Leslie Feist conosciuta anche semplicemente come Feist, è una cantautrice canadese.
È attiva come membro del gruppo indie rock Broken Social Scene, mentre nel 1999 ha esordito da solista con l'album Monarch Wikipedia
“I'm unpacking the bags and setting up
And planting lilacs and buttercups”
"Mushaboom"
Let It Die (2004)
Contesto: Helping the kids out of their coats
But wait the babies haven't been born
I'm unpacking the bags and setting up
And planting lilacs and buttercups
But in the meantime I've got it hard
Second floor living without a yard.
“Old teenage hopes are alive at your door
Left you with nothing
But they want some more.”
"1 2 3 4" (written with Sally Seltmann)
The Reminder (2007)
Contesto: One Two Three Four
Tell me that you love me more
Sleepless, long nights
That was what my youth was for Old teenage hopes are alive at your door
Left you with nothing
But they want some more.
“On tour I'm so invisible to myself, it's just one task after another.”
Interview with Seth Berkman in Stylus (20 December 2005) http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=2047 <br class="br">Contesto: On tour I'm so invisible to myself, it's just one task after another.<br>In a way as much as I love reading autobiographies, I'm fascinated with them partially because I would have no sense of how to talk about my own life with any perspective. Like half of what I like about autobiographies isn't what happen in their lives, it's... I'm so curious on how they remember things that happened. Then I think, oh maybe it's not accurate, maybe it's just the way they need to couch an event, they need to remember something that happened 30 years ago as a certain way in the present to make it, you know bearable, and so then half the adventure of reading an autobiography is thinking like, "oh, what does it say about them in the present that they need to think about the past like that," if they sound really altruistic or if they sound really benevolent and kind. Very seldom do you see someone say, "yeah, I was a real asshole," or if they do it's a charming asshole, it's not the mean spirited person, you know?
"1 2 3 4" (written with Sally Seltmann)
The Reminder (2007)
“No one likes to take a test
Sometimes you know more is less.”
"I Feel It All"
The Reminder (2007)
On attempts at keeping a journal, as quoted in Stylus (20 December 2005)
“Old dirt road (Mushaboom)
Knee deep snow (Mushaboom)
Watching the fire as we grow”
Mushaboom
"Mushaboom"
Let It Die (2004)
“Oh, oh, oh
You're changing your heart
Oh, oh, oh
You know who you are.”
"1 2 3 4" (written with Sally Seltmann)
The Reminder (2007)
"Monarch"
Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down) (1999)
“The truth lied
And lies divide
Lies divide”
"I Feel It All"
The Reminder (2007)
“I know more than I knew before
I didn't rest I didn't stop
Did we fight or did we talk.”
"I Feel It All"
The Reminder (2007)
"One Year A.D."
Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down) (1999)
“It may be years until the day
My dreams will match up with my pay.”
"Mushaboom"
Let It Die (2004)
“The cold heart will burst
If mistrusted first
And a calm heart will break
When given a shake”
"How My Heart Behaves"
The Reminder (2007)
“Ooh, I'll be the one who'll break my heart
I'll be the one to hold the gun.”
"I Feel It All"
The Reminder (2007)
"1 2 3 4" (written with Sally Seltmann)
The Reminder (2007)
"1 2 3 4" (written with Sally Seltmann)
The Reminder (2007)
As quoted in "Just Feist. Just Wait." by Jon Pareles in The New York Times (15 April 2007) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/arts/music/15pare.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
