E. Balsa

Hazy shade of winter

2008/12/31 / / 0 Comments

Hazy shade of winter

Time, time, time, see what’s become of me
While I looked around
For my possibilities
I was so hard to please
But look around, leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Hear the salvation army band
Down by the riverside, it’s bound to be a better ride
Than what you’ve got planned
Carry your cup in your hand
And look around, leaves are brown now
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Hang on to your hopes, my friend
That’s an easy thing to say, but if your hopes should pass away
Simply pretend
That you can build them again
Look around, the grass is high
The fields are ripe, it’s the springtime of my life

Ahhh, seasons change with the scenery
Weaving time in a tapestry
Won’t you stop and remember me
At any convenient time
Funny how my memory slips while looking over manuscripts
Of unpublished rhyme
Drinking my vodka and lime

But look around, leaves are brown now
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Look around, leaves are brown
There’s a patch of snow on the ground…

Simon & Garfunkel – 1968
Video –www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yheo2AgNywU

mhm mhm

2008/10/20 / / 0 Comments

mhm mhm

i’ve waited hours for this
i’ve made myself so sick
i wish i’d stayed
asleep today

i never thought this day would end
i never thought tonight could ever be
this close to me

just try to see in the dark
just try to make it work
to feel the fear before you’re here
i make the shapes come much too close
i pull my eyes out
hold my breath
and wait until i shake…

but if i had your faith
then i could make it safe and clean
if only i was sure
that my head on the door was a dream

i’ve waited hours for this
i’ve made myself so sick
i wish i’d stayed asleep today
i never thought this day would end
i never thought tonight could ever be
this close to me

but if i had your face
then i could make it safe and clean
if only i was sure that my head on the door was a dream to

The Cure – Close to me ( video )

We stood on a beach at sunset, do you remember when?

2008/10/13 / / 0 Comments

We stood on a beach at sunset, do you remember when?

Sunshine came softly through my a-window today
Could’ve tripped out easy a-but I’ve a-changed my ways
It’ll take time, I know it but in a while
You’re gonna be mine, I know it, we’ll do it in style
‘Cause I made my mind up you’re going to be mine

I’ll tell you right now
Any trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find
Everybody’s hustlin’ just to have a little scene
When I say we’ll be cool I think that you know what I mean
We stood on a beach at sunset, do you remember when?
I know a beach where, baby, a-it never ends
When you’ve made your mind up forever to be mine

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm
I’ll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind
‘Cause I made my mind up you’re going to be mine
I’ll tell you right now
Any trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find

Superman or Green Lantern ain’t got a-nothin’ on me
I can make like a turtle and dive for your pearls in the sea, yeah!
A you-you-you can just sit there a-thinking on your velvet throne
’bout all the rainbows a-you can a-have for your own
When you’ve made your mind up forever to be mine
I’ll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind
When you’ve made your mind up forever to be mine

I’ll pick up your hand
I’ll pick up your hand

Sunshine Superman
Video – www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuEsggscWnU

Às voltas em lugar nenhum

2008/10/05 / / 0 Comments

[Mais fotos]

Acordo em lugar nenhum
Apanho a roupa do chão
Em solidão
Dá-me a tua mão
Ó sonho meu

Lá fora o sol encandeia
Aqui em lugar nenhum
Ficou no pó
Uma marca só
Doutro sonho meu

Eu nunca sei bem onde estou
Se estou sozinho
Às voltas em lugar nenhum
Eu já não sei ir pra casa

Há-de ser
Sempre assim
Belo princípio
Triste fim

Hoje já é amanhã
Amanhã foi ontem
Às voltas em lugar nenhum
Eu já só quero é ir pra casa
Eu já só quero é ir pra casa

Todas as histórias que eu sei
Acabam em lugar nenhum
Em solidão dá-me a tua mão
Ó sonho meu

Há-de ser
Sempre assim
Belo princípio
Triste fim

Hoje é já amanhã
Amanhã foi ontem
Às voltas em lugar nenhum
Eu já só quero é ir pra casa
Eu já só quero é ir pra casa

Xutos & Pontapés – Lugar Nenhum

Where is my mind?

2008/08/26 / / 0 Comments

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there’s nothing in it
And you’ll ask yourself

Where is my mind

Way out in the water
See it swimmin’

I was swimmin’ in the Caribbean
Animals were hiding behind the rocks
Except the little fish
But they told me, he swears
Tryin’ to talk to me, coy koi.

Where is my mind

Way out in the water
See it swimmin’ ?

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
If there’s nothing in it
And you’ll ask yourself

Where is my mind

Oh
With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Oh
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Oh
Oh

Where is my mind – Pixies

Video (versão Placebo)

Paredes Brancas, Povo Mudo!

2008/08/23 / / 0 Comments

Das prensas dos martelos das bigornas
das foices dos arados das charruas
das alfaias dos cascos e das dornas
é que nasce a canção que anda nas ruas

Um povo não é livre em águas mornas
não se abre a liberdade com gazuas
à força do teu braço é que transformas
as fábricas e as terras que são tuas

Abre os olhos e vê. Sê vigilante
a reacção não passará diante
do teu punho fechado contra o medo.

Levanta-te meu Povo. Não é tarde.
Agora é que o mar canta é que o sol arde
pois quando o povo acorda é sempre cedo.

(Soneto do Trabalho – José Carlos Ary dos Santos)

O mar não é tão fundo que me tire a vida

2008/08/17 / / 0 Comments

O mar não é tão fundo que me tire a vida
Nem há tão larga rua que me leve a morte
Sabe-me a boca ao sal da despedida
Meu lenço de gaivota ao vento norte
Meus lábios de água, meu limão de amor
Meu corpo de pinhal à ventania
Meu cedro à lua, minha acácia em flor
Minha laranja a arder na noite fria

(Vitorino – Ana I/II)

[video]

Não canto porque sonho

2008/08/14 / / 0 Comments

Não canto porque sonho.
Canto porque és real.
Canto o teu olhar maduro,
teu sorriso puro,
a tua graça animal.

Canto porque sou homem.
Se não cantasse seria
mesmo bicho sadio
embriagado na alegria
da tua vinha sem vinho.

Canto porque o amor apetece.
Porque o feno amadurece
nos teus braços deslumbrados.
Porque o meu corpo estremece
ao vê-los nus e suados.

(“Não canto porque sonho”
Poema : Eugénio de Andrade
Música : Fausto e José Afonso)

Road to nowhere

2008/08/13 / / 0 Comments

Well we know where were goin
But we dont know where weve been
And we know what were knowin
But we cant say what weve seen
And were not little children
And we know what we want
And the future is certain
Give us time to work it out

Were on a road to nowhere
Come on inside
Takin that ride to nowhere
Well take that ride

Im feelin okay this mornin
And you know,
Were on the road to paradise
Here we go, here we go

Maybe you wonder where you are
I dont care
Here is where time is on our side
Take you there…take you there

Were on a road to nowhere
Were on a road to nowhere
Were on a road to nowhere

Theres a city in my mind
Come along and take that ride
And its all right, baby, its all right

And its very far away
But its growing day by day
And its all right, baby, its all right

They can tell you what to do
But theyll make a fool of you
And its all right, baby, its all right

Were on a road to nowhere


Were on a road to nowhere – Talking Heads

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