Confesiones: Primera

Todos hemos llorado con alguna canción de fondo, pero solo una canción me ha hecho llorar por si misma. Sin más motivo que la misma canción. Es esta.

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Lyrics - Bob Dylan

Cumple un genio...

Nada más y nada menos que 70 años cumple hoy un genio de la música. Bob Dylan ha sido todo un icono para todo el mundo. Ya no es que solo influya en la música, que lo hace y mucho, sino que también ha influido en el cine, en la poesía, y en mil cosas más. Una de mis canciones favoritas es la de hoy, I want you...

¡Felicidades Genio!

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Lyrics - Bob Dylan

The guilty undertaker sighs,
The lonesome organ grinder cries,
The silver saxophones say I should refuse you.
The cracked bells and washed-out horns
Blow into my face with scorn,
But it's not that way,
I wasn't born to lose you.
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you.

The drunken politician leaps
Upon the street where mothers weep
And the saviors who are fast asleep,
They wait for you.
And I wait for them to interrupt
Me drinkin' from my broken cup
And ask me to Y me pidan
Open up the gate for you.
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you.

Now all my fathers, they've gone down
True love they've been without it.
But all their daughters put me down
'Cause I don't think about it.

Well, I return to the Queen of Spades
And talk with my chambermaid.
She knows that I'm not afraid
To look at her.
She is good to me
And there's nothing she doesn't see.
She knows where I'd like to be
But it doesn't matter.
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you.

Now your dancing child with his Chinese suit,
He spoke to me, I took his flute.
No, I wasn't very cute to him,
Was I?
But I did it, though, because he lied
Because he took you for a ride
And because time was on his side
And because I . . .
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you.

Dylan and Sedgwick...

Cuando llegue a mis 150 entradas e hice la lista del Spotify me di cuenta de una cosa: ninguna canción de Dylan de las que he subido al blog esta disponible en Spotify. "Habrá que solucionarlo" pensé. Y ayer encontré la escusa perfecta. En la versión digital del periodico "El País" se publico un articulo dedicado a la canción más importante de Bob Dylan: "Like a Rolling Stone". Para los que no lo sepan esta canción, [que trata sobre la vida de una chica que cae sin freno en el mundo de las drogas y muchos dicen que se inspira en la figura de Edie Sedgwick amiga y supuesta amante de Dylan], es considerada la mejor de la historia debido al punto de inflexión que creó en el panorama musical. Total, que hoy les dejo una entrada cuádruple : Primero, el link actualizado de la lista de este blog en Spotify; Segundo, el artículo sobre el himno de Dylan que os recomiendo ;Tercero, un link de Edie Segdwick, musa e ídolo de los años 60'; y Cuarto, la canción Like a Rolling Stone de Mister Bob Dylan.

¿ Qué tal esas vacaciones ? ;-)

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Lyrics - Bob Dylan

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?
People’d call, say, “Beware doll, you’re bound to fall”
You thought they were all kiddin’ you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin’ out
Now you don’t talk so loud
Now you don’t seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You’ve gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you’re gonna have to get used to it
You said you’d never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He’s not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And ask him do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain’t no good
You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain’t it hard when you discover that
He really wasn’t where it’s at
After he took from you everything he could steal

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They’re drinkin’, thinkin’ that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But you’d better lift your diamond ring, you’d better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can’t refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You’re invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Do You Take Me For Such a Fool...

Bob Dylan tiene dos cualidades que nadie puede discutir. La primera, es su gran talento , tanto para componer música como para escribir las letras de sus canciones. Y la otra cualidad es lo altamente prolífico que es. A cada poco que me pongo escuchar su discografía encuentro alguna joya. La última es "Positively 4th Street", una autentica maravilla de canción con una letra magnífica. Cada vez que la leo me pregunto como puede escribir tan jodidamente bien. Leedla y decidme que les parece :)

Un Abrazo !

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Lyrics - Bob Dylan

You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinning

You got a lotta nerve
To say you got a helping hand to lend
You just want to be on
The side that's winning

You say I let you down
You know it's not like that
If you're so hurt
Why then don't you show it

You say you lost your faith
But that's not where it's at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it

I know the reason
That you talk behind my back
I used to be among the crowd
You're in with

Do you take me for such a fool
To think I'd make contact
With the one who tries to hide
What he don't know to begin with

You see me on the street
You always act surprised
You say, "How are you?" "Good luck"
But you don't mean it

When you know as well as me
You'd rather see me paralyzed
Why don't you just come out once
And scream it

No, I do not feel that good
When I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief
Perhaps I'd rob them

And now I know you're dissatisfied
With your position and your place
Don't you understand
It's not my problem

I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is
To see you

Pasiones Heredadas.

A mi madre le hace muchisima gracia cuando me ve escuchando a Bob Dylan. Y es que según ella, de pequeño no me gustaba nada [ aunque yo solo recuerdo que simplemente no le prestaba atención ]. Supongo que ahora que entiendo el inglés las letras de Dylan cobran más significado para mi que antes [ así que por favor, esta vez leed bien la letra porque son espectaculares :) ]; y por supuesto que ahora también mi gusto musical ha evolucionado [ por suerte :) ]. Así, hoy les dejo otro de los grandes clásicos, y para mi uno de los mejores artistas de la historia musical. Espero que les guste tanto como a mi y a mi madre [ que era y es, super fan de Dylan xD ]

Feliz Finde :) !

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Lyrics - Bob Dylan

Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain
Ev'rybody knows
That Baby's got new clothes
But lately I see her ribbons and her bows
Have fallen from her curls.
She takes just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.

Queen Mary, she's my friend
Yes, I believe I'll go see her again
Nobody has to guess
That Baby can't be blessed
Till she sees finally that she's like all the rest
With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls.
She takes just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.

It was raining from the first
And I was dying there of thirst
So I came in here
And your long-time curse hurts
But what's worse
Is this pain in here
I can't stay in here
Ain't it clear that--

I just can't fit
Yes, I believe it's time for us to quit
When we meet again
Introduced as friends
Please don't let on that you knew me when
I was hungry and it was your world.
Ah, you fake just like a woman, yes, you do
You make love just like a woman, yes, you do
Then you ache just like a woman
But you break just like a little girl.