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segunda-feira, 18 de março de 2013

Dead Can Dance - Amnesia


Saw the demonstration
On remembrance day
Lest we forget the lesson
Enshrined in funeral clay
History is never written
By those who've lost
The defeated must bear witness to
Our collective memory loss

With every generation comes
Another memory lapse
See the demonstrations of
Failing to learn from our past
We live in the dreamtime
Nothing seems to last
Can you really plan a future
When you no longer have a past

Memories fall from the trees
Amnesia
Memories like autumn leaves

If we are subject to
Empirical minds
I wonder what lies beyond
Our memory's confines
If memory is the true
Sum of who we are
May your children know the truth
And shine like the brightest star

Memory, help me see
Amnesia
Memory, set me free

All my love and all my kisses

Sweet Mnemosyne. . .

sexta-feira, 23 de novembro de 2012

You Won't Be Missing That Part Of Me, Melody's Echo Chamber (2012)




Because I lied
with all my heart
Because it's time
to change my life

'Coz [Of course]
You won't be missing that part of me
It's all you need
When telling everyone that you're free
Hold on, you'll see
It won't be that hard to forget me
I hope you won't

I've been told
Endearing soul
Wish you knew
I was too young

Because you cried
Does it mean you
Can talk to me
When you decide

At least
You won't be missing that part of me
It's all you need
When telling everyone that you're free
Hold on, you'll see
It won't be that hard to forget me
I hope you won't

Will you forgive that I left
Should predict why you would hate

terça-feira, 2 de outubro de 2012

"ThisIsIt" ou Randy Rose conta nova estória

Depois de Walking around L.A., o elemento mais destacado (mas não "mais importante") do actual trio que são os The Residents, "Randy Rose" (ou será "Randy" Rose?) publicou no seu canal a quarta vídeo-estória, desta vez uma metáfora da máscara enquanto elemento identificador e, simultaneamente, obliterador de uma identidade. Ou da sua identidade? Discretos, mas coincidentes com a sua página no Tumblr, são-nos dados pelo Randy pedaços de informação que demonstram, quais migalhas reconstituidoras de um percurso a fazer ao invés, para aquilo que refiro no parágrafo seguinte.

É que, como sempre, este vídeo, tal como todos os projectos associados aos Residents, não deve ser visto enquanto object d'art isolado mas, antes, entendido como fazendo parte de um mais vasto e universal (por 'universal' entenda-se, vindo do seio dos elementos da "banda")... monumento (grandiloquências à parte,  ponhamo-lo desta forma) criativo e informativo. Vejam-se, além dosdois links acima, também a página facebook do compositor e teclista da banda, "Charles 'Chuck' Bobuck" e a da própria banda, para absorção de mais pistas de um novelo que tecem já desde há 40 anos a esta data.

A peça que falta, mesmo, é a associada ao até agora mais "ausente" terceiro membro, "Bob", o guitarrista (para já não mencionar o saído quarto membro, "Carlos" de seu nome... — "Fuck Carlos!" desabafou ironicamente o Randy no espectáculo Talking Light de 2010-11).

quinta-feira, 23 de agosto de 2012

Walking around L.A. (by Randy Rose)

Talvez que venha a ser o primeiro (?) vídeo complementar à série fotográfica que o "Randy Rose" tem vindo a publicar no seu Tumblr. Um contraponto às fotos, pela voz do próprio e música composta pelo (conjecturo eu) Charles "Chuck" Bobuck.

terça-feira, 14 de agosto de 2012

The Cure, To Wish Impossible Things (1992)




"To Wish Impossible Things" (The Cure)

remember how it used to be
when the sun would fill the sky
remember how we used to feel
those days would never end
those days would never end

remember how it used to be
when the stars would fill the sky
remember how we used to dream
those nights would never end
those nights would never end

it was the sweetness of your skin
it was the hope of all we might have been
that filled me with the hope to wish
impossible things
to wish impossible things

but now the sun shines cold
and all the sky is grey
the stars are dimmed by clouds and tears
and all i wish
is gone away
all i wish
is gone away

and all i wish
is gone away

all i wish
is gone away

all i wish
is gone away

all i wish
is gone away...

quinta-feira, 26 de julho de 2012

For absent friends: Pearl Jam, Light Years (2011)







I've used hammers made out of wood
I have played games with pieces and rules
I've deciphered tricks at the bar
But now you're gone
I haven't figured out why
I've come up with riddles
And jokes about war
I've figured out numbers and what they're for
I've understood feelings
And I've understood words
But how could you be taken away

And wherever you've gone
And wherever we might go
It don't seem fair
Today you just disappeared
Your light's reflected now
Reflected from afar
We were but stones
Your light made us stars

With heavy breath,
Awakened regrets
Back pages and days alone that could've been spent, together...
But we were miles apart
Every inch between us becomes light years now
No time to be void
Or save up on life
God, uh you've got to spend it all

And wherever you've gone
And wherever we might go
It don't seem fair
Today you just disappeared
Your light's reflected now
Reflected from a far
We were but stones
Your light made us stars

And wherever you've gone
And wherever we might go
It don't seem fair
We still need you here
Your light's reflected now
Reflected from afar
We were but stones
Your light made us stars

terça-feira, 24 de julho de 2012

Time Is On My Side, The Rolling Stones, no filme "Fallen"

Desde que revi Fallen, um poderoso e algo esquecido filme dirigido em 1998 por Gregory Hoblit, que não me sai da cabeça este tema dos The Rolling Stones. Curioso é que poucos dias depois de o ver, decidi ler (coincidência?) o livro de Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending (O Sentido do Fim, vencedor do prémio Man Booker Prize em 2011, obra não menos poderosa que o filme, cuja leitura recomendo ASAP), onde o refrão é referido umas 3 vezes ao longo da narrativa. Aqui ficam os primeiros instantes do Fallen em que a canção surge e, a seguir, o tema interpretado em 1964 pelos 4 old-timers do Rock, e uma reprodução da respectiva letra.






Time is on my side, yes it is
Time is on my side, yes it is

Now you always say
That you want to be free
But you'll come running back (said you would baby)
You'll come running back (I said so many times before)
You'll come running back to me

Oh, time is on my side, yes it is
Time is on my side, yes it is

You're searching for good times
But just wait and see
You'll come running back (I wont have to worry no more)
You'll come running back (spend the rest of my life with you, baby)
You'll come running back to me

Go ahead, go ahead and light up the town
And baby, do everything your heart desires
Remember, I'll always be around
And I know, I know
Like I told you so many times before
You're gonna come back, baby
'Cause I know
You're gonna come back knocking
Yeah, knocking right on my door
Yes, yes!

Well, time is on my side, yes it is
Time is on my side, yes it is

'Cause I got the real love
The kind that you need
You'll come running back (said you would, baby)
You'll come running back (I always said you would)
You'll come running back, to me
Yes time, time, time is on my side, yes it is
Time, time, time is on my side, yes it is
Oh, time, time, time is on my side, yes it is
I said, time, time, time is on my side, yes it is
Oh, time, time, time is on my side
Yeah, time, time, time is on my side