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"The Autumn Stone" è l'album postumo degli Small Faces, dopo l'abbandono di Steve Marriott, che sarebbe andato a formare gli Humble Pie.
Si tratta di una raccolta postuma, ma che contiene tra i pochi brani inediti presenti anche la title track (nome addirittura del mio indirizzo e-mail, seguito dal numero "63" - ve ne spiegherò poi il perché), "If I were a carpenter" e "Red balloon", nonchè un brano strumentale, cioè "Wide eyed girl on the wall".
Sono tornato a Londra qualche mese fa per un periodo di approfondimento della lingua, soprattutto uditivo, e ho avuto come una delle colonne sonore portanti proprio gli Small Faces. Infatti a Londra è nato il mio indirizzo e-mail "theautumnstone63" (non vi dico con quale compagnia!), dal fatto che questa canzone (da me grandemente amata) è degli anni '60 e che l'album è del '69 (quindi di quel decennio). All'inizio il numero doveva essere "70", ma per un pasticcio ho scelto poi "63" (l'anno di "Laborintus", l'opera poetica di Edoardo Sanguineti).
Una sera di luglio, prima di tornare a casa dal lavoro, a Carnaby Street ho visto una targhetta blu che ricorda la presenza del gruppo in quel luogo (insieme al primo produttore Don Arden) e mi sono messo a canticchiare in una nottata con negozi chiusi e abbastanza silenzio (tranne che a Regent Street dove prendevo il bus), "Lazy Sunday" che mi trasportava in un mondo abbastanza diverso e lontano dal mio.
Oppure a settembre a lato di Regent's Park in "Cumberland Terraces" dove i quattro realizzarono il video semi-comico di "Get yourself together", nel quale il cartello del piazzale è ben visibile davanti a Marriott all'inizio del video (in quel momento cantai a squarciagola, o quasi, "All or nothing", pensando a una bellissima giovane donna di poco più di trent'anni che ammiravo e che mi piaceva. L'avrò nell'impeto dell'affetto baciata e abbracciata quattro volte il sabato precedente alla mia partenza per Londra). Chi si dovesse recare lì dovrebbe trovare scritto a matita sul cartello: "The SMALL FACES were here in the '60s" ("Gli SMALL FACES furono qui nei '60"). E' opera mia.
Cosa dire d'altro? Niente. Mi lascio solo cullare dalla musica e dalle magnifiche parole di "The autumn stone", dolce finale di un'avventura (quella degli Small Faces) finita, al contrario, amaramente. Buonanotte.
I was nowhere
till you changed my mind
love is sent through being good to you.
Then you were somewhere
somewhere hard to find
only what you always were, it's true.
I'm looking for an open door
where I can sit and play in peace with you.
Tomorrow changes
fields of green today
yesterday is dead but not my memory.
We were strangers
and then you came to stay
the sweetest spring dawn morning sings to me.
So now I've found a living sound
that moves, that breathes and make love to me.
(Non ero in nessun luogo / finchè non hai cambiato la mia mente / e l'amore è stato mandato attraverso l'essere buono a te. // Poi tu eri in qualche luogo / qualche luogo difficile da trovare / solo quello che eri sempre, è vero. // Sto cercando una porta aperta / dove poter sedermi e giocare in pace con te. // Il domani cambierà / i campi di erba di oggi / l'ieri è morto, ma non la mia memoria. // Eravamo stranieri / ma poi sei venuta per stare / il più dolce mattino di primavera canta a me. // Così adesso ho trovato un suono / che si muove, che respira e che fa l'amore con me.)
P.S. : En.Wikipedia definisce questa canzone "enigmatica e affascinante": è vero, ma quanto l'adoro!
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01 Here Come the Nice ()
Here come the nice lookin' so good
He makes me feel like no one else could
He knows what I want, he's got what I need
He's always there if I need some sweet
Here come the nice (It's understood)
Here come the nice (He'll make you feel so good)
I'd be just like him (If I only could)
You know you should
You know you should meet the man
The man gonna help you all he can
You don't need money to be wise
Here come the nice (It's understood)
Here come the nice (He makes me feel so good)
I'd be just like him (If only could)
You know you should
Here come the nice lookin' so cool
Everyone knows the nice is no fool
He'll bring you up and show you around
He's always there when your feet hit the ground
Here come the nice (It's understood)
Here come the nice (God he makes me feel good)
I'd be just like him (If I only could)
You know you should
You know you got to try to meet the man
This man's gonna teach you all he can
Ha! You don't need money (Money)
Money to open your eyes
Here come the nice (It's understood)
Here come the nice (God, he makes me feel good)
I'd be just like him (If I only could)
Here come the nice (Oh baby, baby, baby)
Here come the nice (Here come the nice)
I'd be just like him (If I only could)
You know you should
04 All or Nothing ()
I thought you'd listen to my reason
But now I see you don't hear a thing
Got to make you see how it's got to be
Yes if it's all right
All or nothing yeah yeah
All or nothing
All or nothing for me
Things could work out just like I want them to
If I could have the other half of you
That's all I would if I only could
Is to say
All or nothing oh yeah
All or nothing if I could I'd say
All or nothing for me
Pa pa pa pa ta pa pa pa ta ta
Pa pa pa pa ta pa pa pa ta ta
I ain't telling you no lie girl
So don't just sit there and cry girl
All or nothing (oh no)
All or nothing (oh yeah)
All or nothing (gotta gotta gotta keep on tryin')
All or nothing ......
(For me, for me, for me we're not children...)
05 Red Balloon ()
Bought myself a red balloon and a blue surprise
Cause hidden in the read balloon was a peny for my eyes
She took her lovelight from my eyes
Oh blue surprise
She took her lovelight from my eyes
Blue surprise
Played with toys for children as a child I got
Haven't any time for children although I've got a lot, hey
She took her lovelight from my eyes
Oh blue surprise
She took her lovelight from my eyes
Blue surprise
Blue surprise, yeah
She took her lovelight from my eyes
Oh blue surprise
She took her lovelight from my eyes
Blue surprise
Yeah, blue surprise
Blue surprise, yeah
Blue surprise
Blue surprise
Vishnu's eyes
Loving eyes
Blue surprise
Blue surprise
Vishnu's eyes
Loving eyes
06 Lazy Sunday ()
A wouldn't it be nice to get on with me neighbours
But they make it very clear
They've got no room for ravers
They stop me from groovin', they bang on me wall
They doing me crust in, it's no good at all - ah
Lazy Sunday afternoon
I've got no mind to worry
I close my eyes and drift away-a
Here we all are sittin' in a rainbow
Gor blimey hello Mrs. Jones
How's old Bert's lumbago? He mustn't grumble
Tweedle dee bite
I'll sing you a song with no words and no tune
Tweedle dee bite
To sing in your party while you souse at the moon - oh yeah
Lazy Sunday afternoon-a - tweedle dee bite - tweedle dee bite - tweedle dee bite
I've got no mind to worry - yeah - I've got no mind to worry
Close my eyes and drift away-a
Root-de-doo-de-doo, a-root-de-doot-de doy di
A-root-de doot de dum, a-ree-de-dee-de-doo dee - doo doo ....
There's no one to hear me, there's nothing to say
And no one can stop me from feeling this way - yeah
Lazy Sunday afternoon
I've got no mind to worry
Close my eyes and drift away
Lazy Sunday afternoon
I've got no mind to worry
Close my eyes and drift a-
Close my mind and drift away
Close my eyes and drift away
09 Afterglow of Your Love ()
I'm happy just to be with you
And loving you the way I do
It's everything I need to know
Just resting in the afterglow of your...
Love,love is all around me
Everywhere
Love has come to touch my soul
With someone who really cares
No one can deny us
People who once passed me by
Will turn their heads 'round
I'm happy just to be with you
And loving you the way I do, yeah
It's everything I need to know
Just resting in the afterglow of your love
You
Yes you have always been here
Feeling deep inside
A feeling that I could not see
Or touch, or try to hide
My love is in and around you
I bless the day that I found you
So listen up baby
I'm happy just to be with you
And loving you the way I do, yeah
It's everything I need to know
Just resting in the afterglow of your love
Love is like a voice in my head
Keeps turning 'round the things that we said
I'm happy just to be with you
And loving you the way I do, yeah
It's everything I need to know
Just resting in the afterglow of your love
10 Sha-La-La-La-Lee ()
Picked her up on a Friday night
Sha la la la lee, yeah
I knew everything gonna be alright
Sha la la la lee, yeh
Sha la la la lee
I asked her 'where do you wanna go?'
Sha la la la lee, yeh
Well we went someplace, I don't know
Sha la la la lee, yeh
Sha la la la lee
I held her close and I asked her if she was gonna be my baby
It felt so good when she answered me
Oh yeh, oh yeh
Oh yeh, oh yeh, oh yeh
She looked good and she moved so fine
Sha la la la lee, yeh
And all the guys knew she was mine
Sha la la la lee, yeh
Sha la la la lee
I held her close and I asked her again if she was gonna be my baby
It felt so good when she answered me
Oh yeh, oh yeh
Oh yeh, oh yeh, oh yeh
Wanna know how my story ends?
Sha la la la lee, yeh
Well we invited just a few close friends
Sha la la la lee, yeh
Sha la la la lee
Sha la la la la la lee
Sha la la la la la lee
Sha la la la la la lee
Sha la la la la la lee
Sha la la la la la lee
Sha la la la la la la la la la lee
Sha la la la la la la la la la lee
Sha la la la la la la la la la lee
Sha la la la la la lee
Sha la la la la la lee
Sha la la la la la lee
11 The Universal ()
There's such a lot of good ways to be bad
And so many bad ways to be good
And they might rent it
I hate to tell them
'Sorry, but I haven't got the money anymore
Just for the day I thought I'd leave love alone
Hold hands with day
And if I'm so bad why don't they take me away
Just like what you hear with a shell pressed to your ear
That's the sea in the trees in the morning
And on the universal
Good morning, Steve
Well you won't believe me today
Working doesn't seem to be the perfect thing for me
So I continue to play
And if I'm so bad why don't they take me away
Well a hippy-trippy name dropper came through my door
He said, I just bumped into Mick, he told me You know where to score.
No not me friend
I mind my own and my own minds me
Well my love is at the foot of your hand
Come what may
But if June comes first, please won't you take me away
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