The Swell Season – The Rain

Antonio me ha traído a la mente una de las casualidades que provocó el arranque de este blog. Allá por 2006 dos músicos de diferentes procedencias (Glen Hansard, irlandés; Markéta Irglová, checa) protagonizaron una estupenda película, Once, que se llevó el Oscar a la mejor canción, interpretada también por ambos: Falling Slowly. Me emocionó tanto su escucha que tuve que publicar irremediablemente algo en mi blog personal. Pero a la vez, descubrí que necesitaba un espacio específico para dar rienda suelta a todas esas perlas que se cruzaban por mi oído.

Así que tras esos polvos, aquí estamos con estos lodos. Y por mucho que no quiera invocar a la lluvia (es de agradecer que llevemos unos días secos por el norte…), me lanzo con este single del álbum Strick Joy (2009). Nos os perdáis la versión deluxe del disco con el Falling Slowly en directo.

Just before the rain came down, the sun came out at last.
And as for all assumptions made, questions never asked.
I know we’re not where I promised you we’d be by now,
but maybe it’s a question of who’d want it anyhow.

Even now the rainbow’s end seems closer to your hand
and is it knowing when to stop the measure of the man.

Ok we’re not what I promised you we would become,
but maybe it’s a question of how much you’d really want.

[estribillo]
Have you had enough?
Had enough?
There’s plenty more where that came from now.
Are you feeling bought?
Swallowed up?
We got hours on you now.

Just before the rain came down, the sun came out at last.
And as for all assumptions made. Questions never asked.

I know we’re not what I promised you we’d be by now.
Ok I’m not what I promised you I would become.

[estribillo]

You still on top?
Still crawling up?
We got hours on you now

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