U2's "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)"

The video of this lovely U2 song is set to the eerily beautiful Berlin scenery of Wim Wenders's wonderful movie "Wings of Desire", and is directed by Wenders. The movie "City of Angels" is but a rip-off of this much superior German movie, as is Nicolas Cage's performance when compared to Bruno Ganz's earth-seeking angel. Mr. Ganz's shockingly accurate portrayal of Hitler during the Third Reich's death throes in the more recent German movie "Der Untergang" is also a thing to behold!

As the shadow of the wind blurs together our curled shadows against the far wall, I whisper into your ear of pearl old metaphors: I say, we fit like a lock and its key, rain and earth, the moon and its eclipse, a kitten and its curled sleep, the heart and its always watchful beat.

Note: Written to the tune of Bassam Saba'S "Shadow Of The Wind", at the excellent concert of Middle Eastern Music given by Mr. Saba and his ensemble last evening, at the CUNY's Graduate Center in New York. While Mr. Saba is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, his flue playing in particular was brilliant.