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| Painting by Edward Pfizenmaier, 1954 |
At my old apartment in New York, whenever I stayed at home, I used to lie on my Ikea chaise and put on old records like Charles Mingus, Nina Simone and sometimes Hoagy Carmichael. I loved his tender voice, genuine sweetness of his melodies, and his lyrics made me daydream to no end.
A movie I watched today reminded me of him and his most popular song, Stardust. How beautiful are these lyrics?
And now the purple dusk of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart.
High up in the sky the little stars climb
Always reminding me that were apart.
You wander down the lane and far away
Leaving me a song that will not die.
Love is now the stardust
Of yesterday.
The music
Of the years
Gone by.
Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely nights
Dreaming of a song.
The melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you.
When our love was new, an each kiss an inspiration.
But that was long ago, and now my consolation
Is in the stardust of a song.
Beside the garden wall, when stars are bright
You are in my arms
The nightingale tells his fairy tale
Of paradise where roses grew.
Though I dream in vain, in my heart you will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love refrain.
New York'daki evimde yaşarken, akşamları İkea uzanma koltuğumda yatıp plak çalarımda eski plaklar dinlerdim. Charles Mingus, Nina Simone ve bazen de Hoagy Carmichael. Onun şefkatli sesini, melodilerindeki samimi tatlılığı ve şarkı sözleriyle beni saatlerce hayaller kurdurmasını çok severdim.
Bu akşam seyrettiğim bir film bana onu ve en tanınmış parçasını hatırlattı, Stardust. Sözleri o kadar güzel ki, Türkçe'ye çeviremedim ama orijinali yukarda.
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