Musicon / Elefant / Music and Literature / Elefant, Lolita
Inspired by Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita Can you tell me what you’re thinking? I just melt inside your eyes Kiss me like they do in movies Modern child of the night I was watching you for hours Standing there beside the pool When you wear those pretty dresses I forget the girl in you Run ::More
Musicon / Music and Literature / Spektor Regina / Regina Spektor, Oedipus
Inspired by the Greek poet Sophocles I’m the king’s thirty second son Born to him in thirty second’s time Born to him the night still young Born to him with two eyebrows on And that’s all I was wearing When I woke up staring at the world My mom had been around the graves ::More
Musicon / Cure / Music and Literature / The Cure, Charlotte Sometimes
Inspired by Penelope Farmer’s Charlotte Sometimes all the faces all the voices blur change to one face change to one voice prepare yourself for bed the light seems bright and glares on white walls all the sounds of charlotte sometimes into the night with charlotte sometimes night after ::More
Musicon / Bush / Music and Literature / Kate Bush, Wuthering Heights
Inspired by Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights Out On the wiley, windy moors We’d roll and fall in green You had a temper, like my jealousy Too hot, too greedy How could you leave me When I needed to possess you? I hated you, I loved you too Bad dreams in the night They told me I was ::More
Musicon / Bowie / Music and Literature / David Bowie, 1984
Inspired by Orwell’s 1984. Cf. Orwell, Literature and Liberty Someday they won’t let you, so now you must agree The times they are a-telling, and the changing isn’t free You’ve read it in the tea leaves, and the tracks are on TV Beware the savage jaw Of 1984 They’ll ::More
