2008-07-03

All along the watchtower - Bob Dylan


Viene de mis primeros recuerdos de rock. Tal vez la canción de la que más versiones distintas pasaron por mi cabeza, empezando de Hendrix y U2. Hasta Dave Matthews y quien sabe cuantos culeros más.
Es rock primario, marchoso, poderoso y creciente y me deja algo en claro: otra forma de escribir letras, una canción rock que parece tomada de un libro de caricaturas para adultos o de la fantasía de Tolkien.
Pero debería estar en lo más alto del rock y merecer veneración y respeto.
Que lindo hablar de rock sin sentimientos no? Aprende un poco no vaya a ser que te descontroles de nuevo... Mucho trabajo ocupa bien el alma.
"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."

"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

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