Canzone del giorno.

La canzone di oggi merita un discorso a parte. Si tratta di "Plea from a cat named virtue" dei Weakerthans, gruppo canadese che ho recuperato tramite un amico in un negozio di parma che ha un sacco di roba introvabile altrove. Non che siano degli dei della musica, ma sono piacevoli da ascoltare, e poi l'album "Reconstruction Site" e questo brano in particolare sono veramente geniali.

Geniali per la maggior parte dei testi, ovviamente, perchè a livello musicale non c'è niente che vada fuori dai canoni.

"Why don't you ever wanna play,
I'm tired of this piece of string..
You sleep as much as I do now
And you don't eat much of anything..
I don't know who you're talking to,
I made a search trough every room,
But all I found was dust that moved
In shadows of the afternoon.
And listen,
About those bitter songs you sing,
They're not helping anything,
They won't make you strong.
So we should open up the house,
Invite the tabby two doors down,
You can ask your sister if
She doesn't bring her basset-hound..
Ask the things you shouldn't miss,
The tape-hiss and the modern man,
The cold war and card catalogues,
To come and join us if they can
For girly drinks and parlour games,
We'll pass around the easy life,
Of absolutely no regrets,
And later maybe you could try
To let your losses dangle off
The sharp edge of the century,
Talk about the weather or
How the weather used to be.
And I'll cater
With all the birds that I can kill,
Let their tiny feathers feel
disappointment..
Lie down
Lick the sorrow from your skin,
Scratch the terror and begin
To believe you're strong.
All you ever want to do is drink and watch tv,
And frankly that thing doesn't really interest me..
I swear I'm gonna bite you hard
and taste your tinny blood,
if you don't stop the self-defeating lies
You've been repeating since the day you brought me home,
I know you're strong..."

Il gatto che cerca di svegliare il padrone dall'accidia che lo sta ammazzando... lo dico sempre io che i gatti sono troppo intelligenti.

"I know, you may roll your eyes at this...

But I'm So glad that you exist."

"The Reasons", The Weakerthans, 2003