Tuesday, March 16, 2010

And I Am Breathless Without You



Another Cat Power video. This is one that I tweeted earlier and is called "Breathless". It's song originally written by Nick Cave. She normally did original work, but released a CD of all covers in 2008 called "Jukebox".  Highly recommend.
At one level, the song is about inspiration of the musical sort, or more generally of the "muse" sort (have all the adjectives connoting inspiration by a muse been taken?  Do they all have music music connotations?).

Here are the lyrics:

It's up in the morning
And on the downs
Little white clouds
Like gambling lambs
And I am breathless over you
And the red-breasted robin beats his wings
His throat it trembles when he sings
For he is helpless before you
The happy hooded bluebells bow
And bend their heads all a-down
Heavied by the early morning dew
At the whispering stream
At the bubbling brook
The fishes leap up to take a look
For they are breathless over you
Still your hands
And still your heart
For still your face
Comes shining through
And all the morning glows anew
Still your mind
Still your soul
For still the fare of love is true
And I am breathless without you
The wind circles among the trees
And it bangs about the new-made leaves
For it is breathless without you
The fox chases the rabbit round
Little rabbit hides beneath the ground
For he, he's defenceless without you
The sky of daytime dies away
And all the earthly things they stop to play
For we are all breathless without you
I listen to my juddering bones
And the blood in my veins
And the wind in my lungs
And I am breathless without you
Still your hands
And still your heart
For still your face
Comes shining through
And all the morning glows anew
Still your mind
Still your soul
For still the fire of your love is true
And I am breathless without you
And I am breathless without you
And I am breathless without you

2 comments:

  1. The guitar player for Cat Power is a guy named Judah Bauer (originally from Wisconsin!) who got noticed as the guitar player for Jon Spencer's Blues Explosions.

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  2. I must have been standing without feet of person shooting this because that's exactly how I remember it.

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