Settembre 2004 - "Everybody loves a happy ending"... in questo caso il lieto fine è stato la reunion di Roland Orzabal e Curt Smith, con la pubblicazione di un nuovo disco che, almeno nelle intenzioni, avrebbe dovuto rappresentare la prosecuzione di "The seeds of love" (1989), cioè l'ultimo album registrato prima dell'addio di Smith. Senza girarci tanto intorno, l'obiettivo non è stato raggiunto, punto.
53 minuti di generale anonimia interrotta da alcuni episodi al limite della sopportabilità, per un risultato purtroppo molto negativo, reso ancora più grave dal fatto che si parli di artisti tutt'altro che incapaci.
I commenti spropositati del tipo "John Lennon e Paul McCartney sono vivi e vegeti" si sciolgono immediatamente con l'ascolto delle 12 tracce che a parte pochissime eccezioni ("Quiet Ones" e "Secret world" non sono male...) sono un goffo e mal riuscito restyling (sempre che di restyling si possa parlare) degli insegnamenti della scuola Beatlesiana.
Canzoni come la hit "Closest Thing To Heaven" e "Size Of Sorrow" dopo intro che lasciano presagire a qualcosa di carino vengono abbandonate a se stesse senza sviluppare il seppur limitato potenziale che potrebbero avere, altre quali "The Devil" non iniziano neppure. "Call Me Mellow" dopo il secondo ascolto risulta già fastidiosa a causa dell'eccessiva sdolcinatezza. Per il resto, escluse le "eccezioni" nominate precedentemente, che riescono a raggiungere la sufficienza, non si trova molto altro: brani che lasciano completamente indifferenti e che sono destinati ad essere dimenticati subito.
Forse questa valutazione risente troppo del loro grande passato, che però non si può tralasciare! Mi dispiace doverlo ammettere, in quanto fan di lunga data dei TFF, però in questa reunion non vedo altro che un modo per riempirsi ancora di più le tasche facendo leva sull'evento stesso, perché la qualità proprio non c'è.
Se questo doveva essere l'ultimo capitolo del libro della storia dei Tears For Fears... ahimè, capita che storie interessanti finiscano in modo banale e deludente! Sta ad ognuno di noi far sì che ciò che di buono è stato fatto non venga infangato da un capitolo inutile e, sempre dal mio punto di vista, senza senso.
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02 Closest Thing to Heaven (03:20)
28 days of rain
Flashfloods in Feburary
Back in our boats again
Bathwater and the baby
What am I gonna do?
There's been a lot of drinking
Looking at ghosts of you
While all the world is sinking
Ten thousand miles into the atmosphere
My body shakes, is there a welcome here?
Closest thing to heaven
How do you do it?
Closest thing to heaven, to heaven
Throw your arms 'round the world
Make love your destination
Here we go, boys and girls
Act like a generation
Give me that ball and chain
By now it must be hurting
Dragging your feet again
Just like a beast of burden
When one and one and one make two
I know I'm high because I've captured you
Yeah
Closest thing to heaven
Yes, you
Closest thing to heaven, to heaven
Look the world right in the eye
Eat the countries that are making millions
Sweet as homemade apple pie
Save the crumbs for all the starving millions
Closest thing to heaven
Closest thing to heaven
How do you do it?
Closest thing to heaven
Hey
Closest thing to heaven
03 Call Me Mellow (03:28)
Fill the sky with love
Fill the sky with love
I wouldn't mind but she just turned up on the doorstep
Wistfull and ashen, slightly bedraggled
Last time I saw her she was howling at the moon
Roaming the forest, lupine and rabid
Woah, is she wild? Does she see my inner child?
But then she knows it's like a curse
To find our chosen roles reversed
To unify my universe
To call me mellow
If I was only half my age and she was older
We'd live on ice cream on Coney Island
And though it's gravity that drags down my balloon
She stays in orbit way after midnight
Woah, slip and slide - does she go all dewey-eyed?
But then she knows it's like a curse
To find our chosen roles reversed
To unify my universe
To call me mellow
She'll dress down for us
She'll break new ground for us
Watching me cracking up
She'll hang round fellahs
With all the ground swellers
Driving me like a truck
But then she knows it's like a curse
To find our chosen roles reversed
To unify my universe
To call me mellow
04 Size of Sorrow (04:30)
Bathe in another man's grave
In time we'll follow
Save all your thoughts for these days
Don't steal just borrow
Well a high wire
Is a dangerous game
But a hard act to follow
If I fly high like a moth to a flame
Would you eyes be the size of sorrow?
Pain, I can understand pain
Sometimes you just swallow
Say we can make it OK
Don't steal just borrow
With the high wire
Is a dangerous game
But a hard act to follow
If I fly high like a moth to a flame
Would your eyes be the size of sorrow?
06 Quiet Ones (04:12)
It's always the quiet ones
Who are stranger than fiction
They hide under tables like a child
What kind of chemistry is it?
Leaden or golden?
Nobody sees them driving us wild
It's your life
Don't just collide with the waves
Oh look into her eyes
You'll see such silent calling
Nothing seems to matter in this life
Wake up your majesty there are
Thieves in the temple
Picking the sunspots out of the sun
Looking for symmetry in man
Another dead Beatle
Down through the path we see how they run
It's your life
Don't just collide with the ways
Oh look into her eyes
You'll see such silent calling
Nothing seems to matter in this life
Oh so many reasons why
You hear the silence calling
Nothing seems to matter in this life
Oh salvation shine a light on a different world
And carry out thoughts on golden rays
08 The Devil (03:25)
The devil, take me now
Before I'm ushered out
'Cause you are like me
But I can bleed
And I can die
But I can't hide
From you
Prisoners of course
Taken by force
To smother my streams
Tonight in my dreams
'Cause I can die
But I can't hide
The way is clear
Away from here
And you
11 Ladybird (04:36)
Tell me a story of mind over matter
The hope and glory of life ever after
The sound and the fury the cloak and the dagger
Days when we sink like a stone
Porcelain portraits and silver medallions
Plasticine soldiers that march in battalions
Angels of mercy and lifelong companions
Days when we sink like a stone
There a room somewhere with a different look
Where your secret life is an open book
Where the love we made was a chance we took
Days when we sink like a stone
Ladybird fly away our friends are gone
Ladybird fly away our house is on fire
Let us be lovers we'll melt after midnight
Hoist up the mainsail we'll coast through the daylight
Twisted like candles that fade in the half-light
Days when we sink like a stone
Well we die sometimes to begin again
When the same old dreams have the same old end
When we lose our mind or we lose our friends
Days when we sink like a stone
Ladybird fly away our friends are gone
Ladybird fly away our house is on fire
Ladybird fly away our friends are gone
Ladybird fly away our house is on fire
Your friends have gone
Porcelain portraits and silver medallions
Your friends have gone
Plasticine soldiers that march in battalions
Your friends have gone
Angels of mercy and lifelong companions
Tell me a story of mind over matter
The hope and glory of life ever after
The sound and the fury the cloak and the dagger
Ladybird fly away our friends are gone
Ladybird fly away our house is on fire
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