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
rest sailed swift
Swift has sailed into his rest;Savage indignation thereCannot lacerate his breast.
child half sleeps storm
Once more the storm is howling, and half hidUnder this cradle-hood and coverlidMy child sleeps on.
bitter crafty gets godly land nobody
The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
dream image last midnight rhyme stroke talk
The last stroke of midnight dies.All day in the one chairFrom dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have rangedIn rambling talk with an image of air:Vague memories, nothing but memories.
friends-or-friendship issue remake
The friends that have it I do wrongWhen ever I remake a song,Should know what issue is at stake:It is myself that I remake.
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.
folly kindred man proud woman
The folly that man doesOr must suffer, if he woosA proud woman not kindred of his soul.
body cruel found lovers mermaid swimming
A mermaid found a swimming lad,Picked him for her own,Pressed her body to his body,Laughed; and plunging downForgot in cruel happinessThat even lovers drown.
body cruel forgot found happiness lovers mermaid picked pressed swimming
A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.
carpet cough man neighbour people shuffle walk wear
All shuffle there; all cough in ink;All wear the carpet with their shoes;All think what other people think;All know the man their neighbour knows,Lord, what would they sayDid their Catullus walk that way?
beating ghost roger
The ghost of Roger Casement is beating on the door.
hard learning man married
It is a hard thing to be married to a man of learning that must always be having arguments.
believe
If you believe in God,You are my soul's one friend.