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
blind content life man
I am content to live it all againAnd yet again, if it be life to pitchInto the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch,A blind man battering blind men.
bear burden god great men might pray
I bear a burden that might well tryMen that do all by rule,And what can IThat am a wandering-witted foolBut pray to God that He easeMy great responsibilities?
cast cold pass
Cast a cold eyeOn life, on deathHorseman, pass by!
caught intellect monuments music neglect sensual
Caught in that sensual music all neglect monuments of unaging intellect
days flowers leaves lying root swayed though youth
Though leaves are many, the root is one;Through all the lying days of my youthI swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;Now I may wither into the truth.
brought chamber drained foul grow lie lies sought toil witch
TOIL and grow rich, what's that but to lie with a foul witch and after, drained dry, to be brought to the chamber where lies one long sought with despair.
shall
What shall I do for pretty girlsNow my old bawd is dead?
bill commission founded government intend intention law letter report whose
The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the Bill was founded did not intend these things to happen, but in legislation intention is nothing, and the letter of the law everything, and no government has the
bred fingers harder laughing mad secret turn
Bred to a harder thingThan Triumph, turn awayAnd like a laughing stringWhereon mad fingers play Amid a place of stone,Be secret and exult,Because of all things knownThat is most difficult.
dome fury human man mere
A starlit or a moonlit dome disdainsAll that man is;All mere complexities,The fury and the mire of human veins.
bone foul ladders lie rag shop
Now that my ladder's goneI must lie down where all ladders startIn the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.
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.
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.