Each
child of the Bridge is a multicoloured star
Keith, Danny, Lueza,
and ten others smile
With the victorious way of the twenty-five
alumni
Each music is a stellar song
This weekend is that of
the children of the Bridge
Festive school, lessons fallen into
oblivion
Marvellous parents rich in child
Pearl Jam goes away for the
imminent Crazy Horse arrival
Who takes his place for seven acoustic
songs
Strangely, Pegi doesn’t introduce her husband
Her partner
as in the afternoon set
And her friends of this evening, Poncho,
Billy, Ralphy, and Astrid
Crazy Horse Deluxe is peaceful
Like
gripped by an early morning frost
In this extended sky pressing
this pollarded ground
The permanent harmonica complaint
gives birth to the moon of our heart
Our hearse is slipping crabwise towards the sea
The beach
abounds in lamentable shilly-shallyings
Caroline won’t come back,
her way back is improbable
Our steps stumble over this nasty
dream
And even if it remain hazardous
Our walk must go on
Along
with our buried memories
Whitch good or bad, are our treasures
to polish up
Already the ghost of a smile enlivens our wild running
Thumbing
one's nose at separation
It's great to see you here
tonight
And thanks for coming everybody and Neil plunges us
In the old
book of his glorious collection
Alone the love runs in rhythm
over 500 imposing pages
Before hatred squat in the margins and
erase the words
Neil and his friends are in a niche of happiness
Their
guitar light up their meeting
The ink of the last page read are
in an intense blue
And becomes blurred in the night in a twisting
way
Bob gave his questions without answers
Six times under
different winds
And regularly offers them to us for each separation
Saturday
in San Francisco, this evening in Denver
In 1991, Neil had insufflated
into it a slow electric wind
Which agreeably screeched in our
hears
Today, the song is blown with a short gust of wind freewheeling
Emergency
to put in flight the dove sleeping on sand
Neil had already shaken
it alone under the light of this day
I is Neil I is other
Love is Pegi Love is humanity
Many
is lost in this labyrinth of the circumstances
They forget that
a story swarms characters
Moving at the cardinal point of their
life
The Larry mallet nails me to the armchair
In wide gestures
he works gongs and cymbals
Beauty of arrangements
Pegi and
Astrid in chorus
"Yippee Yi A, Yippee Yi O"
Today
drums don’t bear the American flag
The scapegoat is not any more
Khaddafi but Ben Laden
Neil, another one ! Neil finally flashes a burst of laughter
Then
some recognizable French notes
The Marseillaise introduces a
message from Lennon and Mc Cartney
When you have or are nothing
more only the love matters
Because the love heals the largest
wounds of our heart
Marriages grow on the peak of misfortune
The
red cap which salutes the Fire Department of New York
Erase the
downcast eyes of Neil who gathers his thoughts with leaning head
Large
calligraphed signs lick his feet
Everybody produces echo to Astrid
who sings ad infinitum
All you need is love until the come back
of the French anthem
Our heads whirl whirl whirl
In many red
and blue stars
Whirl whirl again and again
"How y' a doin' out there ? It’s difficult to know
Which
song to play nowadays
Every song sounds different
Every word
means something different"
Are the words of Neil sitting
at his organ
Pegi and Astrid enrich the rugged Neil’s voice
On
this Mother Earth which never appeared in this way
To be the
little sister of After The Gold Rush
I understand what Neil in
prologue said
This ecological hymn becomes
The funeral anthem
for the 09/11 victims
No, Neil didn’t need to change
Oh, freedom
land par Oh, America
No soft violins, no piano as for the heroes
Crazy Horse
use the beautiful crystalline notes of their guitar
Neil makes
a sign to the technicians
The John Lennon’s words are posted
on the screen
All the artists got back the stage
R.E.M., Pearl
Jam, Dave Matthews, Billy Idol,
Ben Harper, Tracy Chapman et
Jill Sobule
And remain silent and invite the audience to sing
Pegi
and Astrid offer also the words to us on large notice
Astrid
is extremely amused
To be Bob Dylan as in his video clip
Subterranean
Homsesick Blues
Audience gains self-assurance
Its singing
still resounds in our heart
Imagine no possessions I wonder if
you can
No modification is given as for the heroes
Imagine
no possessions I wonder if I can
Nevertheless the emotion is
great
I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one
Good idea Neil
making us take part thus
To be vocal instrument on this beautiful
instrumental
The artists get comfort, kiss each other
The Billy Idol’s
knees bend -
Sign of the cross - before Neil
Pegi and Neil
thank us and look back
Applaud with vigour the children and parents
of the Bridge
Greensleeves accompany us towards the exit
Some
embers are still present
Let us save them as long as it’s still
time
And tomorrow our heart will be hotter
And the music will
find its passionate poetry
The pencil draws dedications
Billy to Sheila : "Oh
! ! ! Rusty ! Are you a rusty ?"
His broad smile shows his
thought
"Oh, I LOVE the rusties ! ! ! They are soooo great
!"
Crazy Horse Deluxe climbs in the trailer
Except the
sachem Neil who is missing
He arrives finally and moves towards
his glowing cadillac
Hearing "Hi Neil !", his eyebrows
work
"This car is AWESOME ! ! ! !" - admiration -
His
face lights up : "Thanks !"
"Neil, what year is
it ? Nobody seems to know."
"It's a 54", Sheila
speaks to her daughter :
"See - I told you this car is newer
than me !"
Neil laughs and settles down in the back seat
"Have
a great night", he answers : "You too"
The door
is closed and Jack actuates the starter
The black cadillac vanishes
in the icy night
The End
BETWEEN The Rusty Words
(May 09, 2004)
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