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"A lot of words but no one talking
I don't want no part of that
Something real is what I'm seeking
One clear voice in the wilderness"
Queste quattro frasi in questo momento mi danno il là per parlare di questo disco. Questo disco è per come lo vedo io, un mettersi di fronte allo specchio e tirare fuori tutto o almeno quello che si riesce da sè stessi.
Un'esperienza Intimista. Dopo aver attraversato con successo due decenni ed essere arrivato alla piena maturazione in termini anche di crescita umana, ecco nel 1993 Sir. Paul Weller dare alle stampe un disco che è testimonianza e documento del passare degli anni e soprattutto del proprio stato d'animo. Il disco è forse il migliore della produzione solista di Paul Weller, ancora oggi. Un disco che musicalmente si muove in territori rigorosamente britannici partendo da influenze Mod (Small Faces), Rock (Rolling Stones), passando per le contaminazioni nere del Soul e filtrando il tutto con l'importanza dell'interpretazione acustica.
Musica estremamente godibile ed orecchiabile dal sapore anchè un pò retrò grazie al prezioso uso di Mellotron e Moog. Canzoni solari e giocose "Sunflower", "5th Season" dal sapore bluesegiante e ancora "The Weaver" e canzoni delicate e vellutate come "Hung up", "Moon your pyjamas".
Canzoni che chiedono solo di essere ascoltate nella loro semplicità ed immediatezza siano esse trascinanti, malinconiche o sentimentali.
Stati d'animo e musica che viaggiono insieme e che insieme regalano altre sensazioni e pensieri. Colori, amore, lacrime, introspezione.... come può la musica far tutto ciò?!?
Può farlo tranquillamente e questo disco ne è la prova. Da avere e da vivere.
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01 Sunflower (04:06)
I don't care how long this lasts
We have no future, we have no past
I write this now while I'm in control
I'll choose the words and how the melody goes,
Along winding streets we walked hand in hand
And how I long for that sharp wind
To take my breath away again
I'd run my fingers through your hair
Hair like a wheatfield I'd run through
That I'd run through -
And I miss you so - I miss you so
No you're gone I feel so alone
I miss you so
I'd send you a flower - a sunflower bright
`Cause you cloud my days messing up my nights
And all the way up to the top of your head
Sunshower kisses I felt we had
And I miss you so - Oh baby I miss you so
Now your gone, I feel so low - oh I miss you so, I do
But I miss you so - Oh darling I miss you so
Now your gone, I feel so low - oh I said I miss you so, I do
All I gotta do is think of you - and I miss you so
Baby I'm... I`m afraid to say why - I miss you so
Baby I'm... I`m afraid to say why - Oh I miss you so
03 Wild Wood (03:22)
High tide, mid afternoon
People fly by, in the traffics boom
Knowing, just where you are blowing
Getting to where you should be going
Dont let them get you down
Making you feel quilty about
golden rain, will bring you riches
All the good things you deserve and now
Climbing, forever trying
Find your way out of the wild, wild wood
Now theres no justice
Only yourself that you can trust in
And I said high tide, mid afternoon
People fly by, in the traffics boom
Knowing, just where you are blowing
Getting to where you should be going
Day by day your world fades away
Waiting to feel all the dreams that say
Golden rain will bring you riches
All the good things you deserve now
And I say, climbing, foreever trying
find you way out of the wild, wild wood
Said you are gonna find you way out of the wild, wild wood
Wild wild wood
09 5th Season (04:54)
A storm is raging inside my head
The wind is howling such thoughts of death
Why am I so lost and confused?
Can't find the reason for feeling blue
There's so much I can't explain
Hope this season changes soon
. The lightning strikes and the mountains fall
The sea's come crashing against it all
Hang on tight in the tides of change
And get your bearings from those still sane
There's so much I've yet to feel
Hope the seasons change me too.
The serpent tangles in the lion's claw
A cloud of darkness hangs over all
As fires soar in search of sky
So blow embers like fire flies
Hoping love is where they'll lie
And the season change us too.
10 The Weaver (03:43)
Can you put a smile back on - all these different faces
Of all these people from - such different places
And if you can succeed - what then will you achieve
With a different tune to play - you've been saving for a rainy day
Will you heal the scar that's on - the years been wasted
The tears spent on the past - just filling spaces
Or is love forever gone banished to a smaller part
Hide behind your wall and start - to get to the very heart
An' if you wanna shoot the moon - make sure that you know why
Careful fly too soon - better let someone else try
I'm the weaver of your dreams - I get rid of your bogeyman
I'm here to smash the shell you're under
An' get you into another thing -
I'm the weaver of your dreams - I put paid to the rocketman
I'm here to break the spell you're under
And get you started with another plan
Could you put a kiss back on - the lips so twisted
Waiting for the chance to start - dipping into wishes
Or is love forever gone - banished to a smaller part
Hide behind your wall and start - to get to the very heart
And in the midst of the darkest night
Think of me and hold me tight
So that I might live to see
All the weaving of my dreams
12 Foot of the Mountain (03:37)
like a dream on the ocean,
Always drifting away,
And I can`t catch up,
She just slips away, (on the tide)
sometimes a great notion,
can lead us astray,
so weak to devotion'
so strong to deny
oh baby baby won`t you let me ride
-take me up on your sailboat ride
come on now angels are on your side
but she slips away on the tide
like mercury gliding,
a silver teardrop that pours,
And i can`t hold on,
through my fingers she falls
at the foot of the mountain,
such a long way to climb,
how will i ever get up there ?
though i know i must try
Oh baby baby won`t you let me ride
Take me up on your sailboat ride,
come on now angels are on your side,
but she slips away,
oh never stays
yeah she slips away
oh and she slips away
(repeat last two lines ad lib)
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