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Mala Strana
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Again,is this "folk"? I don't know.Is not easy to find a category for they stuff I play.
I will say it again this is not a proper band.I do have a proper band,a duo,really (I actually have two),but again is not what people usually would call a band.
Not really a band. Only little old me. But the fact it's that is open to other people to join if they want to.Usually they don't.So it is a solo act, but it's more of a project than me being all singer-songwriterish...kind of complicated. Kind of hip as well, I suppose. It isn't intentional. I started thinking about this before knowing about Bright Eyes, or Badly Drawn Boy or Iron&Wine and that kind of stuff.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #268
Peak in subgenre #31
Author
Chiara Longo (aka Dora Reever)
Uploaded
June 23, 2003
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MP3 3.2 MB • 128 kbps • 3:32
Story behind the song
Mala Strana (May 1998) Inspired by:I went to visit Prague with the school in high school.The name Mala Strana,spotted on the guide,sounded so beautiful to me that I wanted to write a song with that title no matter what.But well since I was about to go to Prague I thought that I would wait to see it and then write about it.Also,my schoolmates were all angry at Prague people,bored,they just acted like silly tourists in a way that was both condescing and ostile.I HAD to write about the GOOD part...well not the good part...but the REAL part...this song is about what I think it’s the spirit of Prague...which I’m not sure I catched I was there just for 4 days...but that’s the impression I got. When:Morning.Between 8am and 1pm. Where:School Music:One year later almost.During one of my serendipitous strumming sessions.
Lyrics
Once thousand towers stood up here for you But now there's the ruin a-welcoming you It's falling and crashing the lovely decay Sprinkling spring in chill the sun with its cold ray Roses are still lingering they are still swiped off Breathe the white air it's sure that you'll cough Bombs of the Soviet the blackened window pane You're gonna cheat someone for easin' your pain Mala Strana is a sweet darkened lady Kisses your boot so she won't have to clean it Mala Strana is a lost hell in heaven Kisses in the mouth for going on livin' Hey buy some crystals some liquor some gold Here's to the city the pride of all the world Hey buy some shoes and some clothes and a hat I'd sell you my brother for having what you got Oh what a cafe in your springtime so cold Oh what a child with his hair spangeled with gold I hear the music comin' from the sweetest of your streets You're gonna cheat someone for keepin' the beat If cheating and stealing make your heart pure as wind As the water in Vltava I can tell you I'd wish Buy me some stupid things and sell them to tourists And share just for once the light that you took The jars filled with barley light They're shining so dearly so lovely in the night I cannot go I know I came along To see once again the pride chained amongst The shades of the light of a people in disgrace The honest in crime and hope in bad days And from Namesti Miru to the rolling Karluv Most How much worth this silly thing please can you tell me how much it costs?
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