Songs of freedom

"Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the Almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly."

Bob Marley & The Wailers

"Redemption Song"

After Forever

"Have you ever thought about your soul - can it be saved?

Or perhaps you thought that when you are dead you just stay in your grave?

(...)

When you think about death do you lose your breath or do you keep your cool? (...)"

"After Forever"

Black Sabbath

Master of Reality

1971

Simples e eficaz.

"It's nine o'clock on a Saturday
The regular crowd shuffles in
There's an old man sitting next to me
Making love to his tonic and gin

He says, "Son can you play me a memory

I'm not really sure how it goes

But it's sad and it's sweet

And I knew it complete

When I wore a younger man's clothes"

Sing us a song you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feeling alright (...)"

Estas são as primeiras estrofes de "Piano Man",

de Billy Joel.

A Música é mais ou menos isto...

Glimpse

"Lonely is the room, the bed is made, the open window lets the rain in

Burning in the corner is the only one who dreams he had you with him

My body turns and yearns for a sleep that will never come"

Jeff Buckley

"Lover, You Should've Come Over"

Grace

1994

"And I couldn't awake from the nightmare

that sucked me in and pulled me under

Pulled me under

Oh... that was so real"

Jeff Buckley

"So Real"

Grace

1994

Indian, Indian what did you die for?

"...Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding.
Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

(...)

Indian, Indian what did you die for?
Indian says, nothing at all."

"Dawn's Highway"

An American Prayer

Jim Morrison

1970

Kleine Ballenase...

"Pergunte ao seu orixá
Amor só é bom se doer."

"Canto de Ossanha", Vinicus de Morais

Porque hoje são 22.11...

"You are the most beautiful thing
I've ever seen
You shine just like sunlight rays
On a winter snow
I just had to tell you so..."

Butterfly

Lenny Kravitz

"Mama Said"

1991

...

"You don't look but you kick me
You can't feel but you hit me
You can't live with the way I pray

Why do we all have to look this way?
I've got a heart, I got blood, feel pain"

Stone Temple Pilots

"Army Ants"

Purple

1994

O Trovador

"Have I told you lately that I love you

Have I told you there's no-one else above you

Fill my heart with gladness

Take away my sadness

Ease my troubles, that's what you do."

"Have I Told You Lately"
Van Morrison
"Avalon Sunset"
1989

Pathos

"But how can I explain personal pain?
How can I explain personal pain?
How can I explain my voice is in vain?"

"Gimme The Car"

Gordon Gano

The Violent Femmes

"Add It Up (1981-1993"

Gil

"A novidade veio dar à praia,
na qualidade rara de sereia
Metade o busto de uma deusa Maia,
metade um grande rabo de baleia
A novidade era o máximo,
o paradoxo estendido na areia
Alguns a desejar seus beijos de deusa
Alguns a desejar seu rabo prá ceia
...
Ó mundo tão desigual, tudo é tão desigual
De um lado este carnaval, de outro a fome total."

"A Novidade"
Gilberto Gil
Acústico
1994

Devendra em modo espiritual.

"I'm high and I'm happy and I'm free
I got my whole heart
Laid out right in front of me
And I finally can see
The way it's always been
The need for peace
Starts from within...

...So I leave my possesions to the wind

And I'm done with ever wanting anything

Well I can die satisfied

No desires do I hide

Not today, not today

Nor for the next one thousand lives (...)"

"Seahorse"

Devendra Banhart

"Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon"

XL Records - 2007

Ode à sinergia.

"...Pick a song and sing a yellow nectarine
Take a bath, I'll drink the water that you leave
If you should die before me,
Ask if you can bring a friend
Pick a flower, hold your breath
And drift away..."

Stone Temple Pilots

Still Remains

Purple

Atlantic - 1994

Ciao Baby (em 1989, na música)

Always said you were a Youthquaker, Edie
A stormy little world shaker
Warhol's darling queen, Edie
An angel with a broken wing
The dogs lay at your feet, Edie
We carressed you cheek
Stars wrapped in your hair, Edie
Life without a care
But your not there
You're never there
Caught up in an endless scene
Paradise a shattered dream
Why'd all the shit you took, Edie
Your innocence dripped blood, sweet child
Sweet little sugar talker
Paradise dream stealer
Warhol's Darling queen, Edie
Innocence dripped blood, sweet child
Why did you kiss the world goodbye
Ciao Baby
Don't you know paradise takes time
It takes time, but you're not there
Fade away now
But your not there
Ciao Edie

The Cult
Edie (Ciao Baby)
Sonic Temple
Beggars Banquet - 1989

So 80's...

"I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost belive that they're real (...) Remembering... You standing quiet in the rain... As I ran to your heart to be near... And we kissed as the sky fell in... Holding you close... How I always held close in your fear"

"Pictures of You"

The Cure

Disintegration - 1989

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

"Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry

Happiness I cannot feel and love to me is so unreal
And so as you hear these words telling you now of my state

I tell you to enjoy life I wish I could but its too late."

A última quadra da melodramática "Paranoid", de 1971, dos Black Sabbath esconde por trás de uma aparente superficialidade da belíssima letra a magia de, na brilhante interpretação da banda e de Ozzy Osbourne no cantar dos versos, fazer quem a ouve partilhar a depressão e isolamento social e psicológico que lhe subjaz (o que não é simpático mas é bonito).

Ora, fazer passar um lamento pré-suicida numa canção up-tempo, e não na expectável balada arrastada, é obra. A canção é toda ela rage e a raiva está todinha lá, numa linha de baixo extraordinária de Geezer Butler em harmonia perfeitinha com a guitarra de Tony Iommi e a bateria de Bill Ward.

Noto que os Black Sabbath são confessadamente a minha banda de eleição (na fase 1970-78) e que, por essa razão e inerente responsabilidade não foi ainda objecto da devida e muito merecida postadela. Antevendo a inevitável pergunta "Mas onde é que tu vais buscar estas coisas tão esquisitas?", deixo já aqui a promessa de contar a história...

"Twenty-nine pearls in your kiss
A singing smile
Coffee smell and lilac skin
Your flame in me"

Jeff Buckley

"Everybody here wants you"

Sketches for My Sweetheart The Drunk

1998

És muita linda.

Já que estamos numa de zurzir:

"Quero deitar-te numa cama de rosas,
Esta noite durmo numa cama de pregos
Quero estar tão perto como o Espírito Santo,
Quero deitar-te numa cama de rosas."

Volta Dino Meira, estás perdoado, vem cantar

"I'm back, I'm back,
I'm back from there,
Yesterday I was still in France
And now I'm already here."

"The wealthiest person is a pauper at times,
compared to the man with a satisfied mind."

Jeff Buckley

Satisfied Mind

Sketches for My Sweetheart The Drunk, 1998

(J. Hayes, J. Rhodes)

Curtas maravilhas que alimentam o espírito...

"Madalena, o meu peito percebeu que o mar é uma gota comparado ao pranto seu. "

Elis Regina - "Ela" - 1971