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
cast cold pass
Cast a cold eyeOn life, on deathHorseman, pass by!
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Caught in that sensual music all neglect monuments of unaging intellect
fire great
Because of that great nobleness of hersThe fire that stirs about her, when she stirs,Burns but more clearly.
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No expectation fails there,No pleasing habit ends,No man grows old, no girl grows cold,But friends walk by friends.
expectation fails girl grows habit man pleasing walk
No expectation fails there, No pleasing habit ends, No man grows old, no girl grows cold, But friends walk by friends.
full hearts remain sweetness
Nothing but sweetness can remain when hearts are full of their own sweetness.
grown men poor rich running
Poor men have grown to be rich men,And rich men grown to be poor again,And I am running to Paradise.
love yellow
Only God, my dear,Could love you for yourself aloneAnd not your yellow hair.
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Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say;Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day;The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.
among fly mind moves silence stream
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves among silence
crooked love nobody wise
O love is the crooked thing,There is nobody wise enoughTo find out all that is in it.
grows heart
Oh, who could have foretoldThat the heart grows old?
bid grow leaves love
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
dreams softly spread tread
I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.