Tranquilidad absoluta, remanso de paz, tranquilidad y sosiego. Un fin de semana muy tranquilo. A la espera de dejaros por aquí alguna de las adquisiciones de Ebay y nuevas entregas de sketchbusters y alguna reseñilla, que ya hace tiempo que no hablo de comics y eso no puede ser, comienzo la semana con una de mis canciones favoritas, un tema épico y melancólico que dura diez minutazos, que comienza suave y lento y finaliza con un crescendo de guitarra y piano espectacular. Con todos ustedes, la voz rota y la mano rápida de Mark Knopfler y sus Dire Straits…
Telegraph Road
Dire Straits
A long time ago came a man on a track
Walking thirty miles with a pack on his back
And he put down his load where he thought it was the best
Made a home in the wilderness
He built a cabin and a winter store
And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
And the other travellers came riding down the track
And they never went further, no, they never went back
Then came the churches then came the schools
Then came the lawyers then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
And the dirty old track was the telegraph road
Then came the mines - then came the ore
Then there was the hard times then there was a war
Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
Telegraph road got so deep and so wide
Like a rolling river. . .
And my radio says tonight its gonna freeze
People driving home from the factories
Theres six lanes of traffic
Three lanes moving slow. . .
I used to like to go to work but they shut it down
I got a right to go to work but theres no work here to be found
Yes and they say were gonna have to pay whats owed
Were gonna have to reap from some seed thats been sowed
And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
All the way down the telegraph road
You know Id sooner forget but I remember those nights
When life was just a bet on a race between the lights
You had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair
Now you act a little colder like you dont seem to care
But believe in me baby and Ill take you away
From out of this darkness and into the day
From these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain
From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
cos Ive run every red light on memory lane
Ive seen desperation explode into flames
And I dont want to see it again. . .
>from all of these signs saying sorry but were closed
All the way down the telegraph road
2 comentarios:
Que sepas que tu amigo Mark Korn-flakes, o como ostias se diga, acaba de sacar un disco nuevo, haciendo pareja con una cantante de jazz o blues o algo así. Se que es con una tipa pero no estoy seguro ahora de quién es.
saluditos fresquitos
Sí, el buen hombre ha hecho pareja artística con una cantante country, una tal Emmylou Harris. La verdad, lo prefiero en su faceta pop-rock, y más exactamente como lider de Dire Straits... En fin...
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