El temita de la semana (05-02-01)

En ésta sección no podría faltar The Whole of the Moon (1985), la "ópera prima" de The Waterboys (Mike Scott y sus muchachos), una auténtica preciosidad, que le haría a Franco ablandar el corazón. Ahí va esa letra:

I pictured a rainbow
you held it in your hands
I had flashes
but you saw the plan
I wandered out in the world for years
you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
The whole of the moon...

You were there in the turnstiles
with the wind at your heels
you stretched for the stars
and you know how it feels
to reach too high, too far, too soon
You saw the whole of the moon

I was grounded
while you filled the skies
I was dumbfounded by truth
you cut through lies
I saw the lone empty valley
you saw Brigadoon
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon

I spoke about wings
you just flew
I wondered I guessed and I tried
you just knew
I sighed
but you swooned
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
The whole of the moon...

With a torch in your pocket
and the wind at your heels
you climbed on the ladder
and you know how it feels
to get too high, too far, too soon
You saw the whole of the moon
The whole of the moon...

Unicorns and cannonballs, palaces and piers,
trumpets, towers and tenements
wide oceans full of tears
flags, rags, ferryboats, scimitars and scarves
every precious dream and vision underneath the stars
You climbed on the ladder
with the wind in your sails
you came like a comet
blazing your trail
too high, too far, too soon
You saw the whole of the moon !

Es una pena que muchísima gente sólo conozca a los Waterboys por éste tema, cuando han creado un estilo propio, inconfundible no sólo por la voz de Mike, sino por el conjunto de melodías, con temas como Fisherman's Blues, The Pan Within, Medicine Bow, The Return Of Pan, All The Things She Gave Me, A Girl Called Johnny...

Buen fin de semana a todos, y que la escuchéis cuando estéis tiernamente con vuestras parejas, pillos/as...