terça-feira, 25 de maio de 2010
Innocent when you dream
Nunca gostei particularmente do Tom Waits; para dizer a verdade (sacrilégio!) sempre me irritou a sua voz etilizada; isto apenas para dizer que nunca estamos protegidos contra o futuro que nos ultrapassa pelo espelho retrovisor e que, por isso e ainda bem, posso confessar que, no final da primeira década dos anos zero-zero, estou rendido. Esta "Innocent when you dream" é do album "Franks Wild Years", de 1986, "Un operachi romantico in two acts", que escreveu com a mulher Kathleen Brennan.
The bats are in the belfry
the dew is on the moor
where are the arms that held me
and pledged her love before
and pledged her love before
It's such a sad old feeling
the fields are soft and green
it's memories that I'm stealing
but you're innocent when you dream
when you dream
you're innocent when you dream
I made a golden promise
that we would never part
I gave my love a locket
and then I broke her heart
and then I broke her heart
Running through the graveyard
we laughed my friends and I
we swore we'd be together
until the day we died
until the day we died