"Feeling Sky"

Feeling Sky

Pictures from a life of a PhD student

Other titles: Life is Beautiful, On a philosophical note,

Blues of Sky, Sky is Blues, Songs about life - Part Yang (in minor key) 2/2, in English

Music and lyrics: Dmitry Gorodnichy

Recorded at the University of Alberta in 1999, with Jony Gill, Enrique Garcia and Andre Gorodnichy.

(с) Dmitry Gorodnichy 1993-1999

I Want Blues Tonight

I want Blues tonight

I want You tonight

I want You

to take me with You away

Diving in the deep

Floating by Your side

I get far away

from these boring days

Oh, I have never ever felt like now

and I can never forget the trembling feeling I had

and I never forget this time

as You're holding my heart in Your hands like a crumb

I want Blues tonight...

I want Blues tonight

I want You tonight

You're the only one who can touch my mind

Penetrate in skin

like a drug drops in

You're my shelter's roof,

you're the peace of mine

Oh, I can hardly ever feel like now

I will never forget the trembling feeling I had

I will never forget this time

as You're holding my heart in Your hands like a crumb

I want Blues tonight...

Guitar solo.

Refr. 2.

(*) You're a bird in my hand!

You're the one who can me understand!

You're my heroine!..

Verse 1

I want Blues toni-i-ight

1993

To This World That Makes Me Cry

(After 2000 this song is dedicated to the memory of Gia Gongadze)

I'm a king and you're a queen of our land

And now I find that all the words are so sad –

I can hear the whispering wind

You can fly with open wings

Both of us have feelings deep and high

And the only thing that makes me blue

is that of my own deep inside

exhausting me down when I look

to the world that makes me cry

But I hope someday my dreams come true

like those we had tonight

and robins will sing with us

and everyone will fly

And we keep on flying out /

day by day

And now we're far from mortal ground /

we're far away

Like the angels in the sky

Birds and rainbow, wind and I

are accompanying you on your way

And again I had a thought of blue

inside my trembling heart, o-oh --

It can’t be so nice till

if mud and dirt are still lying

Oh, is it indeed the life is cruel

will never be like ours

when robins are singing loud and

everybody flies.

March 1992, Refrain: April 1994

В нашем королевстве мир и красота

В нашем королевстве мир и красота,

но вдруг осознаешь, что где-то всё совсем не так.

С ветром поднимаясь ввысь,

Слушая стихи травы,

начинаешь видеть боль и страх.

И когда поймёшь что жизнь полна

болезней и страданий

Захочешь уйти все богатства, оставив во дворе.

Неужели жизнь действительно

не может быть без мечтаний,

где все летают как птицы в небе на заре.

И с тобой отправились мы дальний путь.

Былую жизнь, былых себя нам не вернуть.

Но ты по-прежнему моя,

я всё отдал и стал счастлив я,

теперь летаю, набираю высоту.

My friend is ill

My friend is ill

Eyes are wet with crying

heart's aching all the time

shivers deep inside my mind

How can I tell you how much I feel

How can I say the whole world is real

that all this sky of blue

and all this grass of green

when my friend is ill

Night follows day

Full with grief and pain

All the curtains are pulled down -

I cannot see sun shining now

Sun that warmed up so many many hearts

now seems to be deriding us

innocent in joy

ignorant of plight

and I turn off the light

Coda 1:

Night follows day

Full with grief and pain

And you fill down

But I'll be around

Coda 2:

Day follows night

Full with grief and plight

And you're feeling bad

I'll be with you my friend

Oh o-o-oo ooh ...

Болезнь друга

друг мой в больнице лежит

слезы на глазах

сердце стучит во тьме

в абсолютной тишине.

Как чувства я могу свои скрыть

делать вид что могу спокойно жить

И слушать пение птиц

Как розы начинают цвести

когда друг мой лежит

День настает

еще один день

полный тяжёлых чувств

не могу и не хочу

видеть этого солнца рассвет

солнца, смеющегося нам вслед

Играющего на просторе

не ведающего горя,

и я выключаю свет.

День настаёт

полный горьких нот

но затихает боль

Ведь я сейчас с тобой.

ночь придёт за днём

Но мы с тобой вдвоём

и исчезнет боль

Ведь я всегда с тобой

1993, 2017

A Whit of Hope

A whit of hope is in my head

to chance to come to unforgotten land

I know that I 'll be a stranger there

And my naive dreams will disappear

But there's the sorrow

there's a pain

that frets my soul

every day

that once I lived there

once I loved there

that once I thought I never would forget that place.

April 1994, Kiev.

Departure

When ... a farewell tear ... Covers with a sad mist our goodbyes, Be able to forgive me things you'll hear, 'Cause very likely it's the last time you look in my eyes. Only through the haze of rushing days You will be able to recall my name. But, oh, this haze - it's getting thicker, I should say, With every, every, every single day. R: Departure - is a tearing of the life! It is so gloomy, dumb, inevitable it is! But we did know about it, you and I, as we have had and lost some our friends before this. Whistle And there's no need to find the words, no need, For they are helpless. - You just listen by yourself How fallen leaves are rustling on your feet. As they are mutely echoing to us: `It's just the way the life is' (`C'est la vie').

Doubt

But what if I am not normal

With all the mysteries known for me?..

They are hidden in such flows

Which are known for chosen.

And I maybe one of those

For whom the roads are open?..

But how to explain to a blind man

A feeling so known from mother's womb?..

The shining of stars as eternity shot,

The glittering wisdom of fire?..

You either can see the scarlet dawn or not -

It's not a matter of desire.

But there is one thing that disturbs me --

who is more crippled: is it me or is it he?

He? - as I think that he is so low

As it looks from my soaring flight.

Or maybe that`s me? - because I don't know

his understanding of life...

Translaion from 1996

Noone needs money

nobody needs them

nobody wants them

nobody ever will

they do not bring joy

they will destroy love

they are the source of evil

Money

time will come one day

next year or today

when people will be saying

we do not need them

we will not help them

make all of us their prey

Money

New Year Is Coming

New Year's Coming

G#m Gdim - E7

From East to West

B7 E7

I`ve heard in Kiev

Gdim C#

And now it's in Budapest

C#m Gdim

It's coming so quickly -

D#7 Adim

Ten countries per hour. -

E7 D#7

My friends celebrating

Gm E7

But I have to wait now.

And now it is flying

over the ocean

It's coming, it's comi-ing

I cann't keep my emotions -

I'm tired of this year

It brought me this sorrow

Oh, please hurry up dear,

Please bring me tomorrow

Gdim - G#m - Gdim - E7

3:

I feel Earth is shaking -

It landed to this la-aaand.

I`m tired of waiting

I feel like a madma-aaaaan

I feel like I'm tore apart -

My feet being here

But my mind and my heart

Are still being there

F#7

Faster (128 MM)

Coda:

Philadelphia`s calling

It`s there this minute

My goodness, I`m so far -

Still hard to conceive it.

But I/now know my life will change -

I`m approaching this new stage

And New Year`s here!

And I can even hear!

Its steps!!

It`s come to my door !!!

(Gradually speeding up)

Na-na na-na, na-na na-na, na-na na-na, na-na na-na!(*) (It was December 31, 1995)

* (I was sitting and recalling the last year of my life)

* (This year changed my life in so many ways)

* (I felt my youth is gone, it vanished in the haze)

G# F#m G# F#m

B E B E

A G A G

C D C D

The same - half tone lower:

G F G F

A# D# A# D#

G# F# G# F#

B C# B C#

The same - half tone lower, fading.

(It's coming)

(I can hear it)

(It's finally come)

(So good)

(Happy New Year, everybody)

Written:

Choruses and Fading Part - Dec 31,1995 and Dec 31,1996

Coda - Dec 1997 Recorded: Dec. 30, 1997

New Millennium Is Coming!

Hey,

look forward guy!

and see

just (five) one year(s) left

to this

amazing event

called millennium!

So, raise

your head in joy

And scream

with cruelty

'cause then,

you man will be

in the next one thousand years!

yes! one thousand years!

Realize only, one thousand years!

And you are on the verge of these years!

Do

you understand

what happens?!

what it is ?!

how many people lived

in the last one thousand years!

So, how

do you feel yourself

in this

lucky number of men

who will observe

the switch of millennia

i.e. four digits at the same time

i.e. one nine nine and nine

become two owe owe and owe

oh oh oh oh...

Recall

how a while ago you thought

about this crazy date

and won't believe it would

really happen in your life!

And then

you will recall of those

who could not make it, who

who hoped with you

to see this new millennium

and they're not here to see this new

oh, oh, millennium

oh, oh, in millennium

Left (psychotic) voice: "I'm one of those very few, lucky few to see

this new millennium! Will I survive?! Is there a life after mill...?!"

Right (reflective) voice: "Who lived with you, who loved with you

who also hoped to see as you, this new millennium. Long ago you talk

with your grandpa about it. It was so inconceivable. Was it you?..."

Kiev, Edmonton, 1994-1999

Am G F E

Am Gm F E

Am E

Пролог:

Вспомни как в дестве когда-то

ты даже поверить не мог

И вот через каких-то 2 года

Это произойдет!

Пришествие этого

Этого третьего

Третьего тысячелетия!

Просто даже не верится

Что это случится при нас.

О Боже, что за нелепица

когда же наступит сей час?!

Пришествие этого

Этого третьего

Третьего тысячелетия!

Thing to know

Lyrics and music by Dmitry Gorodnichy

There's one thing that you should know Be yourself and let your feelings show Be like rainbow in the sky Show the many colours you have Like a creek that whispers and cries In the silence of the new dawn (every day) And you'll find there's nobody else but you to enjoy all those many things that you know you can do You will fly as far as a sound That was given birth in your heart You will be as light as a cloud You just need to open your heart There's one thing. You will find. Be yourself. Feel the life. 10:00 a.m. March 2000, Edmonton

I remember the last day of my life

I remember the last day of my life

It was a sunny day with the blue sky

And the birds were singing the melody

which nobody knows better than me

And the skies were so blue and the wind was high

And a cloud resembled my niece's smile

And the air was full of tranquility

And I felt it like never before

A morning star looked at me in a winter dawn

I could feel how it trembles as a new day was born

I could see how it shined, hear how it sounded

It was the sound of my mom's lullaby

May 1996

When skies were so blue

When I was so young and skies were so blue

When the air was fresh and full of something new

I looked around with open eyes

and never wondered what would be with me

what would be, what would be, what would be.

Now it seems that all is gone and gone for good

I know you must have felt the same - it's understood

So many years passing by

I keep forgetting whom I once have been,

I have been, I have been, I have been. (oh no-oh, oh)

A-a-a ah ...

Now somehow I feel so callous, it's so bad

Where that open, genial smile that I had

It looks that I'm a different man

and only tired eyes remind that boy

oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. (oh no-oh!)

April 30, 1996. Edmonton

Shut In

I'm lonely and listless

tossing and turning

comforted only by my duvet

I'm life-worn and loveless

sitting and starring

shut in a day after long painful day

I'm used up and useless

aching and asking

will this emptiness, please, go away?

I'm forlorn and forgotten

waiting wondering

will my life change if I learn to pray?

I know there's a future

but life takes such effort

I don't have much reason to stay

I'm aging and ageless

as time slowly passes -

I turn twenty four today...

Age

You ask me, how old am I, am I?

I tell you, it depends how do you count -

If are age is defined

by the years from birth,

I`m younger than you no doubt.

But if by the years, which left to death,

I am much older than you, I guess.

Tu me demandes quelle est mon age

Et je te dis que ?a depend de comment tu comptes -

Si l'age est measur?e d'apr?s l'ann?e de naissance,

alors je suis plus jeune que toi, pas de question.

Mais si d'apr?s les ann?es qui nous restant avant la mort,

je suis pas mal plus viex que toi.

C'est que je croix.

July 1997

My heart

One day you`ll find you life is over

With every little thing and you'll be gone

And then you tell yourself "No it can't be over!"

And then you tell yourself again

"Not it is not done!"

Refrain

My heart is strong enough

I can do anything

I can go anywhere

And I can dance and sing

And never mind that it's

a little hard this time

I know I can do that

and I will be just fine

I must be just tired

just tired, just tired, I'm.

I must be just tired

just tired, just tired, I'm...

My friends told me I look much older now

Than I did a year ago

But I stepped outside and then I found

that air is as fresh as it was before!

The sky is blue again

Birds singly lo-ve-ly

And everything is the same

Everything but not me!

Refrain.

1997-1999

Rebirth

It should be easy to come

It should be easy to go

It should be so, o-o,

somehow though

it's never like that.

And you don't know what's wrong

And you don't know what's up

And nobody can help,

can help you somehow

It should be easy to go...

But no.

And then you try again

You try to ease your mind

You tell yourself:

"Hey, man, you're not an ordinary one"

And then it seems it helps

And it feels alright

But then it comes again

And you don't know why.

It should be easy to go...

But no.

So, now it's time

to say Goodbye

To all the fears

of yesterday

Open your eyes,

release your mind

Be who you are,

not whom you were!

(And feet will lead you to your goal)

You see the life is great

You see it is a game

the game you play,

the game you watch the game you create.

You let yourself enjoy -

it's only up to you.

You take command of your life

and then you know what to do.

It should be easy to go

and it

will so!

1997-1999

Feeling sky

Feeling fresh

Feeling good

like a bird

that just left the nest

Feeling sky

deep and blue

And the earth looks so small

and the grass is so green

and the wind is so clean

that you just want to live you just want to live

Feeling fresh

Feeling young

Feeling like

all your life's ahead

Thousand miles ahead

Waiting just for you, just for you

And you spread out wings

And you take to the skies

Mom and daddy are there

And you're getting so high

So so high

Feeling sky...

Instrumental Coda

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