Još uvek nisam pronašao boljeg tekstopisca od Darniella iz The Mountain Goats. Evo na primer jedne njihove pesme, mada je preteško izdvojiti jer su sve različite ali i predivne.
The Mountain Goats - No Children
youtube.com/watch?v=wRP6egIEABk
Citat:I hope that our few remaining friends
Give up on trying to save us
I hope we come out with a fail-safe plot
To piss off the dumb few that forgave us
I hope the fences we mended
Fall down beneath their own weight
And I hope we hang on past the last exit
I hope it's already too late
Takođe tu negde je i La Dispute:
La Dispute - New Storms For Older Lovers
youtube.com/watch?v=F3r7cGKwThE
Citat:She meant it
I swear that she meant it
She whispered so often
Husband, I'll always be here with you
But always, always, always, always, always, always
Always is valueless
I wish I'd never heard her speak a word
And I hope you see us
Your wife and your children and I
Buried in the wreckage of your crime
While you're laying down your sins
Softly leaning in to kiss your guilt goodnight
Ima ih još mnogo, ali to ćemo za sledeću priliku, da ne spamujem previše sada, a znam još veliki broj predivno napisanih tekstova.
I'm accustomed to a smooth ride
Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost it's bite
I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more
I don't expect to sleep through the night
Some people say a lie's a lie's a lie
But I say why why deny the obvious child?
Why deny the obvious child?
And in remembering a road sign
I am remembering a girl when I was young
And we said these songs are true
These days are ours, these tears are free
And hey, the cross is in the ballpark
The cross is in the ballpark
We had a lot of fun
We had a lot of money
We had a little son and we thought we'd call him Sonny
Sonny gets married and moves away
Sonny has a baby and bills to pay
Sonny gets sunnier day by day by day by day
Well, I've been waking up at sunrise
I've been following the light across my room
I watch the night receive the room of my day
Some people say the sky is just the sky
But I say, why deny the obvious child?
Why deny the obvious child?
Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself
How it's strange that some rooms are like cages
Sonny's yearbook from high school is down from the shelf
And he idly thumbs through the pages
Some have died, some have fled from themselves
Or struggled from here to get there
Sonny wanders beyond his interior walls
Runs his hands through his thinning brown hair
Well I'm accustomed to a smoother ride
Maybe I'm a dog that's lost his bite
I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more
I don't expect to sleep the night
Some people say a lie is just a lie
But I say the cross is in the ballpark
Why deny the obvious child?
City girls just seem to find out early
How to open doors with just a smile
A rich old man
And she won't have to worry
She'll dress up all in lace and go in style
Late at night a big old house gets lonely
I guess every form of refuge has its price
And it breaks her heart to think her love is
Only given to a man with hands as cold as ice
So she tells him she must go out for the evening
To comfort an old friend who's feelin' down
But he knows where she's goin' as she's leavin'
She is headed for the cheatin' side of town
You can't hide your lyin' eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you'd realize
There ain't no way to hide your lyin eyes
On the other side of town a boy is waiting
with fiery eyes and dreams no one could steal
She drives on through the night anticipating
'Cause he makes her feel the way she used to feel
She rushes to his arms,
They fall together
She whispers that it's only for awhile
She swears that soon she'll be comin' back forever
She pulls away and leaves him with a smile
You can't hide your lyin' eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you'd realize
There ain't no way to hide you lyin' eyes
She gets up and pours herself a strong one
And stares out at the stars up in the sky
Another night, it's gonna be a long one
She draws the shade and hangs her head to cry
She wonders how it ever got this crazy
She thinks about a boy she knew in school
Did she get tired or did she just get lazy?
She's so far gone she feels just like a fool
My, oh my, you sure know how to arrange things
You set it up so well, so carefully
Ain't it funny how your new life didn't change things
You're still the same old girl you used to be
You can't hide your lyin eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you'd realize
There ain't no way to hide your lyin' eyes
There ain't no way to hide your lyin' eyes
Honey, you can't hide your lyin' eyes
I'm just a man, but I know that I'm damned
All the dead seem to know where I am
'Til it began on the night of my birth
Will be done in a turn of the earth
Lie where I land let my bones turn to sand
I was born on the lake and I don't want to leave it
Every eye on the coast ever more
Will remember the sight of the ghost on the shore
Under the waves and the earth of an age
Lie a thousand old northerners' graves
Deep in the night when the moon's glowing bright
They come rising up into the night
Die if I must, let my bones turn to dust
I'm the lord of the lake and I don't want to leave it
All who sail off the coast ever more
Will remember the tale of the ghost on the shore
I'm goin' away for a long, long time
I'm goin' away for a long, long time
Lie where I land, let my bones turn to sand
I was born on the lake and I don't want to leave it
Every eye on the coast ever more
Will remember the sight of the ghost on the shore
Die if I must, let my bones turn to dust
I'm the lord of the lake and I don't want to leave it
All who sail off the coast ever more
Will remember the tale of the ghost on the shore
Keep a fire burning in your eye
Pay attention to the open sky
You never know what will be coming down
I don't remember losing track of you
You were always dancing in and out of view
I must have thought you'd always be around
Always keeping things real by playing the clown
Now you're nowhere to be found
I don't know what happens when people die
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
That I can't sing
I can't help listening
And I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round
Crying as they ease you down
'Cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing
Dancing our sorrow away
(Right on dancing)
No matter what fate chooses to play
(There's nothing you can do about it anyway)
Just do the steps that you've been shown
By everyone you've ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours
Another's steps have grown
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone
Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know what will be coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
And just as easily it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Don't let the uncertainty turn you around
(The world keeps turning around and around)
Go on and make a joyful sound
Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
But you'll never know
Well I hope that I don't fall in love with you
'Cause falling in love just makes me blue,
Well the music plays and you display
Your heart for me to see,
I had a beer and now I hear you
Calling out for me
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.
Well the room is crowded, people everywhere
And I wonder, should I offer you a chair?
Well if you sit down with this old clown,
Take that frown and break it,
Before the evening's gone away,
I think that we could make it,
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.
Well the night does funny things inside a man
These old tom-cat feelings you don't understand,
Well I turn around to look at you,
You light a cigarette,
I wish I had the guts to bum one,
But we've never met,
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.
I can see that you are lonesome just like me,
And it being late, you'd like some some company,
Well I turn around to look at you,
And you look back at me,
The guy you're with has up and split,
The chair next to you's free,
And I hope that you don't fall in love with me.
Now it's closing time, the music's fading out
Last call for drinks, I'll have another stout.
Well I turn around to look at you,
You're nowhere to be found,
I search the place for your lost face,
Guess I'll have another round
And I think that I just fell in love with you.
Take the time to know
How alone you are in this world
Just to find
Death is on your mind
As you stand still, you realize where you are
In her world
Aged and bright
My moon after the tide
How was I to show
For the time i spend alone in my head
The world nobody knows
As i lay still, your wind carried the clouds
To feel
Slow and kind
My moon after the tide
Citat:Dobitnik nagrade “STRUNE OD SVETLA” za 2017. godinu, koja se dodeljuje iz fondacije Saše Radonjića za poseban doprinos afirmaciji pesničke reči u rok i bluz muzici jeste Kralj Čačka.U obrazloženju žirija navedeno je:
Kralj Čačka, u matičnim knjigama Nenad Marić, rođen je u Čačku, 1979. godine. U Beogradu je diplomirao na Fakultetu likovnih umetnosti. Slikar je, kantautor i pesnik. Objavio je muzički album „Zemlja snova” i pesničku zbirku „Na margini”.
Miloš Zubac, dobitnik prologodišnjeg priznanja, zapisao je o ovogodišnjem laureatu:
„Njegove su pesme autentičan amalgam različitih žanrova, globalnog i lokalnog, kosmpolitskog i mesnog duha, uspešna formula urbanih i folklornih stilova i obrazaca, iza koje stoji jedan naizgled nonšalantni muzički alhemičar, a u biti – veoma zainteresovan i dubokoemotivan čovek. Kralj Čačka je ličnost kakva je nedostajala srpskoj muzici, neko ko će biti jednako pristupačan i razumljiv poklonicima dobre narodne i starogradske pesme, koliko i privrženicima džeza, bluza i rokenrola. Takvu sintezu svakako može da ostvari samo onaj ko sebe smatra kraljem – ma kako u tom imenovanju bilo samoironije, naročito jasne onima koji poznaju značenje toponima Čačak”.
U izuzetnoj konkurenciji u kojoj su ove godine bili Nikola Vranjković i Branko Pražić, žiri se na koncu opredelio za Kralja Čačka, izrazito svestan da je svaki od tri kandidata već učinio mnogo za afirmaciju pesničke reči u rok i bluz muzici i da je svaki od trojice na svoj način izvojevao ličnu pobedu na polju definisanja i zaštite istinskih kulturnih vrednosti u savremenoj srpskoj i regionalnoj muzici.
