Feb. 12 - Song Of The Day - (add yours!)

THE DRIFTERS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aATtWybSaow

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Nice!

Mine for today - the coolest octogenarian on the planet?

Leonard Cohen - Dance me to the end of love



Great poetic lyrics - I'm not sure I understand them fully

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

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Hello Hilary!

Ahhhh yes....... this song has a much deeper meaning than the words can explain to us..... here is some (sad) informations that I find about what Leonard Cohen write:
** Despite being structured as a love song, this was in fact inspired by the Holocaust. Cohen recalled: "That came from just hearing or reading or knowing that in the death camps, beside the crematoria, in certain of the death camps, a string quartet was pressed into performance while this horror was going on, those were the people whose fate was this horror also. And they would be playing classical music while their fellow prisoners were being killed and burnt."
"So, that music, 'Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin,' meaning the beauty there of being the consummation of life, the end of this existence and of the passionate element in that consummation. But, it is the same language that we use for surrender to the beloved, so that the song — it's not important that anybody knows the genesis of it, because if the language comes from that passionate resource, it will be able to embrace all passionate activity." (Source 1000 Songs That Rock Your World by Dave Thompson.) ............ > In other word, the song is about Holocaust victims..... xo

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Well thanks Gia, I didn't know anything about that
Makes the great song even more poignant, doesn't it?

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Yes, Hilary - it do make it the song more poinant. I was not realize it either and I was wonder about the words of the song my self. Is sad....but a most beautiful song to remember those lifes that go up in to smoke....

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Piangere sudi voi, singhiozzo

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Ha ha Gia - sing to Stevio - Gimme that Zing ! x

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz64hWng2vM

Today this tune,I have a friend who just takes ages shopping. I know that `I will just nip in` means Stephan will wait half an hour.

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