Luego de varios meses de ausencia decidí volver a postear en este blog "temático" cuyo tema me encanta. Eso sí, ya no va a haber excepciones como reseñas de discos y esas cosas; eso lo voy a dejar para Chicle Cosmos. En esta nueva etapa voy a empezar con una canción que amo y que siempre amé. Se trata de Alone Again (Naturally), de Gilbert O'Sullivan. Esta balada, lanzada en 1972, además de haber jugado una parte importante en un inolvidable episodio de Los simuladores, suele ser utilizada en cine cuando hay secuencias de montaje de "momentos en que la gente está triste". Se me viene a la mente la hermosa Stuck On You (Inseparablemente juntos), de los hermanitos Farrelly. Y lo bien que hacen, porque si bien al escucharla se desprende un tono melancólico, con una melodía de una dulzura incomparable -algo bastante común en un tipo a quien no se toma demasiado en cuenta como lo es Gilbert O'Sullivan, cuya dulzura musical fue acertadamente captada por los creativos publicitarios locales de comienzos de los 90 cuando musicalizaron la publicidad de la Semana de la dulzura con un jingle que tiene la melodía de su hit de 1980 What's In A Kiss ¿se acuerdan?-, cuando uno lee la letra se da cuenta de que se trata de una canción tristísima. Su narrador, al borde del suicidio luego de haber sido plantado en el altar, recuerda la muerte de sus padres. Qué lindo. Pero como decía, su hermosa melodía, sus arreglos ajustados y la incomparable y adorable "voz de pito" de Gilbert, hacen que se transforme, más allá de su letra, en una canción de una increíble belleza. Acá les dejo la letra de la canción, el mp3, una presentación en vivo de Gilbert interpretándola, un bastante emocionante cover a cargo de Vonda Shepard con compiladito de imágenes de la tristemente olvidada aunque maravillosa serie Ally McBeal y algunas fotos de Gilbert, el hombre con los peinados más ridículos y geniales de la historia. En la que está en un autito chocador está idéntico a una amiga de mi madre.
Bajar Alone Again (Naturally).
ALONE AGAIN (NATURALLY)
In a little while from now
If I’m not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top will throw myself off
In an effort to make it clear to who
Ever what it’s like when you’re shattered
Left standing in the lurch at a church
Where people saying "My God, that’s tough
She's stood him up
No point in us remaining
We may as well go home"
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally
To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright and gay
Looking forward to well who wouldn’t do
The role I was about to play
But as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much, as a mere touch
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt
Talk about God in his mercy
Who if he really does exist
Why did he desert me in my hour of need
I truly am indeed
Alone again, naturally
It seems to me that there are more hearts
Broken in the world that can’t be mended
Left unattended
What do we do? What do we do?
Alone again, naturally
Now looking back over the years
And whatever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul
Couldn’t understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start with a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally
In a little while from now
If I’m not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top will throw myself off
In an effort to make it clear to who
Ever what it’s like when you’re shattered
Left standing in the lurch at a church
Where people saying "My God, that’s tough
She's stood him up
No point in us remaining
We may as well go home"
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally
To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright and gay
Looking forward to well who wouldn’t do
The role I was about to play
But as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much, as a mere touch
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt
Talk about God in his mercy
Who if he really does exist
Why did he desert me in my hour of need
I truly am indeed
Alone again, naturally
It seems to me that there are more hearts
Broken in the world that can’t be mended
Left unattended
What do we do? What do we do?
Alone again, naturally
Now looking back over the years
And whatever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul
Couldn’t understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start with a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally
Bajar Alone Again (Naturally).
3 comments:
AMO TODOS LOS TEMAS DE VONDA SHEPARD...
LA VOZ DE ESA MINA MENCANTA MUCHISIMO,
DE HECHO COMPRE LAS BANDAS SONORAS DE ALLIE POR ESA RAZÓN...
gracias por ponerme este pedacito tan lindo..
justo era un día hoy que necesitaba algo así!!
WELCOME BACK!!
Muchísimas gracias, Nefastas. Vonda es grossa, y el disco de Ally donde también canta Robert Downey, Jr. es el más mejor.
¡Me encantaron las fotos de Gilbert O'Sullivan!
No sé de dónde las sacaste pero no las he visto antes.
Saludos
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