Ο παλιός είναι αλλιώς

Στη σειρά ακούστηκαν και κομμάτια από παλιές καραβάνες αυτού του είδους μουσικής. Γνωστοί εδώ και δεκαετίες σε όσους αρέσκονται ν' ακούν τέτοια τραγούδια. Ας θυμηθούμε μερικά....

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand

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Take a litle walk to the edge of town
Go across the tracks
Where the viaduct looms,
like a bird of doom
As it shifts and cracks
Where secrets lie in the border fires,
in the humming wires
Hey man, you know
you're never coming back
Past the square, past the bridge,
past the mills, past the stacks
On a gathering storm comes
a tall handsome man
In a dusty black coat with
a red right hand

He'll wrap you in his arms,
tell you that you've been a good boy
He'll rekindle all the dreams
it took you a lifetime to destroy
He'll reach deep into the hole,
heal your shrinking soul
Hey buddy, you know you're
never ever coming back
He's a god, he's a man,
he's a ghost, he's a guru
They're whispering his name
through this disappearing land
But hidden in his coat
is a red right hand

You ain't got no money?
He'll get you some
You ain't got no car? He'll get you one
You ain't got no self-respect,
you feel like an insect
Well don't you worry buddy,
cause here he comes
Through the ghettos and the barrio
and the bowery and the slum
A shadow is cast wherever he stands
Stacks of green paper in his
red right hand

[Organ solo]

You'll see him in your nightmares,
you'll see him in your dreams
He'll appear out of nowhere but
he ain't what he seems
You'll see him in your head,
on the TV screen
And hey buddy, I'm warning
you to turn it off
He's a ghost, he's a god,
he's a man, he's a guru
You're one microscopic cog
in his catastrophic plan
Designed and directed by
his red right hand

[Organ solo]

[Extra verse from DJ Spooky Remix (From Scream 2 Soundtrack):]
He'll extend his hand, real slowly for a shake
You'll see it coming toward you, real slowly for a shake
(Grabbing at your peril buddy?) cause you know you ain't
getting near much as he will take.

He's a...

He's mumbling words you can't understand
He's mumbling word behind his red right hand

Leonard Cohen - Avalanche

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Well I stepped into an avalanche,
it covered up my soul;
when I am not this hunchback that you see,
I sleep beneath the golden hill.
You who wish to conquer pain,
you must learn, learn to serve me well.

You strike my side by accident
as you go down for your gold.
The cripple here that you clothe and feed
is neither starved nor cold;
he does not ask for your company,
not at the centre, the centre of the world.

When I am on a pedestal,
you did not raise me there.
Your laws do not compel me
to kneel grotesque and bare.
I myself am the pedestal
for this ugly hump at which you stare.

You who wish to conquer pain,
you must learn what makes me kind;
the crumbs of love that you offer me,
they're the crumbs I've left behind.
Your pain is no credential here,
it's just the shadow, shadow of my wound.

I have begun to long for you,
I who have no greed;
I have begun to ask for you,
I who have no need.
You say you've gone away from me,
but I can feel you when you breathe.

Do not dress in those rags for me,
I know you are not poor;
don't love me quite so fiercely now
when you know that you are not sure,
it is your turn, beloved,
it is your flesh that I wear

Marianne Faithfull - There is a ghost

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There is a ghost
And it goes out
On the land,
On the land

It's lifted up,
It feels and floats
On many hands,
On many hands

Oh my lover
Oh my lover
Never was there another
Where has my loverman gone ?

There is a dream
You've had before
And forgotten many times
So many times

When you remember who I am just call
When you remember who I am just call
When you remember who I am just call
When you remember who I am

There is a tree
And all its leaves have gone
For what it's seen
It standing alone

Oh my lover
Oh my lover
Go now, go now, find another
Where has my loverman has gone ?

Away, away
Across the land
Across the land
Across the land

Johnny Cash - Ηurt