"Adesso sarebbe meglio prevenire che curare. "Ma si, facciamoci del male. Parliamo del sig. Smith che superati i 40 anni è ancora lì che gioca con trucchi, fard e merletti e mette in scena l'ennesimo circo dark adolescenziale dei Cure, come se fossimo ancora negli anni '80, come se nel frattempo tutto non fosse cambiato (in peggio? boh!) e il nostro tardo-Peter Pan avesse trovato la sua Isola Che Non C'è nell'onda degli innumerevoli fans che lo adorano e lo sostengono (anche finanziarmente) fin dall'alba dei tempi. Saremmo quasi da manuale psichiatrico o, comunque, da psicopatologia da studiare ed analizzare al setaggio ma siamo qui per recensire e i problemi personali di Robert li teniamo per il momento fuori anche se scindere la personalità umana da quella artistica, in questo caso, è sempre molto difficile.
Si parte con una desolata "Lost" dove il nostro incalza un canto/preghiera disperato dove dichiara disarmato "mi sono perso" per proseguire sugli stillemi classici della dark-pop song. "Labyrinth" viaggia su percorsi paralleli senza novità di spicco. Con "Before Three" si torna al mondo-Cure con una tipica Cure-song da tre accordi di supporto, dove, come al solito, si celebra la grandezza della voce inconfondibile e unica, nel suo incedere trasversale e ispirato, vero e proprio pezzo forte dell'album. Riprende "The End of the World" e, obiettivamente, sembra di sentire un po' la stessa canzone, già sentita in vari dischi, con la stessa costruzione "normale" senza un minimo di novità nel suono, nel cantato, negli effetti, insomma: siamo alle solite: i Cure sono bravi a fare i Cure, punto. Il mondo fuori cambia ma a Smith & soci non gliene importa nulla: sembrano dire "noi siamo così, prendere o lasciare". Tutti i brani scorrono in fretta, molto simili e parecchio scontati negli arrangiamenti, dove ti aspetti la rullata di introduzione ZAC, eccola pronta e puntuale. Ti aspetti il rif di chitarra con eco e distorsore e ZAC, manco a dirlo. Ma come spiegarlo all'enorme marea di fans incalliti che li adorano e non accettano critiche alcune sul loro leader "spirituale" e che sostanzialmente VOGLIONO SOLO QUESTO come durante una funzione religiosa immutabile nella sua continuità? Anche la seguente "Never" non accende nemmeno mezza lampadina di novità, siamo al riciclo completo, all'auto-citazione celebrativa creando un loop ininterrotto tra domanda (i fans vogliono lo stile Cure) e offerta (i Cure danno ai fans quello che sanno fare meglio, cioè se stessi). La logorroica "Promise" si fa canto lacerato per ben 10 minuti e 20 su una base un po' alla Doors che da tutto lo spazio che serve al leader per gigionare tutta la sua infinita (e credo a 'sto punto) autentica disperazione. Con "Going Nowere" si chiude il cerchio e un disco che, se pur piacevole, non credo che aggiunga una sola virgola a quello che i Cure rappresentavano a metà degli anni '80. E purtroppo non capiremo mai se tutto questo è frutto di vera e sentita ispirazione (e li però suggerirei al nostro di aprire di qualche grado i paraocchi e cominciare ad annusare cosa succede al mondo) o di un processo ormai ammuffito nella sua ripetitività fatta di riti, gesti, atteggiamenti, canzoni e arrangiamenti destinati ad estinguersi da soli per INCAPACITA' DI SMUOVERSI dal loro pianerottolo o per INTERESSE a NON CAMBIARE il giocattolino che tanto ha portato fortuna ai nostri (magari consigliati da qualche scaltro manager discografico che, calcolatrice alla mano, ha fatto un paio di conti tra rischei e opportunità).
Sono cinico? Sono senza cuore? Ho poca sensibilità per il dramma umano dell'incapacità di adattamento alla vita reale del sig. Smith? Forse, e spero di sbagliarmi alla grande. Al di là di tutto il disco non mi ha smosso granché, a parte l'agonia di "The Promise" e l'iniziale "Lost" sempre cantata da pelle d'oca. Confido in un minimo di cambiamento nel prossimo lavoro ma credo che oramai siamo nel bel mezzo del picco discendente di un gruppo a suo tempo grandioso che non ha saputo o voluto rinnovarsi e che, come tutto a questo mondo, sarà destinato a dissolversi nel suo lento Hara Kiri (magari, in fondo in fondo, è quello che da sempre Robert va cercando, chissà). E poi, in tutta franchezza, avete mai visto un quarantenne cambiare?
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01 Lost (04:07)
I can't find myself
I can't find myself
I can't find myself
I can't find myself
In the head of this stranger in love
Holding on giving up
To another under faded setting sun
And I wonder where I am...
Could she run away with him?
So happy and so young
And I stare
As I sing in the lost voice of a stranger in love
Out of time letting go
In another world that spins around for fun
And I wonder where I am...
Could he ever ask her why?
So happy and so young
And I stare...but...
I can't find myself
I can't find myself
I can't find myself
I can't find myself
In the heart of this stranger in love
Giving up holding on
To this other under faded setting sun
And I'm not sure where I am...
Would he really turn away?
So happy and so young
And I stare
As I play out the passion of a stranger in love
Letting go of the time
In this other world that spins around for one
And I'm not sure where I am...
Would she know it was a lie?
So happy and so young
And I stare...but...
I can't find myself
I can't find myself
I can't find myself
I can't find myself
In the soul of this stranger in love
No control over one
To the other under faded setting sun
And I don't know where I am...
Should he beg her to forgive?
So happy and so young
And I stare...
As I live out the story of a stranger in love
Waking up going on
In the other world that spins around undone
And I don't know where I am...
Should she really say goodbye?
So happy and so young
And I stare...but...
I can't find myself
I can't find myself
I can't find myself
I can't find myself
I got lost in someone else
02 Labyrinth (05:14)
Say it's the same sun spinning in the same sky
Say it's the same stars streaming in the same night
Tell me it's the same world whirling through the same space
Tell me it's the same time tripping through the same day
So say it's the same house and nothing in the house has changed
Yeah say it's the same room and nothing in the room is strange
Oh tell me it's the same boy burning in the same bed
Tell me it's the same blood breaking in the same head
Say it's the same taste taking down the same kiss
Say it's the same you
Say it's the same you and it's always been like this
Say it's the same you
Say it's the same you and it always and forever is
Say it's the same you
Say it's the same you and it's always been like this
Say it's the same you
Say it's the same you and it always and forever is
Say it's the same you
Say it's the same you
Yeah tell me it's all the same
This is how it's always been
But if nothing has changed...
Then it must mean...
But the sun is cold - the sky is wrong
The stars are black - the night is gone
The world is still - the space is stopped
The time is out - the day is dropped
The house is dark - the room is scarred
The boy is stiff - the bed is hard
The blood is thick - the head is burst
The taste is dry - the kiss is thirst
And it's not the same you
It's not the same you
No it never was like this
It's not the same you
It's not the same you and it never really is
It's not the same you
It's not the same you
No it never was like this
It's not the same you
It's not the same you and it never really is
It's not the same you
It's not the same you
Oh it's not the same
This isn't how it's always been
Everything has to have changed...
Or it's me...
05 The End of the World (03:43)
Go if you want to
I never tried to stop you
Know there's a reason
For all of this you're feeling
Low, it's not my call
You couldn't ever love me more
You couldn't love me more
You couldn't love...
Me, I don't show much
It's not that hard to hide you
See in a moment
I can't remember how to
Be all you wanted
I couldn't ever love you more
I couldn't love you more
I couldn't love...
You want me to cry and play my part
I want you to sigh and fall apart
We want this like everyone else
Stay if you want to
I always wait to hear you say
There's a last kiss
For all the times you run this way
It's not my fault
You couldn't ever love me more
You couldn't love me more
You couldn't love...
Love me more
Couldn't ever love me more
I couldn't love you more
I couldn't love
You want me to lie not break your heart
I want you to fly not stop and start
We want us like everything else
Maybe we didn't understand
Not just a boy and a girl
It's just the end of the
End of the world
Me, I don't say much
It's far too hard to make you
See in a moment
I still forget just how to
Be all you wanted
I couldn't ever love you more
I couldn't love you more
I couldn't love you more
I couldn't love you more
I couldn't love you more
06 Anniversary (04:22)
A year ago today we stood
Above this same awakening world
I held you...
You never wanted me to know
Another year ago today
Before this same awakening world
I held you...
I never meant to let you go
There was a moment
There always is
When time stood still
And always was this...
One endless moment
You turn in pain
And I always let you go
Over and over again...
A year ago tonight we lay
Below this same remembering sky
I kissed you
You never wanted me to know...
Another year ago tonight
Behind this same remembering sky
I kissed you...
I never meant to let you go
Another moment
There always is
As time stands still
And always is this...
One endless moment
You tell me all
And I hold you and I kiss you
And I never let you go
I never let you go...
07 Us or Them (04:09)
There is no terror in my heart
Death is with us all
We suck him down with our first breath
And spit him out as we fall
There is no terror in my heart
No dread of the unknown
Desire for paradise to be...
We love this on our own
No I don't want you anywhere near me
I don't want you anywhere near me
Get your fucking world out of my head
I don't want you anywhere near me
I don't want you anywhere near me
Get your fucking world out of my head
I don't want your 'us or them'
No I don't need your 'us or them'
Oh I don't want your 'us or them'
I don't need your 'us or them'
Your 'us or them'
'I live in knowledge of real truth
And all my gods are great!'
The doleful cant of a bigot
Blinded by fear and hate
You live in knowledge of real truth?
Oh the biggest lie I heard
How sick in your mind and soul
To be scared of my voice and my words
Oh you don't want me anywhere near you
You don't want me anywhere near you
Get my fucking head out of your world
You don't want me anywhere near you
You don't want me anywhere near you
Get my fucking head out of your world
I don't want your 'us or them'
No I don't need your 'us or them'
Oh I don't want your 'us or them'
I don't need your 'us or them'
As the only way this ever ends is 'me'
10 Taking Off (03:19)
Tomorrow I can start again
With back to earth and carry on
The same as I did yesterday
Yeah I'll pick it up once more
And morning I'll be onto it
From square one start
And push it for a bit
Like I do every day...
I'll get it down for sure
But tonight I climb with you
Tonight
So high with you
Tonight I shine with you
Tonight
Oh I'm so alive with you
Tomorrow I'll begin again
With heavy head to hold it
As I do it all like yesterday
Yeah I'll break it out again
And morning I'll be there in time
For clock back move
And make it for awhile
To get through every day...
I roll it out the same
But tonight I climb with you
Tonight
So high with you
Tonight I shine with you
Tonight I'm so alive...
With you it's always here and never there
With you it's always here and never where
With you it's always here and never how
With you it's always here and always now
Yeah tomorrow I will start again
With back to earth and carry on
The same as I did yesterday
Yeah I'll pick it up once more
And morning I'll be onto it
From square one start and bit a for it push
Like I do everyday...
I'll get it down for sure
But tonight I climb with you
Tonight
So high with you
Tonight I shine with you
Tonight
12 The Promise (10:21)
How time will heal
Make me forget
You promised me
Time will heal
Make me forget
You promised me
Love will save us all
And time will heal
You promised me...
How love will save
Make me forget
You promised me
Love will save
Make me forget
You promised me
Time will heal us all
And love will save
You promised me...
I trusted you
I wanted your words
Believed in you
I needed your words
Time will heal
make me forget
And love will save us all
You promised me another wish
Another way
You promised me another dream
Another day
You promised me another time
You promised me another life
You promised me..
So I swallowed the shame and I waited
I buried the blame and I waited
Choked back years of memories...
I pushed down the pain and I waited
Trying to forget...
You promised me another wish
Another way
You promised me another dream
Another day
You promised me another time
You promised me...
Another lie
Oh you promised me...
You promised me... You promised me...
And I waited... And I waited... And I waited...
And I'm still waiting...
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Di NickGhostDrake
"Per me, egli scrive 'Going Nowhere', una litania sofferta e dolorosa vicina alle cose più intime..."
"Un lavoro che unisce con talento le vecchie esplosioni punk e rabbiose di 'Us Or Them' con dolorose e laceranti poesie."
