Monday, August 15, 2016

Amazing Steve Jobs Speech at Stanford with english subtitles




I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down — that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world’s first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.

This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: It was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.


"Для меня большая честь быть с вами сегодня на вручении дипломов одного из самых лучших университетов мира. Я не оканчивал институтов. Сегодня я хочу рассказать вам три истории из моей жизни. И всё. Ничего грандиозного. Просто три истории. Первая история – о соединении точек.

Я бросил Reed College после первых 6 месяцев обучения, но оставался там в качестве “гостя” ещё около 18 месяцев, пока наконец не ушёл. Почему же я бросил учёбу? Всё началось ещё до моего рождения. Моя биологическая мать была молодой, незамужней аспиранткой и решила отдать меня на усыновление. Она настаивала на том, чтобы меня усыновили люди с высшем образованием, поэтому мне было суждено быть усыновлённым юристом и его женой. Правда, за минуту до того, как я вылез на свет, они решили, что хотят девочку. Поэтому им позвонили ночью и спросили: “Неожиданно родился мальчик. Вы хотите его?”. Они сказали: “Конечно”. Потом моя биологическая мать узнала, что моя приёмная мать – не выпускница колледжа, а мой отец никогда не был выпускником школы. Она отказалась подписать бумаги об усыновлении. И только несколько месяцев спустя всё же уступила, когда мои родители пообещали ей, что я обязательно пойду в колледж. И 17 лет спустя я пошёл. Но я наивно выбрал колледж, который был почти таким же дорогим, как и Стэнфорд, и все накопления моих родителей были потрачены на подготовку к нему. Через шесть месяцев, я не видел смысла моего обучения. Я не знал, что я хочу делать в своей жизни, и не понимал, как колледж поможет мне это осознать. И вот, я просто тратил деньги родителей, которые они копили всю жизнь. Поэтому я решил бросить колледж и поверить, что всё будет хорошо. Я был поначалу напуган, но, оглядываясь сейчас назад, понимаю, что это было моим лучшим решением за всю жизнь. В ту минуту, когда я бросил колледж, я мог перестать говорить о том, что требуемые уроки мне не интересны и посещать те, которые казались интересными.

Не всё было так романтично. У меня не было комнаты в общаге, поэтому я спал на полу в комнатах друзей, я сдавал бутылки Колы по 5 центов, чтобы купить еду и ходил за 7 миль через весь город каждый воскресный вечер, чтобы раз в неделю нормально поесть в храме кришнаитов. Мне он нравился. И много из того, с чем я сталкивался, следуя своему любопытству и интуиции, оказалось позже бесценным.

Вот вам пример: Reed College всегда предлагал лучшие уроки по каллиграфии. По всему кампусу каждый постер, каждая метка были написаны каллиграфическим почерком от руки. Так как я отчислился и не брал обычных уроков, я записался на уроки по каллиграфии. Я узнал о serif и sans serif, о разных отступах между комбинациями букв, о том, что делает прекрасную типографику прекрасной. Она была красивой, историчной, мастерски утонченной до такой степени, что наука этого не смогла бы понять. Ничто из этого не казалось полезным для моей жизни. Но десять лет спустя, когда мы разрабатывали первый Macintosh, всё это пригодилось. И Мак стал первым компьютером с красивой типографикой. Если бы я не записался на тот курс в колледже, у Мака никогда бы не было несколько гарнитур и пропорциональных шрифтов. Ну а так как Windows просто сдули это с Мака, скорее всего, у персональных компьютеров вообще бы их не было. Если бы я не отчислился, я бы никогда не записался на тот курс каллиграфии и у компьютеров не было бы такой изумительной типографики, как сейчас.

Конечно, нельзя было соединить все точки воедино тогда, когда я был в колледже. Но через десять лет всё стало очень, очень ясно.

Ещё раз: вы не можете соединить точки, смотря вперёд; вы можете соединить их, только оглядываясь в прошлое. Поэтому вам придётся довериться тем точкам, которые вы как-нибудь свяжете в будущем. Вам придётся на что-то положиться: на свой характер, судьбу, жизнь, карму – что угодно. Такой подход никогда не подводил меня и он изменил мою жизнь.

Моя вторая история – о любви и потере.

Мне повезло – я нашёл то, что я люблю по жизни делать довольно рано. Woz и я основали Apple в гараже моих родителей, когда мне было 20. Мы усиленно трудились, и через десять лет Apple выросла из двух человек в гараже до $2–миллиардной компании с 4000 работников. Мы выпустили наше самое лучшее создание – Macintosh – годом раньше и мне только-только исполнилось 30. И потом меня уволили. Как вас могут уволить из компании, которую вы основали? Ну, по мере роста Apple мы нанимали талантливых людей, чтобы помогать мне управлять компанией и в первые пять лет всё шло хорошо. Но потом наше видение будущего стало расходиться и мы в конечном счёте поссорились. Совет директоров перешёл на его сторону. Поэтому в 30 лет я был уволен. Причём публично. То, что было смыслом всей моей взрослой жизни, пропало.

Я не знал, чего делать несколько месяцев. Я чувствовал, что я подвёл прошлое поколение предпринимателей – что я уронил эстафетную палочку, когда мне её передавали. Я встречался с David Packard и Bob Noyce и пытался извиниться за то, что натворил. Это было публичным провалом и я даже думал о том, чтобы убежать куда подальше. Но что-то медленно стало проясняться во мне – я всё ещё любил то, что делал. Ход событий в Apple лишь слегка всё изменил. Я был отвергнут, но я любил. И, в конце концов, я решил начать всё сначала. Тогда я этого не понимал, но оказалось, что увольнение с Apple было лучшим, что могло было произойти со мной. Бремя успешного человека сменилось легкомыслием начинающего, менее уверенного в чём-либо. Я освободился и вошёл в один из самых креативных периодов своей жизни.

В течении следующих пяти лет я основал компанию NeXT, другую компанию, названную, Pixar и влюбился в удивительную женщину, которая стала моей женой. Pixar создал самый первый компьютерный анимационный фильм, Toy Story, и является теперь самой успешной анимационной студией в мире. В ходе поразительных событий, Apple купила NeXT, я вернулся в Apple, и технология, разработанная в NeXT, стала сердцем нынешнего возрождения Apple. А Laurene и я стали замечательной семьёй.

Я уверен, что ничего из этого не случилось бы, если бы меня не уволили из Apple. Лекарство было горьким, но пациенту оно помогло. Иногда жизнь бьёт вас по башке кирпичом. Не теряйте веры. Я убеждён, что единственная вещь, которая помогла мне продолжать дело была то, что я любил своё дело. Вам надо найти то, что вы любите. И это так же верно для работы, как и для отношений. Ваша работа заполнит большую часть жизни и единственный способ быть полностью довольным – делать то, что по-вашему является великим делом. И единственный способ делать великие дела – любить то, что вы делаете. Если вы ещё не нашли своего дела, ищите. Не останавливайтесь. Как это бывает со всеми сердечными делами, вы узнаете, когда найдёте. И, как любые хорошие отношения, они становятся лучше и лучше с годами. Поэтому ищите, пока не найдёте. Не останавливайтесь.

Моя третья история – про смерть.

Когда мне было 17, я прочитал цитату – что-то вроде этого: "Если вы живёте каждый день так, как будто он последний, когда-нибудь вы окажетесь правы". Цитата произвела на меня впечатление и с тех пор, уже 33 года, я смотрю в зеркало каждый день и спрашиваю себя: "Если бы сегодняшний день был последним в моей жизни, захотел ли бы я делать то, что собираюсь сделать сегодня?". И как только ответом было "Нет" на протяжении нескольких дней подряд, я понимал, что надо что-то менять.

Память о том, что я скоро умру – самый важный инструмент, который помогает мне принимать сложные решения в моей жизни. Потому что всё остальное – чужое мнение, вся эта гордость, вся эта боязнь смущения или провала – все эти вещи падают пред лицом смерти, оставляя лишь то, что действительно важно. Память о смерти – лучший способ избежать мыслей о том, что у вам есть что терять. Вы уже голый. У вас больше нет причин не идти на зов своего сердца.

Около года назад мне поставили диагноз: рак. Мне пришёл скан в 7:30 утра, и он ясно показывал опухоль в поджелудочной железе. Я даже не знал, что такое поджелудочная железа. Врачи сказали мне, что этот тип рака не излечим, и что мне осталось жить не больше трёх-шести месяцев. Мой доктор посоветовал пойти домой и привести дела в порядок (что у врачей означает приготовиться к смерти). Это значит попытаться сказать своим детям то, что бы ты сказал за следующие 10 лет. Это значит убедиться в том, что всё благополучно устроено, так, чтобы твоей семье было насколько можно легко. Это значит попрощаться.

Я жил с этим диагнозом весь день. Позже вечером мне сделали биопсию – засунули в горло эндоскоп, пролезли через желудок и кишки, воткнули иголку в поджелудочную железу и взяли несколько клеток из опухоли. Я был в отключке, но моя жена, которая там была, сказала, что когда врачи посмотрели клетки под микроскопом, они стали кричать, потому что у меня оказалась очень редкая форма рака поджелудочной железы, которую можно вылечить операцией. Мне сделали операцию и теперь со мной всё в порядке. Смерть тогда подошла ко мне ближе всего, и надеюсь, ближе всего за несколько следующих десятков лет. Пережив это, я теперь могу сказать следующее с большей уверенностью, чем тогда, когда смерть была полезной, но чисто выдуманной концепцией: Никто не хочет умирать. Даже люди, которые хотят попасть на небеса не хотят умирать. И всё равно, смерть – пункт назначения для всех нас. Никто никогда не смог избежать её. Так и должно быть, потому что Смерть, наверное, самое лучше изобретение Жизни. Она – причина перемен. Она очищает старое, чтобы открыть дорогу новому. Сейчас новое – это вы, но когда-то (не очень-то и долго осталось) – вы станете старым и вас очистят. Простите за такой драматизм, но это правда.

Ваше время ограничено, поэтому не тратьте его на жизнь чей-то чужой жизнью. Не попадайте в ловушку догмы, которая говорит жить мыслями других людей. Не позволяйте шуму чужих мнений перебить ваш внутренний голос. И самое важное, имейте храбрость следовать своему сердцу и интуиции. Они каким-то образом уже знают то, кем вы хотите стать на самом деле. Всё остальное вторично.

Когда я был молод, я прочитал удивительную публикацию The Whole Earth Catalog (“Каталог всей Земли”), которая была одной из библий моего поколения. Её написал парень по имени Stewart Brand, живущий тут недалеко в Menlo Park. Это было в конце шестидесятых, до персональных компьютеров и настольных издательств, поэтому она была сделана с помощью пишущих машинок, ножниц и полароидов. Что-то вроде Google в бумажной форме, 35 лет до Google. Публикация была идеалистической и переполненной большими идеями.

Steward и его команда сделали несколько выпусков The Whole Earth Catalog и, в конце концов, издали финальный номер. Это было в середине 70–х и я был вашего возраста. На последней странице обложки была фотография дороги ранним утром, типа той, на которой вы, может быть, ловили машины, если любили приключения. Под ней были такие слова: “Оставайтесь голодными. Оставайтесь безрассудными”. Это было их прощальное послание. Оставайтесь голодными. Оставайтесь безрассудными. И я всегда желал себе этого. И теперь, когда вы заканчиваете институт и начинаете заново, я желаю этого вам.

Оставайтесь голодными. Оставайтесь безрассудными.

Всем большое спасибо".

Glee - Hey Jude


Hey Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better

Hey Jude, don't be afraid
You were made to go out and get her
The minute you let her under your skin
Then you begin to make it better

And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain
Don't carry the world upon your shoulders
For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah

Hey Jude, don't let me down
You have found her, now go and get her
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better

So let it out and let it in, hey Jude, begin
You're waiting for someone to perform with
And don't you know that it's just you, hey Jude, you'll do
The movement you need is on your shoulder
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah yeah

Hey Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her under your skin
Then you'll begin to make it
Better better better better better better, oh

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody


Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
A little high, little low
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me

Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, ooo (anyway the wind blows)
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning very very frightening me
Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo Figaro - magnifico

But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go will you let me go
Bismillah! No we will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go let me go
Will not let you go let me go (never)
Never let you go let me go
Never let me go ooo
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
For me
For me

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh baby, can't do this to me baby
Just gotta get out just gotta get right outta here

Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters nothing really matters to me

Anyway the wind blows

landslide [ˈlændslaɪd] - оползень
caught - пойманный
I have thrown - Я бросил
Carry on - Продолжать
Sends shivers down my spine - Мурашки по спине
is aching - болит

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven



There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Ooh ooh ooh ooh and she's buying a stairway to heaven
There's a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiving
Ooh, it makes me wonder
Ooh, it makes me wonder
There's a feeling I get
When I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who standing looking
Ooh, it makes me wonder
Ooh, it really makes me wonder
And it's whispered that soon, If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May queen
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on
And it makes me wonder
Your head is humming and it won't go
In case you don't know
The piper's calling you to join him
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll

And she's buying the stairway to heaven

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here




Lyrics

So, so you think you can tell 
Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field 
from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange 
a walk on part in the war 
for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls 
swimming in a fish bowl, 
year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

Sunday, August 14, 2016

Beatles - Back in the USSR

The Beatles - Girl



Is there anybody going to listen to my story
All about the girl who came to stay?
She's the kind of girl you want so much it makes you sorry
Still, you don't regret a single day

Ah girl, girl, girl

When I think of all the times I tried so hard to leave her
She will turn to me and start to cry
And she promises the earth to me and I believe her
After all this time I don't know why

Ah girl, girl, girl

She's the kind of girl who puts you down
When friends are there, You feel a fool
When you say she's looking good
She acts as if it's understood. She's cool, ooh, ooh, ooh

Ah girl, girl, girl

Was told when she was young that pain would lead to pleasure?
Did she understand it when they said
That a man must break his back to earn his day of leisure?
Will she still believe it when he's dead?

Ah girl, girl, girl

The Eagles - Hotel California


On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night

There she stood in the doorway
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself
'This could be heaven or this could be Hell'
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year (any time of year) you can find it here

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes Benz
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget

So I called up the Captain
Please bring me my wine'
He said, 'we haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty-nine'
And still those voices are calling from far away
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
They livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise), bring your alibis

Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said, we are all just prisoners here, of our own device
And in the master's chambers
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives
But they just can't kill the beast

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
Relax, said the night man
We are programmed to receive
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave!

Sting - Dead Man’s Boots (Live At The Public Theater)



Lyrics
You see these work boots in my hands, they'll probably fit ye now my son,
Take them, they're a gift from me, why don't you try them on?
It would do your old man good to see you walking in these boots one day,
And take your place among the men who work upon the slipway.

These dead man's boots, though they're old and curled,
When a feller needs a job and a place in the world,
And it's time for a man to put down roots,
And walk to the river in his old man's boots.

He said, "I'm nearly done and asking this, that ye do one final thing for me!
You're barely but a sapling, and you think that you're a tree.
If ye need a seed to prosper, ye must first put down some roots.
Just one foot then the other in these dead man's boots."

These dead man's boots know their way down the hill,
They could walk there themselves, and they probably will.
There's a place for ye there to sink your roots,
And take a walk down the river in these dead man's boots.

I said, "Why in the Hell would I do that? And why would I agree?"
When his hand was all that I'd received, as far as I remember.
It's not as if he'd spoiled me with his kindness up to then ye see.
I'd a plan of me own and I'd quit this place when I came of age September.

These dead man's boots know their way down the hill,
They can walk there themselves, and they probably will.
I'd plenty of choices, and plenty other routes,
And he'd never see me walking in these dead man's boots.

What was it made him think I'd be happy ending up like him?
When he'd hardly got two halfpennies left, or a broken pot to piss in.
He wanted this same thing for me, was that his final wish?
He said, "What the hell are ye gonna do?"
I said, "Anything but this!"

These dead man's boots know their way down the hill,
They can walk there themselves and they most likely will.
But they won't walk with me 'cos I'm off the other way,
I've had it up to here, I'm gonna have my say.
When all ye've got left is that cross on the wall?
I want nothing from you, I want nothing at all.
Not a pension, nor a pittance, when your whole life is through,
Get this through your head, I'm nothing like you,
I'm done with all the arguments, there'll be no more dispute,
And ye'll die before ye see me in your dead man's boots.

Thursday, August 11, 2016

U2 - With or Without you - lyrics

Sting - Shape of my Heart



"Shape Of My Heart"

He deals the cards as a meditation
And those he plays never suspect
He doesn't play for the money he wins
He don't play for respect

He deals the cards to find the answer
The sacred geometry of chance
[Studio version:] The hidden law of a probable outcome
[Live version:] The hidden laws of a probable outcome
The numbers lead a dance

I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart

He may play the Jack of diamonds
He may lay the Queen of spades
He may conceal a King in his hand
While the memory of it fades

I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart
That's not the shape, the shape of my heart

And if I told you that I loved you
You'd maybe think there's something wrong
I'm not a man of too many faces
The mask I wear is one

But those who speak know nothing
And find out to their cost
Like those who curse their luck in too many places
And those who fear a loss

I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that's not the shape of my heart
That's not the shape of my heart
That's not the shape, the shape of my heart

Sting - Englishman In New York



"Englishman In New York"

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear
I like my toast done on one side
And you can hear it in my accent when I talk
I'm an Englishman in New York

See me walking down Fifth Avenue
A walking cane here at my side
I take it everywhere I walk
I'm an Englishman in New York

I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

If "Manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say

I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

Modesty, propriety can lead to notoriety
You could end up as the only one
Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society
At night a candle's brighter than the sun

Takes more than combat gear to make a man
Takes more than a license for a gun
Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can
A gentleman will walk but never run

If "Manners maketh man" as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say [3x]

I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York
I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
I'm an Englishman in New York

Sting - Desert Rose

"Desert Rose"

[Cheb Mami Introduction (Algerian Arabic):]
Hadaee mada tawila
Wa ana nahos ana wahala ghzalti
Wa ana nahos ana wahala ghzalti
Wa ana nahos ana wahala ghzalti
[English:]
Oh night oh night
It has been a long time
And I am looking for myself and my loved one
And I am looking for myself and my loved one
And I am looking for myself and my loved one

I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in vain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand

I dream of fire
Those dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire
And in the flames
Her shadows play in the shape of a man's desire

This desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

And as she turns
This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams
This fire burns
I realize that nothing's as it seems

I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in vain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand

I dream of rain
I lift my gaze to empty skies above
I close my eyes
This rare perfume is the sweet intoxication of her love

[Cheb Mami (Algerian Arabic):]
Aman aman aman
Omry feek antia
Ma ghair antia
Ma ghair antia
[English:]
Aman aman aman
My life is for you
And no one other than you
And no one other than you

I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in vain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand

Sweet desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

Sweet desert rose
This memory of Eden haunts us all
This desert flower
This rare perfume, is the sweet intoxication of the fall

[Cheb Mami (Algerian Arabic):]
Ya lili ah ya leel
[English:]
Oh night oh night

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Franco Zeffirelli_RomeoAndJuliet_1968_Prologue + Part of Act 1 Scene 1

Love Story - Originally sung by Andy Williams (with Lyrics) [HD]

Romeo and Juliet OST What is a youth +eng sub



What is a youth

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Что есть юноша

What is a youth? Impetuous fire.
What is a maid? Ice and desire.
The world wags on...

А rose will bloom,
it then will fade.
So does a youth.
So does the fairest maid.

Comes a time when one sweet smile
has its season for a while.
Then love's in love with me...

Some they think only to marry,
others will tease and tarry.

Mine is the very best parry.
Cupid he rules us all.

Caper the caper, sing me the song.
Death will come soon to hush us along.

Sweeter than honey and bitter as gall,
love is the pastime, it never will pall.

Sweeter than honey and bitter as gall,
Cupid he rules us all.

A rose will bloom,
it then will fade.
So does a youth.
So does the fairest maid.
Что есть юноша? Пылающее пламя.
Что есть девушка? Лёд и желание.
Таково течение мира...

Роза распускается,
Но затем неумолимо увядает.
То же происходит и с юношей,
И с прекраснейшей из девушек.

Приходит час, когда одна легкая улыбка
Вдруг придает смысл всему.
Значит, во мне живет любовь...

Одни думают лишь о женитьбе,
Другие дразнят и медлят.

Я могу утверждать лишь одно:
Всем правит Купидон.

Шутки шутками, спой мне песнь.
Скоро смерть погрузит нас в вечный сон.

Сладкая, как мёд, и горькая, как желчь -
Любовь — ею невозможно пресытиться.
(Любовь - это развлечение,  никогда не надоест.)

Слаще, чем мёд, и горче, чем желчь,
Всем правит Купидон.

Роза распускается,
Но затем неумолимо увядает.
То же происходит и с юношей,
И с прекраснейшей из девушек.
Автор перевода — Белочка
Страница автора

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Kelly Clarkson - Because of You (lyrics)

Titanic Song (with lyrics)

Alex & Sierra - Little Do You Know (Lyrics)

Shawn Mendes - Stitches Lyrics ♥

Happy Feet 2- Bridge of Light (Lyrics Video)

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again - Phantom of the Opera

Angel of Music Lyrics

The Phantom of the opera (Lyrics)

Les Misérables OST - Look down Lyrics

CATS - Memory (with lyrics)

Jesus Christ Superstar 1973 (full album) + lyrics

JUDAS:

My mind is clearer now.
At last all too well
I can see where we all soon will be.
If you strip away The myth from the man,
You will see where we all soon will be. Jesus!
You've started to believe
The things they say of you.
You really do believe
This talk of God is true.
And all the good you've done
Will soon get swept away.
You've begun to matter more
Than the things you say.

Listen Jesus I don't like what I see.
All I ask is that you listen to me.
And remember, I've been your right-hand man all along.
You have set them all on fire.
They think they've found the new Messiah.
And they'll hurt you when they find they're wrong.

I remember when this whole thing began.
No talk of God then, we called you a man.
And believe me, my admiration for you hasn't died.
But every word you say today
Gets twisted 'round some other way.
And they'll hurt you if they think you've lied.
Nazareth, your famous son should have stayed a great unknown
Like his father carving wood He'd have made good.
Tables, chairs, and oaken chests would have suited Jesus best.
He'd have caused nobody harm; no one alarm.

Listen, Jesus, do you care for your race?
Don't you see we must keep in our place?
We are occupied; have you forgotten how put down we are?

I am frightened by the crowd.
For we are getting much too loud.
And they'll crush us if we go too far.
If we go
too far....

Listen, Jesus, to the warning I give.
Please remember that I want us to live.
But it's sad to see our chances weakening with every hour.
All your followers are blind.
Too much heaven on their minds.
It was beautiful, but now it's sour.
Yes it's all gone sour.

Listen, Jesus, to the warning I give.
Please remember that I want us to live.
C'mon, c'mon
He won't listen to me ...
C'mon,listen,listen to me...
C'mon,listen to me...
C'mon,listen to me...
Listen,listen to me...
C'mon,listen to me...
Listen to me...
Listen to me...

Jesus Christ Superstar 1973 (full album) + lyrics

Passenger - Let Her Go (Lyrics)

Just A Dream - Nelly (Lyrics) [HD]

Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (Lyrics)

Beyonce-If I were a boy(lyrics)

Adele - Someone Like You with lyrics

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You - Lyrics

Adele - Someone Like You (Lyrics)

The Beatles - Let It Be (Alex Goot's cover - lyrics)

Here Comes The Sun (with lyrics) - The Beatles ( Cover by Bobit )

Eight Days a Week - The Beatles (Lyrics)

Apologize (Timbaland) Lyrics

Scorpions - Wind of Change with lyrics

Bon Jovi - Always (with lyrics)

Shape of my Heart (Lyrics) [Sting]

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars (lyrics)

James Blunt - You're Beautiful Lyrics

Aerosmith - I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing Lyrics

John Lennon - Imagine - Lyrics

Frank Sinatra: Strangers In the Night (with Lyrics)