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The New Year

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Feliz Año Nuevo a todos y todas.

Que vuestros deseos, o la mayoría de ellos, puedan verse cumplidos, y que podáis ser lo más felices posible… a pesar de todos los recortes y de los obstáculos que el poder político nos ha puesto en el camino del nuevo año.

Besos y abrazos,
Juanpe

so this is the new year.
and i don’t feel any different.
the clanking of crystal
explosions off in the distance (in the distance).

so this is the new year
and I have no resolutions
for self assigned penance
for problems with easy solutions

so everybody put your best suit or dress on
let’s make believe that we are wealthy for just this once
lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn
as thirty dialogues bleed into one

i wish the world was flat like the old days
then i could travel just by folding a map
no more airplanes, or speedtrains, or freeways
there’d be no distance that can hold us back.

there’d be no distance that could hold us back (x2)

so this is the new year (x4)

Y os dejo, también, con Eduardo Galeano y sus deseos para 2012:

Ojalá seamos dignos de la desesperada esperanza.

Ojalá podamos tener el coraje de estar solos y la valentía de arriesgarnos a estar juntos, porque de nada sirve un diente fuera de la boca, ni un dedo fuera de la mano.

Ojalá podamos ser desobedientes, cada vez que recibimos órdenes que humillan nuestra conciencia o violan nuestro sentido común.

Ojalá podamos ser tan porfiados para seguir creyendo, contra toda evidencia, que la condición humana vale la pena, porque hemos sido mal hechos, pero no estamos terminados.

Ojalá podamos ser capaces de seguir caminando los caminos del viento, a pesar de las caídas y las traiciones y las derrotas, porque la historia continúa, más allá de nosotros, y cuando ella dice adiós, está diciendo: hasta luego.

Ojalá podamos mantener viva la certeza de que es posible ser compatriota y contemporáneo de todo aquel que viva animado por la voluntad de justicia y la voluntad de belleza, nazca donde nazca y viva cuando viva, porque no tienen fronteras los mapas del alma ni del tiempo.

(Eduardo Galeano, 2012, http://eduardogaleano.org/)

When I was young

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Adelanto espectacular de su nuevo trabajo The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy, que se publicará en enero de 2012… Una muy, muy buena canción.

Para todos y todas en estas últimas horas del año 2011.

It’s amazing how much time love saves you at first
When you rediscover your reason to work
And your aimless dreaming has found a targeting
And normalize and greed a function return
Came on early, a quarter to two
I don’t need more wine, I’m coming for you

We carry pictures in our pretend wallet
Have ourselves and heavily-edited seventies
With better handwriting and longer days at the park
And dinners with no drama the professor and Marianne
Came home early, a quarter to two
I don’t need more wine, I’m coming for you

When I was young, I didn’t know if I was better off asleep or up
Now I’ve grown up, I wonder what was that world I was dreaming of
When I was young, I didn’t know if I was better off asleep or up
Now I’ve grown up, I wonder what was that world I was dreaming of
What was that world I was dreaming of
What was that world I was dreaming of

Late summer return, airless apartment I lean out the window
Deals on irregular shirts same fright/delight as last year, more so

When I was young, I didn’t know if I was better off with asleep or up
I’ve grown up, I wonder what was that world I was dreaming of
What was that world I was dreaming of
What was that world I was dreaming of.

Oda a mi familia…

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… un homenaje a mis seres queridos, a mi familia, los que siempre están y estarán ahí cuando los necesite…

Understand the things I say
Don´t turn away from me
Cause I spent half my life out there
You wouldn´t disagree
D´you see me?, d´you see?
Do you like me?, do you like me standing there?
D´you notice?, d´you know?
Do you see me?, do you see me?
Does anyone care?

Unhappiness, where´s when I was young
And we didn´t give a damn
´Cause we were raised
To see life as fun and take it if we can
My mother, my mother she hold me
She´d hold me, when I was out there
My father, my father he liked me
Oh he liked me, does anyone care?

Understand what I´ve become
It wasn´t my design
And people everywhere think
Something better than I am
But I miss you, I miss
Cause I liked it, cause I liked it
When I was out there
D´you know this?, d´you know?
You did not find me, you did not find
Does anyone care?

Unhappiness, was when I was young
And we didn´t give a damn
Cause we were raised
To see life as fun and take it if we can
My mother, my mother she´d hold me
She´d hold me, when I was out there
My father, my father he liked me
Oh he liked me, does anyone care?

Does anyone care?

¿A quién dedicarle esta canción?

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La de gente en el mundo a quienes podríamos dedicar esta canción de Placebo: muchos políticos, muchos corruptos, muchos banqueros, muchos especuladores, muchos mercados, muchas instituciones, muchas televisiones, muchas emisoras de radio, muchos periodistas… todos aquellos que nos han llevado a la situación de desastre en la que nos encontramos, situación que la mayoría de nosotros no hemos provocado y que sí sufrimos… todos aquellos para los que el poder y el dinero rigen su existencia.

La lista, desgraciadamente, es interminable…

Pues a todos ell@s:

«Oceania» by The Smashing Pumpkins

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Un muy muy buen adelanto de su nuevo trabajo… ¡Temazo!

No one can love you

‘Cause no one can free you

Lovers can’t touch you

‘Cause lovers might reach you, yeah

I’m so alone, so alone

but better than a wretched world

better than a broken pearl

I’m so alone, so alone

but better than I ever was

better than a just laid cause

Night may keep you sworn

May bring you stones

Just to touch

The journey’s rest

The warning circumstance

The dreams I had

The dreams I had

and still she’s gone

and still she’s gone

Life may keep the best

[Vocation] best

The dreams I had

The dreams I had

Oh, would I follow you

How could I have ever doubted you

sweet baby, nurture me

sweet lady, if you please

try to wait on me

try to [weigh] on me

try to wait on me

just try to wait on me

try to wait walk the cliffs of your rock nation

find the fate of me

my mistake

as the last remaining soldier

wars take the place of you

lover wait

lover wait in love

try to wait

cast off your indecision

face to face

we breathe

try to wait

cast off your indecision

face to face

we breathe

 

Las puertas del infierno

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“Cuando Benedicto se erigió como cabeza de la Iglesia, al poco tiempo hizo unas declaraciones en las que decía que el infierno existía y era eterno. Y aquellas palabras me inspiraron para hacer esta canción, que se titula Las puertas del infierno. Yo solamente soy una chica que escribe canciones y las canta, no sé cómo funcionan las cosas por allá abajo. Pero aquí, sobre la faz de la tierra, las cosas cambian, aunque parezca que vivimos en la eternidad, pero no son eternas. ¡Benedicto! ¡Las puertas del infierno!”. (Amaral, Sonorama 2011, domingo 14 de agosto)

And if you feel just like a tourist in the city you were born…

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…  then it’s time to go and define your destination.

Death Cab for Cutie – You are a tourist

This fire grows higher (X4)

When there’s a burning in your heart
An endless yearning in your heart
Build it bigger than the sun
Let it grow, let it grow
When there’s a burning in your heart
Don’t be alarmed

This fire grows higher

When there’s a doubt within your mind
Because you’re thinking all the time
Framing rights into wrongs
Move along, move along
When there’s a doubt within your mind

When there’s a burning in your heart
And you think it’ll burst apart
Or there’s nothing to feel
Save the tears, save the tears
When there’s a burning in your heart

And if you feel just like a tourist in the city you were born
Then it’s time to go
And define your destination
There’s so many different places to call home
Because when you find yourself the villain in the story you have written
It’s plain to see
That sometimes the best intentions are in need of redemptions
Would you agree?
If so please show me

This fire grows higher
When there’s a burning in your heart

Non populus.

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… de mi adorado Matthew Good… Una de las mejores canciones que he escuchado este año.

Matthew Good – Non Populus

Well it says
Let it be unto you
They all say
Let it be unto you
A mistake of the heart
Let it be unto you
Gonna rip you apart
But let it be unto you
Let it be unto you

What you escape
Let it be done to you
What you take away

Let it be done to you
For what you war
Let it be done to you
What you ignore
Let it be done to you

Might have rubbed you the wrong way
But that’s all over now
You know we could have stayed
Instead of crawling off into the wilderness
Hurled lightning down from the buildings
Done something different…