Echoes of Silence
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By a maudlin moon
Illustration taken from "Viaje a la luna" ("Journey to the Moon") by Federico Garcia Lorca & Emilio Amero
I have thought those dreams a thousand times
And I have dreamt those hopes a thousand more
Never once will you feel
The sound of those reveries
Though they are an echo of your absence
Like the sun in the mirror of the morning mist
They reflect from the unison of your silence
[...]
The time has come for me to fill these expressions
with words and sounds...to empty the reminiscence
To climb the hill hidden behind these memories
To find the tree between the weeds and the woods
There against the trunk and amidst the leaves
I will press my lips to seal off the echo of your silence
Minun Enkeli
(Hyvaa syntymapaivaa - five years on)
Edit: Jeff Buckley's take on "Lilac Wine" in comments
Illustration taken from "Viaje a la luna" ("Journey to the Moon") by Federico Garcia Lorca & Emilio AmeroI have thought those dreams a thousand times
And I have dreamt those hopes a thousand more
Never once will you feel
The sound of those reveries
Though they are an echo of your absence
Like the sun in the mirror of the morning mist
They reflect from the unison of your silence
[...]
The time has come for me to fill these expressions
with words and sounds...to empty the reminiscence
To climb the hill hidden behind these memories
To find the tree between the weeds and the woods
There against the trunk and amidst the leaves
I will press my lips to seal off the echo of your silence
Minun Enkeli
(Hyvaa syntymapaivaa - five years on)
Edit: Jeff Buckley's take on "Lilac Wine" in comments
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About his version, here's what Jeff Buckley says: "I've only heard Nina Simone's...And that's the only one that matters. There's one by Ertha Kitt. There's one by Elkie Brooks, which I've never, ever heard. There's another one. But they've done it, but Nina does it best. That's the end all of it. That's the be all end all version. She's the king."