 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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