Songs that make you swoon...

[Kipi]

Here is one song very important to me, which also fills in the gategory of this thread...

Dead Boy's Poem - Nightwish

Born from silence, silence full of it
A perfect concert my best friend
So much to live for, so much to die for
If only my heart had a home

Sing what you can`t say
Forget what you can`t play
Hasten to drown into beautiful eyes
Walk within my poetry, this dying music
- My loveletter to nobody

Never sigh for better world
It`s already composed, played and told
Every thought the music I write
Everything a wish for the night

Wrote for the eclipse, wrote for the virgin
Died for the beauty the one in the garden
Created a kingdom, reached for the wisdom
Failed in becoming a god

Never sigh...

"If you read this line, remember not the hand that wrote it
Remember only the verse, songmaker`s cry, the one without tears
For I`ve given this its strength and it has become my only strength.
Comforting home, mother`s lap, chance for immortality
Where being wanted became a thrill I never knew
The sweet piano writing down my life"

"Teach me passion for I fear it`s gone
Show me love, hold the lorn
So much more I wanted to give to the ones who love me
I`m sorry
Time will tell (this bitter farewell)
I live no more to shame nor me nor you

And you... I wish I didn`t feel for you anymore..."

A lonely soul... An ocean soul...


And second one...

Angels Fall First - Nightwish

An angelface smiles to me
Under a headline of tragedy
That smile used to give me warmth
Farewell - no words to say
Beside the cross on your grave
And those forever burning candles

Needed elsewhere
To remind us of the shortness of your time
Tears laid for them
Tears of love tears of fear
Bury my dreams dig up my sorrows
Oh Lord why
The angels fall first?

Not relieved by thoughts of Shangri-La
Nor enlightened by the lessons of Christ
I'll never understand the meaning of the right
Ignorance lead me into the light

Needed elsewhere...

Sing me a song
Of your beauty
Of your kingdom
Let the melodies of your harps
Caress those whom we still need

Yesterday we shook hands
My friend
Today a moonbeam lightens my path
My guardian

[moltovir]

Mon Légionnaire (my legionnaire) - originally by Edith Piaf I think, but only Serge Gainsbourg's version can make me swoon

Original text:


Il avait de grands yeux très clairs
Où parfois passaient des éclairs
Comme au ciel passent des orages.
Il était plein de tatouages
Que j'ai jamais très bien compris.
Son cou portait : "Pas vu, pas pris."
Sur son cœur on lisait : "Personne"
Sur son bras droit un mot : "Raisonne".

Refrain:

J'sais pas son nom, je n'sais rien d'lui.
Il m'a aimée toute la nuit,
Mon légionnaire !
Et me laissant à mon destin,
Il est parti dans le matin
Plein de lumière !
Il était minc', il était beau,
Il sentait bon le sable chaud,
Mon légionnaire !
Y avait du soleil sur son front
Qui mettait dans ses cheveux blonds
De la lumière !

Bonheur perdu, bonheur enfui,
Toujours je pense à cette nuit
Et l'envie de sa peau me ronge.
Parfois je pleure et puis je songe
Que lorsqu'il était sur mon cœur,
J'aurais dû crier mon bonheur...
Mais je n'ai rien osé lui dire.
J'avais peur de le voir sourire !

(Refrain)

On l'a trouvé dans le désert.
Il avait ses beaux yeux ouverts.
Dans le ciel, passaient des nuages.
Il a montré ses tatouages
En souriant et il a dit,
Montrant son cou : "Pas vu, pas pris"
Montrant son cœur : "Ici, personne."
Il ne savait pas...Je lui pardonne.

J'rêvais pourtant que le destin
Me ramèn'rait un beau matin
Mon légionnaire,
Qu'on s'en irait seuls tous les deux
Dans quelque pays merveilleux
Plein de lumière !
Il était minc', il était beau,
On l'a mis sous le sable chaud
Mon légionnaire !
Y avait du soleil sur son front
Qui mettait dans ses cheveux blonds
De la lumière !



Rough translation which makes the song look absolutely terrible, but nevertheless:

He had big bright eyes
Where lightning sometimes shone
Like the sky has storms
He had lots of tattoos
That I never really understood
On his neck there was "not seen, not taken"
On his heart you could read " nobody"
On his right armone word " reason"

chorus:

I don't know his name, I know nothing of him
He loved me all night,
My legionnaire
Leaving me to my destiny
He left in the morning
Full of light
He was thin and beautiful
He smelt of warm sand,
My legionnaire!
There was the sun on his face
That put sunlight into his blond hair!

Happiness lost, Happiness escaped
I always think about this night
And the thought of his skin is killing me
Sometimes I cry then I think
That when he was on my heart
I should have shouted out my happiness...
But I didn't dare to tell him
I was scared of seeing him smile

(chorus)

They found him in the desert
He held his beautiful eyes open
In the sky clouds passed
He showed his tattoos
And, smiling, he said
Showing his neck "not seen, not taken"
Showing his heart "nobody here"
He didn't know… I'll forgive him


I dreamed that destiny
Would bring back to me on a beautiful morning
My legionnaire!
That we would both go alone
To some wonderful land
Full of light!
He was thin and beautiful
They buried him under the warm sand
My legionnaire!
There was the sun on his face
That put sunlight into his blond hair!