William Butler
William Butler
Multi-instrumentalist for the band Arcade Fire who plays bass, synth, guitar, and percussion. He has also worked on movie soundtracks, like the one for Her.
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth6 October 1982
middle pride reckless shake sides themselves wicked
Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,That long to give themselves for wage,To shake their wicked sides at youthRestraining reckless middle age?
dance-and-dancing dancer
Who can tell the dancer from the dance?
burnt candle drops mountains time
Time drops in decay,Like a candle burnt out,And the mountains and woodsHave their day, have their day;
burnt candle drops mountains time woods
Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out, And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day;
cannot choice choose embody forced heavenly intellect man perfection raging refuse second truth
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
bet cannot embody irish-poet man truth
Man can embody truth bet he cannot know it.
beauty decay endless joy land time wisdom
Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
beat obeyed truth william
That William BlakeWho beat upon the wallTill Truth obeyed his call.
bed clock creep midnight
I at midnight by the clock may creep into your bed.
agreed believe call creating depths eyes illusions magic minds philosophy power practice though truth visions
I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, and what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are, in the power of creating magic illusions in the visions of truth in the depths of the minds when the eyes are closed.
call judge
I call on those that call me son,Grandson, or great-grandson,On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts,To judge what I have done.Have I, that put it into words,Spoilt what old loins have sent?
dance-and-dancing dancing drink sober stay
Come swish around, my pretty punk,And keep me dancing stillThat I may stay a sober manAlthough I drink my fill.
beauty changed terrible
All changed, changed utterly:A terrible beauty is born.
forget hour kiss love passion sad season souls tear thy weary worn
The hour of the waning of love has beset us,And weary and worn are our sad souls now;Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us,With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.