Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste by Lester Bangs

Author:Lester Bangs
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Non-fiction, Music, Humour, Writing
ISBN: 9780307487896
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2003-08-12T00:00:00+00:00

You get two songs. In each case I’ll quote from the lyrics, with a minimum of interpretation, and then tell what Cale's music sounds like. Not that they are two such separate entities, however: this was a marriage made in purgatory.

“Frozen Warnings”

Into numberless reflections

Rises a smile from your eyes

Into mine

Frozen warnings close to mine

Close to the frozen borderline

Through a pale morning's arctic sunlight glinting dimly off the snow, a bank of violas emits one endless shrill note which eventually becomes electronically distorted by points of ice panning back and forth through the space between your ears, descending and then impossibly ascending in volume and ineluctable intensity until they’re almost unbearable though infinitely graceful in their beauty; at length they wind off into the skies trailing away like wisps of fading beams.

“Evening of Light”

Midnight winds are

landing at the end of time

The story is telling air to lie

Mandolins are ringing

to his fires singing

Conscience sink into a

slumber till the end of time

… the doorbells hum

unto the undead end of time

In the morning of my winter

When my eyes are still asleep

A dragonfly lay in the cold

dark snows I’d sent to kiss your

heart for me.

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