Coverversion des Tages: Moonlight Shadow

(Deathlike Silence: "Moonlight Shadow", aus dem Album "Saturday Night Evil", 2009)

The last that ever she saw him
Carried away by a moonlight shadow
He passed on worried and warning
Carried away by a moonlight shadow

Lost in a riddle that saturday night
Far away on the other side
He was caught in the middle of a desperate fight
And she couldn't find how to push through

The trees that whisper in the evening
Carried away by a moonlight shadow
Sing a song of sorrow and grieving
Carried away by a moonlight shadow

All she saw was a silhouette of a gun
Far away on the other side
He was shot six times by a man on the run
And she couldn't find how to push through

I stay, I pray, see you in heaven far away
I stay, I pray, see you in heaven one day

4 a.m. in the morning
Carried away by a moonlight shadow
I watched your vision forming
Carried away by a moonlight shadow

Stars move slowly in a silvery light
Far away on the other side
Will you come to talk to me this night
But she couldn't find how to push through

I stay, I pray, see you in heaven far away
I stay, I pray, see you in heaven one day

Caught in the middle of a hundred and five
The night was heavy but the air was alive
She couldn't find how to push through

I stay, I pray, see you in heaven far away
I stay, I pray, see you in heaven one day



Anmerkung: Diese wunderbar frische finnische Version des alten Mike-Oldfield-Klassikers gehört für mich zu den wenigen Ausnahmen der Coverversionen, die das Original noch übertreffen. Die Stimme dieser Sängerin und deren tonaler Bereich sind umwerfend und beeindruckend - und die metallische Instrumentierung, die eigentlich zu diesem "zarten" Song so gar nicht passen sollte, wirkt hier so stimmig, als sei das Stück nie anders konzipiert gewesen.

Über den im Grunde recht dämlichen Text kann man da schon hinwegsehen, finde ich. ;-) Das Video könnt ihr ebenfalls ignorieren - das ist offenbar rein privat und hat mit dem Song nichts zu tun.