Jeff Buckley - Mojo Pin

Probablemente la mejor versión de la canción que le da nombre a este espacio, como última canción de la presentación de Glastonbury '95, minutos antes de que subiera Oasis al escenario. Es la primer canción del disco Grace de Jeff Buckley. Y pensé que desde hace mucho debía haber puesto esto aquí, y muchas otras cosas que están como borradores esperando, pero aquí está.

Es muy difícil explicar todo lo que significa ésta canción para mí pero creo que hacerlo sería algo egoísta y contrario a mis principios. Hay que dejar que la música hable por si misma y que cada quién obtenga de ella lo que escuche, porque no todos vemos igual; escuchando es la misma historia, sólo quiero hacer notar el ritmo cambiante y apasionado característico de Jeff, y la magistral ejecución vocal en este vídeo. les dejo la letra para que canten a la par de Jeff, digo sé que no todos tenemos un rango vocal de 4 y media octavas pero al diablo. Que no les importe no alcanzar las notas, sólo escuchen y dense cuenta de que en el momento que escuchen la canción son parte de la misma. Son participes. Y eso es algo que muchos olvidan del arte.

I'm lying in my bed
The blanket is warm
This body will never be
Safe from harm
Still feel your hair
Black ribbons of coal
Touch my skin
To keep me whole...

Oh...if only you'd come back to me...
If you laid at my side...
Wouldn't need no Mojo Pin
To keep me satisfied...

Don't wanna weep for you
Don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured
The white horses flow (horse has flown)
Memories fire
The rhythms fall slow
Black beauty I love you so...

Uh precious precious silver and gold
And pearls in oyster's flesh
Drop down we two to serve and pray to love
Born again from the rhythm
Screaming down from heaven
Ageless, ageless and I'm there in your arms...

Don't wanna weep for you
I don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured
The white horses flow
The memories fire
The rhythms fall slow...
Black beauty I love you so...so...so...so!!!

Dah!!!

Oh the welts of your scorn, my love
Give me more
Send whips of opinion down my back
Give me more
Well it's you I've waited my life to see
It's you I've searched so hard for...

Don't wanna weep for you
Don't wanna know
I'm blind and tortured
The white horses flow (horse has flown)
The memories fire
The rhythms fall slow...
Black beauty I love you so...so...black, black, black beauty!

Who put the weight of the world on my shoulders?

who put the weight of the world on my shoulders, who put the lies in the truth that you sold us?

Lost behind a silver screen, are all the things you could've been in love and life so... help me out my friend.

Flourescent lights.

I guess i'll make it clear now
we all hate ourselves
how many more now? Drive myself insane before i've driven everyone away
if I could walk for a moment off this bar I'd hit the floor
if I could walk from one end of this town
to the other it would never go away
the only reason people try to talk to each other
is cos they gotta say something
that is smarter than the other one said
everyone's fucking crazy
people never listen to what you have to say
cos their so damn scared
that you'll be smarter than them some day
everyone's fucking crazy
but i hate these flourescent lights
if I could walk for a moment every spore and cell
would hit the floor
if I could walk from one end of this town
to the other
I wouldn't go anywhere at all
I could talk to you and you could talk to me
I would say anything at all
I could talk to you and you could look at me
I would say anything at all
the only reason people try to talk to each other
is cos they gotta say something
that is smarter than the other one said
everyone's fucking crazy
people never listen to what you have to say
cos their so damn scared
that you'll be smarter than them some day
everyone's fucking crazy
but I just hate these flourescent lights

Dos.

Estaba dormido sentado justo a medianoche, cuando uno de los médicos vino a decirme "Suficiente es suficiente". Me sacó rápidamente al pasillo, mientras yo podría haber jurado que estaba embrujado, veía fantasmas a cada uno de mis lados. Entonces me dijo algo que nunca habría pensado que quisiera escuchar: Que no había nada que pudiera hacer en absoluto para salvarte, que un coro cantará para ti pronto y que ésta cosa va a matarte. Algo en mi garganta hizo que mis siguientes palabras tropezaran, y algo en los cables causo que las bombillas estallaran, había vidrio en mis zapatos y caía lluvia del techo. Abriendo las cicatrices que apenas se habían hecho. Destrozando el cañón que ahora corre por tu pierna, pensé que era algo bello, pero la cura no era eterna. Mientras se abría pude escuchar el grito desde tu cama, pero me escondí en la sala hasta que se encendió la llama. Cuando reaparecí quise darte un remedio para la agonía, pero volviste a odiarme para darme tu apología.

Qué tuviste un nuevo sueño, que era más como una pesadilla, eras sólo una niña cuando mataron tu cabello. Luego te conectaron a las maquinas y estuviste a punto de morir, deberían haberte escuchado, pero pensaban que eran mentiras y chantajes. Tu padre era un imbécil, siempre te jodió, ponía engranes en tu mente y hasta hoy los mueve. Y nunca nadie puso atención cuando dejabas las comidas, "¡Cuarenta y tres kilos!" y ahora todo se repite y se termina.

Dime cuando crees que fue que nos volvimos tan infelices, luciendo unos anillos que nunca nos han dejado dar ni un solo aplauso. Cuando nos mudamos juntos estábamos tan desilusionados, durmiendo juntos con los sueños quebrantados, me mataba verte siempre siendo rechazada, pero no me importó todo lo que me lanzaste y los teléfonos que me quitaste. No me importó que me culparas por tus errores, sólo te cargaba por la puerta con todos tus temblores. Pero cada noche metías tu ropa en esa bolsa, mientras yo trataba de agarrarte por los tobillos (qué irónico suena ahora) y finalmente después de más de un año, me detuve para intentar detenerte de azotar esa horrible puerta para verte regresar como siempre. Bueno, nadie va a arreglar esto por nosotros, nadie puede. Y tú sólo dices que "Nadie va a escucharnos, porque nadie entenderá". Así que no hay puertas abiertas y no hay forma de romperlas, no hay ningún otro testigo, sólo estamos los dos.

Hay dos personas viviendo en una pequeña habitación, y de tus dos medias-familias destrozándote, hay dos maneras de contar la historia (aunque en verdad no les importe contarla). Dos anillos plateados y apresurados en nuestros dedos, dos personas hablando en tu cabeza, dos personas creyendo que yo soy el culpable, dos voces diferentes que salen de tu boca, mientras yo soy demasiado frío para preocuparme y demasiado enfermo para gritar.

Qué tuviste un nuevo sueño, que era más como una pesadilla, eras sólo una niña cuando mataron tu cabello. Luego te conectaron a las maquinas y estuviste a punto de morir, deberían haberte escuchado, pero pensaban que eran mentiras y chantajes. Tu padre era un imbécil, siempre te jodió, ponía engranes en tu mente y hasta hoy los mueve. Y nunca nadie puso atención cuando dejabas las comidas, "¡Cuarenta y tres kilos!" y ahora todo se repite y se termina.

Basada en "Two" de The Antlers.

Underlying lies

I don't feel like I know you
Flawed in trust and in truth your fake excuse.
From the moment that I wake up,
You taste the venom in your tea cup.

As I look out the window
All I see is a deadly row of eyes
With no colour in their makeup.
Many cracks in a mask that hides disgrace.

In the paper there's a headline
"A vicious cloud weighs the sky down tonight".
They forsee a bloody screaming,
In the palms of a man who is seething.

I can smell your fake smile now.
The glue sets on a face you wear proud.
Remind me who the hell you are,
I don't remember ever thinking we were friends.

Spare me your bullshit!
Cracking a smile disguises
All the underlying lies.
They're bursting from your eyes.

You're the traitor with a pounding head,
As you drank another toast to the living dead.
It's not wise to celebrate so soon,
The party's over and you're sweeping up the room.

I'm only glad that I brushed you aside,
Cause I was choking on the dust from your empty mind.
You're full of promises unpaid,
This only serves to remind me you're a fake.
A counterfeit will break...

The owl and the tanager

All I had hoped for I kept inside your car, the rabbit in the barn. Most of all I wait, I wait beside the door; I wait beside the door. All I was wrong trembling in the cage, I was diamonds in the cage. In seven hours I consider death and your father called to yell at me: "You little boy, you little boy".

Found out you cheated me, I ran behind the barn and cut my hands somehow. Blood in the meadowlark, I punched your ears instead, I punched you in the head, you only laughed and laughed and laughed... How I was wrong tingling from the kill,tickle me until, you devil bird, you evil still. Slept on my arms, I was sleeping in the sill, I was sleeping in the room with you..."You little boy, you little boy".

How could you run from me now? The loneliest chime in the house, you let it out you let it out... Come to me Calvary still, I'm weeding and raking until, I'm bleeding in spite of my love for you... it bruised and bruised my will.

Counting alluvial plains, the breathing inside of the range, you touched me inside of my cage, beneath my shirt your hands embraced me. Come to me feathered and frayed, for I am the ugliest prey. The owl, the reckless reckless praise.

You said you'd wait for me, down by Tannery Creek. Far out by the roadside where we used to kiss behind the sheets. Wrapped in a blanket of red, the Owl and the Tanager said:

"One waits until the hour is death"

''Dreams Burn Down'' - Ride

...Lying under sky,
She laughs at everything I say,
And pulls me under,
There's no time to resist.
Lying on the floor,
The tears are falling down and more,
Her eyes speak loud,
But actions speak the best.

Waiting, hoping for a sign,
That what's forbidden can be mine,
I just want what I can't have,
'Til my dreams burn down every time.

She's effortlessly cool,
But circumstances can be cruel,
And sometimes you must accept,
That you can't always get what you want.
We fill up our days and nights,
We fill up our empty little lives,
But we know we are doomed,
The moment we walk out the room...

''And Then I Dreamt Of Yes'' - The Dandy Warhols

''I guess you want your world just a certain way...''

Amazing song!

Promise...

Son, I see it in your eyes,
There is a burden you cannot hide,
But in their arms, you feel so alive,
And in the moment you're cast aside.

All lines have broken, and we need to you to hold on,
Your eyes have opened, but you've got to go on.
I'll comfort you, I'll stay with you...
It's a promise not forgotten.

Now I hear you in my mind,
There was a story you claim to have,
And I will by more gently by your feet,
I'll tread softly or tread on my dreams.

All lines are broken, and we need you to hold on,
Your eyes have opened, but you've got to go on.
I'll comfort, I'll stay with you...
It's a promise not forgotten.

You're crying all these tears, but they mean to leave you dry,
Still fighting all these years, 'bout the same old things,
We wish we never had

The vision's softly fades, but there's a light that still remains,
And in these walls, I feel your sadness wain,
But in the moment you feel no pain.

All lines are broken, but we need you to hold on,
Your eyes have opened, but you've got to go on.
I'll comfort you, I'll sing to you...
It's a promise not forgotten.

Come on baby let's ride(light) the sunrise
Come on baby let's ride(light) the night

''Stella was a diver and she was always down"

When she walks down the street,
She knows there's people watching.
The building fronts are just fronts
To hide the people watching her

But she once fell through the street
Down a manhole in that bad way
The underground drip
Was just like her scuba days

Days
Daze
Days
Daze

She was all right because the sea was so airtight, she broke away
She is all right but she can't come out tonight, she broke away
She was all right, yeah the sea was so tight, air tight
She broke away, broke away

At the bottom of the ocean she dwells
At the bottom of the ocean she dwells
From crevices caressed by fingers
And fat blue serpent swells
Stella, Stella, Stella!
Stella I love you, Stella I love you
Stella I loved you!

Well, she was my catatonic sex toy, love-joy diver
She went down down down there into the sea,
Yeah she went down down down there, down there for me, right on

So good, oh yeah, right on

(There's something that's invisible,
There's some things you can't hide,
Try detect you when I'm sleeping,
In a wave you say goodbye...)

Sun kil moon - Space travel is boring (modest mouse cover)

From the cd 'Tiny cities'


Won herself a pass to some far off moon
It was second class but what's to lose
And looking out her window she could more than assume
That you can't see air or time

She's the only rocketeer in the whole damn place
They gave her a mirror so she could talk to a face
She still got plenty lonely but that's just the case
With time, time, time

Started hearing voices sometime in June
She knew she could go crazy but didn't think that soon
Now she doesn't feel lonely but she'd just as soon
Try, try, try

Man shot to the moon
I bought a paperback and want to go real soon
I'm shot to the moon
Been there a half an hour, I want to come home soon



MARK KOZELEK IS MY HERO!

A walk in the rain + surprise encounter + Red House Painters = PERFECT.

'I still can't believe... all the good things you did for me.'

BRMC - White Palms

'I wouldn't come back if I'd have been Jesus... I'm the kind of guy who leaves the scene of the crime'

Visión...

As soon as my vision clears
As soon as these visions leave us
I saw my love as bright as the farthest sea
Every day I'm with you I can almost feel
Soon as I can get my mind around
Soon as I can get my hands around
I'd give you everything but still I'd let you down
Every seconds ending but you'll come around

Come around...
Come around...
Come around...

Maybe we can only wish now
And maybe there's no reason left now
I'm sorry I believed in one way
There's nothing left to take so you go your own (way)

Come around...
Come around...
Come around...

Trailer trash...

One of the highlights from 'the lonesome crowed west' album.

All the people I knew were just actors...

Well, all the apostles, they're sitting in swings
Saying, "I'd sell off my savior for a set of new rings
And some sandals with the style of straps
That cling best to the era"

So all of the businessers in their unlimited hell
Where they buy and they sell and they sell all their trash
To each other, but they're sick of it all
And they're bankrupt on selling

And all of the angels, they'd sell off your soul
For a set of new wings and anything gold
They remember the people they loved, their old friends
And I've seen through them all, seen through them all
And seen through most everything

All the people you knew were the actors...
All the people you knew were the actors...

Well, I'll go to college and I'll learn some big words
And I'll talk real loud, goddamn right I'll be heard
You'll remember the guy who said all those big words
He must have learned in college

And it took a long time until I came clean with myself
I'd grown clean out of love with my lover
I still love her, loved her more when she used to be sober
And I was kinder

I just can only wish... only dream about her loving me.

Am I Only...

Only one of you?

"Nada parece mostrarnos, los sentimientos vienen y van. Y todo es tan extraño pero la gente nunca cambia... ¿Soy sólo, sólo uno de ustedes?



Las emociones nunca saben, hablan a través de lo que muestras , y es tan fácil dejar ir, lo que queda es arrojado al partir... te conviertes en una canción, y todo se siente mal, hay tanto más por ver pero la perdida esta destinada a ser.

¿Soy el único que esta solo de ustedes?"

Esa última línea es muy, muy recurrente.

Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) - Arcade Fire

Del disco Funeral (2004) ésta canción es la tercera parte de las cuatro que conforman el concepto de los neighborhoods, basada en una tormenta de hielo que tomo lugar en el invierno de 1998 en norteamerica que dejo a la ciudad de Montreal en las penumbras por una semana; se trata de una canción llena de metaforas y ambiguedad en tanto que sigue la tematica acerca de la infancia (aúnque en ésta parte lo hace de una forma mucho más oscura y desesperanzadora).

Estamos hablando del tercer capitulo de una travesia epica contenida en uno de los mejores discos que la música contemporanea ha conocido (y no solo yo lo pienso). Desde lineas como ''the kids are dying out in the snow'' hasta ''There's something wrong in the heart of man/ take it from your heart/ Put it in your hand'' podemos tomar la letra como muy pesimista y haciendo referencia a algun tipo de apocalipsis en el vencindario de la trama... Sin embargo otros mencionan que se habla de la incapacidad del ser humano de mantener secretos, pero debido a que la letra es muy ambigua esto podría ser o no cierto. Lo que si es cierto es que el concepto de esta serie epica de canciones refiere mucho a los niños, al siempre defender la identidad de cada uno.

Es sin más ni menos el climax de las 4 partes, la más intrincada y cruda pero tambien la que más misterios arroja...

Posteriormente hablaré de las otras 4 partes, pero considero que es mejor presentar ésta primero porque fue la primera canción que conocí de Arcade Fire. También hablaré de otras canciones del mismo disco que son simplemente SUBLIMES.

PD: les dejo el video oficial para que lo analizen y les recomiendo ampliamente que vean los demas videos de la banda o que compren el disco de Funeral , no se arrepentirán.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - 'Howl'

Del album del mismo nombre ésta canción es de mis favoritas de esta banda (que curiosamente tambien es una de mis favoritas).

Desde la primera nota del mellotron y los matices de la bateria pasando por la simple pero honesta linea de '' I give you nothing to doubt and you doubt me, I give you all that I have but you don't see" (Te doy nada de que dudar y me dudas, te doy todo lo que tengo pero no lo ves) ésta canción es un reclamo si bien un tanto chantajista, es también un aullido (como el titulo lo dice) por respuestas, por un fin a la desesperación de una relación en la que la falta de resoluciones, la confusión y el miedo a ser dañados causan aun más daño.

El outro de la canción es uno de los mejores en una canción de esta temática; comparable al outro de 'Slide Away' (oasis), epico, con backing vocals excelentes, lineas concretas y directas, así como un grandisimo feeling que se transmite facilmente a cualquiera que se identifique con las lineas de esta canción. Despues les pondre otras canciones de BRMC y demás grupos de mis preferidos con mi respectiva visión al respecto, por ahora les dejo las letras y un video en vivo de 'Howl'.

You try so hard to be cold
You try so hard to not show
I give you nothing to doubt, and you doubt me
I give you all that I have, but you don't see

Now I know that my eyes must close here
Every word seems to feel like you don't care
But I know that you're so confused and afraid
I just want to be one true thing that don't fade
I don't wanna give up tomorrow
I just can't understand why we're going on...

You try so hard to be heard
You try so hard to not hurt
I give you nothing to doubt, and you doubt me
I give you all that I have, but you don't see
Now I know that my eyes must close here
Every word seems to feel like you don't care
But I know that you're so confused and afraid
I just want to be one true thing that don't fade
I don't wanna give up tomorrow
I just can't understand why we're going on...

I don't wanna be sad, I don't wanna be scared
I won't wait for you in silence
I see the road is long...
And I don't wanna be sad, (I see the road is long)
I give you my word... that I just can't take it anymore, Its over, its over.
I don't wanna live for you, inside.
And I won't wait for you in silence.
Its over , its over.