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Post by ringoswheetos on Sept 20, 2006 5:22:26 GMT -5
W. H. Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to any good.
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Post by ringoswheetos on Sept 20, 2006 5:40:22 GMT -5
It's called stop the clocks and might be something noel has read.
what do you think?
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Post by Meltdown on Sept 20, 2006 5:49:32 GMT -5
you never know..he got inspiration for The Importance of being idle from the book called that same name.
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Post by ringoswheetos on Sept 20, 2006 5:52:39 GMT -5
yeah i read that too.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2006 6:25:24 GMT -5
until we know the lyrics we can't say
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Post by Moorish on Sept 21, 2006 9:15:16 GMT -5
Wouldn't surprise me if he did. He nicked half the lyrics for Go Let It Out from a book of poems as well. He knows he can get away with it though cos all the poets are well dead and their work is in the public domain.
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Post by novascotialad on Sept 21, 2006 9:45:46 GMT -5
i wouldn't be surprised if half the lyrics on all of SOTSOG weren't nicked from dead poets.... he never wrote lyrics like that before SOTSOG and he hasn't since....
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Post by ringoswheetos on Sept 21, 2006 10:04:30 GMT -5
i think noel's comedown from drugs was more the influence on the darker lyrics of sotsog not so much poetry, i love that album it's really underated, how an album with go let it out, gas panic, where did it all go wrong, sunday morning call, and roll it over can be slated as a bad album is beyond me, especially when little james and who feels love are pretty good tunes too .
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Post by ToneBender on Sept 23, 2006 12:11:50 GMT -5
i'd say coming off drugs allowed him to spend some more time intellectually, rather than boozed up..he once used to brag about having never read before and i can think of a few interviews where he namechecks books he's been reading. i'd say more than anything he got a bit more intellectual and introspective. i get the impression noel moved on from his celebration of ignorant working class roots..thoughts?
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Post by lyla on Sept 30, 2006 12:05:22 GMT -5
i'd say coming off drugs allowed him to spend some more time intellectually, rather than boozed up..he once used to brag about having never read before and i can think of a few interviews where he namechecks books he's been reading. i'd say more than anything he got a bit more intellectual and introspective. i get the impression noel moved on from his celebration of ignorant working class roots..thoughts? oh yeah, definitely. he was on russell brand (again!) a couple weeks ago and russell was trying to get him on a show about lads or something and noel was like fuck off. he said he'd come on russell's show if the topic was rags to riches. basically noel fully embraces his riches, designer clothes and country houses, and you could argue he deserves it or whatever, but the point is i dont think anyone could say he celebrates his working class roots, other than an attempted justification of blowing money on expensive cars now.
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Post by lyla on Sept 30, 2006 12:10:46 GMT -5
i like w h auden, and that poem in particular. its nice to perform. i used to do speech and drama lessons and yeah, so i did a bit of performance poetry and that was one of the poems i did. i think. it was a few years ago so i dont quite remember.
arent the lyrics to stop the clocks somewhere on the net? i thought i read them awhile ago. maybe they were fake.
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