Sing me goodnight: Dance me to the end of love- The Civil Wars

Το συγκεκριμένο κομμάτι είναι ένα από τα πολύ αγαπημένα μου. Η συγκεκριμένα εκτέλεση είναι διασκευή από τους "The Civil Wars". Πρώτος το τραγούδησε ο μοναδικός Leonard Cohen το 1984 και ακολούθησαν πολλές διασκευές από διάφορους καλλιτέχνες.

Από τον τίτλο φαίνεται πως πρόκειται για ένα ερωτικό κομμάτι, παρ' όλα αυτά το τραγούδι αναφέρεται στο Ολοκαύτωμα.

Το 1996 κάποιος εκδοτικός οίκος κυκλοφόρησε ένα βιβλίο με τίτλο Dance Me to the End of Love, ως μέρος της σειράς του "Τέχνη και Ποίηση". Στο βιβλίο υπάρχουν στίχοι του τραγουδιού μαζί με πίνακες ζωγραφικής από τον Henri Matisse.

Σε μια συνέντευξη του ο Cohen είπε για το τραγούδι: 

'Dance Me to the End Of Love' ... it's curious how songs begin because the origin of the song, every song, has a kind of grain or seed that somebody hands you or the world hands you and that's why the process is so mysterious about writing a song. But that came from just hearing or reading or knowing that in the death camps, beside the crematoria, in certain of the death camps, a string quartet was pressed into performance while this horror was going on, those were the people whose fate was this horror also. And they would be playing classical music while their fellow prisoners were being killed and burnt. So, that music, "Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin," meaning the beauty there of being the consummation of life, the end of this existence and of the passionate element in that consummation. But, it is the same language that we use for surrender to the beloved, so that the song — it's not important that anybody knows the genesis of it, because if the language comes from that passionate resource, it will be able to embrace all passionate activity.

Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty like a burning violin

Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in

Lift me like an olive branch, be my homeward dove

And dance me to the end of love

Please dance me to the end of love

Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone

Oh let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon

Oh show me slowly what I only know the limits of

And dance me to the end of love

Please dance me to the end of love

La la, la la la, la la, la la la, la la, la la la

Oh dance me to the wedding now, oh, dance me on and on

And dance me very tenderly and dance me very long

We're both of us beneath our love, and both of us above

And dance me to the end of love, ooh

Won't you dance me to the end of love

La la, la la la, la la, la la la, la la, la la la

Σημ.: Η εκτέλεση από τον Cohen συνεχίζεται...

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born 

Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn 

Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn 

Dance me to the end of love 

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin 

Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in 

Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove 

Dance me to the end of love 

Dance me to the end of love 

Dance me to the end of love

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