THE SMITHS - Stretch out and wait [The world won't listen 1986]

On the high-rise estate What's at the back of your mind ?
Oh, on a three-day debate On a high-rise estate
What's at the back of your mind ?

Two icy-cold hands conducting the way
It's the Eskimo blood in my veins
Amid concrete and clay And general decay
Nature must still find a way
So ignore all the codes of the day
Let your juvenile influences sway
This way and that way
This way, that way
God, how sex implores you
To let yourself lose yourself


Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
Let your puny body, lie down, lie down
As we lie, you say
As we lie, you say
Stretch out and ...
Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
Let your puny body lie down, lie down


As we lie, you say : Will the world end in the night time ?
(I really don't know)
Or will the world end in the day time ?
(I really don't know)
And is there any point ever having children ?
Oh, I don't know
What I do know is we're Here and it's Now


So ... stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
There is no debate, no debate, no debate
How can you consciously contemplate
When there's no debate, no debate ?
Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
Stretch out and wait
Wait
Wait
Wait
Wait
Oh ...

AFGHAN WHIGS - My Curse [Gentlemen 1993]

You hurt me baby I flinch so when you do
Your kisses scourge me Hyssop in your perfume
Oh, i do not fear you
And slave i only use
As a word to describe the special way i feel for you

You look like me And i look like no one else
We need no other As long as we have ourselves
But i won't cry about it
Every time you get obsessed Every time i came undressed
All ugly thoughts are gone I'm sure we'll all be friends
I'll try to break your back You'll try to make amends

Curse softly to me baby And smother me in your love
Temptation comes not from hell but from above

And there's blood on my teeth When i bite my tongue to speak
Zip me down, kiss me there I can smile now
You won't find out ever
Hurt me baby I flinch so when you do
Your kisses scourge me Hyssop in your perfume
Oh i do not fear you
And slave i only use as a word to describe
The way i feel when i'm with you
If i have to lie about it everytime i came undressed

 And every time you crave for me i'm, here
And anything you hunger for I'll share
And I will be quietly standing by
While slowly I am dying inside

Hold me in your arms
And let me be the one who can feel
Like I am a child in love

Every time I talk to you you're down
And every time you need a laugh I'm around
And when you forget Im here I'm not
It isn't really me that you forgot

Hold me in your arms
And let me be the one who can feel
Like I am a child in love

Whisper now
And tell me how you'll watch me
And tell me somehow I'm gonna be alright

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  Eels – Manchild  [Beautiful Freak - Dreamworks 1996]

http://www.eelstheband.com/

NB: Recensione estemporanea!

Quel che è giusto è giusto: stavolta devo ringraziare uno dei miei più cari amici solsikkiani per questo gioiellino. Soko è una ragazza parigina con una voce irresistibile, fresca e decisa, che rivela un caratterino niente male ma che, proprio come una sirena, incanta all’istante tutti quelli che ascoltano le sue canzoni.
Ha pubblicato un EP di cinque pezzi disponibile in rete dal titolo Not Sokute.
Cinque semplici brani chitarra e voce, arricchiti da piccole inserti di campanellini o lievi tintinnii.

Ma la cosa più stupefacente sono i testi che gettano uno sguardo lucido e impietoso sui rapporti fra uomo e donna con un’ironia e un senso dell’umorismo che sfociano quasi nel paradossale.
Situazioni fin troppo comuni e banali ma assolutamente realistiche e apparentemente tragiche, nei suoi testi assumono una insolita leggerezza. E ascoltando le parole di Soko è impossibile non sorridere dell’assurdità dell’amore.

Il pezzo più delizioso dell’EP è senza dubbio I’ll Kill Her, le farneticazioni di una ragazza innamorata che si vede portar via l’uomo che ama da una volgare bionda e che ovviamente medita di ucciderla!
Nel video è in versione acustica ma l’originale su ep (disponibile su MySpace) è moooolto più bella!!!

(So of course, you were supposed to call me tonight.)

You were supposed to call me tonight, We'd have gone to the cinema,
And afterwards the restaurant, The one you like on your street,
We'd have slept together, Had a nice breakfast together,
And a walk in the park together, How beautiful it'd been,

You would have said "I love you," In the cutest place on earth,
Where some little vines are dancing with the fairies,
I would have waited like a week or two, But you never tried to reach me, no,
You never called me back,

You were dating that bleach blonde girl, And if I find her, I swear, I swear,
I'll kill her, I'll kill her, She stole my future, she broke my dream,
I'll kill her, I'll kill her, She stole my future when she took you away,

I would have met your friends, We would have had like a drink or two,
They would have liked me cause Sometimes i'm funny,
I would have met your dad, I would have met your mum, she'd have said,
"Please, can't you make some beautiful babies,"
So we would have had a boy called Tom, and a girl called Susan,
Born in Japan,

I thought it was a love story, But you don't want to get involved
I thought it was a love story, But you're not ready for that,

Me neither. I'll kill her, She stole my future, she broke my dream,
I'll kill her, I'll kill her, She stole my future when she took you away,

She's a bitch you know, all she's got is blondeness,
Not even tenderness, yeah she's clever-less,
She'll dump your ass for a model called Brendan,
He will pay for a beautiful surgery, because he's full of money,

I would have waited like a week or two, But you never tried to reach me, no, no,
You never called me back,

You were dating that bleach blonde girl, And if I find her, I swear, I swear,
 I'll kill her, I'll kill her, She stole my future, she broke my dream,
I'll kill her, I'll kill her, She stole my future when she took you away.

Soko - Not Sokute
http://www.myspace.com/thesokos

Le pensiamo tutte per cercare di controllare la nostra vita, cerchiamo risposte e sistemi per far andare le cose nella direzione che vogliamo, leggiamo, ci appoggiamo alla religione o alla filosofia, ci affidiamo a maghi o a oroscopi, finchè fingiamo di aver trovato il libretto di istruzioni... e a quel punto ci accorgiamo che nonostante tutto la vita è imprevedibile!

Life is turned upside down
But then maybe it's just been put back the right way round
All your dreams realised
There's new fire in your eyes
In despite of its size
You soon realise
That it's alright
Tonight
Feels right
Now there's a cross
That nobody should really have to bear
But then maybe
That's just when life's treating you fair
There are lessons to learn
When you've waited your turn
And things didn't turn out
Quite the way that you dreamt about
But it still feels right
Tonight
Feels right

And it still feels right

Badly Drawn Boy - Life turned upside down [One plus one is one - XL Recordings 2004]

E' strano come delle persone ti tornino alla mente quasi tutti i giorni anche se ormai non fanno più parte della tua vita.

Hold back the night from us,
Cherish the light for us,
Don't let the shadows hold back the dawn.

Cold city lights glowing,
The traffic of life is flowing,
Out over the rivers and on into dark.

I'm going down town where there's music,
I'm going where voices fill the air,
Maybe there's someone waiting for me
With a smile and a flower in her hair

I'm going down town where there's people
The loneliness hangs in the air.
With no-one there real waiting for me,
No smile, no flower nowhere.

Richard Hawley - Coles Corner [Coles Corner - Mute 2005]