Bob Dylan: If You See Her, Say Hello
Another day. I follow another path,
Enter the leafing woodland, visit the spring
Or the rocks where the roses bloom
Or search from a look-out, but nowhere
Love are you to be seen in the light of day
And down the wind go the words of our once so
Beneficent conversation...
Your beloved face has gone beyond my sight,
The music of your life is dying away
Beyond my hearing and all the songs
That worked a miracle of peace once on
My heart, where are they now? It was long ago,
So long and the youth I was has aged nor is
Even the earth that smiled at me then
The same. Farewell. Live with that word always.
For the soul goes from me to return to you
Day after day and my eyes shed tears that they
Cannot look over to where you are
And see you clearly ever again.
Friedrich Hölderlin
Monday, 7 December 2009
Countdown To Christmas (17): Separation
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"... she's better off with someone else
and I'm better off alone ..."
I'd not heard that version of "If You See Her, Say Hello" before, with its change of pace, alternative lyrics, and major shift of perspective away from "although our separation pierced me to the heart, she still lives inside of me, we've never been apart."
There were some great photos on that video that I'd never seen before.
Intriguing pairing with Friedrich Holderlin's poem.
Great version of the song, I think.
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