Showing posts with label k. d. lang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label k. d. lang. Show all posts

Monday, February 12, 2007

Large-Boned Woman (k. d. lang)


Language: Dutch

Sorry there's been so little blog activity lately; the whole unemployment thing is surprisingly demanding. I don't have a lot to say about anything anyway; this particular song (which wound up having some good lines, by the way) is kind of a placeholder. Hopefully soon things will return to some kind of normal and then we can proceed.

-Jessi

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She was large-boned: not a woman
of Southern Alberta.
Only you could call her small.
And each Saturday night, you can bet
on her in the legion room.

Her blue clothing was conducted to move,
and she'd rolled him up --
which, oh, she'd already yielded.
And with a jump in her step,
and a wiggle in her pace, wait
below the street: she'll swing.

You could tell they were ready
by eyes on her can,
since she slipped by the mob.
She has run with grace
since they entered the place
yes, was a proud large-boned Woman.

Hey! Hey! Large-boned woman!
Don't doubt it: they're not natural.
A snake shakes, and
the floor breaks crossways, and we're concerned.
Hey! Hey! Large-boned woman!
I doubt they're natural.
Wind and a rock,
now she is shouting for more!

Now, people will manage themselves
from miles,
and would collect there to dance,
but then in the large-boned woman's shuffling,
she ended up keeping them in a trance.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Constant Thirst (k. d. lang)


Language: Russian

This could have gone better, I suppose. K. d. lang doesn't often offer one a lot of words to work with.

-Jessi

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Darkest through the flat section,
be it thick or thin,
someone marches bravely, always
under my skin. Here it is.

(to thirst constantly, always)

The largest possible magnet draws
out all truth to the showers,
or, possibly, life will be
very giving of wisdom.
It will be, to the youth.

(a constant thirst)

Always to thirst, to thirst:
ah-ha, it's always constant.

It's constant thirst; it
is constant thirst, always.

To always thirst, to thirst:
ah ha! It's constant, always:
always always always always always. . . .