A Sort Of Homecoming

Em 1984 o mundo e o Brasil eram muito diferentes. No país, sob uma ditadura militar, não se votava nem para prefeito do Recife. Não existiam celulares, Internet, MP3, câmaras digitais, etc.

O U2 já tinha se consagrado na Europa com o álbum “War” e buscava tornar-se uma banda com acesso ao grande mercado americano. O show Live at Red Rocks capturou a imagem dos rapazes “militantes” que os acompanhariam por alguns anos.

A primeira guinada na carreira da banda foi o álbum Unforgettable Fire. Produzido por Brian Eno o disco muda a sonoridade da banda, enterrando as guitarras de The Edge em algumas músicas.

A sort of homecoming é uma dessas músicas atemporais, clássicas. O nome veio de um verso do poeta Paul Celan que diz que “Poetry is a sort of homecoming”.

Mas eu gostaria de destacar a versão ao vivo do mini LP Wide Awake in América, poucas vezes um conjunto soube transmitir verdadeira emoção ao interpretar uma canção.

O poeta Celan afogou-se no Rio Sena em 1970, felizmente para nós os irlandeses do U2 preferiram voltar para casa.







And you know it's time to go
Through the sleet and driving snow
Across the fields of mourning
Light in the distance


And you hunger for the time
Time to heal, desire, time
And your earth moves beneath
Your own dream landscape


Oh, oh, oh...
On borderland we run...


I'll be there
I'll be there...
Tonight
A high road
A high road out from here


The city walls are all come down
The dust, a smoke screen all around
See faces ploughed like fields that once
Gave no resistance


And we live by the side of the road
On the side of a hill
As the valley explode
Dislocated, suffocated
The land grows weary of its own


Oh, oh, oh...on borderland we run...
And still we run
We run and don't look back
I'll be there
I'll be there
Tonight
Tonight


I'll be there tonight...I believe
I'll be there...somehow
I'll be there...tonight
Tonight


The wind will crack in winter time
This bomb-blast lightning waltz
No spoken words, just a scream...


Tonight we'll build a bridge
Across the sea and land
See the sky, the burning rain
She will die and live again
Tonight


And your heart beats so slow
Through the rain and fallen snow
Across the fields of mourning
Light's in the distance


Oh don't sorrow, no don't weep
For tonight, at last
I am coming home
I am coming home

Maybe i´m amazed

Certas dúvidas cercam essa perfeita canção que Paul compôs para sua esposa, Linda. Alguns dizem que ela teria sido tentada nas sessões de Let it Be e rejeitada, outros que Paul a compôs exatamente após o fim dos Beatles.
Essa canção está no seu primeiro disco solo no qual ele toca todos os intrumentos(guitarra, baixo, bateria e piano). Nunca foi lançada como single, mas a versão ao vivo do Wings over America chegou ao 28o lugar na parada inglesa.

Maybe I'm Amazed

Baby I´m amazed at the way you love me all the time
Maybe I´m afraid of the way I love you
Baby I´m amazed at the the way you pulled me out of time
Hung me on a line
Maybe I´m amazed at the way I really need you

Baby I´m a man and maybe I´m a lonely man
Who´s in the middle of something
That he dosen´t really understand
Babe I´m a man and maybe you´re the only woman
Who could ever help me
Baby won´t you help to me understand

(lead solo)

Baby I´m a man and maybe I´m a lonely man
Who´s in the middle of something
That he dosen´t really understand
Babe I´m a man and maybe you´re the only woman
Who could ever help me
Baby won´t you help me understand

Baby I´m amazed at the way you´re with me all the time
Maybe I´m afraid of the way I leave you
Baby I´m amazed at the way you help me sing my song
You right me when I´m wrong
Maybe I´m amazed at the way I really need you

Vamos aos fatos básicos. Audioslave é formado por 3/4 do Rage Against the Machine e 1/4 do Soundgarden. Ou seja, quando Zack de La Rocha deixou o Rage , os membros restantes convidaram Chris Cornell para cantar com eles.

Vamos as opiniões subjetivas.
Sempre gostei do Soundgarden. Nunca acompanhei de forma apropriada o Rage. Gosto de algumas músicas que (talvez) entrem aqui.
Acho Chris Cornell um dos 3 melhores cantores da atualidade. Acho Tom Morello o " The Edge" do rock pesado.

Like a stone é um clássico num disco com vários clássicos. Uma banda retrô que pode ser ofuturo do Rock. Um projeto efêmero que já está com cheiro de posteridade.

Like A Stone

On a cobweb afternoon
in a room full of emptiness,
by a freeway, I confess
I was lost in the pages
of a book full of death.
Reading how we'll die alone.
If we're good, we'll lay to rest
anywhere we want to go.

In your house, I long to be.
Room by room, patiently
I wait for you there like a stone.
I wait for you there alone.

And on my deathbed, I will pray
to the Gods and the Angels
like a pagan to anyone
who will take me to Heaven.
To a place I recall
I was there so long ago.
The sky was bruised.The wine was bled.
And there you led me on.

In your house, I long to be.
Room by room, patiently.
I wait for you there, like a stone.
I wait for you there,
alone, alone.

And on I read, until the day was gone.
And I sat in regret of all the things I've done.
For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged.
In dreams until my death, I will wonder on.

In your house, I long to be.
Room by room, patiently.
I wait for you there, like a stone.
I wait for you there,
alone, alone.