Jack Kerouac - Charlie Parker paroles de chanson

paroles de chanson Charlie Parker - Jack Kerouac



Charlie Parker looked like Buddha
Charlie Parker who recently died laughing at a juggler on TV
After weeks of strain and sickness
Was called the perfect musician
And his expression on his face
Was as calm, beautiful and profound
As the image of the Buddha
Represented in the East the lidded eyes
The expression that says: all is well
This was what Charlie Parker said when he played: all is well
You had the feeling of early-in-the-morning
Like a hemit's joy
Or like the perfect cry of some wild gang at a jam session
Wail! Whap!
Charlie burst his lungs to reach
The speed of what the speedsters wanted
And what they wanted was his eternal slowdown
A great musician
And a great creator of forms
That ultimately find expression
In mores and what-have-you
Musically as important as Beethoven
Yet not regarded as such at all
A genteel conductor of string orchestras
In front of wich he stood proud and calm
Like a leader of music in the great historie Worldnight
And wailed his little saxophone
The alto
With piercing, clear lament
In perfect tune and shining harmony
Toot!
As listeners reacted
Without showing it
And began talking
And soon the whole joint is docking and talking
And everybody talking
And Charlie Parker
Whistling them on to the brink of eternity
With his Irish St. Patrick Patootlestick.
And like the holy mists
We blop and we plop
In the waters of slaughter and white meat
And die
One after one
In Time.
And how sweet a story it is
When you hear Charlie Parker tell it
Either on records or at sessions
Or at official bits in clubs
(Shots in the arm for the wallet).
Gleefully he whistled the perfect horn
Anyhow made no difference...
Charlie Parker forgive me.
Forgive me for not answering your eyes.
For not having made an indication
Of that which you can devise.
Charlie Parker pray for me.
Pray for me and everybody.
In the Nirvanas of your brain
Where you hide
Indulgent and huge
No longer Charlie Parker
But the secret unsayable Name
That carries with it
Merit not-to-be-measured
From here to up down east or west.
Charlie Parker
Lay the bane off me
...and everybody.



Writer(s): Steve Allen, Jack L. Kerouac


Jack Kerouac - Great Audio Moments, Vol. 22: Jack Kerouac & The Beat Generation (Deluxe Edition)

1 October In The Railroad Earth
2 Deadbelly
3 Charlie Parker
4 The Sounds of the Universe Coming Through My Window
5 One Mother
6 Goofing At The Table
7 Bowery Blues
8 Abraham
9 Dave Brubeck
10 I Had A Slouch Hat Too One Time
11 The Wheel Of The Quivering Meat Conception
12 MacDougal Street Blues
13 The Moon Her Majesty
14 I'd Rather Be Thin Than Famous
15 American Haikus
16 Hard Hearted Old Farmer
17 The Last Hotel & Some of the Dharma
18 Poems from the Unpublished (Book of Blues)
19 The Beat Generation
20 Poems (Fragments)
21 Lucien Midnight the Sounds of the Universe in My Window Pt. I
22 Lucien Midnight the Sounds of the Universe in my Window Pt.II
23 Fantasy: The Early History Of Bop
24 Excerpts From "The Subterraneans"
25 Visions of Neal and the Three Stooges Pt.I
26 Visions of Neal and the Three Stooges, Pt. II
27 Readings from 'On the Road & 'Visions of Cody'




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