Simply knowing you exist ain’t good enough for me. But asking for your telephone number seems highly inappropriate seeing as I can’t even say hi when you walk by. And that time you shook my hand, it felt so nice. I swear I never felt this way about any other guy. And I don’t usually notice people’s eyes, but I conducted a plan to bump in to you most accidentally. But I was walking along and I bumped into you much more heavily than I’d originally planned. It was well embarrassing, and I think you thought that I was a bit of a twat.

I just think that we’d get on. I wish I could tell you face to face instead of singing this stupid song, but yeah, I just think that we might get on.

So I went to that party and everyone, they were kind of arty. And I was wearing this dress because I wanted to impress, but I wasn’t sure if I looked my best ’cause I was so nervous. But I carried on regardless strutting through each room trying to find you, and when I saw you kissing that girl, my heart, it shattered.
And my eyes they watered and when I tried to speak I stuttered, and my friends were like “whatever, you’ll find someone better”. His eyes were way too close together and “we never even liked him from the start and now he’s with that tart and I heard she done some really nasty stuff down in the park with Michael, ” they said, “she’s easy and if your guy’s with someone that’s sleazy, then he ain’t worth your time ’cause you deserve a real nice guy”. So I proceeded to get drunk and to cry and I locked myself in the toilets the entire night.

Saturday night I watched channel five, I particularly liked CSI. I don’t ever dream about you and me, I don’t ever make up stuff about us that would be classed insanity, I don’t ever drive by your house to see if you’re in, I don’t even have an opinion on that tramp that you are still seeing. I don’t know your timetable, I don’t know your face off by heart, but I must admit that there is still a part of me that thinks we might get on.

Say Anything -- Alive With The Glory Of Love.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFR5s96jGeg

When I watch you, I wanna do you right where you’re standing. Right on the foyer, on this dark day, right in plain view of the whole ghetto. The boots stomp meadows, but we ignore that. You’re lovely, baby. This war is crazy. I won’t let you down.

No, I won’t let them take you, won’t let them take you. Hell no no, oh no, I won’t let them take you, won’t let them take you. Hell no no!

And when our city, vast and shitty, falls to the axis, they’ll search the buildings, collect gold fillings, wallets and rings. But Ms. Black Eyeliner, you’d look finer with each day in hiding beneath the wormwood, ooh, love me so good. They won’t hear us screw away the day. I’ll make you say:

(Alive! Alive! Alive with love, alive with love tonight!)

No, I won’t let them take you, won’t let them take you. Hell no no, oh no, I won’t let them take you, won’t let them take you. Hell no no!

Our Treblinka is alive with the glory of love! Treblinka, alive, with the glory of love, yeah!

Should they catch us and dispatch us to those separate work camps, I’ll dream about you. I will not doubt you with the passing of time. Should they kill me, your love will fill me, as warm as the bullets. I’ll know my purpose. This war was worth this. I won’t let you down. No, I won’t. No, I won’t. No, I won’t.

Erinnert mich ein wenig an blink-182. Schade eigentlich.

Jamie Cullum -- Don’t Stop The Music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0z1Mo7O6dE

Ich find’s sehr beeindruckend. Das Original fand ich von Anfang an unglaublich penetrant und einfach nur schlecht, aber diese Version ist tatsächlich sehr, sehr gelungen!

When your mind is a mess, so is mine. I can’t sleep ’cause it hurts when I think. My thoughts aren’t at peace with the plans that we make, chances we take, they’re not yours and not mine. There’s waves that can break all the words that we said and the words that we mean. Words can fall short. Can’t see the unseen ’cause the world is awake for somebody’s sake now, please close your eyes woman, please get some sleep.

And know that if I knew all the answers I would not hold them from you, know all of the things that I’d know. We told each other, there is no other way.

Well, too much silence can be misleading. You’re drifting, I can hear it in the way that you’re breathing. We don’t really need to find reason ’cause out the same door that it came, well, it’s leaving, it’s leaving.
Leaving like a day that’s done and part of a season. Resolve is just a concept that’s as dead as the leaves. But at least we can sleep, its all that we need .When we wake we will find, our minds will be free to go to sleep.

And know that if I knew all the answers I would not hold them from you, know all of the things that I’d know. We told each other, there is no other way.

Feeling like shit. Schlaft niemals bis um drei Uhr nachmittags.

Tomte -- Warum Ich Hier Stehe.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU6fcOJy334

Die Sonne scheint so oder so, die Wolken entscheiden, ob du sie siehst.

The Fray -- How To Save A Life.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYv12SuexC

Step one, you say we need to talk. He walks, you say sit down, it’s just a talk. He smiles politely back at you, you stare politely right on through some sort of window to your right as he goes left, and you stay right between the lines of fear and blame, and you begin to wonder why you came.

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend somewhere along in the bitterness. And would I have stayed up with you all night, had I known how to save a life.

Let him know that you know best, ’cause after all you do know best. Try to slip past his defense without granting innocence. Lay down a list of what is wrong,
the things you’ve told him all along. And I pray to God he hears you, and I pray to God he hears you.

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend somewhere along in the bitterness. And would I have stayed up with you all night, had I known how to save a life.

As he begins to raise his voice, you lower yours and grant him one last choice. Drive until you lose the road or break with the ones you’ve followed. He will do one of two things, you will admit to everything or he’ll say he’s just not the same, and you’ll begin to wonder why you came.

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend somewhere along in the bitterness. And would I have stayed up with you all night, had I known how to save a life.

How to save a life, how to save a life.

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Nachtrag: Die akustische Version ist sogar noch besser!

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Die Band wird oft mit den Killers verglichen (die ich persönlich für ziemlich genial halte, nur so am Rande) – das seh ich irgendwo nicht. Die Killers klingen anders, und vor allem klingen sie besser. The Bravery holen sich einfach zu viele Anleihen (nicht nur bei den Killers, irgendwie auch bei den Strokes?), die sie dann aber schlecht umsetzen. Wobei, um mal ein wenig fair zu sein: Der eröffnende Track “An Honest Mistake” ist gar nicht mal so schlecht, und “Fearless” geht sogar irgendwie ins Ohr.

Meiner Meinung nach völlig überbewertet. Kann man gar nicht so viel dazu sagen.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF1qFXGWejE

Auf der Suche nach Klavier-Noten für das Stück (die es meist nur kostenpflichtig gibt) stieß ich auch folgende Neuinterpretation:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p3_q7PYz6M

Und die war einfach so schön, dass ich sie euch nicht vorenthalten wollte.