Líricas

I wonder why we came ou You haven't seen elephants, kings or peru!

Isso não é hora, mas senti vontade de atualizar o blog com essas duas "líricas", como diria um mau tradutor do inglês. São músicas que compõe a trilha sonora de dois filmes. Mais do que isso, as músicas marcam o apogeu das respectivas tramas. A primeira é do filme "Dancer in the Dark", do Lars Von Trier, interpretada pela indescritível (voz da) Björk. A cena em que a Selma canta junto com seu pretendente, com o trem marcando o ritmo da música, aceitando o fato de que jamais voltaria a ver e que não via mal nisso pois já havia visto o suficiente na vida, é uma das mais tocantes que eu já vi. A segunda canção vem do filme "La stanza del figlio", de Nanni Moretti, atravé da voz de Brian Eno. A cena, embora menos significativa, mas igualmente cheia de emoção, é o momento em que Giovanni, tentando superar a sua inconformação com a morte do filho, vai a uma loja de Cds comprar um disco para presentear uma amiga do jovem e se depara com a expressão "I wonder why we came", que é uma espécie de indagação filosófica que (muito mal) traduzida seria como "Tento imaginar pra que viemos".
As letras assim, soltas, talvez digam pouco. Mas são melodias maravilhosas e - na minha humilde opinião - são a cereja dos deliciosos bolos que são estes filmes. Ei-las:

I've Seen It All (Björk)

I've seen it all,
I have seen the trees,
I've seen the willow leaves dancing in the breeze
I've seen a man killed by his best friend,
And lives that were over before they were spent.

I've seen what I was - I know what I'll be
I've seen it all - there is no more to see!

You haven't seen elephants, kings or Peru!
I'm happy to say I had better to do
What about China? Have you seen the Great Wall?
All walls are great, if the roof doesn't fall!
And the man you will marry?
The home you will share?
To be honest, I really don't care...
You've never been to Niagara Falls?
I have seen water, its water, that's all...
The Eiffel Tower, the Empire State?
My pulse was as high on my very first date!
Your grandson's hand as he plays with your hair?
To be honest, I really don't care...

I've seen it all,
I've seen the dark
I've seen the brightness in one little spark.
I've seen what I chose and I've seen what I need,
And that is enough, to want more would be greed.
I've seen what I was and I know what
I'll beI've seen it all - there is no more to see!

You've seen it all and all you have seen
You can always review on your own little screen
The light and the dark, the big and the small
Just keep in mind - you need no more at all
You've seen what you were and know what you'll be
You've seen it all - there is no more to see!



By This River (Brian Eno)

Here we are
Stuck by this river,
You and I,
Underneath a sky that's ever falling down, down, down.
Ever falling down.

Through the day As if on an ocean
Waiting here,
Always failing to remember why we came, came, came:
I wonder why we came.

You talk to me as if from a distance
And I reply
With impressions chosen from another time, time, time,
From another time.