"Closer" (also known as Halo 9) is a song written by Trent Reznor and featured on the 1994 Nine Inch Nails album The Downward Spiral. In mid-1994, the song was released as the second single from the album. Most versions of the single are titled "Closer to God," a rare example in music of a single's title differing from the title of its A-Side. ("Closer to God" is also the title of an alternate version of "Closer" featured on the single.) This single is numbered as Halo Nine under Nine Inch Nails' system of Halo numbers. In spite of the blunt and profane sexual content contained in the song's lyrics (the chorus infamously begins with the couplet "I wanna fuck you like an animal/ I wanna feel you from the inside"), "Closer" became Nine Inch Nails' biggest hit up to that time, cemented Reznor's status as an industrial rock superstar, and remains arguably his best-known song. Heavily censored versions of the song and its equally explicit and controversial music video (directed by Mark Romanek) received substantial airplay on radio and MTV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closer_(Nine_Inch_Nails_song)
_________________________ Around the world and back again. On this plane of existence where men rule 'cause no one in power will admit to a better way, I speak for womanhood as a man who will both mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually crush other men, depending on whichever method is required, to secure inherent rights for women. whether they be GG, TG or otherwise....~ Brotherly/Sisterly Love, Truett
Romance language music can be terribly cheesy. Yet, I still love it.
From the mythical Sanremo '72, Roberto Carlos (from Brazil) interprets Un gatto nel blu ("A Cat in the Dark"). He sings Italian with a Portuguese accent, but I don't mind.
The song was much more popular in Spanish as Un gato en la oscuridad:
And the orchestral version by Franck Pourcel (French orchestra):
When I was a child, what a riot! Playing war games in the street Jumping the fence, you and I, then In your eyes a new feeling I discovered
The roses, the love, my home And a cat to be my companion But since it's over I don't know why The windows seem empty without you
A cat in the dark guards the stars I don't want to go back home without you If you knew, what a beautiful night is out there! Perhaps enough to overcome a great sorrow.
A cat in the dark in your stead To notice the love I carry for you Soon you will be in my eyes as well But tonight only a tear is there
Beloved, beloved, my life Scent of linden tree leaves If to love like this is a sin, I am sinful I love you, it's all the life that I know...
_________________________ This a spiritual thing and I am the laughing Buddha sitting on top of the world. Donnalee.
"Populace above, populace below! What are 'poor' and 'rich' at present! That distinction did I unlearn,—then did I flee away further and ever further, until I came to those kine." --Thus Spake Zarathustra / Friedrich Nietzsche.
From Franck Pourcel's album "Concorde" (1975), dedicated to planes and pilots, 60,000 Feet:
_________________________ This a spiritual thing and I am the laughing Buddha sitting on top of the world. Donnalee.
"Populace above, populace below! What are 'poor' and 'rich' at present! That distinction did I unlearn,—then did I flee away further and ever further, until I came to those kine." --Thus Spake Zarathustra / Friedrich Nietzsche.
This group/song brings back some memories...It was the late 70"s,and me and the gang of boys and girls had decided the night before to go to a Pink floyd concert at Soldiers Field in Chicago.We loaded up 4 cars with about 20 of us the next day and headed on out.Well,because the majority of us worked,we had to just to get together and try to get there in time for general admission tickets at the door.We just missed making it on time,so.....We had to just settle for hanging out outside the stadium partying with the other unfortunate ones who didn"t make it in time either .It was ok though because we could hear the music outside the stadium real well,and even saw the pigs that were floating around up above the stadium(it was part of the show to have helium filled pig blimps floating around ).
I was never a huge fan of them(this is really the only song from them that I like,and this is a excellent performance of it.cool video too )
Pink Floyd
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
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"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone"--Al Capone
Sorry,but you have no choice...keep moving along please...
The living past...here and gone...
Self preservation...the weak link between ideas and action.
At times when the bar is set too high...it's sometimes best to just go under it instead.
To die in the arms of a loved one...peaceful bliss.
.It was ok though because we could hear the music outside the stadium real well,and even saw the pigs that were floating around up above the stadium(it was part of the show to have helium filled pig blimps floating around 
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