The Big Sleep 
Luminis 2000
This page is dedicated to one of my best friends through one of my favourite songs. A friend so special who might have had a neverending life, who might have'walked by us everytime and never have ended to transmit her vitality to the others. The lightblue background mitigates the sense of loss but it does not cancel the separation, the nostalgia and the regret contained also in the song. The consolation is that even if every goodbye is a loss, in a separation there is also the life that becomes memory and that it is in this precise moment that we probably realize the real meaning of the experience.
To Claudia
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So where did you go?
Where do you go in the Big Sleep
Going out in the Deep Sleep
Is where you're wandering now
So where did you go
When you're in the Big Sleep
Drifting in wildlife
And still you're wandering now
We were on the top
and the world was spinning
We were only young in the whirlpool of warning
Communication lost in the thundering rain style
A shelter from the storm in the early beginning
Going out in the Big Sleep, out in the Big Sleep
Could have been years, you know it could have been years
Or only seconds ago
Big Sleep, Deep Sleep
Where are you now?
Now that you're up in Big Sleep
Valuable friend
They saw you leaving this way
We were on the top
and the world was spinning
We were only young in the whirlpool of warning
Communication lost in the thundering rain style
A shelter from the storm in the early beginning
Where did you go?
Immaculate friend
For a lifetime I'm grateful
And it's only seconds away
Big Sleep, Deep Sleep
For evermore
If only you could see me
If only you could see me
If only you could see
Forever
Coming home in the Big Sleep
Coming home
Words
& Music : Simple Minds (C) EMI Publishing Ltd Reproduced
without permission
To learn more about Simple Minds
If you want to know better this Band I suggest you to listen to a wonderful CD live: 'IN THE CITY OF LIGHT'
Simple
Minds [Discographies For The Masses]
Strange Xmas
by luminis 2000
A visual poem inspired by a Xmas image of peace. Another message addressed to the others, to lazy people who become wise only if they realize that they belong to the same world made of land and water and surrounded by a starry space unknown and that they have a mutual destiny sometimes connected only by the subtle thread of the memory.
