Sindicazione06 Ago 2010
o almeno spero che lo sappiate già in moltissimi che manca meno di mese all'esordio del concerto tenuto dall'unico, insostituibile Leonard Cohen in Italia.
Stavolta la città toscana più famosa al mondo gli darà ospitalità, dove il 1° settembre si esibirà a piazza Santa Croce e sarà accompagnato da una orchestra composta da dieci elementi.
Per questa data io sarò in Medio Oriente e ahimè non potrò partecipare, ma ciò nonostante consiglio caldamente a numerosi di voi e anche e soprattutto a coloro che magari ancora non conoscono il mondo di questo nonnetto affabile (come lo chiamo io affettuosamente), che in una parola sola vorrebbe dire tutto e malgrado non ci riesca, vi assicuro che è impossibile restargli indifferenti: la sua musica colpisce, coinvolge e le parole delle sue canzoni non sono mai banali, mai dette a caso.
Come ho fatto l'anno scorso, anche ora vi allego una canzone (vedi il link) e le sue parole. Ero indecisa se mettere su Because of o Take this waltz, ma alla fine ho optato per quella a cui sono legata più affettivamente:
Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women
There’s a shoulder where death comes to cry
There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows.
There’s a tree where the doves go to die.
There’s a piece that was torn from the morning,
and it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
Take this waltz, take this waltz,
take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws.
I want you, I want you, I want you
on a chair with a dead magazine.
In the cave at the tip of the lily,
in some hallway where love’s never been.
On a bed where the moon has been sweating,
in a cry filled with footsteps and sand
Take this waltz, take this waltz,
take its broken waist in your hand.
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
with its very own breath
of brandy and death,
dragging its tail in the sea.
There’s a concert hall in Vienna
where your mouth had a thousand reviews.
There’s a bar where the boys have stopped talking,
they’ve been sentenced to death by the blues.
Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
with a garland of freshly cut tears?
Take this waltz, take this waltz,
take this waltz, it’s been dying for years.
There’s an attic where children are playing,
where I’ve got to lie down with you soon,
in a dream of Hungarian lanterns,
in the mist of some sweet afternoon.
And I’ll see what you’ve chained to your sorrow,
all your sheep and your lilies of snow
Take this waltz, take this waltz,
with its “I’ll never forget you, you know!”
And I’ll dance with you in Vienna,
I’ll be wearing a river’s disguise.
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,
my mouth on the dew of your thighs.
And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
with the photographs there, and the moss.
And I’ll yield to the flood of your beauty,
my cheap violin and my cross.
And you’ll carry me down on your dancing
to the pools that you lift on your wrist...
O my love, O my love
Take this waltz, take this waltz,
it’s yours now. It’s all that there is.