Blogovision 2021, no.04: Tori Amos - Ocean To Ocean

 

How does this happen?

For twenty-nine years

I've been searching for you

Twenty-nine years

You, a most elusive truth

These tattered bits of me

I've been piecing

For twenty-nine years

Lyrics from 29 Years, by Tori Amos

From her album Ocean To Ocean

Blogovision 2021, no.09: Marissa Nadler - The Path Of The Clouds

 

I don’t think that place is there anymore 

With the ocean in view

Seasons changed the color

And the lemon queen it grew 

Taller and taller 

Over you

Lyrics from Lemon Queen by Marissa Nadler

From her album The Path Of The Clouds

Blogovision 2021, no.15: Lisa Gerrard and Jules Maxwell: Burn

 

Heleali (The Sea Will Rise), by Lisa Gerrard and Jules Maxwell,

from their album Burn

Blogovision 2021, no.17: Ice Eyes - Vicious Circles

 

Crystalbody

Vicious Circles album by Ice Eyes

Blogovision 2021, no.18: Lana Del Rey - Blue Bannisters

 

In Arcadia, Arcadia

All roads that lead to you as integral to me as arteries

That pump the blood that flows straight to the heart of me

America, America

I can't sleep at home tonight, send me a Hilton Hotel

Or a cross on the hill, I'm a lost little girl

Findin' my way to ya

Arcadia

Lyrics from Arcadia by Lana Del Rey,

from her album Blue Bannisters

Blogovision 2021, no.19: Mechanimal - Θόρυβος (Noise)

 

Κόκκινη η ποίηση τρέχει, 

Σαν αίμα περιόδου 

Της ανοιχτής πληγής που σημαδεύεις κάθε τόσο 

Με την ορμή αλλοπαρμένου σαρκοφάγου ζώου. 

Red the poetry flows,

Like period blood

Of the open wound you keep aiming at time after time

Rushed like a wacky carnivorous animal.

Lyrics from Κόκκινη η Ποίηση Τρέχει (Red The Poetry Flows), by Mechanimal,

from their album Θόρυβος (Noise)

Blogovision 2020, no.01: Moses Sumney - græ

 

We have no place that we can claim without contention

We are constructing a whole new edifice of boxes to put people in

To protect a space inside which you can exist

Very concerned about giving names (giving names)

Dissatisfaction seems like the natural byproduct of identification

I truly believe that people who define you control you

And the most significant thing that any person can do but especially black women and men

is to think about who gave them their definitions and rewrite those definitions for themselves

Lyrics from Boxes by Moses Sumney, from his album græ

Blogovision 2020, no.03: Ane Brun - After The Great Storm

 

my existence is screaming it’s a physical feeling

of missing out

on dance and light electricity in my hands

on circumstance

a scent-filled trance

I wanna take to the skies

this leaves me so heavy

I’m captured by gravity

and the weight of expectations genes and generations

calling my name

take hold of me

keep this energy steady

sometimes it is hard

to know what is fading

you measure all that you are the density of being

so you open all the gates walk on all the way

trusting the answers

will lie there waiting

take hold of me

keep this energy steady

Lyrics from Take Hold Of Me by Ane Brun, from her album After The Great Storm

Blogovision 2020, no.04: Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?

 

If only I could let you go

If only I could be alone

I just wanna stay in the moonlight

This is our time, in the spotlight

If only I could let you go

If only I could be alone

I just wanna stay in the moonlight

This is our time, in the spotlight (Why?)

Lyrics from Spotlight by Jessie Ware, from her album What's Your Pleasure?

Blogovision 2020, no.06: Pan Pan - Φαντασμαγορία Ένα

 

Το όνομα της θα μείνει για πάντα σ εκείνο το φως

Μέρες παγωνουν εδώ, γινονται  ή χρυσάφι ή ατμός  

Σπάει σε κομματια το Αγορι-Φαντασμα, σκοταδι, βυθος

Το όνομα της θα μείνει για πάντα σ εκείνο το φως

Έχω έξι λεξεις

Για κάθε μερα

Που δεν σε είχα

Και σε σκεφτόμουν 

"Μήνες σε θέλω

Μείνε σε θέλω"

Το όνομα της θα μείνει για πάντα σ εκείνο το φως

Μερες που φερνουν κρυφα το αρωμα της τυχαια στο μετρο

Πεσε στα γονατα Αγορι-φαντασμα μες στον συρμο

Το όνομα της θα μείνει για πάντα σ εκείνο το φως

Έχω έξι λεξεις

Για κάθε μερα

Που δεν σε είχα

Και σε σκεφτόμουν 

"Μήνες σε θέλω

Μείνε σε θέλω"

Και κάθε βράδυ

λέω το όνομα σου 

και κανω χωρο 

μηπως και ερθεις

"Μήνες σε θέλω

Μείνε σε θέλω"

Όμως δε θα ρθεις

κι ειναι η ζωη μου

να βρισκω καυλα

μεσα στον πονο

"Μήνες σε θέλω

Μείνε σε θέλω"

Αν ησουν διπλα

δεν θα παιζα νοτα

δεν θα γραφα στιχο

μα παλι φευγεις

"Μήνες σε θέλω

Μείνε σε θέλω"

Lyrics from Μείνε Σε Θέλω/Μήνες Σε Θέλω (Stay I Want You/Months I Want You) by Pan Pan 

from his album Φαντασμαγορία Ένα (Phantasmagoria One)

Blogovision 2020, no.09: Ane Brun - How Beauty Holds The Hand Of Sorrow

 

Sure, life goes on

But I really didn't know

How life could move on

And I didn't understand

How beauty holds the hand of sorrow

How today can unchain tomorrow

I held your last breath

In my chest

Lyrics from Last Breath by Ane Brun, from her album How Beauty Holds The Hand Of Sorrow

Blogovision 2020, no.11: Jarboe - Illusory

 

And I see true

Illusory you

Do I see true

Authenticity in you

Can time heal

But is time real

Can time heal

But its illusory still

And I knew

I'd see through

Illusory you

Lyrics from Illusory by Jarboe, from her album Illusory

Blogovision 2020, no.20: Megan Thee Stallion - Good News

Freaky bitch, I do this, suck it like I'm toothless

                               Your old bitch can't fuck with me, you ain't teachin' me no new shit

Do you know who you dealin' with? Ain't convicted, but killin' shit

Caught a jet just to buy a car, I'm the flyest bitch on the dealership

Long legs, he intimidated, Amazon, I'm elevated

Lil' people make lil' people, stallions breed prize babies

Eat it up for a while, baby, buck on it, I'm wild, baby

I ain't scared, let's take it there, I knew you was a crybaby

Bust that pussy wide, let him adventure inside

If my pussy was a beach, he get swept up by the tide

Any nigga I let hit it, they know Stalli is a vibe

If I wasn't such a player, probably be somebody's wife 

Lyrics from Freaky Girls by Megan Thee Stallion, from her album Good News

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade no.04: Dead Can Dance - Dionysus

Listen to The Mountain

by Dead Can Dance

from their album Dionysus

Blogovision 2019, no.07: Cigarettes After Sex - Cry

Back when you were far away
We would go on dates to watch the same movie
And you were imagining sitting next to me
Holding my hand for the whole thing

Lyrics from Falling In Love by Cigarettes After Sex, from their album Cry

Blogovision 2019 best albums of the decade, no.08: The National - High Violet

And I won't follow you

Into the rabbit hole

I said I would, but then I saw your shivered bones

They didn't want me to

It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders

It's a terrible love and I'm walking in

It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders

It's a terrible love and I'm walking in

It takes an ocean not to break

Lyrics from Terrible Love by The National, from their album High Violet

Blogovision 2019, no.09: Lizzo - Cuz I Love You

Explicit as ever, vicious as ever

Christian and clever, diss it dismiss it this is just better

Vision is better

Making high art

But high art can't revive hearts

I'ma do this God talk

Don't need a pity party, my people pity your party

The party I'm a part of imparts partials of pardons

Can't pick apart any part of the pick don't want no part with it

I played a artist, now pardon, I brought my partners in

I think I know what we revealing

Life is over, easy

Everybody's shell cracked

I holdin my dignity never said that

We got bigger fish to fry, know when to scale back

Lyrics from Tempo by Lizzo, from her album Cuz I Love You

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.10: Dead Can Dance - Anastasis

With every generation comes
Another memory lapse
See the demonstrations of
Failing to learn from our past
We live in the dreamtime
Nothing seems to last
Can you really plan a future
When you no longer have a past

Memories fall from the trees
Amnesia

Lyrics from Amnesia by Dead Can Dance, from their album Anastasis 

Blogovision 2019, no.13: Brittany Howard - Jamie

'Cause where I come from
Everybody frowns and walks around
With that ugly thing on their face
And where I come from
We work hard and grind and hustle all day
(Yes, we do)
There comes a time, there comes a time
At night, where we get to play
And we smile and laugh and jump and clap
And yell and holler and just feel great

Lyrics from Stay High by Brittany Howard, from her album Jamie

Blogovision 2019, no.14: Jamila Woods - Legacy! Legacy!

I like you better when you see me less
I like me better when I’m not so stressed
We could do it like Frida, we could build a bridge then
I could come see ya, just not where I live
Don't get me wrong, I'm not scared of lovin' ya
Multiply my sides, I need a lot of area
A savior is not what I'm seeking
I'm god enough and you be believing
In miracles in a city so cold
You're the holy book I can lay my hands on

Lyrics from Frida by Jamila Woods, from her album Legacy! Legacy!