Will you show me something that nobody else has seen?

Quando penso ai prossimi concerti che vorrei assolutamente vedere sono tre i nomi che ritornano sempre:
- REM
- Depeche Mode
- Coldplay
E questo post veloce è dedicato ai primi, anzi, a una delle loro canzoni che amo di più, lunga, difficile, evocativa.
Mi ricorda le atmosfere che ci sono spesso nei miei sogni, offuscate, confuse, indecifrabili ma fortemente collegabili con la realtà.
Al link qui sotto c'è la traduzione del testo super difficile e quasi parlato:
http://www.musicaememoria.com/REM-NewAdventures.htm
Qui sotto invece il link al video, bellissimo, con una Patti Smith delicata, così com'è delicata nell'eseguire la parte femminile del brano:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cnIQHJ169s&feature=related
Inutile dire che uno dei passi che preferisco è quello che ho scelto per il titolo del post.
Buon ascolto!

E-bow the letter

Look up, what do you see?
All of you and all of me
Fluorescent and starry
Some of them, they surprise

The bus ride, I went to write this,
4:00 a.m.
This letter
Fields of poppies, little pearls
All the boys and all the girls sweet-toothed
Each and every one a little scary
I said your name

I wore it like a badge of teenage film
stars
Hash bars, cherry mash and tin-foil
tiaras
Dreaming of Maria Callas
Whoever she is
This fame thing, I don't get it
I wrap my hand in plastic to try to
look through it
Maybelline eyes and girl-as-boy moves
I can take you far
This star thing, I don't get it

I'll take you over, there
I'll take you over, there
Aluminum, tastes like fear
Adrenaline, it pulls us near

I'll take you over
It tastes like fear, there
I'll take you over

Will you live to 83?
Will you ever welcome me?
Will you show me something that nobody
else has seen?
Smoke it, drink
Here comes the flood
Anything to thin the blood
These corrosives do their magic slowly
and sweet
Phone, eat it, drink
Just another chink
Cuts and dents, they catch the light
Aluminum, the weakest link

I don't want to disappoint you
I'm not here to anoint you
I would lick your feet
But is that sickest move?
I wear my own crown and sadness and
sorrow
And who'd have thought tomorrow could
be so strange?
My loss, and here we go again

I'll take you over, there
I'll take you over, there
Aluminum, tastes like fear
Adrenaline, it pulls us near

Look up, what do you see?
All of you and all of me
Fluorescent and starry
Some of them, they surprise

I can't look it in the eyes
Seconal, spanish fly, absinthe, kerosene
Cherry-flavored neck and collar
I can smell the sorrow on your breath
The sweat, the victory and sorrow
The smell of fear, I got it

I'll take you over, there
I'll take you over, there
Aluminum, tastes like fear
Adrenaline, it pulls us near

Pulls us near
Tastes like fear..

Nearer, nearer
over, over, over, over
Yeah, look over
I'll take you there, oh, yeah
I'll take you there
Oh, over
I'll take you there
Over, let me
I'll take you there
There, there, baby, yeah

P.S. La foto che ho scelto, un pò sfocata (ma quella a fuoco che avevo rendeva molto meno) e forse poco chiara, rappresenta fogli stesi ad asciugare in una vecchia cartiera ligure.