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"there's a killer in me and a killer in you"
con questa citazione che ricorda tanto una vecchia canzone degli Smashing Pumpkins cominciamo questa recensione del secondo lavoro da solista dell'ex cantante dei Verve.
Dopo essere stato solo con tutti si ritroverà solo contro tutti, pronti a criticarlo, a dirgli che fa sempre le stesse cose e ricalca i suoi vecchi cliché. Un viaggio nel profondo dell'uomo, dentro quel substrato che ogni essere umano tende a tenere per sè o a rivelarne solo una piccola porzione.
"we are on a rock, stil in infinity"
Un'esplorazione della condizione umana, delle sensazioni primordiali che si provano, come quelle che egli stesso ha vissuto, diventando padre e, forse, maturando.
Non manca quel sottile senso di abbandono che ogni tanto si prova, evidente nella canzone d'esordio del disco "check the meaning"
"We are alone, and weak, and lost, I don't know who I can trust"
Un disco molto intimista... "Can you feel what I'm saying?"
Il tutto avvolto dalle sue tipiche armonie sonore, archi fiati e pianoforti e l'immancabile chitarra acustica.
Forse il solo ascolto non aggiunge nulla, anzi, stufa un pò. Ma sotto la superficie ci sono tante cose da scoprire.
Merita "Don't say it's too late".
Hmmmm...
Elenco tracce testi e video
01 Check the Meaning (08:06)
(Check the meaning)
When I'm low, and I'm weak, and I'm lost
I don't know who I can trust
Paranoia, the destroyer, comes knocking on my door
You know the pain drifts to days, turns to nights
But it slowly will subside
And when it does, I take a step, I take a breath
And wonder what I'll find
Can you hear what I'm saying?
Got my mind meditating on love, love
Feel what I'm saying
Got my mind meditating on love, love
(The human condition, the human condition)
Too much blood, too much hate, turn off the set
There's got to be something more
When Mohammed, Allah, Buddah, Jesus Christ
Are knocking down my door
I'm agnostic getting God, but man
She takes a female form
There's no time, no space, no law
We're out here on our own
Can you hear what I'm saying?
Got my mind meditating on love, love
Feel what I'm saying
Got my mind meditating on love, love
Check the meaning
(The human condition)
Check the feeling
(The human condition)
Guess it's life, doing it's thing
Making you cry, making you think
Yeah life, dealing it's hand
Making you cry and you don't understand
Life, doing it's thing
Making you cry now, making you think of
Pain, doing it's thing
Making you cry yeah, making you sing
Don't say it, don't say it's too late
Don't, don't say it's too late (It's never too late, it's never too late)
Don't, don't say it's too late (It's never too late)
Don't, don't say it's too late
The human condition, the big decisions
The human condition, the big decisions
I'm like a fish with legs, I fell from the tree
I made a rocket (check the meaning), I made a wheel
I made a rocket (check the feeling), I swam the ocean (check the meaning)
I saw the moon (say a prayer), I seen the universe (and beyond)
I see you (check the feeling), I see me (check the meaning)
That's my reality
And while the city sleeps we go walking
It's a beautiful world
And when the city sleeps we go walking
We find a hole in the sky and then we start talking
And then we say "Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ
Buy us some time, buy us some time"
Hear what I'm saying
Can you hear what I'm saying?
Can you hear what I'm saying?
Can you hear what I'm saying?
It's gonna be alright
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Di giov
Human Conditions si descrive in tre righe: canzoni strimpellate con la chitarra acustica, imbevute di archi fino alla nausea, per fare addormentare chi soffre d'insonnia.
Mi dispiace tantissimo che un talento come Ashcroft naufraghi in tanta banalità.
