funk game
I recall the rise and fall
In the funky little jams we used to throw down to
Am I coming through?
For those who know the two-step flow
You’ll remember how we used to love the ‘tic tac toe’
It was strong but slow
Let it overcome you
‘Til you got no choice to
Tune in to what we wanna see you do
Go down for the one
Bump up on the two
Go down for the funk game (oh get down)
Go down for the one
Bump up on the two
Go down for the funk game
As you chill, recall the thrill of intoxicaing moves that make you feel so high
Like the Butterfly
And I would doubt you’d be without the best of what the DJ had to play to you
Like he oughtta do
Let it overcome you
‘Til you got no choice to
Tune in to what we wanna see you do
Go down for the one
Bump up on the two
Go down for the funk game (get down, get down)
Go down for the one
Bump up on the two
Go down for the funk game
Move your body to the funk!
(Just move it)
Move your body to the funk!
(Oh won’t you get down?)
Move your body to the funk!
Move your body to the funk!
Move your body to the funk!
Move your body to the funk!
(Just move it)
Move your body to the funk!
(Move it, move it, move it, move it up for me)
Move your body to the funk!
Let it overcome you (Let it overcome you)
‘Til you got no choice to (‘Til you got no choice to)
Tune in to what we wanna see you do (sing it, sing it, oh won’t you go and get down)
Down, like you know you should
Better get up on the old school flavour
Down, like you know you should
(Get up) Get down, (get up) get down (get down)
Down, like you know you should
Better get up on the old school flavour
Down, like you know you should
Get down, get down (you gotta, you gotta, you gotta get down)
Go down for the one
Bump up on the two
Go down for the funk game (oh have you got it people?)
Go down for the one
Bump up on the two
Go down for the funk game
Go down for the one
Bump up on the two
Go down for the funk game
Go down for the one
Bump up on the two
Go down for the funk game
Down, like you know you should
Better get up on the old school flavour
Down, like you know you should
(Get up) Get down, (get up) get down (get down)
Down, like you know you should
Better get up on the old school flavour
Down, like you know you should
Get down, get down (wont you sing it wont you?)
Down, like you know you should
Better get up on the old school flavour
Down, like you know you should
Get down, get down
Down, like you know you should
Better get up on the old school flavour
Down, like you know you should
Get down, get down (Rpt X2)
Down, like you know you should
Better get up on the old school flavour
Down, like you know you should
Get down, get down
Compozitori: Beverley Knight, Neville Newton Thomas, Pule Pheto.
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Date de la: Musixmatch
The Bet – ”Don’t talk to the liar”
Strong reasons cause you’re going at last
And you’re not the only one
So lost and they are waiting all
I see foxy eyes around
Don’t talk to the liar
Don’t talk with desire
Cause he wants to take you home
Don’t talk to the liar
Don’t talk with desire
Or did you come for your fall
Strange places in this stranger town
How does it feel right now
Strangers are talking with their big big smile
While they’re lying all the time
Compozitori: Mark Vanhie.
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Date de la: Musixmatch
Starship – ”Nothing”s gonna stop us now”
Lookin’ in your eyes
I see a paradise
This world that I’ve found is too good to be true
Standin’ here beside you
Want so much to give you
This love in my heart that I’m feeling for you
Let ‘em say we’re crazy
I don’t care about that
Put your hand in my hand
Baby, don’t ever look back
Let the world around us
Just fall apart
Baby, we can make it
If we’re heart to heart
And we can build this dream together
Standing strong forever
Nothing’s gonna stop us now
And if this world runs out of lovers
We’ll still have each other
Nothing’s gonna stop us
Nothing’s gonna stop us now
Oh, whoa
I’m so glad I found you
I’m not gonna lose you
Whatever it takes
I will stay here with you
Take you to the good times
See you through the bad times
Whatever it takes
Is what I’m gonna do
Let ‘em say we’re crazy
What do they know?
Put your arms around me
Baby, don’t ever let go
Let the world around us
Just fall apart
Baby, we can make it
If we’re heart to heart
And we can build this dream together
Standing strong forever
Nothing’s gonna stop us now
And if this world runs out of lovers
We’ll still have each other
Nothing’s gonna stop us
Nothing’s gonna stop us
Ooh, all that I need is you
All that I ever need
All that I want to do
Is hold you forever
Forever and ever…
And we can build this dream together
Standing strong forever
Nothing’s gonna stop us now
And if this world runs out of lovers
We’ll still have each other
Nothing’s gonna stop us
Nothing’s gonna stop us
Build this dream together
Standing strong forever
Nothing’s gonna stop us now
And if this world runs out of lovers
We’ll still have each other
Nothing’s gonna stop us
And we can build this dream together
Standing strong forever
Nothing’s gonna stop us now (Nothing’s gonna stop us)
And if this world runs out of lovers
We’ll still have each other
Nothing’s gonna stop us
And we can build this dream together
Standing strong forever
Nothing’s gonna stop us now
Compozitori: Diane Warren, Albert Hammond.
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Date de la: Musixmatch