Innergewöhnliches

Weil.

Weil Weil.

Weil Weil am Rhein ist.

I can recall the warm youth of a summer day
the sweetest lemonade
the darkest game arcade
and billy had a yearning in the corner of his mind
it moved him secretly
it moved him powerfully
but prescience was lacking and the present was all
and his aptitudes were carelessly wasted
and challenging life with the abandon of a fool
he squandered the hours of his day

then darkness and disorder slapped him sharply in the face
it hit him like a friend
struck something deep within
he couldn't break the chain of slow decay that seemed to drag him
just like a fatal tie
toward the other side
and billy was a lunatic just barking at the moon
and his brain was totally wasted
he then exchanged his friends for a needle and a spoon
and he threw his future away

bolt the door and throw away the key
your dim reflection is all that you can see
so where is the justice when no one is at fault
and a human life is tragically wasted?
how fragile is the flame that burns within us all
to light each passing day?

(greg graffin)

...wenn alter Adel regiert, wie es gestern die Herren von der Patenschaft so wunderbar bewiesen.

So far away so far away so far away so far away...



I wanna go I wanna know oh won't you please take me home...



I wanna see I wanna believe oh won't you please take me home...

Einer der wohl größten Songs der letzten 20 Jahre. Diesmal ganz ohne Soundfrickler und Orgel und ohne Gibbons aber doch sehr sehr wohlklingend, wenn auch einen Tick zu glatt, ohne die Filigranität, die rauhe Oberfläche, die Ecken, das Umkippen in Gebrochenheit, das Wabern der B3 fein säuberlich und präzise durchschnitten von einer Stimme, die es wohl nur einmal gibt. Aber auf jeden Fall eine sehr mutige und gelungene Cover-Version.