London Songtext

von Joan Baez

Worum geht es in dem Song?

Der Songtext "London" von Joan Baez, basiert auf einem Gedicht von William Blake, das 1794 in Songs of Experience veröff...

William Blake
Published in Songs of Experience in 1794.

I wander through each chartered street,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear:

How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every blackening church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls.

But most, through midnight streets I hear
How the youthful harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse.

I take with me where I go a pen and a golden bowl
Poet and beggar step in my shoes
Or a prince in a purple shawl.
I bring with me when I return to the house,
That my father's hands made
A crooning bird on a crystal bough
And oh, a sad, sad word