quarta-feira, novembro 30, 2005

Domingo



Também levarei pro túmulo alguns presentes de meus amigos paulistas...

"Não sei o que fazer
Não sei o que fazer
Eu saio por aí
Sem ter aonde ir

Não é sete de setembro
Nem dia de finados
Não é sexta-feira santa
Nem um outro feriado

E antes que eu esqueça onde estou
Antes que eu esqueça onde estou
aonde estou com a cabeça?

Tudo está fechado
Tudo está fechado
Domingo é sempre assim
E quem não está acostumado?

É dia de descanso
Nem precisava tanto
É dia de descanso
Programa Silvio Santos

E antes que eu confunda o domingo
Antes que eu confunda o domingo
O domingo com a segunda

Domingo eu quero ver
o domingo passar
Domingo eu quero ver
o domingo acabar
Domingo eu quero ver
o domingo passar
Domingo eu quero ver
o domingo acabar

Tudo está fechado
Tudo está fechado
Domingo é sempre assim
E quem não está acostumado

É dia de descanso
Nem precisava tanto
É dia de descanso
Programa Silvio santos

Domingo eu quero ver o domingo passar
Domingo eu quero ver o domingo passar
Domingo eu quero ver o domingo passar
Até o proximo, até o proximo, até o proximo domingo

E antes que eu confunda o domingo
Antes que eu confunda o domingo
O domingo com a segunda

Domingo eu quero ver
o domingo passar
Domingo eu quero ver
o domingo acabar
Domingo eu quero ver
o domingo passar
Domingo eu quero ver
o domingo acabar

Até o proximo
Até o proximo
Até o proximo domingo
Até o proximo
Até o proximo
Até o proximo domingo"

Domingo
Titãs

quarta-feira, novembro 23, 2005

R.E.M.



Quantas músicas do R.E.M. caberiam na minha bagagem?
Se tivesse que escolher poucas, certamente não faltaria esta...

"When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
When you’re sure you’ve had enough of this life, well hang on
Don’t let yourself go, everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes

Sometimes everything is wrong. now it’s time to sing along
When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go, (hold on)
When you think you’ve had too much of this life, well hang on

’cause everybody hurts. take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts. don’t throw your hand. oh, no. don’t throw your hand
If you feel like you’re alone, no, no, no, you are not alone

If you’re on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,
When you think you’ve had too much of this life to hang on

Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
Everybody cries. and everybody hurts sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes. so, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts. you are not alone"

Everybody Hurts
R.E.M.

sábado, novembro 19, 2005

Tapete mágico



Quando eu era criança minha mãe me cantava essa canção de ninar do Steppenwolf...
Viva os anos 60!

"I like to dream yes, yes, right between my sound machine
On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Any place it goes is right
Goes far, flies near, to the stars away from here

Well, you don't know what we can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
You don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away

Last night I held Aladdin's lamp
And so I wished that I could stay
Before the thing could answer me
Well, someone came and took the lamp away
I looked around, a lousy candle's all I found

Well, you don't know what we can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
Well, you don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away"

Magic Carpet Ride (1968)
Steppenwolf

Words and music by John Kay and Rushton Moreve

segunda-feira, novembro 14, 2005

só Gil




Pensando bem, poderia levar só músicas do Gil.
Teria material de trabalho pro resto da morte...

“Diz o I Ching:
Divino é saber
O que distingue
Você de você

Você dos outros
Do outro você
Você do mundo
Do você do ser

Você num canto
Vive o espanto
Enquanto o outro você
Sai pra viver
Por aí
Tanto pranto, tanta dor
Seu irmão
Pede o seu amor

Diz o I Ching:
Divino é saber
São dois no ringue
Você e você

Você que ataca
Pra se defender
Que beija a lona
Pra poder vencer

Você num canto
Apanha tanto
Enquanto o outro você
Bate demais
Deus do céu
Quanto sangue pelo chão
Seu irmão
Pede o seu perdão”


Você e você
Gilberto Gil

domingo, novembro 13, 2005

metáfora



Domingo de sol no Rio.
Penso no verão e no início dos anos 80...

“Uma lata existe para conter algo
Mas quando o poeta diz: “Lata”
Pode estar querendo dizer o incontível

Uma meta existe para ser um alvo
Mas quando o poeta diz: “Meta”
Pode estar querendo dizer o inatingível

Por isso, não se meta a exigir do poeta
Que determine o conteúdo em sua lata
Na lata do poeta tudonada cabe
Pois ao poeta cabe fazer
Com que na lata venha caber
O incabível

Deixe a meta do poeta, não discuta
Deixe a sua meta fora da disputa
Meta dentro e fora, lata absoluta
Deixe-a simplesmente metáfora”

Metáfora
Gilberto Gil

sábado, novembro 12, 2005

Asas do Desejo



Meu filme favorito começa com uma poesia/música das mais simples, que certamente me acompanhará para sempre...

"Als das Kind Kind war,
ging es mit hängenden Armen,
wollte der Bach sei ein Fluß,
der Fluß sei ein Strom,
und diese Pfütze das Meer.
Als das Kind Kind war,
wußte es nicht, daß es Kind war,
alles war ihm beseelt,
und alle Seelen waren eins.
Als das Kind Kind war,
hatte es von nichts eine Meinung,
hatte keine Gewohnheit,
saß oft im Schneidersitz,
lief aus dem Stand,
hatte einen Wirbel im Haar
und machte kein Gesicht beim fotografieren.
Als das Kind Kind war,
war es die Zeit der folgenden Fragen:
Warum bin ich ich und warum nicht du?
Warum bin ich hier und warum nicht dort?
Wann begann die Zeit und wo endet der Raum?
Ist das Leben unter der Sonne nicht bloß ein Traum?
Ist was ich sehe und höre und rieche
nicht bloß der Schein einer Welt vor der Welt?
Gibt es tatsächlich das Böse und Leute,
die wirklich die Bösen sind?
Wie kann es sein, daß ich, der ich bin,
bevor ich wurde, nicht war,
und daß einmal ich, der ich bin,
nicht mehr der ich bin, sein werde?
Als das Kind Kind war,
würgte es am Spinat, an den Erbsen, am Milchreis,
und am gedünsteten Blumenkohl.
und ißt jetzt das alles und nicht nur zur Not.
Als das Kind Kind war,
erwachte es einmal in einem fremden Bett
und jetzt immer wieder,
erschienen ihm viele Menschen schön
und jetzt nur noch im Glücksfall,
stellte es sich klar ein Paradies vor
und kann es jetzt höchstens ahnen,
konnte es sich Nichts nicht denken
und schaudert heute davor.
Als das Kind Kind war,
spielte es mit Begeisterung
und jetzt, so ganz bei der Sache wie damals, nur noch,
wenn diese Sache seine Arbeit ist.
Als das Kind Kind war,
genügten ihm als Nahrung Apfel, Brot,
und so ist es immer noch.
Als das Kind Kind war,
fielen ihm die Beeren wie nur Beeren in die Hand
und jetzt immer noch,
machten ihm die frischen Walnüsse eine rauhe Zunge
und jetzt immer noch,
hatte es auf jedem Berg
die Sehnsucht nach dem immer höheren Berg,
und in jeden Stadt
die Sehnsucht nach der noch größeren Stadt,
und das ist immer noch so,
griff im Wipfel eines Baums nach dem Kirschen in einemHochgefühl
wie auch heute noch,
eine Scheu vor jedem Fremden
und hat sie immer noch,
wartete es auf den ersten Schnee,
und wartet so immer noch.
Als das Kind Kind war,
warf es einen Stock als Lanze gegen den Baum,
und sie zittert da heute noch."

Lied Vom Kindsein
Peter Handke



"When the child was a child
It walked with its arms swinging,
wanted the brook to be a river,
the river to be a torrent,
and this puddle to be the sea.
When the child was a child,
it didn’t know that it was a child,
everything was soulful,
and all souls were one.
When the child was a child,
it had no opinion about anything,
had no habits,
it often sat cross-legged,
took off running,
had a cowlick in its hair,
and made no faces when photographed.
When the child was a child,
It was the time for these questions:
Why am I me, and why not you?
Why am I here, and why not there?
When did time begin, and where does space end?
Is life under the sun not just a dream?
Is what I see and hear and smell
not just an illusion of a world before the world?
Given the facts of evil and people.
does evil really exist?
How can it be that I, who I am,
didn’t exist before I came to be,
and that, someday, I, who I am,
will no longer be who I am?
When the child was a child,
It choked on spinach, on peas, on rice pudding,
and on steamed cauliflower,
and eats all of those now, and not just because it has to.
When the child was a child,
it awoke once in a strange bed,
and now does so again and again.
Many people, then, seemed beautiful,
and now only a few do, by sheer luck.
It had visualized a clear image of Paradise,
and now can at most guess,
could not conceive of nothingness,
and shudders today at the thought.
When the child was a child,
It played with enthusiasm,
and, now, has just as much excitement as then,
but only when it concerns its work.
When the child was a child,
It was enough for it to eat an apple, … bread,
And so it is even now.
When the child was a child,
Berries filled its hand as only berries do,
and do even now,
Fresh walnuts made its tongue raw,
and do even now,
it had, on every mountaintop,
the longing for a higher mountain yet,
and in every city,
the longing for an even greater city,
and that is still so,
It reached for cherries in topmost branches of trees
with an elation it still has today,
has a shyness in front of strangers,
and has that even now.
It awaited the first snow,
And waits that way even now.
When the child was a child,
It threw a stick like a lance against a tree,
And it quivers there still today."

Song of Childhood
By Peter Handke

quinta-feira, novembro 10, 2005

Paradoxos desta (e d'outras) trajetórias

Se é fato que os movimentos sociais produzem transformação social, olhar pra borboleta aí embaixo, numa 5ª à noite, em meio à intensa semana produzindo movimentação social, só dá pra uma coisa: a música da semana (do mês, do ano de 2005) só poderia ser Metamorfose Ambulante.
É nessa balada que embalo um desejo súbito/dúbio neste momento: virar minhoca (portanto, ficar debaixo da terra e descansar, sumir de fininho literalmente) ou borboleta. Em outras palavras: ou se bate as canelas ou é sebo nas canelas...


"Eu prefiro ser
Essa metamorfose ambulante
Eu prefiro ser
Essa metamorfose ambulante

Do que ter aquela velha opinião formada sobre tudo
Do que ter aquela velha opinião formada sobre tudo

Eu quero dizer
Agora o oposto do que eu disse antes
Eu prefiro ser
Essa metamorfose ambulante
Do que ter aquela velha opinião formada sobre tudo
Do que ter aquela velha opinião formada sobre tudo
Sobre o que é o amor
Sobre o que eu nem sei quem sou
Se hoje eu sou estrela
Amanhã já se apagou
Se hoje eu te odeio
Amanhã lhe tenho amor
Lhe tenho amor
Lhe tenho horror
Lhe faço amor
Eu sou um ator

É chato chegar
A um objetivo num instante
Eu quero viver
Nessa metamorfose ambulante
Do que ter aquela velha opinião formada sobre tudo
Do que ter aquela velha opinião formada sobre tudo
Sobre o que é o amor
Sobre o que eu nem sei quem sou

Se hoje eu sou estrela
Amanhã já se apagou
Se hoje eu te odeio
Amanhã lhe tenho amor
Lhe tenho amor
Lhe tenho horror
Lhe faço amor
Eu sou um ator

Eu vou desdizer
Aquilo tudo que eu lhe disse antes
Eu prefiro ser
Essa metamorfose ambulante
Do que ter aquela velha opinião formada sobre tudo
Do que ter aquela velha opinião formada sobre tudo
do que ter aquela velha opinião formada sobre tudo
do que ter aquela velha velha velha velha velha opinião formada sobre tudo
do que ter aquela velha opinião sobre tudo"

(Metamorfose Ambulante - Raulzito, o Seixas)

quarta-feira, novembro 09, 2005

Changes




Que tal David Bowie para alegrar a festa no funeral?...

"Oh yeah
Mm
Still don’t know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets and
Every time I thought I’d got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I’ve never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I’m much too fast to take that test

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Don’t want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can’t trace time

I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
So the days float through my eyes
But stil the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They’re quite aware of what they’re going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Don’t tell them to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Where’s your shame
You’ve left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can’t trace time

Strange fascination, fascinating me
Ah changes are taking the pace I’m going through

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Oh, look out you rock ’n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-changes
Pretty soon now you’re gonna get a little older
Time may change me
But I can’t trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can’t trace time"

Changes
David Bowie

terça-feira, novembro 08, 2005

mais das mesmas



Como a memória do iPod é grande, seguem mais músicas das poetisas...

"I’m broke but I’m happy
I’m poor but I’m kind
I’m short but I’m healthy, yeah
I’m high but I’m grounded
I’m sane but I’m overwhelmed
I’m lost but I’m hopeful baby

What it all comes down to
Is that everthing’s gonna be fine fine fine
I’ve got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving a high five

I feel drunk but I’m sober
I’m young and I’m underpaid
I’m tired but I’m working, yeah
I care but I’m restless
I’m here but I’m really gone
I’m wrong and I’m sorry baby

What it all comes down to
Is that everything’s gonna be quite alright
I’ve got one hand in my pocket
And the other is flicking a cigarette

What is all comes down to
Is that I haven’t got it all figured out just yet
I’ve got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is giving the peace sign

I’m free but I’m focused
I’m green but I’m wise
I’m hard but I’m friendly baby
I’m sad but I’m laughing
I’m brave but I’m chicken shit
I’m sick but I’m pretty baby

What it all boils down to
Is that no one’s really got it figured out just yet
I’ve got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is playing the piano

What it all comes down to my friends
Is that everything’s just fine fine fine
I’ve got one hand in my pocket
And the other one is hailing a taxi cab..."

Hand in my pocket
Alanis Morissette


_____

"I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
Traveling, traveling, traveling
Looking for something, what can it be
Oh I hate you some, I hate you some
I love you some
Oh I love you when I forget about me
I want to be strong I want to laugh along
I want to belong to the living
Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive
I want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive
Do you want - do you want - do you want
To dance with me baby
Do you want to take a chance
On maybe finding some sweet romance with me baby
Well, come on

All I really really want our love to do
Is to bring out the best in me and in you too
All I really really want our love to do
Is to bring out the best in me and in you
I want to talk to you, I want to shampoo you
I want to renew you again and again
Applause, applause - life is our cause
When I think of your kisses
My mind see-saws
Do you see - do you see - do you see
How you hurt me baby
So I hurt you too
Then we both get so blue

I am on a lonely road and I am traveling
Looking for the key to set me free
Oh the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling
It’s the unraveling
And it undoes all the joy that could be
I want to have fun, I want to shine like the sun
I want to be the one that you want to see
I want to knit you a sweater
Want to write you a love letter
I want to make you feel better
I want to make you feel free
Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm,
Want to make you feel free
I want to make you feel free"

All I want
Joni Mitchell


______

"Haven’t we met
You’re some kind of beautiful stranger
You could be good for me
I have a taste for danger
If I’m smart then I’ll run away
But I’m not so I guess I’ll stay
Heaven forbid
I take my chance on a beautiful stranger

I looked into your eyes
And my world came tumbling down
You’re the devil in disguise
That’s why I’m singing this song
To know you is to love you

You’re everywhere I go
And everybody knows
To love you is to be part of you
I pay for you with tears
And swallow all my pride

Dah-dah-dah-de dah-de-dah-de dah dah dah-dah-dum
Beautiful stranger
Dah-dah-dah-de dah-de-dah-de dah dah dah-dah-dum
Beautiful stranger

If I’m smart then I’ll run away
But I’m not so I guess I’ll stay
Haven’t you heard
I fell in love with a beautiful stranger

I looked into your face
My heart was dancing all over the place
I’d like to change your point-of-view
If I could just forget about you
To know you is to love you

You’re everywhere I go
And everybody knows

I looked into your eyes
And my world came tumbling down
You’re the devil in disguise
That’s why I’m singing this song to you
To know you is to love you

You’re everywhere I go
And everybody knows
I pay for you with tears
And swallow all my pride

Dah-dah-dah-de dah-de-dah-de dah dah dah-dah-dum
Beautiful stranger
Dah-dah-dah-de dah-de-dah-de dah dah dah-dah-dum
Beautiful stranger"

Beautiful Stranger
Madonna

terça-feira, novembro 01, 2005

Poetisas




Se na bagagem só coubessem letras (e músicas) femininas, acho que eu carregaria meu iPod de Alanis, Joni Mitchell, Madonna...

"An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It’s a black fly in your chardonnay
It’s a death row pardon two minutes too late
Isn’t it ironic... don’t you think?

Chorus:
It’s like rain on your wedding day
It’s a free ride when you’ve already paid
It’s the good advice that you just didn’t take
Who would’ve thought... it figures

Mr. play it safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
Well isn’t this nice...
And isn’t it ironic... don’t you think?

Repeat chorus

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything’s okay and everything’s going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything’s gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face

A traffic jam when you’re already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It’s meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn’t it ironic... don’t you think?
A little too ironic... and yeah I really do think...

Repeat chorus

Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out"

Ironic
Alanis Morissette


____

"The last time I saw Richard was Detroit in ’68,
And he told me all romantics meet the same fate someday
Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe
You laugh, he said you think you’re immune, go look at your eyes
They’re full of moon
You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you
All those pretty lies, pretty lies
When you gonna realise they’re only pretty lies
Only pretty lies, just pretty lies

He put a quarter in the Wurlitzer, and he pushed
Three buttons and the thing began to whirr
And a bar maid came by in fishnet stockings and a bow tie
And she said drink up now it’s gettin’ on time to close.
Richard, you haven’t really changed, I said
It’s just that now you’re romanticizing some pain that’s in your head
You got tombs in your eyes, but the songs
You punched are dreaming
Listen, they sing of love so sweet, love so sweet
When you gonna get yourself back on your feet?
Oh and love can be so sweet, love so sweet

Richard got married to a figure skater
And he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator
And he drinks at home now most nights with the TV on
And all the house lights left up bright
I’m gonna blow this damn candle out
I don’t want nobody comin’ over to my table
I got nothing to talk to anybody about
All good dreamers pass this way some day
Hidin’ behind bottles in dark cafes
Dark cafes
Only a dark cocoon before I get my gorgeous wings
And fly away
Only a phase, these dark cafe days"

Last time I saw Richard
Joni Mitchell


____

"Things haven’t been the same
Since you came into my life
You found a way to touch my soul
And I’m never, ever, ever gonna let it go

Bridge:

Happiness lies in your own hand
It took me much too long to understand
How it could be
Until you shared your secret with me

Chorus:

Mmm mmm
Something’s comin’ over, mmm mmm
Something’s comin’ over, mmm mmm
Something’s comin’ over me
My baby’s got a secret

You gave me back the paradise
That I thought I lost for good
You helped me find the reasons why
It took me by surprise that you understood
You knew all along
What I never wanted to say
Until I learned to love myself
I was never ever lovin’ anybody else

Mmm mmm, my baby’s got a secret
Mmm mmm, my baby’s got a secret
Mmm mmm, my baby’s got a secret for me

Mmm mmm, mmm mmm, mmm mmm"

Secret
Madonna