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Try : Nelly Furtado

Sommige liedjes zijn tekstueel kleine juweeltjes.  Zo ook Try van Nelly Furtado, niet alleen tekstueel maar ook muzikaal meer dan de moeite waard.

Try

All I know
Is everything is not as it’s sold
But the more I grow the less I know
And I have lived so many lives
Though I’m not old
And the more I see, the less I grow
The fewer the seeds the more I sow

Then I see you standing there
Wanting more from me
And all I can do is try
Then I see you standing there
Wanting more from me
And all I can do is try, try

I wish I hadn’t seen all of the realness
And all the real people are really not real at all
The more I learn the more I learn
The more I cry the more I cry
As I say goodbye to the way of life
I thought I had designed for me

Then I see you standing there
Wanting more from me
And all I can do is try
Then I see you standing there
I’m all I’ll ever be
But all I can do is try
Oh, try, try

All of the moments that already passed
We’ll try to go back and make them last
All of the things we want each other to be
We never will be, we never will be
And that’s wonderful, and that’s life
And that’s you, baby
This is me, baby
And we are, we are, we are, we are
We are, we are
Free
In our love
We are free in our love

Poëzie in muziek

John Watts

Gisteravond naar een concert geweest van een van mijn muzikale helden van vroeger John Watts van Fisher Z.

Hier een voorbeeld van een songtekst die ook als gedicht niet zou misstaan.

 

A face to remember

The light creeps in  / Through the broken glass /  In the sleeping ward.

Finnegan’s voice  / Is an endless whine / Through a hardboard barricade.

I throw a cigarette to make him quieten down.

And i search for that photo of you.

And your face is a symbol.

A place to remember.

Your face is a symbol for me now.

Radio blares.

There is not much time.

And the children play you up.

Buses and trains  / On commuter lines  / Through the condensation.

I know what you’re doing now / And i follow you in your routine.

And your face is a symbol.

And your eyes make me strong again /  I can look at the world full of confidence.