what am i doing right now?

i'm in HEAVEN

i'm listening to k d lang doing her bbc radio show on npr called music from the middle of nowhere

holy shite!

joni mitchell talks

a woman (whose name i didn't get) talks about canadian crows

leonard cohen talks

oh and they sing too.

holy shite!

HEAVEN

Close Up: Music From the Middle of Nowhere

...........Grammy award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter k d lang pays tribute to her favourite Canadian songwriters, including Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Jane Siberry, Ron Sexsmith and Neil Young, in a three-part series
In the first programme k d, who has described herself in song as the "big-boned girl from Alberta", is in her home town of Edmonton. Here, at the Sidetrack Cafe, where she performed with her band The Reclines, she talks about her early forays into music. Against the background of the Alberta Scene arts festival in April and May, when hundreds of musicians flock to Edmonton, k d introduces some of her emerging favourites - Nelly Furtado, Doc Walker and The McDades...........

Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen
I've heard there was a secret chord

that David played,

and it pleased the Lord

But you don't really care for music,

Do you?

It goes like this,

the fourth, the fifth

The minor Fall,

The major lift,

The baffled king composing,

hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof

You saw her bathing on the roof

Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you

She tied you to a kitchen chair,

she broke your throne

she cut your hair

and from your lips she drew the halleujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Baby I've been here before

I know this room, I've walked this floor

I used to live alone before I knew you

I've seen your flag on the marble arch

love is not a victory march

it's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know

What's real and going on below

but now you never show it to me, do you?

Well remember when I moved in you

the holy dove was moving too

And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above

And all I ever learned from love

Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you

It's not a cry you can hear at night

It's not somebody who's seen the light

it's a cold and it's a broken HallelujahHallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah…

(listen to it by tim buckley as well)