Sunday, December 31, 2006

Stay or go Bust

This poem comes from a song called Anna "(Baiao De Ana)" on her self-titled CD by a Brazilian songwriter named Daude in Portuguese.
I don't speak Portuguese though I think it was my first language.

When I listen to this very catchy song it sounds like other words to me in English that have nothing to do with what the real song is about:

Stay or go Bust

She got on the Bus
she got on the bus
stay or go bust
don't squander us
don't finish us
she got on the bus
the bus it went past

must we go bust
must we go bust
don't give up on us
don't get on the bus
don't lose my compass

I got on the Bus
I got on the bus
stay or go bust
don't squander us
don't finish us
I got on the bus
the bus it goes past

Saturday, December 30, 2006

Beth Orton - Stolen Car

I really enjoy this song especially when she rhymes gone with cinnamon. Also the line:
your fingers are like fuses

Here is an exerpt of the lyrics:

You said you stand for every known abuse
That was ever threatened to anyone but you.
And why should I know better by now
When I'm old enough not to?

While every line speaks the language of love
It never held the meaning I was thinking of.
And I can't decide over right or wrong.


She repeats that line about abuse changing it each time:
Next it becomes:

You said you stood for every known abuse that was ever promised to anyone like you

and then:

Oh, yeah, you stand for every known abuse that I've ever seen my way through.