Showing posts with label rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rock. Show all posts

Friday, July 18, 2008

Nostalgia

No hay duda, la nostalgia nos invade de vez en cuando. Sobre todo cuando vemos un viejo video de bandas musicales, como The Box Tops. La época, finales de los 60, era una época de grandes cambios. El 68, en Francia, en Estados Unidos y en otros países, marcó una época de renovación muy fuerte. La música popular, con The Beatles, también marcaba un cambio de rumbo. Los ingleses, por otra parte, estaban invadiendo el mundo y nadie estuvo alejado de la influencia musical de estas bandas.

La letra, como se puede leer abajo, no es una inspiración; pero la melodía era muy pegajosa. Cuando la oigo, el tiempo se detiene, regresa, parecería que estoy viviendo en la cuna de Zeuz, alejado del Dios que a todos se devora, Cronos. Sin embargo, cuando veo la foto de los señores de al lado, ni modo, me doy cuenta que no podemos escapar de este terrible dios.


The Letter

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home
My baby, just-a wrote me a letter

I don't care how much money I gotta spend
Got to get back to baby again
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home
My baby, just-a wrote me a letter

Well, she wrote me a letter
Said she couldn't live without me no more
Listen mister, can't you see I got to get back
To my baby once-a more
Anyway, yeah!

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home
My baby, just-a wrote me a letter

Well, she wrote me a letter
Said she couldn't live without me no more
Listen mister, can't you see I got to get back
To my baby once-a more
Anyway, yeah!

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home
My baby, just-a wrote me a letter
My baby, just-a wrote me a letter


Wednesday, November 07, 2007

El Rey me puso nostálgico

A continuación la letra de Always on my mind, canción que cantó el Rey.

Always on my mind
(words & music by wayne thompson - mark james - johnny christopher)
Maybe I didnt treat you
Quite as good as I should have
Maybe I didnt love you
Quite as often as I could have
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time

You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind

Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasnt died
Give me, give me one more chance
To keep you satisfied, satisfied

Maybe I didnt hold you
All those lonely, lonely times
And I guess I never told you
Im so happy that youre mine
If I make you feel second best
Girl, Im sorry I was blind

You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind

Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasnt died
Give me, give me one more chance
To keep you satisfied, satisfied

Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
You were always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind