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Virginia / David Bazan / Strange Negotiations
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David Bazan - “Virginia”
Songs like this are why ‘Strange Negotiations’ should be on MANY Best Albums of 2011 lists.
Virginia I had a dream that you invited us over
You still lived on the street where you laid down for good
We all sat on the floor as my kids swam around us
You smoked cigarettes like I knew you would
We were worried about your personal salvation
Was it heaven or hell that you saw when your eyes closed?
You smiled at us, floating high above the question
Like you knew something we didn’t know
Virginia I had a dream we were closer than brothers
Singing, pictures of you, crashing cars, skipping school
We drove all over town as the days blurred around us
We wore out your cassettes, we were nobody’s fool
They were worried about our high school graduation
They read us a poem, “Oh the Places You’ll Go”
You smiled it off, floating high above the question
Like you knew something they didn’t know
A great performance of “Virginia” live on KEXP.
Cada trazo y cada camino que terminamos recorriendo despiden ecos de algo distinto que se quedan grabados como serpientes en arena, silenciosas y a su vez van dejando huellas, huellas que permanecen grabadas en cemento, grabadas en la memoria sigilosas para aparecer en los momentos mas inesperados: un cuento, un corazon, un cerebro, una materia prima para crear algo nuevo. Que finalmente despues de cierto tiempo sera abandonado, olvidado, sepultado abajo de los nuevos palacios que vienen y desbancan los suelos viejos que existian ahi antes que ellos y estos asu vez desbancan a los demas y formando olas y desfiguros, se vuelven muy dificiles de arreglar.
Algo mas que es dificil es encontrar los pasados que queremos componer. Tanta pintura sobre la fachada desgastada impide y modifica la respiracion del alma, esa bestia sagrada que cambia para siempre y muy rara vez dormita.
Nada nos garantiza que tendremos lo que tenemos, nada nos garantiza una vida segura, tampoco sabemos si tendremos pensamientos que lleven a una espiritualidad iluminada, nada nos garantiza la paz. Pienso en que no somos dueños de lo que ya logramos. Nada nos garantiza que seguiremos siendo los mismos pero siempre tendremos las huellas, esas huellas para recordarnos de donde y porque vinimos hasta aqui.
– Ximena Sariñana from Noche-Dia
Slowly, I stroll, over where you sit,
it took so long, now I’m into it.
Sweetheart, lover, I wanted you before,
but when the heart beats next to me I want it even more.
– My Morning Jacket - Sweetheart
What do you do now that I’m gone?
I spend most nights alone, singing songs in my room,
and all of them are for you.
It’s an awful sinking feeling when your own heart starts stealing
reason from the mind. Some nights I dream of getting in my car,
and driving straight through the night.
– Fake Problems - Ghost to Coast
Me acerco al agua
Bebiendo tu beso
La luz de tu cara
La luz de tu cuerpo
Es ruego el quererte
Es canto de mudo
Mirada de ciego
Secreto desnudo
Me entrego a tus brazos
Con miedo y con calma
Y un ruego en la boca
Y un ruego en el alma
Con toda palabra
Con toda sonrisa
Con toda mirada
Con toda caricia
–
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
These lyrics are simply beautiful.
In Southern California, dreams wake up for you
And when you wake up here, you wake up everywhere
In the flow of the ocean, and the warmth of the rays
Heard music in the air, and in the waves
The wind chimed, laughter rhymed
We had nothing but time
In Southern California, I heard the voice of my mind
– Brian Wilson
– On The Beach - Neil Young
