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
kiss miss shall sigh
I sigh that kiss you, For I must own That I shall miss you When you have grown.
deal great wisdom
It would need a great deal of wisdom to know what it is we want to know.
conscience might vanity
Things said or done long years ago,Or things I did not do or sayBut thought that I might say or do,Weigh me down, and not a dayBut something is recalled,My conscience or my vanity appalled.
conscience might vanity weigh
Things said or done long years ago, Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.
begins friends-or-friendship glory mans
Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
common express man wise
Think like a wise man but express yourself like the common people.
awaits dread dying hope hoping man nor
Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal;A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all.
cheering duty nor public
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,Nor public men, nor cheering crowds.
adopted escape mask therefore
Style, personality -- deliberately adopted and therefore a mask -- is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
cover last running sand shall underneath
Speak, speak, for underneath the cover thereThe sand is running from the upper glass,And when the last grain's through, I shall be lost.
cover last running sand shall underneath
Speak, speak, for underneath the cover there The sand is running from the upper glass, And when the last grain's through, I shall be lost.
broken burning roof shudder
A shudder in the loins engenders thereThe broken wall, the burning roof and towerAnd Agamemnon dead.
love mansion proud sole woman
A woman can be proud and stiffWhen on love intent;But Love has pitched his mansion inThe place of excrement;For nothing can be sole or wholeThat has not been rent.
cannot charm charming face form grass lovely mountain three
One had a lovely face, and two or three had charm, but charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass cannot keep the form where the mountain hare has lain.