November 05, 2012
Love me, love me
Say you do
Let me fly away
With you
We're creatures of the wind
Wild is the wind
Give me more than one grasp
Satisfy this hungryness
We're creatures of the wind
Wild is the wind
You touch me
I hear the sound of mandolines
You kiss me
With your kiss my life begins
Like a leaf clings to a tree
Baby please cling to me
We're creatures of the wind
Wild is the wind
You touch me
I hear the sound of mandolins
And you kiss me
With your kiss my life begins
Love me, love me
Say you do
Let me fly away
With you
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Haunting song. Sitting on the roof-top under the sky. With my constant friends- the birds and the wind, the sky and I. There is a thrilling beat of the impersonal, at once never-, and always-changing in this song and I sing, with the birds and through the wind.
ReplyDeleteFor wild is the wind.
Love Cat Power! I've only heard her "The Greatest" album, so this is new to me. And of course, love your interpretation too.
ReplyDeleteAnd what a story to follow it! It's the kind-of crazy thing that might happen on distant travels, but in a way life is always an adventure for you, even at home, because you let it be.
It's a funny thing because last night I went back to some Alan Watts lectures, and the last one was about the finger and the moon - about too much medicine not being a good thing, and this being true about spiritual medicine also - so he ended by saying to go out into the night and look at the moon. So I did - I went out, and then I wrote to you. :^) And you were sky-gazing... love your music.
I only discovered Cat Power not long ago, this is a cover of a song that Johnny Mathis, Nina Simone and David Bowie have sung and I can't believe how much better is this version, its as if it was written for Power!
ReplyDeleteMiss coming home to Alan Watts lectures, thanks for the reminder. :)
Much Metta!
I just heard the Nina Simone version. I think I'd heard it before! And Nina's special, just Cat Power's version sounds like a different song!
ReplyDeleteI actually recorded the Alan Watts lectures myself back in 2010 at the time when I was starting to experiment with reading stuff aloud. (Strange, huh, not done much else, and definitely too busy recently.) I had borrowed "Become what you are" from the library, and was sad to have to return it. For some reason it didn't occur to me that they were radio lectures so I could probably find them somewhere online if I looked for them... and spoken by the man himself. I've still never looked, though of course I've seen several of the YouTube videos.