Kris Kristofferson - William Butler Yeats - The second coming (Breakthrough, 1989)
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Uploaded by biggestkkfan on Aug 24, 2011
This is not a song...
I watched this touching concert-documentary about 4 years ago for the first time on the DVD and Kris's words to the end credits gave me goosebumps. Spoken more than 20 years ago, today they yet are true and current to me and I'm touched whenever I listen to them... So I was wondering how I could upload them without the (though interesting but) distracting end credits, and that's the way I finally have made it.
http://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Kris-Kristofferson/dp/B00027JYGC
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kris-Kristofferson-Breakthrough-Region-NTSC/dp/B00027...
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
The Second Coming was written in 1919 in the aftermath
of the first World War. The above version of the poem is
as it was published in the edition of Michael Robartes and
the Dancer dated 1920 (there are numerous other
versions of the poem).
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I was working in Ireland one summer, in Sligo, went to see W. B. Yeats's Grave , love his petry, agree with Kris
dgensky4 5 months ago
Kris has always been ahead of the times - a visionary
touttamoi 6 months ago
Terrific work T.
MsPj33 6 months ago