domingo, 11 de octubre de 2009

She is like a rainbow

Hoy me baje Forty licks de The Rolling Stones.
No lo escuchaba hace 5 años, pero que buen cd.
Canciones geniales, como por ejemplo esta:

She is like a rainbow


She comes in colors evrywhere;
She combs her hair
Shes like a rainbow
Coming, colors in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colors

She comes in colors evrywhere;
She combs her hair
Shes like a rainbow
Coming, colors in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colors

Have you seen her dressed in blue?
See the sky in front of you
And her face is like a sail
Speck of white so fair and pale
Have you seen a lady fairer?

She comes in colors evrywhere;
She combs her hair
Shes like a rainbow
Coming, colors in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colors

Have you seen her all in gold?
Like a queen in days of old
She shoots her colors all around
Like a sunset going down
Have you seen a lady fairer?

She comes in colors evrywhere;
She combs her hair
Shes like a rainbow
Coming, colors in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colors

Shes like a rainbow
Coming, colors in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colors

miércoles, 7 de octubre de 2009

Siempre.

Asi como en cada situacion de la vida, siempre ,se puede hacer una referencia a Los simpsons, increiblemente los Beatles, tienen una cancion para cada momento.
Si bien el 80% ( y quizas mas) de las canciones de los Escarabajos son de amor, pensemos que el 100% de las situaciones donde uno le presta verdadera atencion a la letra de una cancion, son situaciones amorosas. Sea buena o mala.
Cualquier persona que tenga algun nivel de ingles, podra identificar en esas canciones algun fragmento que pareciera estar hecho unicamente para ese momento en la vida.
¿Los Beatles escribiran para mi? se pregunta uno. NO, INGENUO!. El amor y la musica son una combinacion tan basica como el jamon y el queso. ¿Que hay que inspire tanto al hombre como el amor?. Hasta en la cumbia uno encuentra analogias de su situacion.

Volviendo a los Beatles, podriamos decir que tienen ciertas canciones que en todos despiertan algun recuerdo o sentimiento. Canciones como Yesterday, Let it be, Blackbird, entre otras, son referencias universales. Sencillas, de letra clara, te sacan las lagrimas como un sacacorchos.

domingo, 4 de octubre de 2009

Nunca pense

I watch you grow away from me in photographs
And memories like spies
The salt betrays my eyes again
I started losing sleep and gaining weight
And wishing I was ten again
So I could be your friend again

These days we go to waste like wine
That's turned to turpentine
Till it's 6 AM and I'm all messed up
I didn't mean to waste your time
So I'll fall back in line
But I'm warning you, we're growing up

I heard you found some pretty words to say
You found your little game to play
And there's no one allowed in here
And just when we believe we could be great
Reality it permeates
And conquers from within again

These days we go to waste like wine
That's turned to turpentine
Till it's 6 AM and I'm all messed up
I didn't mean to waste your time
So I'll fall back in line
But I'm warning you we're growing up
Yeah...

Ok... were ok... okay
Ok... were ok... okay
These days we go to waste like wine
That's turned to turpentine
It's 6 AM and I'm all messed up
I didn't mean to waste your time
So I'll fall back in line
But I'm warning you we're growing up.