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Ore 21:24
La notte ha steso il suo sguardo stanco sul mondo, quando accendo il mio stereo.
Nick Drake, "Way To Blue".
La scala a chiocciola si avvolge intorno ai miei pensieri, fra le pagine di un libro.
"E allora l'uomo che il Dolore chiamava suo amico cercò di nuovo la spiaggia, e trovò una conchiglia (...)
E cantò dolcemente accanto all'orlo perlaceo:
ma la triste abitatrice delle solinghe vie marine
cambiò tutto il suo canto in un lamento confuso
nel turbinio delle sue spire, dimenticandolo.
W. B. Yeats
Ore 21:59
NIck Drake non era una persona triste, sono i posteri ed il "senno di poi" che lo hanno dipinto così.
Amava la vita, più o meno come tutti.
Non era il suo sogno diventare uno specchio da attraversare.
Uno specchio attraverso cui, come in Lewis Carrol, chi lo voleva potesse lasciare tutta la sua tristezza e ritornare nel mondo reale ritemprato.
Ore 22:21
Il mio pezzo preferito di questo album è forse "Thougths Of Mary Jane" (molto bella anche la versione draft presente sull'album celebrativo "Made To Love Magic").
I pensieri sono tutto nel mondo, l'unico posto in cui si rimane soli in compagnia di tutto l'universo.
Ore 23:04
Nick Drake l'universo lo sapeva mettere in musica, quello reale e quello "immaginario", sotto dolcissime coperte di note chiamate "Fruit Tree", "Day is Done", "Three Hours".
Che poi abbia deciso di andarsene era solo perchè era abbastanza stanco per conoscere il resto.
Ore 23:59
Lontano, il rimorchiatore ha fischiato; il suo richiamo ha passato il ponte, ancora una arcata, un'altra, la chiusa, un altro ponte, lontano, più lontano....
Chiamava a se tutte le chiatte del fiume tutte, e la città intera, e il cielo e la campagna, e noi, tutto si portava via, anche la Senna, tutto, che non se ne parli più.
L.F. Celine
Elenco tracce testi e samples
01 Time Has Told Me (04:27)
Time has told me
You're a rare rare find
A troubled cure
For a troubled mind
And time has told me
Not to ask for more
Someday our ocean
Will find its shore
So I`ll leave the ways that are making me be
What I really don't want to be
Leave the ways that are making me love
What I really don't want to love
Time has told me
You came with the dawn
A soul with no footprint
A rose with no thorn
Your tears they tell me
There's really no way
Of ending your troubles
With things you can say
And time will tell you
To stay by my side
To keep on trying
'til there's no more to hide
So leave the ways that are making you be
What you really don't want to be
Leave the ways that are making you love
What you really don't want to love
Time has told me
You're a rare rare find
A troubled cure
For a troubled mind
And time has told me
Not to ask for more
For some day our ocean
Will find its shore
02 River Man (04:21)
Betty came by on her way
Said she had a word to say
About things today
And fallen leaves.
Said she hadn't heard the news
Hadn't had the time to choose
A way to lose
But she believes.
Going to see the river man
Going to tell him all I can
About the plan
For lilac time.
If he tells me all he knows
About the way his river flows
And all night shows
In summertime.
Betty said she prayed today
For the sky to blow away
Or maybe stay
She wasn't sure.
For when she thought of summer rain
Calling for her mind again
She lost the pain
And stayed for more.
Going to see the river man
Going to tell him all I can
About the ban
On feeling free.
If he tells me all he knows
About the way his river flows
I don't suppose
It's meant for me.
Oh, how they come and go
Oh, how they come and go.
03 Three Hours (06:16)
Three hours from sundown
Jeremy flies
Hoping to keep
The sun from his eyes
East from the city
And down to the cave
In search of a master
In search of a slave
Three hours from London
Jacomo's free
Taking his woes
Down to the sea
In search of a lifetime
To tell when he's home
In search of a story
That's never been known
Three hours from speaking
Everyone's flown
Not wanting to be
Seen on their own
Three hours is needed
To leave from them all
Three hours to wonder
And three hours to fall
Three hours from sundown
Jeremy flies
Hoping to keep
The sun from his eyes
East from the city
And down to the cave
In search for a master
In search for a slave
04 Way to Blue (03:11)
Don't you have a word to show what may be done
Have you never heard a way to find the sun
Tell me all that you may know
Show me what you have to show
Won't you come and say
If you know the way to blue?
Have you seen the land living by the breeze
Can you understand a light among the trees
Tell me all that you may know
Show me what you have to show
Tell us all today
If you know the way to blue?
Look through time and find your rhyme
Tell us what you find
We will wait at your gate
Hoping like the blind.
Can you now recall all that you have known?
Will you never fall
When the light has flown?
Tell me all that you may know
Show me what you have to show
Won't you come and say
If you know the way to blue?
05 Day Is Done (02:29)
When the day is done
Down to earth then sinks the sun
Along with everything that was lost and won
When the day is done.
When the day is done
Hope so much your race will be all run
Then you find you jumped the gun
Have to go back where you began
When the day is done.
When the night is cold
Some get by but some get old
Just to show life's not made of gold
When the night is cold.
When the bird has flown
Got no-one to call your own
Got no place to call your home
When the bird has flown.
When the game's been fought
You speed the ball across the court
Lost much sooner than you would have thought
Now the game's been fought.
When the party's through
Seems so very sad for you
Didn't do the things you meant to do
Now there's no time to start anew
Now the party's through.
When the day is done
Down to earth then sinks the sun
Along with everything that was lost and won
When the day is done.
09 Fruit Tree (04:50)
Fame is but a fruit tree
So very unsound
It can never flourish
Till its stalk is in the ground
So men of fame
Can never find a way
Till time has flown
Far from their dying day
Forgotten while you're here
Remembered for a while
A much updated rain
From a much updated style
Life is but a memory
Happened long ago
Theatre full of sadness
For a long forgotten show
Seems so easy
Just to let it go on by
Till you stop and wonder
Why you never wondered why
Safe in a womb of an everlasting night
You find the darkness can give the brightest light
Safe in your place deep in the earth
That's when they'll know
What you are really worth
Forgotten while you're here
Remembered for a while
A much updated rain
From a much updated style
Fame is but a fruit tree
So very unsound
It can never flourish
Till its stalk is in the ground
So men of fame can never find a way
Till time has flown far from their dying day
Fruit tree
Fruit tree
No one knows you but the rain and the air
Don't you worry
They'll stand and stare when you're gone
Fruit tree
Fruit tree
Open your eyes to another year
They will know that you were here
when you are gone
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Di francis
Questo è l'album d'esordio dell'anno!
Dopo pochi ascolti è difficile dovere scegliere un pezzo migliore di un altro, è quasi come se ti affezionassi ad ogni canzone come se fossero persone vere.
Di luludia
"River man è una mongolfiera che prova ad alzarsi e volare, ma poi ricade a terra."
"Way to Blue è il cuore del cuore della mancanza, tra domande sussurrate con tono evocativo e risposte affidate a una voce di miele."
