Bats in the belfry

haigha · #1 07-01-2008, 06:29 PM

The bats are in the belfry
The dew is on the moor
Where are the arms that held me
And pledged her love before
And pledged her love before

It's such a sad old feeling
The hills are soft and green
It's memories that I'm stealing
But you're innocent when you dream, when you dream
You're innocent when you dream, when you dream
You're innocent when you dream

I made a golden promise
That we would never part
I gave my love a locket
And then I broke her heart
And then I broke her heart

And it's such a sad old feeling
The fields are soft and green
It's memories that I'm stealing
But you're innocent when you dream, when you dream
You're innocent when you dream
Innocent when you dream

Running through the graveyard
We laughed my friends and I
We swore we'd be together
Until the day we died
Until the day we died

And it's such a sad old feeling
The fields are soft and green
It's memories that I'm stealing
But you're innocent when you dream, when you dream
You're innocent when you dream, when you dream

-- Tom Waits, "Innocent When You Dream"

... carry on

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Major04 · #2 07-01-2008, 11:38 PM

Well, about to go to bed and hope that I don't have a bad dream. But, we all know that most of us are not that innocent.

Thanks for the poem -

Here is my favorite poem when I was in highschool by William Blake

Tiger, Tiger burning bright
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy frearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare it's dealy terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?

Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forest of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

motordavid · #3 07-02-2008, 07:43 AM

William Blake & Tom Waits...couple of my Faves.

And, we have about 2 doz bats in our attic, during
the summer months.

haigha · #4 07-02-2008, 04:29 PM

Thanks for the poem, Major.

Quote:

Originally Posted by motordavid

William Blake & Tom Waits...couple of my Faves.

And, we have about 2 doz bats in our attic, during
the summer months.

But do you have a belfry?

I chased a bat out of my living room with a 7 iron one night. Fortunately, nobody was harmed.

I'm with you on Blake and Waits. To add Neil Young and Jim Jarmusch to the mix have you every seen the movies "Dead Man" and "Down by Law":

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112817/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090967/

These link all four of them (as well as Iggy Pop and some other great performers).

One of my favorite Blake lines for intolerant, arrogant 'Christians':

"The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy"

http://tinyurl.com/6npzxq

or

http://books.google.com/books?id=AVs...t#PRA1-PA96,M1

motordavid · #5 07-02-2008, 04:53 PM

No belfry, but we do have a "turret room", as I like to call it...
20 some feet high...a tall room that has our library, junque and
'puter in it. It does not have an attic, as it projects up above
the main 2nd story roof line.

The bats are safely ensconced in the narrow height attic above the house.
I've about given up trying to keep them out. The insulation, 6 inches of
polyisocyanurate board and 6 inches of std fiber glass batting, over the dry
wall ceiling, make for a fairly good barrier between "their room" and the house.

And one of my Fave poets, Thomas Stearns Eliot:

"Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through."
"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper"
"You are the music while the music lasts."
"My name is only an anagram of toilets."

And, the Four Quartets...not as well known as Prufrock or The Wasteland, but worth a quick peruse, imo...
http://www.tristan.icom43.net/quartets/

noncom23 · #6 07-02-2008, 09:50 PM

Good post H!

Major04 · #7 07-04-2008, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by motordavid

And one of my Fave poets, Thomas Stearns Eliot:

"Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through."
"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper"
"You are the music while the music lasts."
"My name is only an anagram of toilets."

And, the Four Quartets...not as well known as Prufrock or The Wasteland, but worth a quick peruse, imo...
http://www.tristan.icom43.net/quartets/

mD - I have never heard of this poem. That's pretty good...Thank you!

H - you got any more?

There is a love letter that was written from Napoleon to his wife Josephine? that was great. The letter started that he didn't like her too much because she did not write to him and at the end he could not wait to kiss and hold her. Does anyone remember that letter? I know he wrote a lot to her but, that letter sticks to my mind. One of the best love letter I have read.

motordavid · #8 07-04-2008, 01:24 PM

Major,
This one?
http://www.napoleonguide.com/lovejos3.htm

haigha · #9 07-04-2008, 03:43 PM

nc - Thanks!

mD - I was voracious Eliot reader in what, in the US, would be called my junior and senior years of high school. Soldiered through the complete works including all the plays. Loved the Four Quartets. I'll need to revisit them... it has been a while. I still have the Complete Works. The line I remember from the plays is from Murder in the Cathedral when Thomas Becket says, "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason."

I just got round to reading a different Beckett... I got the Grove edition of the complete plays. I'm not sure why it took me so long to get to him. I love Pinter's plays and see the strong influence from S.B.

major - lots more... let me do some thinking

motordavid · #10 07-04-2008, 04:37 PM

Haigha/P...
I suspect this thread is becoming a tad too esoteric and "lit",
to garner many more thread views, ;>)

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