Love - Old Man
Para una estación como el verano, y al contrario de la estación de atocha o santa justa, la verdadera música, la que nos acompaña mientras bordeamos una orilla es la de los grupos californianos de los sesenta, sin lugar a dudas grandísimos instrumentistas, geniales guitarristas forjados precisamente en el Village de Nueva York muchos de ellos, pero que quedaron encandilados por el clima y el espíritu lisérgico de las olas y el sol de San Francisco, Los Ángeles etc.
Uno de esos grupos es, cómo no, Love. Colosal Forever Changes, de obligada escucha para cualquiera que se precie de degustar y apreciar la música. Aquí os dejo una canción que verdaderamente nos cuenta una historia maravillosa, preciosa letra, todo un cortometraje musical y unas las más emocionantes canciones de amor que yo he escuchado y leído.
Verse 1:
I once knew a man
Been everywhere in the world
Gave me a tiny ivory ball
Said it would bring me good
Never believed it would until
I have been loving you
Verse 2:
Dear old man
He’d seen most everything
Gave me a piece of good advice
Said it would do me well
I couldn’t really tell until
I have been loving you
Bridge:
Now it seems
Things are not so strange
I can see more clearly
Suddenly I’ve found my way
I know the old man would laugh
He spoke of love’s sweeter days
And in his eloquent way
I think he was speaking of you
You are so lovely
You didn’t have to say a thing
Verse 3:
But I remember that old man
Telling me he’d seen the light
Gave me a small brown leather book
Insisted that he was right
I only heard him slightly
’Til I heard you whisper
Took you up all in my arms
Coda:
Dear old man
Wise old man
Fine old man, now
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