lights of taormina

• the crowd calls for the emperor (mecaz-ı mürsel)^*
  raise their hands to hail another king (ohaa sanki manowar şarkısı)
  
  but he’s been so long a wanderer (yalnız kovboy)
  another crowd can never mean a thing (ha tamam)
  
  he came, he saw, he conquered (veni vidi vici)
  ten thousand voices roared in the arena (cidden manowar şarkısı bu)
  
  now he’s sitting out in the night
  looking down upon the lights of taormina (tabisi)
  
  şaka bir yana şu kısmı bile mark knopfler'ın ne kadar büyük bir sanatçı olduğunu gösterir. bunun dışında şarkıdaki naifliği, mülayimliği, keyifli tek başınalığı ancak yine diğer bir şairden^* mülhem dizelerle anlatabilirim sanırım.
  
  sanki nedir bir şarkının güzel olması
  sahi bir şarkının güzel olması
  çalarken kendisine kendine severek bakmasından.
• tracker albümünden mark knopfler başyapıtlarından. 2013 turunda taormina'da verdiği konserden yanlızca birkaç gün önce bob dylan'ın kullandığı odadan eşsiz taormina manzarasına bakarken yazmış mark parçayı. 64 model beyaz stratocasterı ile çalınmış.
  
  sözler:
  
  there’s laughter in the darkness
  music floating in across the bay
  he’s half listening and wondering
  how he could have let her slip away
  so long ago but still he wants to know
  ıf anyone has seen her
  and he’s sitting out in the night
  looking down upon the lights of taormina
  
  they were young and love was shining
  like the colours of the rainbow
  desire felt like choking
  love was smoking under the volcano
  he can still taste her kisses
  sweet as the red wine from messina
  now he’s sitting out in the night
  looking down upon the lights of taormina
  
  seems like another lifetime
  when they rambled along the shore
  seems like another lifetime
  she used to call him her sweet senor
  maybe in another lifetime
  on a pathway to the sea
  maybe there they’ll be
  
  the crowd calls for the emperor
  raise their hands to hail another king
  but he’s been so long a wanderer
  another crowd can never mean a thing
  he came, he saw, he conquered
  ten thousand voices roared in the arena
  now he’s sitting out in the night
  looking down upon the lights of taormina
  
  he hears the chimes of history
  myths of gods and men forever ringing
  ancient dreams in all their mystery
  wars for sicily and spartan women
  ın the mists of antiquity
  ships of war set sail from carthagina
  now he’s sitting out in the night
  looking down upon the lights of taormina
  sitting out in the night
  looking down upon the lights of taormina
• özellikle nakarat kismi 80'lerde bruce willis'in söyledigi save the last dance for me ile birebir aynidir.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ml0acyrmgc