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Semisonic – Secret Smile

SemisonicVolvemos de las vacaciones con nuevas canciones. Esta sonrisa secreta pertenece al disco Feeling Strangely Fine (1998) y ha sido usada en innumerables series (Dawson Crece, Embrujadas, …) y anuncios de televisión. De letra sencilla y estribillo pegadizo, transmite un buen rollo increíble. Porque a veces una simple sonrisa lo cura todo.

En el videoclip aparece Dan Wilson, el vocalista de la banda.

Letra:

[estribillo]
Nobody knows it but you’ve got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
Nobody knows it but you’ve got a secret smile
And you use it only for me

So use it and prove it
Remove this whirling sadness
I’m losing, I’m bluesing
But you can save me from madness

[estribillo]

So save me I’m waiting
I’m needing, hear me pleading
And soothe me, improve me
I’m grieving, I’m barely believing now, now

When you are flying around and around the world
And I’m lying alonely
I know there’s something sacred and free reserved
And received by me only

[estribillo]

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Counting Crows – Mr. Jones

Counting Crows - Mr. JonesY si en el último post llegábamos con algo novedoso, hoy toca tirar de memoria y colocar un temazo que me carga las pilas sólo con los cinco primeros segundos. ¡Qué grande es esta canción! Y a pesar de que fue un bombazo del primer disco de los Counting Crows (August and Everything After, 1993), no podemos denominarla killer-song, porque han seguido teniendo éxitos.

Por cierto, este mismo mes tendremos el lanzamiento de su nuevo álbum: Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings. Seguiremos contando cuervos durante mucho tiempo 😉

Letra:

Sha la la la la la la la.
Oh.
Uh huh.
I was down at the New Amsterdam starin’ at this yellow-haired girl,
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with a black-haired flamenco dancer.
You know, she dances while his father plays.
And so, she’s suddenly beautiful.
And we all want something beautiful.
Man, I wish I was beautiful…
So come dance the silence down through the mornin’.

Sha la la la la la la la.
Yeah.
Uh huh.
Yeah.

Cut up, Maria! Show me some of that Spanish dancin’, n’
Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones.
Believe in me,
Help me believe in anything.
‘Cause I wanna be someone who believes.
Yeah.

Mr. Jones let me tell each other fairy tales,
and we stare at the beautiful women:
«She’s looking at you. Ah, no, no, she is looking at me.»
Smilin’ in the bright lights.
Comin’ through in stereo.
When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely.

Well, I’m gon’ paint my picture.
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray.
All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful.
Yeah, well you know, gray is my favorite color.
I felt so symbolic yesterday.
If I knew Picasso,
I would buy myself a gray guitar and play.

Mr. Jones let me look into the future.
Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women:
«She’s looking at you.
I don’t think so. She’s looking at me.»
Standin’ in the spotlight.
I bought myself a gray guitar.
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
I will never be lonely.
Said I’m never gonna be lonely.

I wanna be a lion.
Eh, everybody wanna pass as cats.
We all wanna be big, big stars, yeah but, we got different reasons for that.
Believe in me ‘cause I don’t believe in anything,
And I wanna be someone to believe, to believe, to believe.
Yeah.

Mr. Jones let me stumbling through the barrio.
Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women:
«She’s perfect for you. Man, there’s got to be somebody for me!»
I wanna be Bob Dylan.
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky.
When everybody loves you, ah son, that’s just about as funky as you can be.

Mr. Jones let me starin’ at the video.
When I look at the television I wanna see me starin’ right back at me.
We all wanna be big stars, but we don’t know why and we don’t know how.
But when everybody loves me, I wanna be just about as happy as I can be.
Mr. Jones and me, we’re gonna be big stars…

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Adele – Chasing Pavements

AdeleSiguiendo un poco la línea de Kate Nash, hoy vengo con otra promesa inglesa. Se trata de Adele, que con tan sólo 20 añitos (fijaos si es joven, que hasta yo soy mayor….), ya tiene su primer disco en el mercado (19, 2008) y promete pegar fuerte.

Música recomendada para hasta los más incontinentes de los gustos 😉

Letra:

I’ve made up my mind,
Don’t need to think it over,
if I’m wrong I am right,
Don’t need to look no further,
This ain’t lust,
i know this is love but,

If i tell the world,
I’ll never say enough,
Cause it was not said to you,
And thats exactly what i need to do,
If i’m in love with you,

[estribillo]
Should i give up,
Or should i just keep chasing pavements?
Even if it leads nowhere,
Or would it be a waste?
Even If i knew my place should i leave it there?
Should i give up,
Or should i just keep chasing pavements?
Even if it leads nowhere

I’d build myself up,
And fly around in circles,
Wait then as my heart drops,
and my back begins to tingle
finally could this be it

[estribillo]

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Antony And The Johnsons – Hope There’s Someone

AntonyAntony And The Johnsons es un grupo que gira entorno a la persona de Antony Hegarty, vocalista y compositor de todas sus canciones. Hope There’s Someone (I Am a Bird Now, 2005) es un golpe de melancolía que demuestra que todos necesitamos a alguien cerca nuestro y que el miedo a quedarnos solos siempre nos asalta. Además puede que os suene de un anuncio de Massimo Dutti.

Letra:

Hope there’s someone
Who’ll take care of me
When I die, will I go

Hope there’s someone
Who’ll set my heart free
Nice to hold when I’m tired

There’s a ghost on the horizon
When I go to bed
How can I fall asleep at night
How will I rest my head

Oh I’m scared of the middle place
Between light and nowhere
I don’t want to be the one
Left in there, left in there

There’s a man on the horizon
Wish that I’d go to bed
If I fall to his feet tonight
Will allow rest my head

So here’s hoping I will not drown
Or paralyze in light
And godsend I don’t want to go
To the seal’s watershed

Hope there’s someone
Who’ll take care of me
When I die, Will I go

Hope there’s someone
Who’ll set my heart free
Nice to hold when I’m tired

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Moby – Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? [Recomendación]

MobySegunda recomendación que se pasa por este blog. Esta vez viene de la mano de Mak, que ha hecho un tremendo esfuerzo por no enrollarse mucho ;-P:

Why does my heart feel so bad? (Play, 1999), es una canción que me encanta en algunos momentos de bajón. Es como si Moby hubiese logrado plasmar qué es la melancolía, al menos para mí. A veces pienso que me parezco en algo al chico del videoclip, pero no solamente en que se sienta solo o no comprenda al resto del mundo ni el resto del mundo le comprenda a él, sino en que como él, como todos, también tengo algún amigo aún sufriéndome ;-), y un lugar donde ser yo, aunque no está tan lejos como esa Luna…

Moby es uno de mis músicos y DJs preferidos, así que si Lore me deja, seguiré recomendando otras canciones suyas.

Letra:

Why does my heart

Why does my heart
Feel so bad?
Why does my soul
Feel so bad?

These open doors

[Repetir hasta la saciedad]

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