Advent Songs: Rudy
Rudy, by the Be Good Tanyas:
Rudy lives on the borderline
Between civilisation and basic survival
The summertime treats him fairly well
But the wintertime is a bitter cold rival
It’s wintertime now in Georgetown
And the streets come alive with the Christmas lights
And Rudy sleeps on the warm air grate
With a newspaper blanket
On December nights.
Deck the halls,
Rudolph the red-nosed wino knows it’s Christmas time
Jingle bells and Christmas shoppers dashing through the snow
God bless ye merry gentleman
Who have found it in your hearts to flip Rudy a thin
Cuz I’ll be home for Christmas
But this man has no place to go.
Christmas has no meaning at all?
These people of greed and incredible waste
Who seek the deeper meaning in a shopping mall
With a yuletide spirit of impatience and hate
Rudy is a patient man
Who tries to see the beauty in everything
Is not a very demanding soul
Whose only wish is to live until the spring
Nobody knows the reasons why
Things turn out the way they do
And there ain’t no one to tell you the reasons why there’s fortunate folks like me and you
Rudy must have people somewhere who wonder what became of a man
And Rudy must wonder the same damn thing
As the crowd passes by and he sticks out his hand.
Deck the halls,
Rudolph the red-nosed wino knows it’s Christmas time
Jingle bells and Christmas shoppers dashing through the snow
God bless ye merry gentleman
Who have found it in your hearts to flip Rudy a thin
Cuz I’ll be home for Christmas
But this man has no place to go.
Rudy died on the borderline
Of a civilized world on Christmas Eve
And the shoppers shopped and the temperatures dropped
On a man whose absence won’t be greived
Peace on the soul of the cop who found him
In a booth with his hand frozen to a telephone
Y’know, I think I know who he had on the line
And Rudy won’t spend this Christmas alone.
Deck the halls,
Rudolph the red-nosed wino knows it’s Christmas time
Jingle bells and Christmas shoppers dashing through the snow
God bless ye merry gentleman
Who have found it in your hearts to flip Rudy a thin
And I’ll be home for Christmas
But this year Rudy gets to go
And I’ll be home for Christmas
But this year Rudy gets to go
WK
This entry was written by , posted on December 23, 2008 at 9:08 am, filed under Music and tagged Advent, Christmas, Homelessness. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
30 Songs I really love.
In no particular order:
- Viva la Vida – Coldplay
- Round Here – Counting Crows
- Passion – Pigeon John, featuring Tapwater
- Frail – Jars of Clay
- What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
- Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley, covering Leonard Cohen
- Have yourself a Merry little Christmas – Hem, covering Judy Garland
- Eyes of a Child – Soul Asylum
- No Sensitivity – Jimmy Eat World
- Train Song – Listener Project
- New Slang – the Shins
- When You Were Young – the Killers
- One Headlight – the Wallflowers
- Casimir Pulaski Day – Sufjan Stevens
- Power of the Gospel – Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
- Priceless – Copeland
- 10 Days – Missy Higgins
- Pills – the Perishers featuring Sarah McLachlan
- The Freshmen – the Verve Pipe
- Transatlanticism – Death Cab for Cutie
- Rudy – the Be Good Tanyas
- Lola – the Kinks
- Soul Meets Body – Death Cab for Cutie
- Adventures in Solitude – the New Pornographers
- Broken Wings – Sage Francis
- First Christmas – Stan Rogers
- Equally Skilled – Jon Foreman
- Abraham – Sufjan Stevens
- Mad World – Gary Jules and Michael Andrews
- The Way we Walk – Sintax the Terrific featuring Mouth Warrin’
This entry was written by , posted on November 15, 2008 at 3:24 am, filed under Music, Things I love and tagged Music, Things I love. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Music You Should Listen to.
I really like music. When talking about music, I say things like, ‘this stuff’s bananas!’, or ‘seriously, you have to listen to this for a minute.’ I listen to all kinds of music, (some more than others) and now I feel I need to share some music with my reading public, to expand your minds. Here are 4. people/groups you should take some time to get to know.
Wow. Just, wow. Before moving forward, however, the name is misleading. There is no pornography involved and for the most part the lyrics are quite clean. Essentially, this is a Canadian Supergroup (a group of solo artists/band members who perform together when not on their own tours/recording) that blows my socks off every time I hear it. You should pick up their album, Challengers - it’s hauntingly beautiful.
2. Buck 65.
Buck 65 is a Canadian Hip-hop artist who has gained popularity in the underground scene over the last few years. Before his newest album, Situation, I’m not sure I quite got where he was coming from, but this album really gels well – it’s a theme album about the 50′s people, the freakin’ 1950s! Be warned, however; there is a bit of language.
Imagine the most politically active beatnik from the 50s/60s, give him a mean streak and grainy voice, and you have Sage Francis. When this guy raps, he tears guts out of things (not literally, just a graphic metaphor) and throws it on the table, with the express point of making you deal with it. Human Death Dance is an album that has stayed in my regular rotation since last May when it came out. This one, unlike the rest is loaded with cussing, hard questions about God and rough issues. Not for the faint of heart. But sooooo good.
Ok, so I have a confession: Dan Smith of the Listener Project is the Manliest, Coolest, Most Awesome individual that I have ever met. I have serious man-crush on this dude. I have so far planned 2 different concerts, the main purpose being that I can just spend time with this artist. Listener Project is leading the way with a new genre of music: Talk Music. It’s fantastic. Listen to it.
So there you go. Have a listen. If you would like specific songs that you should listen to, feel free to ask.
WK
This entry was written by , posted on April 21, 2008 at 12:37 am, filed under Music and tagged Awesome, Buck 65, Listener Project, Music, Sage Francis, The New Pornographers. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
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