Wenn ich Hippiemusik höre, oder auch nur Musik aus grob den Jahren 1967 bis 1975, machen sich zwei Gefühle breit.
Einerseits das freie, glückliche Gefühl, man könne sich einfach nur Blumen ins Haar stecken, und nach San Francisco ziehen, um einen Tag barfuß zu tanzen, und das Bedauern, dass diese Zeiten vergangen sind.
Andererseits das dunkle, Gänsehaut erzeugende Wissen um die Abgründe dieser „Glücklichkeit“.
Ich habe mich in letzter Zeit etwas mit den Metaphern in den Liedern beschäftigt, manche liegen auf der Hand, andere muss man interpretieren. Die Leere und Bedeutungslosigkeit findet man bei jeder Gruppe in zumindest einigen Songs. Und man fühlt sich selbst mehr mit der anderen Seite der Medaille konfrontiert, es tut mir geradezu psychisch weh, wie sich eine so scheinbar glückliche Generation daheim zittern auf dem Sofa zusammengekrümmt haben muss vor dem nächsten Schuss.
Der Traum wird schwarz, und beim Hören mischen sich fortan dunkle Gedanken ein.
Beispiele. Signifikantes in kursiv.
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you’re going to fall
Tell’em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small
When men on the chessboard
get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she’ll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen softly dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s off with her head
Remember what the doormouse said:
„Feed your Head
Feed your Head!“
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0&feature=related
The Byrds (Bob Dylan) – Mr. Tambourine Man
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there ain’t no place I’m goin’ to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning, I’ll come followin’ you
Take me for a trip upon your magic swirlin’ ship
All my senses have been stripped
And my hands can’t feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin’
I’m ready to go anywhere, I’m ready for to fade
Unto my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I’m not sleepy and there ain’t no place I’m goin’ to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin’ you
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zshu_nPY-tU
The Rolling Stones/Marianne Faithful – Sister Morphine
Here I lie in my hospital bed
Tell me, Sister Morphine, when are you coming round again?
Oh, I don’t think I can wait that long
Oh, you see that I’m not that strong
The scream of the ambulance is sounding in my ears
Tell me, Sister Morphine, how long have I been lying here?
What am I doing in this place?
Why does the doctor have no face?
Oh, I can’t crawl across the floor
Ah, can’t you see, Sister Morphine, I’m trying to score
Well it just goes to show
Things are not what they seem
Please, Sister Morphine, turn my nightmares into dreams
Oh, can’t you see I’m fading fast?
And that this shot will be my last
Sweet Cousin Cocaine, lay your cool cool hand on my head
Ah, come on, Sister Morphine, you better make up my bed
‘Cause you know and I know in the morning I’ll be dead
Yeah, and you can sit around, yeah and you can watch all the
Clean white sheets stained red.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtz8qZz6s8s
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Last Dance with Mary Jane
She grew up in a Indiana town,
Had a good lookin’ mama who never was around.
But she grew up tall and she grew up right
With them Indiana boys on an Indiana night.
Well she moved down here at the age of eighteen,
She blew the boys away; was more than they’d seen.
I was introduced and we both started groovin’
She said, „I dig you, baby, but I got to keep movin’ – on.
Keep movin’ on.“
Last dance with Mary Jane, one more time to kill the pain.
I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m tired of this town again.
Well I don’t know but I’ve been told, you never slow down,
you never grow old.
I’m tired of screwin’ up, tired of goin’ down,
Tired of myself, tired of this town,
Oh my, my, oh hell yes – Honey put on that party dress.
Buy me a drink, sing me a song,
Take me as I come cause I can’t stay long.
There’s pigeons down on Market Square,
She’s standing in her underwear.
Lookin’ down from a hotel room,
Nightfall will be coming soon.
Oh my, my, oh hell yes, you got to put on that party dress.
It was too cold to cry, when I woke up alone.
I hit my last number, I walked to the road.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pHM-o2_Dk