the stranger song

• 1968 cikisli songs of leonard cohen albumunde yer alan sıkı bir cohen bestesi... o albumde bos yok zaten
• it's true that all the men you knew were dealers
  who said they were through with dealing
  every time you gave them shelter
  i know that kind of man
  it's hard to hold the hand of anyone
  who is reaching for the sky just to surrender
  who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
  
  and then sweeping up the jokers that he left behind
  you find he did not leave you very much not even laughter
  like any dealer he was watching for the card
  that is so high and wild
  he'll never need to deal another
  he was just some joseph looking for a manger
  he was just some joseph looking for a manger.
  
  and then leaning on your window sill
  he'll say one day you caused his will
  to weaken with your love and warmth and shelter
  and then taking from his wallet
  an old schedule of trains, he'll say
  i told you when i came i was a stranger
  i told you when i came i was a stranger.
  
  but now another stranger seems
  to want you to ignore his dreams
  as though they were the burden of some other
  o you've seen that man before
  his golden arm dispatching cards
  but now it's rusted from the elbows to the finger
  and he wants to trade the game he plays for shelter
  yes he wants to trade the game he knows for shelter.
  
  ah you hate to see another tired man
  lay down his hand
  like he was giving up the holy game of poker
  and while he talks his dreams to sleep
  you notice there's a highway
  that is curling up like smoke above his shoulder
  it is curling just like smoke above his shoulder.
  
  you tell him to come in sit down
  but something makes you turn around
  the door is open you can't close your shelter
  you try the handle of the road
  it opens do not be afraid
  it's you my love, you who are the stranger
  it's you my love, you who are the stranger.
  
  well, i've been waiting, i was sure
  we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for
  i think it's time to board another
  please understand, i never had a secret chart
  to get me to the heart of this
  or any other matter
  `when he talks like this
  you don't know what he's after`
  when he speaks like this,
  you don't know what he's after.
  
  let's meet tomorrow if you choose
  upon the shore, beneath the bridge
  that they are building on some endless river
  then he leaves the platform
  for the sleeping car that's warm
  you realize, he's only advertising one more shelter
  and it comes to you, he never was a stranger
  and you say ok the bridge or someplace later.
  
  and then sweeping up the jokers that he left behind ...
  
  and leaning on your window sill ...
  
  i told you when i came i was a stranger.
  
  sözleri de leonard cohen'e ait olan, the essential leonard cohen'in ilk discinin 2. şarkısı.
• cok takintili bir insan degilimdir ama asagi yukari her gun, nerdeyse bir yildir her sabah kalktigimda bu sarkiyi dinliyorum. cd'yi muzik setine koymus bulundum, sonra bir sekilde aliskanliga donustu. mp3 player'ima almaya korkuyorum buyusu bozulacak diye ve bazen de hic istemesem de kapatmak zorunda kaliyorum, yine ayni sebeple..oyle bir sarki iste.
• leonard cohenin bağımlılık yapma ihtimali yüksek olan çok sayıdaki eserinden biridir.müziğin ve sözlerin su üzerinde yüzen kağıttan bir tekne misali akması, dinleyeni de alır götürür bir nevi, akıntıya karşı koyma isteğini tümüyle yokeder.
• sözler öyle muhteşem ki, gözlerimi kapattığımda müziğin içinden çıkıp bir filme dönüşüyorlar sanki... harika bir müziğe sahip harika bir film tadı bırakıyor bu şarkı, sadece 5 dakikada yapıyor bunu.
• everybody knows ile ardarda dinleyince hayatın anlamını bulduğumu hissettiren şaheser. bi bok bulduğum yoktur tabii, etkisi biraz geçince çıkar ortaya.
• şarkıyı dinlerken ruhum 60 lara gidiyor birden, sanki o dönemde yaşıyorum. bir şarkı bunu nasıl başarabilir hala ilginç geliyor. film sahneleri getiriyor gözlerimin önüne. sonra videoyu izliyorum, ve 1967 kayıtlı şu videoyu fark ediyorum:
  
  sunucu cohen hakkında,"o bir arkadaş, ama bu şarkıda bir yabancı olduğunu söylüyor" diyor.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlq7aqd_h7g
• güzel şarkı. galiba biraz ağzıma sıçtı.
• "...ıt's hard to hold the hand of anyone,
  who is reaching for the sky just to surrender..."
  
  buyur burdan yak!
  
  ilave:
  
  chicago 1976
  
  "about ten years ago ı came to nyc with some songs. ı have been living on a greek island for about 8 years at the time. and it was kind of hard to get anybody to listen to them. you know they've kind of said "just stand up kid and turn around, you're a little old for this aren't you" .there was one person in nyc that listened to the songs and that was judy collins. and she recorded them and ı think anything that happened to me subsequently was because of the interest she took in the songs when she first read them. around that time ı was living in the penn terminal hotel on 34th street, gruesome establishment as the name indicates.and ı wrote this song at that time."
  
  antwerp 17/04/88
  
  "this comes out of a thousand hotel rooms,ten thousand railway stations..."
• cohen, 67 tarihli o meşhur kayıtta dalgın bakışlarla, gözünü bile kırpmadan söylüyor ya şunları, bitiyorum.