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Ricordo, durante un'accesa quanto stimolante diatriba qui su DeBaser col "famigerato" Vic Sorriso, una definizione alquanto lapidaria, da quest'ultimo data, circa il concetto di "capolavoro" nell'arte.
Il buon Vic insisteva nel ritenere che fosse necessario "Essere dei capolavori viventi per creare un capolavoro".
Lipperlì mi sembrò una sparata non poco pacchiana per suscitare effetto agli occhi del debaseriota (o debaseriano?) di turno. Ma pochi istanti dopo, tramite un atto di Versthen, compresi ciò che intendeva dire. Se mi avesserero, però, chiesto una spiegazione razionale di esso, probabilmente avrei taciuto. Avevo si compreso la sua idea al riguardo, ma mi mancavano i termini adeguati per esplicitarla.
Oggi invece i termini li ho finalmente trovati, e sono solo un paio.
Daniel Johnston.
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01 Chord Organ Blues (04:05)
Everything's big in Texas
You know it is
I think I might have made a big mistake o o o
Chord organ blues
Chord organ blues
Singing those chord organ blues
Wherever I go it's a wild wind
Maybe someday it'll blow me back home again
Chord organ blues
Chord organ blues
Singing those chord organ blues
For every chord that is played
There is a word in my heart that has paid
'Cause my soul loves music
And it loves to hear it made
Singing those chord organ blues
02 The Beatles (02:25)
When I was born in '61
They already had a hit
They worked so hard and they
Made it too
They really were very good
They deserved all their success
They earned it yes they did they didn't
Buy their respect
And everybody wanted to be like them
Everybody wanted to be the Beatles
And I really wanted to be like him
But he died
A legendary rock group
Like history now to read
Like a magical fairy tale that's hard to believe
But it really did happen
Four lads who shook the world
God bless them for what they done
God bless them for what they done
03 Sorry Entertainer (02:20)
Where the wind blows
That's where I go
Where the moon is
That's where I am
And when I just
Have a problem
Always hoping the wind will blow me away again
I'm a loner
I'm a sorry entertainer
I'm a loner
I'm a sorry entertainer
Drove those demons
Out of my head
With an organ and a pencil full of lead
And when I'm dead
I'd like to have it said
He drove those demons out of his head
I'm a loner
I'm a sorry entertainer
I'm a loner
I'm a sorry entertainer
Now the curtain parts the stage
It's the dawn of a new and exciting age
And I'm free
Free at last
Like a monkey out of its cage
I'm a loner
I'm a sorry entertainer
I'm a loner
I'm a sorry entertainer
04 Speeding Motorcycle (03:23)
Speeding motorcycle, won't you change me?
Speeding motorcycle, won't you change me?
In a world of funny changes
Speeding motorcycle, won't you change me?
Speeding motorcycle of my heart
Speeding motorcycle; always changing me
Speeding motorcycle, don't you drive recklessly
Speeding motorcycle of my heart
Pretty girls have taken you for a ride
Hurt you deep inside but you never slowed down
Speeding motorcycle in my heart
Speeding motorcycle, let's speed smart
'Cause we don't want to wreck but
We can do a lot of tricks
We don't have to break our necks
To get our kicks
Speeding motorcycle, the road is ours
Speeding motorcycle, let's speed some more
'Cause we don't need reason and we don't need logic
We've got feeling and we're dang proud of it
Speeding motorcycle, there's nothing you can't do
Speeding motorcycle, I love you
Speeding motorcycle, let's just go
Speeding motorcycle
Let's go let's go let's go
Oo oo
05 Casper the Friendly Ghost (02:59)
He was smiling through his own personal hell
Dropped his last dime down a wishing well
But he was hoping too close
And then he fell
Now he’s Casper the friendly ghost
He was always polite to the people who’d tell him
That he was nothing but a lazy bum
But goodbye to them he had to go
Now he’s Casper the friendly ghost
No one never treated him nice
While he was alive
You can’t buy no respect
Like the librarian said
But everybody respects the dead
They love the friendly ghost
And now they say we’ll never forget
What he learned us
We were mean to him
But he never burnt us
And love lives forever
thanks to you – Casper the friendly ghost
thanks to you – Casper the friendly ghost
16 God (02:32)
God made the world
God made you
God made me too
God made the stars
God made the moon
God made the earth too
God made everything
But God is still creating
God makes me glad
God makes me glad
God made the sea
God made the land
I'm glad God made me
'Cause I love the stars
And I love the moon
And I love the earth too
And I love the God
That made all these things
He made me love him
'Cause he loved me first
God made the world
God made you
God made me too
God made the stars
God made the moon
God made the earth too
God made everything
But God is still creating
God makes me glad
God makes me glad
20 I Remember Painfully (02:44)
I remember how we looked at the embryo in the jar together
And I remember how we stood talking in the store to each other
It was love
But what is it now
It’s pain
I remember your face and I remember your grace
I remember, I remember, I just remember
And I remember how we laughed at the jokes that we had between us
And I remember how we talked and mocked each other blatantly
It was fun
But what is it now
It’s pain
And I remember how you smiled
And that light that was in your eyes
And I remember how pretty you were always a pleasant surprise
It was nice
But what is it now
It’s pain
I remember your face and I remember your grace
I remember, I remember, I just remember
And I remember you at the funeral shaking hands and hanging coats
And I remember you standing pregnant at the art room
It was weird
But what is it now
It’s pain
I remember your face and I remember your grace
I remember, I remember, I just remember
When I saw you at the department store
I said “have a nice baby”
You were standing happy, I left you with that smile on your face
Years later I was hitchhiking and that mortician picked me up
Then he said to me, he said “good luck”
I remember how we looked at the embryo in the jar together
And I remember how we stood talking in the store to each other
It was love
But what is it now
It’s pain
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