The Beatles – Across The Universe

Geralmente quando me perguntam há quanto tempo eu curto rock and roll, eu respondo dizendo que o meu presente de 7 anos foram dois discos dos Beatles, mas que eu já os ouvia bem antes disso.

Os discos em questão eram o Magical Mystery Tour e o Let It Be. Desde essa época – e olha que já lá se vão mais de 2 décadas – que eu considero Across The Universe uma das músicas mais lindas que o rock já produziu, e continuo com a mesma opinião. Como se não fosse suficiente a qualidade musical, a letra é linda e tem um conteúdo bastante espiritual, não é exatamente aquela coisa que vc passa os olhos rapidinho e já saca do que se trata.

Essa é uma letra que dá uma boa discussão aí nos comentários, mas depende de ter gente lendo o blog, o que talvez seja pedir demais de um blog que não faz propaganda e vive num perene estado de “semi-abandono”, rs…

Across The Universe
(The Beatles)

Words are flying out like
endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
They slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
are drifting thorough my open mind
Possessing and caressing me

Jai guru deva om
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world

Images of broken light which
dance before me like a million eyes
That call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a restless
wind inside a letter box
they tumble blindly as
they make their way across the universe

Jai guru deva om
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world

Sounds of laughter shades of earth
are ringing through my open ears
exciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe

Jai guru deva om
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Jai guru deva
Jai guru deva

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Metallica – Fade To Black

Como assim, um blog cujo conteúdo é basicamente sobre letras de música e até agora eu ainda não tinha postado Fade To Black? Bem…penitência devidamente paga.

Fade To Black
(Metallica)

Life it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters no one else
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free

Things are not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this cant be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filling me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me, but now he’s gone

No one but me can save myself, but it’s too late
Now I can’t think, think why I should even try

Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye

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Pink Floyd – The Trial

Particularmente, eu considero o The Wall a mais completa obra-prima contemporânea. Letras, música e filme – todos do mais alto nível. Quem se aprofundar nas letras desse álbum vai encontrar talvez o maior tratado sobre a alma humana já realizado sob uma concepção artística.

Sobre The Trial, especificamente…bem…taí a letra:

The Trial
(Pink Floyd)

Good morning, Worm your honor.
The crown will plainly show
The prisoner who now stands before you
Was caught red-handed showing feelings,
Showing feelings of an almost human nature.
This will not do.
Call the schoolmaster!

I always said he’d come to no good
In the end your honor.
If they’d let me have my way I could
Have flayed him into shape.
But my hands were tied,
The bleeding hearts and artists
Let him get away with murder.
Let me hammer him today?

Crazy, toys in the attic I am crazy,
Truly gone fishing
They must have taken my marbles away
(Crazy, toys in the attic he’s crazy)

You little shit you’re in it, now
I hope they throw away the key.
Yer should have talked to me more often
Than you did, but no! You had to go
Your own way, have you broken any
Homes up lately?
Just five minutes, Worm your honor,
Him and me, alone.

Baaaaaaaaaabe!
Come to mother baby,
Let me hold you in my arms.
M’lud I never wanted him ta
Get in any trouble.
Why’d he ever have to leave me?
Worm, your honor, let me take him home.

Crazy,
Over the rainbow, I am crazy,
Bars in the window.
There must have been a door there in the wall when I came in.
(Crazy, over the rainbow, he is crazy)

The evidence before the court is
Incontrovertible, there’s no need for the jury to retire.
In all my years of judging
I have never heard before
Of someone more deserving a
The full penalty of law.
The way you made them suffer,
Your exquisite wife and mother,
Fills me with the urge to defecate!

“Go on Judge, shit on him!”
Since, my friend, you have revealed your deepest fear,
I sentence you to be exposed before
Your peers.

TEAR DOWN THE WALL!
TEAR DOWN THE WALL!
TEAR DOWN THE WALL!
TEAR DOWN THE WALL!

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Rush – Bravado

Ok, não estranhem se isso aqui aos poucos virar um catálogo de músicas do Rush…é q além de eles serem uma de minhas bandas favoritas, no quesito “letras” os caras conseguem manter o mesmo nível, graças a um ser que, insatisfeito em ser “apenas” o melhor baterista do mundo ainda “de quebra” resolveu ser um puta letrista também (Neil Peart) . Essa é mais uma da “linha otimista”, se bem que nem dá para comparar com o Helloween – Bravado pende bem mais para o lirismo poético do que para utopias adolescentes. Enjoy!!!

Bravado
(Rush)

If we burn our wings
Flying too close to the sun
If the moment of glory
Is over before its begun
If the dream is won –
Though everything is lost
We will pay the price,
But we will not count the cost

When the dust has cleared
And victory denied
A summit too lofty
River a little too wide
If we keep our pride –
Though paradise is lost
We will pay the price,
But we will not count the cost

And if the music stops
Theres only the sound of the rain
All the hope and glory
All the sacrifice in vain
[and] if love remains
Though everything is lost
We will pay the price,
But we will not count the cost

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Helloween – We Got The Right

Eu admito, eu tenho a tendência de preferir letras mais down, então resolvi colocar uma letra mais otimista só para variar um pouco. E podem falar o que quiserem, apesar do tom ingênuo/inocente/utópico da letra, ainda é uma baita letra, e para completar é um PUTA SOM, com direito a um “show particular” do Michael Kiske, ex-vocalista do Helloween.

We Got The Right
(Helloween)

Don’t turn your head
Back to the wall
Don’t close your eyes
And wait for your fall

If you believe that you know in this time
You’ve got anything to win
If you believe that you know
Then I say, “You’ll lose all again”

In this time there’s nothing to get for you
You cannot really do what you want
You’re a child, a prisoner in your mind
You are a victim of this hopeless time

You better believe all you do has a sense
It’s not for nothing
You better believe all the troubles you have
Will play you someday

Why don’t you help yourself and do the best
Put all the bombs back up their builders’ ass
Why don’t you stand up to say who you are
To show the people that paradise is not far

Oh, can’t you see we got the right
To look into the future without no need to hide
No, we won’t accept what you do
We stand up ’cause we’re not the people you can abuse
Oh, can’t you see we got the right
To say we are here to see the light
No, we don’t wanna lose all again
Stand up, you people, to save the world
As good as you can

We are credulous idiots
And won’t understand what they plan
We march with the times
It’s what they expect and we do

Why don’t you open your eyes
To undercover all of these lies
I think you won’t accept this
Go oppose with your fist
Fight for your rights

Oh, can’t you see we got the right
To say we are here to see the light
No, we don’t wanna lose all again
Stand up, you people, to save the world
As good as you can
No, we don’t wanna lose all again
Stand up, you people, to save the world
As good as you can

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Porcupine Tree – A Smart Kid

Com esse post está sendo inaugurada mais uma categoria aqui no Buteco: a Vitrola. Essa categoria vai ser composta basicamente de dicas de sons que eu acho legais. Antes que perguntem – nada impede que um post pertença a mais de uma categoria, como é o caso desse aqui. Em termos práticos, isso significa que quem assinar apenas os podcasts vai receber os posts da “Vitrola” normalmente desde que eles tb venham com um podcast junto.

Aliás, vcs já viram a novidade na barra lateral, né? Quem quiser agora pode ser avisado por email a cada post, a cada podcast ou até a cada comentário que pintar por aqui. Como o recurso é novo, estou esperando o feedback de vcs – sintam-se à vontade para falar com o gerente.

Ok, voltemos ao post. Bem, falar do Porcupine Tree para mim é falar da melhor coisa que surgiu na música nos últimos 15 anos. Para dar uma referência, o som dos caras é uma mistura de Beatles, Pink Floyd, eletrônico e (dependendo da “fase”) algumas guitarras mais heavy (preciso dizer q o som é britânico até a medula?). Esse som é do Stupid Dream, tb um dos melhores álbuns dos últimos 10 anos. Prestem atenção no caráter pós-acopalíptico-reflexivo-existencial dessa letra, que consegue ser quase tão foda quanto a música. Bem, chega de verborragia e vamos ao que interessa (as partes que achei mais interessantes estão em negrito).

A Smart Kid
(Porcupine Tree)

Stranded here on planet earth
It’s not much but it could be worse
Everything’s free here, there’s no crowds

Winter lasted five long years
No sun will come again I fear
Chemical harvest was sown

And I will wait for you
Until the sky is blue
And I will wait for you
What else can I do?

A spaceship from another star
They ask me where all the people are
What can I tell them?

I tell them I’m the only one
There was a war but I must have won
Please take me with you.

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Eloy – Incarnation of The Logos

Essa é para quem gosta de misticismo, e é um excelente exemplo de combinação entre letra e música: enquanto a criação está “latente” a música se mantém em “ponto morto”, até q o narrador repete 3 vezes o antológico “Primary Procreation Is Accomplished” (que eu até hj fico arrepiado de ouvir), e aí com o surgimento do homem entra o baixo e a música “começa” de verdade…talvez o melhor álbum (Ocean) de uma das melhores bandas que já saiu da Alemanha. Para os que não conhecem, façam bom uso do botão de play aí embaixo (ou do link de “Baixar mp3″)…

Incarnation Of The Logos
(Eloy)

No native soil, no ocean, no salty wave
No sky above
No living being, no movement, no colours, no elements
No eye to see anything- complete emptiness
Before all was nothing?

The moon, companion of the sun,
touching celestial globe, motionless starry sky
The planets don’t know where to move
They are unaware of puissance and of hope
Intrinsic virtues awake!

All of a sudden appears a light, horizons open wide
Voices fill the air
And The Gods Made Love!
The layers tremble and raise in staggering
And words transform into flesh and blood

The act of uppermost magic has begun
Impulses working on and on
Movement here and there
Vibrations Move The Atmosphere!

Transcendental forces penetrate
The planet we call Earth
And all spheres of the universe
All the elements burst!

A warm powerful breeze inspires inanimate matter
And a creature, shaky reeling on two legs
Extends it’s hands shivering against the sky
Primary Procreation Is Accomplished!

MAN arises out of dusty clouds
Eyes are staring all around
Ears are noticing unknown sounds
Legs are pounding on the ground

Now Man knows he’s not alone
So his hands take up the stone
Anxiety to hold his own
Fighting for the creatures throne

Man forms tribes to enlarge his chance
To survive the primeval living-dance
The strongest ones fight for leadership
And by these fights they attain the grip
On the weaker ones who become suppressed
By their violence
So are we possessed by the same ideas
In a world
That’s full of fears and tears and “progresses”

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Pink Floyd – Welcome to the Machine

Atire a primeira pedra quem nunca “se achou” nessa letra.

Welcome to the Machine
(Pink Floyd)

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
Where have you been?
It’s alright we know where you’ve been.
You’ve been in the pipeline, filling in time,
Provided with toys and “Scouting for Boys”.
You bought a guitar to punish your ma,
And you didn’t like school, and you
know you’re nobody’s fool,
So welcome to the machine.

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
What did you dream?
It’s alright we told you what to dream.
You dreamed of a big star,
He played a mean guitar,
He always ate in the Steak Bar.
He loved to drive in his Jaguar.
So welcome to the Machine.

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David Bowie – My Death

Eu ainda lembro que na minha adolescência a minha impressão de David Bowie não era das melhores – provavelmente graças ao clip de Let’s Dance que rolava direto na MTV. Foi só muitos anos depois, quando escutei o Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars que eu “perdi o preconceito”, por assim dizer. Esse é um dos sons dessa época. Dêem uma sacada na letra, é bem sombria porém maravilhosa. Enjoy!

My Death
(David Bowie)

My death waits like an old roue
So confident, Ill go his way
Whistle to him
And the passing time…

My death waits like a Bible truth
At the funeral of my youth
We drank for that -
The passing time..

My death waits like
A witch at night
As surely as our love is right
Lets not think of that or the passing time

But whatever lies behind the door
There is nothing much to do…
Angel or devil, I dont care
For in front of that door…
There is you.

My death waits like a beggar blind
Who sees the world through an unlit mind
Throw him a dime
For the passing time…

My death waits to allow my friends
A few good times
Before it ends
Lets not think about
And the passing time…

My death waits there, between your thighs,
Your cool fingers will close my eyes,
Lets not think about the passing time.

For whatever lies behind the door
There is nothing much to do…
Angel or devil, I dont care
For in front of that door…
There is you.

My death waits there among the leaves
In magicians mysterious sleeves,
Rabbits and dogs, and the passing time…

My death waits there, among the flowers
Where the blackest shadows cowers
So lets pick lilacs
The passing time..

My death waits there, in a double bed
Sails of oblivion and my head
Lets not think about
The passing time.

But whatever lies behind the door
There is nothing much to do…
Angel or devil, I dont care
For, in front of that door…
There is me.

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Rush – Subdivisions

Subdivisions
(Rush)

Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown

Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone

Nowhere is the dreamer
Or the misfit so alone

Subdivisions —
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
Subdivisions —
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
The restless dreams of youth

Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night

Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight

Somewhere out of a memory
Of lighted streets on quiet nights…

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