Markéta Irglová (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmarkɛːta ˈɪrɡlovaː]) (born 28 February 1988, in Valašské Meziříčí, Czech Republic) is a Czech singer-songwriter, musician and actress.
Irglová began taking piano lessons at age 8 and began playing the guitar at age 9.[citation needed]
Irglová is a member of the band The Swell Season with Glen Hansard. The band released its eponymous album on Overcoat Recordings in 2006. In 2007, Irglova co-starred in the indie movie Once. Irglová co-wrote most of the songs for the film including "Falling Slowly," which received an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The movie won the World Cinema Audience Award for a dramatic film at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Irglová appeared on the 2007 I'm Not There soundtrack with the Swell Season's version of Bob Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere".
She began a relationship with Hansard during the making of the film Once. She ended her romantic relationship with Hansard in 2009 and in June 2011, married sound engineer, Tim Iseler The couple lives together in New York City.
I know what it was you did to me.
And I know what it was you said.
And made me feel for the very first time
That I'd give everything I have
In exchange for a night with you.
Well I put my heaven to you.
I don't know how to say this, how do even begin?
But I'm trying to describe this day I need
And you talked to me I can't focus of what you're saying:
Cause' my mind gets lost in a moment of your lips, in color of your eyes
And the touch of your hands and the touch of my lips right close to your
And whisper thing that you are only meant to hear
I'm falling for you; stupid thing to do.
But there you go
The sun's first light is shining from behind the top of mountains,
"Samavar" is boiling
My love is walking carrying a golden vase on her shoulder, so suggesting
And seductively,
One pomegranate seed, two pomegranit seed, three hundred pearls,
The girl from ghoochan scatters flower petal confetti all over, that girl
From Ghoochan
Her eye brows, her lips, her face, the girl from Ghoochan
Her hair has a scent like sweetbay magnolias, the girl from Ghoochan
Flowers are in bloom and she scatters flower petal all over, that girl
From Ghoochan
My sweetheart came atop the roof, and left, what can I do,
My breath was taken from me, what can I do,
Fill my lamp with flower oil, what can I do
My love came crying and left, what can I do?
One pomegranate seed, two pomegranit seed, three hundred pearls,
The girl from Ghoochan scatters flower petal confetti all over, that girl
I've got it all figured out, baby.
You're coming home with me and we will laugh our worries away,
and you can stay as long as you please.
I'm really just glad that I could have met you.
It's easy to see how much I like your company,
but I wouldn't dream of trying to keep you.
You know how they say that love heals all fear,
well in a similar vein I thrive when you're near,
but you've had your pain and you've had your grief
and at the hardest of times she brought you relief.
And you love her, if only for that;
and she knows she saved you and she won't let you forget.
But I remember the time that I sat beside you
and your hand brushed against my knee and I thought I would die
for that alone instantly,
but I'm sure you knew just how good that would feel.
Well I know I had a good reason for not seeing this through,
oh but now I forget and I don't know what to do.
But you can hold my hand and you can kiss me too,
Time, how does it go? Sometimes fast, other times slow
But when I'm with you, time disappears
Weeks can feel like days, days can feel like years
I stood with you and time stood still
And can you kill time? Can time kill?
Can we stay in our timeless romance?
Freedom, what does it mean?
Is it worth being chased? Does it come from within?
Loving the freedom of choice, isn't that being free?
Could you freely choose to be bound to me?
When I met you, the planets did align and
Is it not true that time it was divine?
Too soon is as bad as too late
Yet here we are and was it not fate
That brought you to me, that brought me to you?
Oh, I will be good, I will be true
But I will not tie in our love in chains
We can run wild if neither pulls the reins
We can run free and have adventures of our own
Before I go to sleep tonight
Won't you tell a story?
One that does not center
Around power or glory
A simple tale of love
That is tender and sweet
However glorified still uncorrupted
With a steady heartbeat
Or better still of love
That's also passionate and wide
That holds the light of youth
And makes you playful like a child
And let me fall in love, fall in love
Let me fall in love, fall in love
I've heard people speak
Of sad endings and broken hearts
But the heart does heal
And where you thing ends another starts
I've hear them say they wish
They never knew such pain
But to wish for pain-free love
Is to wish in vain
And anyway pain does not have
To mean suffering
If love is a gift, to it yield an offering
'Cause when you in love, you fall in love
With everything, with everyone
And you look at the world through a new pair of eyes
And you see fear it crawls, but love it flies
So, fly away, fly away
Grow a pair of wings and soar up high
This bird it sings a lullaby
Close your eyes, now go asleep
And dream a dream of falling deep in love
This bird it sings a lullaby
Close your eyes, now go asleep
And dream a dream of falling deep in love
This bird it sings a lullaby
Close your eyes, now go asleep
And dream a dream of falling deep in love
Let me fall in love, fall in love
Let me fall in love, fall in love
Let me fall in love, fall in love
Let me fall in love, fall in love
Let me fall in love, fall in love
Let me fall in love, fall in love
Let me fall in love, fall in love
It remains to be seen
To which side I'm gonna lean
Which road will I choose?
What will I gain, what will I lose?
Am I gonna come to my senses
And see the light in letting go of what I want
In order to do what's right?
Oh, but right by whom? By me or by you?
It's just a crossroads
Is the light red or is it green?
I'm getting mixed signals
I really don't know what they mean
If I wasn't temporarily blind
If I could only take one look I know I'd find
How simple it all is
How much do I really own this?
Is enough not enough? Am I really in love?
Or is it nothing but a test?
Well, if you wanna try me
Go ahead and be my guest
'Cause I myself would like to go
Which way we're to go, I guess it's undecided yet
So I'll take it slow, but as I regain my sight
I know I will do what's right
Indeed it's just a crossroads
Now that I'm willing to clearly see
Things for what they really are
And not what I'd like them to be
There's nothing left to think about
I know the way now, I've no more doubt
I let go and release
Right now it's only in your head
But that might very well be all it's gonna take
To make it come to pass.
But is that really what you'd like?
And if not why occupy your mind with it at all?
Thoughts grow just as easily as grass...
As easily as weed. If you don't want it
In your garden why plant the seed?
Why water it? Why tend to it?
Well it is all in your hands
And there is no one but yourself that you can blame
For all that you create.
Maybe our actions are what counts
And not all that we might think or feel or say
But don't they all relate?
And I know, it's easier said than done
But has there ever been a struggle
You thought you wouldn't over come?
But now, looking back you see it's clear
Things could have turned out better,
Early morning, rising with the sun
Resting where the sky meets the earth
Feeling the first rays of sunlight reaching into my soul
Where they reinstate the sense of my own self-worth
If you're not good, you're bad
That's far too black and white
Behold the glorious sun in all its radiance bright
It too at times is obscured by the thick blue veil of night
Still the moon and all the stars combine to reflect it's light.
And so it is that we are good
Though we do not always do as we should
We lose track of right and wrong
And we're not always standing strong
But still don't you wanna believe
In things that eyes do not perceive
Like our light shining from within
That in a battle with our darkness can win
The gates of heaven open up before me
As my heart is given wings and flies
Leaving all pretense behind, everything is crystal clear
Even the worry of uncertainty subsides
They say that time will come for us to be reborn
Into the newness of unity that has been torn
Into duality, into it's us against them
It's from a place of fear that all our conflicts stem
We're almost there, but not yet, still the stage is set
For the play we may enact according to our contract
That we may both you and I, with everybody in our home up high
To awaken from our deep and long undisturbed though hardly peaceful sleep
If to look is to know the grace, which you bestow
Upon those that you would raise into a kind and loving gaze
Hold me tight
But just for tonight
But not as tight as before
We're not that close anymore
At least not in that way
We've drifted further apart with each day
We have waited it out just to see
If we could love one another casually
But I've been a good friend to you
I've always been there for you
You say you don't know
Where did the people use to be go
You say you don't understand
Whatever made me let go of your hand
But you never asked me to stay
If you wanted me to, you did not say
Now for old times' sake
Go ahead and repeat that mistake
Cause the moment is passed now
I've stopped counting the days somehow
Let it be what it is
Though we never intended for it to turn into this
We had something good that did not last
Let's not be constantly reliving the past
I have nothing but love for you
Though you've often questioned how that could be true
Well you better start believing me
If you wish to set yourself free
From this long and drawn out process of letting go