Para animar... James - Waltzing Along (Live)

Todos nós temos dias em que nos sentimos mais tristes e que precisamos muito que nos puxem para cima. Comigo nem sempre resulta, mas há músicas que conseguem animar-nos e dar-nos alguma força. Tinha a ideia que já aqui a tinha postado, visto que é uma das minhas músicas preferidas da minha banda de eleição, mas pesquisei e parece que não...

- Como é possível?!

Esta é a minha "HAPPY SONG" e para além de me animar, põe-me a bater o pé ou a dançar. Deixo-vos com os James e o seu fantástico frontman Tim Booth, espero que anime tanto como me costuma animar... Porque sei que algures, há quem precise especialmente, cá vai...

James - Waltzing Along

Help comes when you need it most
Im cured by laughter
Mood swings
Not sure I can cope
My life's in plaster

May your mind set you free
May your heart lead you on
May your mind let you see in all disasters
May your heart lead you on

These wounds are all self imposed
Life's no disaster
All roads lead on to death row
Who knows what comes after

May your mind be wide open
May your heart beat strong
Maybe your minds will be broken
By this heartfelt song

May your mind set you free
May your heart lead you on
May your eyes let you see in all disasters
May your heart lead you on
May your mind be wide open
May your heart lead you on

Aqui fica uma versão da última tour deste ano, num vídeo amador, consequentemente numa versão mais crua...

Querendo-te...

"Morde-me com o querer-me que tens nos olhos
Despe-te em sonho ante o sonhares-me vendo-te,
Dá-te vária, dá sonhos de ti própria aos molhos
Ao teu pensar-me querendo-te…...

Desfolha sonhos teus de dando-te variamente,
Ó perversa, sobre o êxtase da atenção
Que tu em sonhos dás-me… E o teu sonho de mim é quente
No teu olhar absorto ou em abstracção…

Possue-me-te, seja eu em ti meu spasmo e um rocio
De voluptuosos eus na tua coroa de rainha…
Meu amor será o sair de mim do teu ócio
E eu nunca serei teu, ó apenas-minha?"
 
Fernando Pessoa

Kristin Hersh (feat. Michael Stipe) - Your Ghost

Kristin Hersh - Your Ghost
If I walk down this hallway
Tonight it's too quiet
So I pat through the dark
And call you on the phone
Push your old nummer
And let your house ring
Till I wake your ghost

Let him walk down your hallway
It's not this quiet
Slide down your receiver
Stand across the wire
Follow my number
Slide into my hand

It's the blaze across my nightgown
It's the phone's ring

Chorus:
I think last night
you were driving circles around me (x3)

I can't drink this coffee
Till I put you in my closet
Let him shoot me down
Let him call me off
I take it from his whisper
You're not that tough

It's the blaze across my nightgown
It's the phone's ring

Chorus:
You were in my dream (It think last night)
You were driving circles around me (x5)

E já está...

Direito de voto exercido.
Dever cumprido.

29 de Setembro - Dia Internacional do Café

Eu que adoro café...

O que dez personalidades pensam sobre o café:

1. Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? ~Albert Camus

2. I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ~T.S. Eliot

3. It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. ~Dave Barry

4. I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism. ~Abigail Reynolds

5. Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with. ~Terri Guillemets

6. No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for ‘Before Coffee’. ~ Cherise Sinclair

7. Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring. ~Honoré de Balzac

8. I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now. ~Louisa May Alcott

9. That’s something that annoys the hell out of me- I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t. ~J.D. Salinger

10. In Seattle, you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running. ~Jeff Bezos

http://writerswrite.co.za/the-top-10-quotes-about-coffee

Não me venham "desinterromper"...

Nos últimos tempos, talvez fruto das poucas horas que durmo, raras são as vezes em que me recordo de sonhar (ou do sonho!), sendo certo que todas as noites sonhamos. Esta noite, ainda que as horas de sono não tenham sido muitas, sonhei. Bruta discussão com a minha chefia e com alguns colegas em pleno escritório (por acaso sobre um dos assuntos de momento por lá, mas em que nem me tenho metido muito...), e levanto o tom de voz e digo esta pérola em pleno sonho - "se isso acontecer, depois não me venham desinterromper(ou não me desinterrompam  , something like that!)"... WTF! Já não me basta sonhar pouco, quando sonho ainda o faço com o tema laboral, e ,para ajudar à festa, mando uma calinada destas!?! Desinterromper?! 

É melhor que não venham (des)interromper este processo...

Ai Algures, estás todo queimadinho filho...

Pensamento do Dia

"Não perca o seu tempo com explicações.

As pessoas só escutam o que querem escutar."

 

Paulo Coelho

Linkin Park - What I´ve Done (Live in Red Square)

Respirar fundo e, E-N-E-R-G-I-A!

Linkin Park - What I've Done

In this farewell

There's no blood

There's no alibi

?cause I've drawn regret

From the truth

Of a thousand lies

So let mercy come

And wash away

[chorus]

What I've done

I'll face myself

To cross out

What I've become

Erase myself

And let go of

What I've done

Put to rest

What you thought of me

While I clean this slate

With the hands

Of uncertainty

So let mercy come

And wash away

[chorus]

What I've done

I'll face myself

To cross out

What I've become

Erase myself

And let go of

What I've done

For what I've done

I'll start again

And whatever thing may come

Today this ends

I'm forgiving

What I've done

I'll face myself

To cross out

What I've become

Erase myself

And let go of

What I've done

(Na, Na, Na)

 

What I've done (Na, Na, Na)

I'm forgiving what I've done (Na, Na, Na)

E não é que é verdade?!

"Todos nós temos uma insuspeita reserva de força que emerge quando a vida nos põe à prova".

Isabel Allende

Coisas que me irritam... #2

Dão-se alvíssaras a quem se irritar menos do que eu a enfiar o edredom dentro da respectiva capa...

Errata: Para evitar a responsabilidade do autor, onde se lê "menos", deve ler-se "mais". Grato!

Rihanna - We All Want Love

Ontem, estava no trânsito, chovia, e ouvi esta música no carro. Reparei na letra e deixou-me a pensar... ficou-me na cabeça. Hoje voltei a ouvir...
Simples e comercial, mas, who cares?!... o facto é que ficou cá... nem sei se é muito conhecida e se passa na rádio, mas ainda assim...

Afinal, we all want love...

Rihanna - We All Want Love
We all, we all, we all, we all, we all
We all, we all, we all, we all, we all

I can pretend that I'm not lonely
But I'll be constantly fooling myself
I can pretend that it don't matter
But I'll be sitting here lying to myself
Some say love ain't worth a buck
But I'll give every dime I have left
To have what I've always
Been dreaming about

Everybody wants something
Gotta want something
What are you living for?
Everybody needs something
Fighting for something
I know what you're fighting for
Cause we all

We all want someone there to hold
We just want somebody
We all want to be somebody's one and only
We all wanna be warm when it's cold
Yeah, yeah
No one wants to be left scared and lonely

We all, we all, we all, we all, we all
We all want the same thing (3x)

Everybody wants something
Gotta want something
Yeah, yeah
We all want love

I'm able to close my eyes
Yet my heart's not so blind
I feel so entitled
Love owes me
I want what's mine
And some say love ain't worth a buck
But I'd give my last dime
To have what I've only
Been dreaming about

Everybody wants something
Gotta want something
What are you living for?
Everybody needs something
Fighting for something
I know what you're fighting for
Cause we all

We all want someone there to hold
We just want somebody
We all want to be somebody's one and only
We all wanna be warm when it's cold
Yeah, yeah
No one wants to be left scared and lonely

We all, we all, we all, we all, we all
We all want the same thing (3x)

Everybody wants something
Gotta want something
Yeah, yeah
We all want love

Frase do dia...

"Nenhum mentiroso tem uma memória suficientemente boa para ser um mentiroso de êxito."

Autor Anónimo

Ladies and gentleman, from Russia...

Lembram-se de ter dito que não tinha paciência para programas de variedades infantis (não disse crianças, ok?!)?! Não?! Provavelmente foi porque nunca o referi eheheheh! Posto isto, foi-me dada a oportunidade de ver uma cantora infantil russa e, vá-se lá saber porquê, gostei... Chama-se Angina e tem um "je ne sais quoi"... Ladies and gentleman, from Russia...

Roger Hodgson - It's Raining Again (Live in Montreal)

Já que estamos nos 80´s e já que está a chover, deixo aqui este senhor que tive a oportunidade de ver há 3 semanas atrás no Festival Remember Cascais... Tão bom!

Supertramp - It's Raining Again
Oh, it's raining again
Oh no, my love's at an end
Oh no, it's raining again
And you know it's hard to pretend

Oh no, it's raining again
Too bad I'm losing a friend
Oh no, it's raining again
Oh will my heart ever mend

You're old enough some people say
To read the signs and walk away
It's only time that heals the pain
And makes the sun come out again

It's raining again
Oh no, my love's at an end
Oh no, it's raining again
Too bad I'm losing a friend

C'mon you little fighter
No need to get uptighter
C'mon you little fighter
And get back up again

It's raining again
Oh no, my love's at an end
Oh no, it's raining again
Too bad I'm losing a friend

C'mon you little fighter
No need to get uptighter
C'mon you little fighter
And get back up again
Oh, get back up again
Oh, fill (feel?) your heart again

Já o disse por aqui...

... mas agora parece que faz todo o sentido e, como eu até repito muitas vezes a frase, cá vai...

WINTER IS COMING...

Alphaville - Big In Japan (Extended Version)

Porque me apetece regressar ao passado, às 45 rotações, aos gira-discos, às versões de dança e a uma das minhas bandas preferidas da juventude...

Alphaville - Big In Japan

Winter's cityside

Crystal bits of snowflakes

all around my head and in the wind

I had no illusions

That I'd ever find a glimpse

of summer's heatwaves in your eyes

You did what you did to me

Now it's history I see

Here's my comeback on the road again

Things will happen while they can

I will wait here for my man tonight

It's easy when you're big in Japan

Aaah, when you're big in Japan, tonight

Big in Japan, be tight

Big in Japan, oooh, the eastern sea's so blue...

Big in Japan, alright!

Pay, then I'll sleep by your side

Things are easy when you're big in Japan

Oh, when you're big in Japan

Neon on my naked skin,

passing silhouettes

of strange illuminated mannequins

Shall I stay here at the zoo

or should I go and change my point of view

for other ugly scenes?

You did what you did to me

Now it's history I... see...

Things will happen while they can

I will wait here for my man tonight

It's easy when you're big in Japan

Aaah, when you're big in Japan, tonight

Big in Japan, be tight

Big in Japan, oooh, the eastern sea's so blue...

Big in Japan, alright!

Pay, then I'll sleep by your side

Things are easy when you're big in Japan

Oh, when you're big in Japan

Não gosto...

Não gosto...

Não gosto de ver alguém triste...

Não gosto de ver alguém sofrer...

Não gosto de não saber o que fazer...

Não gosto de me sentir impotente para ajudar...

Não gosto...

No meio disto tudo, gosto de saber que apesar das agruras da vida e dos 1001 defeitos que tenho, neste ser imperfeito que sou, não perdi este sentimento de compaixão...

Bush - Inflatable (Live)

Bush - Inflatable
Let it slide overhead
When I believe in you my soul can rest
But our love is really love
It never fails but fail it does
When you shine like the sun
You see me only one, my only friend
You're so pretty in white, pretty when you're faithful

I resigned from myself
Took a break for someone else
It's like I come undone
And I've only just become inflatable for you
You're so pretty in white, pretty when you're faithful

I don't mind most of the time
But you push me so far inside
You're so pretty in white, pretty when you're faithful

Não suporto mais pertencer a tudo...

"Arranca metade do meu corpo
Do meu coração,
Dos meus sonhos.
Tira um pedaço de mim,
qualquer coisa que me desfaça.
Me recria,
porque eu não suporto mais pertencer a tudo,
mas não caber em lugar algum."

 

José Saramago

Momento Cómico do Dia - As Eleições Autárquicas

Evito falar de política por aqui, no entanto vou abrir uma excepção para falar das Autárquicas. Ora, os cartazes já estão amplamente divulgados e já muito fizeram rir. E os debates? E os programas? Meus caros, venham os ninjas... todos precisamos de rir.

PS: Reparem no ar da apresentadora aos 28 segundos...

Nick Cave - Into My Arms (Live)

Nick Cave - Into My Arms
I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord, into my arms
Into my arms, O Lord, into my arms
Into my arms, O Lord, into my arms
Into my arms, O Lord, into my arms
Into my arms, O Lord, into my arms
Into my arms, O Lord, into my arms

And I don't believe in the existence of angels
But looking at you I wonder if that's true
But if I did I would summon them together
And ask them to watch over you
To each burn a candle for you
To make bright and clear your path
And to walk,like Christ, in grace and love
And guide you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord, into my arms
Into my arms, O Lord, into my arms

But I believe in Love
And I know that you do too
And I believe in some kind of path
That we can walk down, me and you
So keep your candles burning
And make her journey bright and pure
That she will keep returning
Always and evermore

Into my arms, O Lord, into my arms
Into my arms, O Lord, into my arms
Into my arms, O Lord, into my arms

Sou muito mau a adivinhar...

“Sei pouco sobre as mulheres e cada vez sei menos.
Nem sei – ou quando sei já é tarde demais – se gostam de mim e, quando isso acontece, não chego a saber o que isso possa querer dizer.
Há muitas maneiras de gostar, é verdade.
Quando se gosta de um casaco é ele o que trazemos mais vezes.
Com as mulheres é diferente.
O que importa, acho eu, não é nem o que elas dizem nem o que elas fazem mas o que elas não dizem e pensam fazer.
É preciso adivinhar e eu sou muito mau a adivinhar.”

Pedro Paixão in Viver Todos os Dias Cansa

Tiago Bettencourt - Poema de Desamor

As insónias são assim. A vida também...
Não se pode morar nos olhos de um gato.

Poema do Desamor 
Desmama-te desanca-te desbunda-te
Não se pode morar nos olhos de um gato

Beija embainha grunhe geme
Não se pode morar nos olhos de um gato

Serve-te serve sorve lambe trinca
Não se pode morar nos olhos de um gato

Queixa-te coxa-te desnalga-te desalma-te
Não se pode morar nos olhos de um gato

Arfa arqueja moleja aleija
Não se pode morar nos olhos de um gato

Ferra marca dispara enodoa
Não se pode morar nos olhos de um gato

Faz festa protesta desembesta
Não se pode morar nos olhos de um gato

Arranha arrepanha apanha espanca
Não se pode morar nos olhos de um gato

Alexande O'Neill (Poeta português, 1924-1986)

Repousado...

Adormecer, sem terra. Sem chão.
Acordar, com sensação de tempo perdido, que nada ainda não está resolvido e, que apesar disso, preciso de partir de novo para Algures onde apenas eu sei...
Reorientado, sem sono, longas horas pela frente, solto palavras procurando alguém.
Lá fora, tudo calmo. Só a lua, bela como só ela. Encantadora, misteriosa e cúmplice dos amantes perdidos ou simplesmente, encontrados nos seus braços.
E eu aqui. Acordado. Acordado em devaneios mentais, quando no fundo, não devia ter despertado, mas permanecido repousado...

Palavras com Significado #12: Empatia

Empatia
(grego empátheia, -as, paixão)
s. f.
Forma de identificação intelectual ou afetiva de um sujeito com uma pessoa, uma ideia ou uma coisa.

Pearl Jam - Sirens

Pearl Jam - Sirens

Hear the sirens, hear the sirens
Hear the sirens, hear the circus so profound
I hear the sirens more and more in this here town
Let me catch my breath to breathe then reach across the bend

Just to know we’re safe, I am a grateful man
This light is pit, alive and I can see you clear
Oh, I could take your hand, and feel your breath
For feel that someday will be over
I pull you close, so much to lose

Knowing that nothing lasts forever
I didn’t care, before you were here
A distant laughter, with the everafter
But all things change, let this remain

Hear the sirens covering distance in the night
The sound, echoing closer, will they come for me, next time?
For every choice, mistake I made, is not my plan
To see you in the arms of another man
And if you choose to stay, I’ll wait, I’ll understand

Oh, it’s a fragile thing, this life we lead, if I think too much, I can’t get over
When by the graces, by which we live our lives with death over our shoulders

Want you to know, that should I go, I always loved you, held you high above too
I studied your face, the fear goes away.

Guitar solo

It’s a fragile thing, this life we lead, if I think too much, I can’t get over
When by the graves, by which we live our lives with death over our shoulders

Want you to know, that should I go, I always loved you, held you high above too
I studied your face, the fear goes away, the fear goes away, the fear goes away.

Best Youth - Hang Out

Best Youth - Hang Out
Do you want to hang out?
‘Cause I feel like hanging out with you
We could drive all morning
Feel the windshield warming
Don’t you want to hang out with me?

Everyone can see
What you make of me
(…) I won’t mind
We can drive forever

All the things that we do
Feel so cool when I’m with you
And outside the window
We could both let go
Baby, taking it slow, slow

Everyone can see
What you make of me
Wasting time, I won’t mind
If we’re here forever

Do you want to hang out?
Do you want to hang out?
So do you want to hang out?
Do you want to hang out?

Coisas que me irritam... #1

É só a mim que me irrita aquele pessoal que quando se apanha com um mail encaminhado para diversos destinatários, faz um reply to all  (responder a todos), quando pode responder apenas ao autor? Não preciso de saber que nesse dia vai trabalhar, vai a um aniversário, passear o cão, ou simplesmente não lhe apetece...

Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People

Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People
We can remember swimming in December.
Heading for the city lights in 1975.
We share in each other.
Nearer than farther.
The scent of a lemon drips from your eyes.

We are the people that rule the world.
A force running in every boy and girl.
All rejoicing in the world.
Take me now - We can try.

We lived an adventure
Love in the Summer.
Followed the sun till night
Reminiscing other times of life.
For each every other
The feeling was stronger.
The shock hit eleven - Got lost in your eyes.

I can't do well when I think you're gonna leave me. But I know I try.
Are you gonna leave me now?
Can't you be believing now?

I can't do well when I think you're gonna leave me. But I know I try.
Are you gonna leave me now?
Can't you be believing now?

Can you remember and humanize.
It was still where we'd energized.

Lie in the sand and visualize like it's 75 again.
We are the people that rule the world.
A force running in every boy and girl.
All rejoicing in the world.
Take me now - We can try.

I can't do well when I think you're gonna leave me. But I know I try.
Are you gonna leave me now?
Can't you be believing now?
I can't do well when I think you're gonna leave me. But I know I try.
Are you gonna leave me now?
Can't you be believing now?

I know everything about you.
You know everything about me.
We know everything about us.
(x2)

I can't do well when I think you're gonna leave me. But I know I try.
Are you gonna leave me now?
Can't you be believing now?
I can't do well when I think you're gonna leave me. But I know I try.
Are you gonna leave me now?
Can't you be believing now?

Anedota #1

Joãozinho e o professor
O professor estava a almoçar na cantina da escola, quando Joãozinho se sentou na frente dele. O professor disse-lhe:
-Joãozinho, um pássaro e um porco, nunca comem juntos!
-Está bem, então eu saio daqui a voar, respondeu o Joãozinho!...
  
O professor ficou verde de raiva, e decidiu que no teste da semana seguinte lhe daria um zero, mas o rapaz respondeu bem a todas as perguntas. Então o professor resolveu colocar-lhe o seguinte problema :
 -Tu vais na rua e encontras dois sacos: um contém muito dinheiro e o outro inteligência. Qual é que tu escolhes?
- Escolho o que está cheio de dinheiro, responde o miúdo
-Ah sim? Pois eu no teu lugar teria escolhido a inteligência!
-Claro, as pessoas escolhem sempre aquilo que não têm… respondeu o Joãozinho.

O professor, escondendo a raiva, escreveu no teste "IMBECIL". O Joãozinho levou a cópia e foi-se sentar, mas voltou pouco depois:
 -Professor, o senhor assinou, mas esqueceu-se de me marcar a nota!… 

Há coisas tão bonitas...

...e esta música do Tiago Bettencourt (com um poema de Afonso Lopes Vieira) não é excepção. E a letra, leia-se poema, esse então também lá se encontra... Gosto muito. 

Esta frase dá que pensar....

"Não há enganos entre nós, só as coincidências explicam os afastamentos que nos unem."
Francisco José Viegas 

The Strokes - You Only Live Once (Live)

Energia...
Esta música começa logo tão bem... "Some people think they're always right..."

The Strokes - You Only Live Once

Some people think they're always right

Others are quiet and uptight

Others they seem so very nice nice nice nice (oh-ho)

Inside they might feel sad and wrong (oh no)

 

Twenty-nine different attributes

Only seven that you like (oh-oh)

Twenty ways to see the world (oh-ho)

Twenty ways to start a fight (oh-ho)

 

Oh don't don't don't get out

I can't see the sunshine

I'll be waiting for you, baby

Cause I'm through

Sit me down

Shut me up

I'll calm down

And I'll get along with you

 

Oh Men don't notice what they got

Women think of that a lot

One thousand ways to please your man (oh-ho)

Not even one requires a plan (I know)

 

And countless odd religions, too

It doesn't matter which to choose (oh no)

One stubborn way to turn your back (oh-ho)

This I've tried, and now refuse (oh-ho)

 

Oh don't don't don't get out

I can't see the sunshine (ohh)

I'll be waiting for you, baby

Cause I'm through

Sit me down

Shut me up

I'll calm down

And I'll get along with you

Alright

Shut me up

Shut me up

And I'll get along with you

Período de carência...

Segundo um estudo, o cérebro precisa de um a cinco dias para se adaptar ao pós-férias. Como eu nem sempre sou muito rápido a assimilar as coisas (gosto de ponderar pós, contras, ou simplesmente gosto de usar os prazos que me são concedidos), quer-me parecer que ainda estou no período de carência para começar a trabalhar! Como tal, acabo de informar a minha chefe para os efeitos tidos por convenientes, ou seja, 6.ª feira lá para o final do dia devo estar apto para trabalhar...

Parece que sim...

"A saudade define a certeza."
Autor Anónimo

The Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes (Live at Montreux 2008)

Energia para início de semana...

The Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes
Find yourself a girl and settle down
Live a simple life in a quiet town

Steady as she goes (steady as she goes)
Steady as she goes (steady as she goes)

So steady as she goes

Your friends have shown a kink in the single life
You've had too much to think, now you need a wife

Steady as she goes (steady as she goes)
So steady as she goes (steady as she goes)

Well here we go again
You've found yourself a friend that knows you well
But no matter what you do
You'll always feel as though you tripped and fell

So steady as she goes

When you have completed what you thought you had to do
And your blood's depleted to the point of stable glue

Then you'll get along
Then you'll get along

Steady as she goes (steady as she goes)
So steady as she goes (steady as she goes)

Well here we go again
You've found yourself a friend that knows you well
But no matter what you do
You'll always feel as though you tripped and fell

So steady as she goes
Steady as she goes

Settle for a girl (settle for a girl), neither up or down (neither up or down)
Sell it to the crowd (sell it to the crowd) that is gathered round (that is gathered round)

Settle for a girl (settle for a girl), neither up or down (neither up or down)
Sell it to the crowd (sell it to the crowd) that is gathered round (that is gathered round)

So steady as she goes (steady as she goes)
Steady as she goes (steady as she goes)

Steady as she goes (steady as she goes)
So steady as she goes (steady as she goes)

Steady as she goes, are you steady now?
Steady as she goes, are you steady now?

Steady as she goes, are you steady now?
Steady as she goes, are you steady now?

Steady as she goes

O que será que a minha antiga chefe queria dizer com isto?!

Foi colocado no meu computador há uns tempos atrás e agora "recuperei-o", porque não deixa de ser um traço da minha personalidade... quer dizer, às vezes lá tenho de aguentar, mas de uma forma geral...

Frase do dia...

"When you are dead, you don´t know that you are dead. It is difficult only for the others.
It is the same when you are stupid..."
Autor Anónimo

PS: Não sei até que ponto até que ponto não se sabe que se é estúpido, mas dou o benefício da dúvida...

Passenger - Beneath You´re Beautiful (Live@Amsterdam)

Gosto muito do original, mas também gosto de ouvir versões diferentes, com outras vozes, outros tons, outras formas de sentir. É por isso que adoro covers...

Labrinth -Beneath You're Beautiful (Feat. Emeli Sandé)
You tell all the boys "no"
Makes you feel good, yeah
I know you're out of my league
But that won't scare me away, oh no
You've carried on so long
You couldn't stop if you tried it
You've built your wall so high
That no one could climb it
But I'm gonna try

Would you let me see beneath your beautiful?
Would you let me see beneath your perfect?
Take it off now girl, take it off now girl
I wanna see inside
Would you let me see beneath your beautiful tonight?

You let all the girls go
Makes you feel good, don't it?
Behind your broadway show
I heard a voice say please don't hurt me
You've carried on so long
You couldn't stop if you tried it
You've built your wall so high
That no one could climb it
But I'm gonna try

Would you let me see beneath your beautiful?
Would you let me see beneath your perfect?
Take it off now boy, take it off now boy
I wanna see inside
Would you let me see beneath your beautiful tonight?
Ohhh, tonight

See beneath, see beneath
I tonight
I...

I'm gonna climb on top your ivory tower
I'll hold your hand and you'll, you'll jump right out
We'll be falling, falling
But that's okay
Cause I'll be right here
I just wanna love

Would you let me see beneath your beautiful?
Would you let me see beneath your perfect?
Take it off now boy, take it off now girl
Cause I wanna see inside
Would you let me see beneath your beautiful tonight?
Tonight, see beneath your beautiful
Oh tonight, we ain't perfect, we ain't perfect
Would you let me see beneath your beautiful tonight?

Muitos parabéns...

A minha querida sobrinha e afilhada faz hoje 13 aninhos... 13 anos, dia 13, de 2013! Já está maior que o tio e só lhe diz "isso é de cota", "tás velho" e "essa música é de velho", fora as vezes que me tenta esconder as coisas do Justin Bieber (posters e afins), que o irmão prontamente denuncia. E, há que lhe dar razão, estou a ficar velho, mas é bom vê-la(os) crescer...
MUITOS PARABÉNS MINHA QUERIDA!

The XX - Our Song

Simples mas bonito...

Diz a Maya hoje...

LEÃO: III A IMPERATRIZ

"Conseguirá ser o protagonista de excelentes manifestações afectivas. Está próximo das soluções ideais para os problemas."

Não sei porquê, mas há qualquer coisa que me deve estar a escapar...

The Black Keys - Lonely Boy

Hoje deu-me para aqui, porque energia precisa-se e, porque não dizer, i´m a Lonely Boy! Oh oh oh oooooooooohhhh! Atentem como se dança...

The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
Well I'm so above you and it's clean to see
But I came to love you in a way
So you pull my heart out, and I don't mind bleeding
Any of the time you keep me waiting, waiting, waiting

Oh oh oh I got a love that keeps me waiting
Oh oh oh I got a love that keeps me waiting
I'm a lonely boy
I'm a lonely boy
Oh oh oh I got a love that keeps me waiting

Well, your mama kept you but your daddy left you
And I should have done you just the same
But I came to love you, am I born to bleed?
Any of the time you keep me waiting, waiting, waiting

Oh oh oh I got a love that keeps me waiting
Oh oh oh I got a love that keeps me waiting
I'm a lonely boy
I'm a lonely boy
Oh oh oh I got a love that keeps me waiting

Oh oh oh I got a love that keeps me waiting
Oh oh oh I got a love that keeps me waiting
I'm a lonely boy
I'm a lonely boy
Oh oh oh I got a love that keeps me waiting

(Im)perfeito

"Queria dizer-te. Queria.
Queria olhar-te. Olhar-te com força – como se olha com força? E dizer-te.
Dizer-te que sim. Sempre sim. Desde o primeiro não que sim.
Dizer-te que quero. Olhar-te com força. Dizer-te. Queria.
Dizer-te. Negar o não. Negar o não que desde sempre – onde começou o sempre? – foi sim.
Dizer-te menti. Dizer-te fugi. Dizer-te parti.
Queria. Dizer-te aqui. Dizer-te agora. Dizer-te já.
Queria. Sempre queria.
Queria, amor. Amor.
O imperfeito. Queria. O imperfeito.
Amor."

Pedro Chagas Freitas

Ed Sheeran - Kiss Me (Acoustic Live)

Na tranquilidade e no escuro, a que sabe um beijo...? Desconfio que já nem sei...

Ed Sheeran - Kiss Me
Settle down with me
Cover me up, cuddle me in
Lie down with me, yeah
And hold me in your arms

And your heart’s against my chest
Your lips pressed to my neck
I’m falling for your eyes but they don’t know me yet
And with a feeling I’ll forget, I’m in love now

Kiss me like you wanna be loved
You wanna be loved, you wanna be loved
This feels like falling in love
Falling in love, we're falling in love

Settle down with me
And I’ll be your safety, you’ll be my lady
I was made to keep your body warm
But I’m cold as the wind blows
So hold me in your arms

My heart’s against your chest
Your lips pressed to my neck
I’m falling for your eyes but they don’t know me yet
And with this feeling I’ll forget, I’m in love now

Kiss me like you wanna be loved
You wanna be loved, you wanna be loved
This feels like falling in love
Falling in love, we're falling in love

Yeah I’ve been feeling everything
From hate to love, from love to lust, from lust to truth
I guess that’s how I know you
So hold you close to help you give it up

So kiss me like you wanna be loved
You wanna be loved, you wanna be loved
This feels like falling in love
Falling in love, we're falling in love

Kiss me like you wanna be loved
You wanna be loved, you wanna be loved
This feels like falling in love
Falling in love, we're falling in love

Dito Algures onde apenas eu sei...

Ao desafio da Ann no seu Hello Stranger, que procurava saber quem ali vai, respondi-lhe desta forma:

"Prazer Ana! 

De ti um pouco falaste, algumas coisas revelaste. Outras, foram meras constatações, para quem se habituou, a ver corações!

Queres saber um pouco de mim, pois de mim te falarei, sou o Algures onde apenas eu sei...! Umas vezes aqui, outras vezes além!

Sou um pouco como tu, mas não exijo de ninguém, ainda assim sou exigente, naquilo que convém! 

Na mesma ficas, na mesma ficaste, vais sabendo de mim quanto baste, ainda assim fica sabendo, que contigo simpatizei, talvez seja por isso que aqui continuei. 

Sentido de justiça apurado e princípios também, assim sou eu, Algures onde apenas eu sei... 

Assim me despeço, por já estar a falar demais, por isso toma lá um beijo, antes que me peças mais! :-)"

Eu que de poeta tenho pouco, não podia deixar passar este momento, que até acho que ficou engraçado... E pronto, lá ficam a saber um pouco mais de mim, ou vai daí talvez não... 

Muse - Citizen Erased (Live@Glastonbury 2010)

Hoje foi com este som, mas versão estúdio...
Origin of Symmetry.

Muse - Citizen Erased
Break me in, teach us to cheat
and to lie, cover up
what shouldn't be shared?
all the truth's unwinding
scraping away at my mind
please stop asking me to describe

for one moment
i wish you'd hold your stage
with no feelings at all
open minded
i'm sure i used to be so free

self-expressed, exhausting for all
to see and to be
what you want and what you need
the truth's unwinding
scraping away at my mind
please stop asking me to describe

for one moment
i wish you'd hold your stage
with no feelings at all
open minded
i'm sure i used to be so free

for one moment
i wish you'd hold your stage
with no feelings at all
open minded
i'm sure i used to be so free

wash me away
clean your body of me
erase all the memories
they will only bring us pain
and i've seen, all i'll ever need

Caminhada...

Aproveitando alguns dias de férias, ontem iniciei de novo as minhas caminhadas e corridas, Algures neste bonito parque. A ver se continuo com as caminhadas, que a vontade às vezes é tramada... 

Pensamento do dia

"Volta teu rosto sempre na direcção do sol, e então, as sombras ficarão para trás."

Sabedoria Oriental

The Waterboys em Cascais... What a night!

Ontem assisti a um memorável concerto dos Waterboys no Hipódromo Manuel Possolo em Cascais! Um dos amigos que me acompanhava estava muito céptico, quase como querendo ir embora, mas repeti-lhe por diversas vezes, os Waterboys são muito bons. Na realidade, apesar de estar convicto que ia assistir a um grande concerto, superou as minhas melhores expectativas! Sorri (sabem aqueles sorrisos espontâneos e duradouros?!), dancei e cantei... muito! E os meus amigos estavam igualmente sorridentes e satisfeitos, incluindo o mais céptico, que estava como eu, eufórico! A banda foi toda ela fantástica, a começar com o Mike Scott e a acabar no violinista Steve Wickham! As obrigatórias "Don't Bang the Drum", " The Whole of the Moon", "Fisherman's Blues" e uma versão fantástica do "Pan Within", que aqui vos deixo numa versão aproximada, da ouvida nesta grande noite! Consegui ainda o meu "prize" dos concertos que gosto: a set list e a palheta da guitarra do Mike Scott! Que regressem em breve... Lá estarei de certeza! Intemporais...

The Waterboys - The Pan Within
Come with me
On a journey beneath the skin
Come with me
On a journey under the skin
We will look together
For the pan within

Close your eyes
Breathe slow we'll begin
Close your eyes
Breathe slow and we will begin
To look together
For the pan within

Swing your hips
Loose your head, and let it spin
Swing your hips
Loose you head, and let it spin
And we will look together
For the pan within

Close your eyes
Breathe slow and we will begin
Close your eyes
Breathe slow and we will begin
To look together
For the pan within

Put your face in my window
Breathe a night full of treasures
The wind is delicious
Sweet and wild with the promise of pleasure
The stars are alive
And nights like these
Were born to be
Sanctified by you and me
Lovers, thieves, fools and pretenders
And all we gotta do is surrender

Come with me
On a journey under the skin
Come with me
On a journey under the skin
And we will look together
For the pan within
When to be with you
Is not a sin
When to be with you, oh just to be with you
Is not a sin
We will look together
For the pan within

Festival ERP Remember Cascais!

Depois da magnífica noite de ontem, hoje vou continuar Algures por aqui... Cascais!
The Waterboys, yeah!

Ed Sheeran - Lego House (Live @ The Live Room)

Há coisas tão bonitas. Hoje tenho andado a ouvir isto e outras do género... Muito bom!
Bom fim de semana! :-)

Ed Sheeran - Lego House

I'm gonna pick up the pieces

And build a Lego house

If things go wrong we can knock it down

My three words have two meanings

But there's one thing on my mind

It's all for you

And it's dark in a cold December

But I've got you to keep me warm

If you're broken I will mend ya

And keep you sheltered from the storm that's raging on, now

I'm out of touch, I'm out of love

I'll pick you up when you're getting down

And out of all these things I've done

I think I love you better now

I'm out of sight, I'm out of mind

I'll do it all for you in time

And out of all these things I've done

I think I love you better now, now

I'm gonna paint you by numbers, and colour you in

If things go right we can frame it, and put you on a wall

And it's so hard to say it, but I've been here before

Now I'll surrender up my heart, and swap it for yours

I'm out of touch, I'm out of love

I'll pick you up when you're getting down

And out of all these things I've done

I think I love you better now

I'm out of sight, I'm out of mind

I'll do it all for you in time

And out of all these things I've done

I think I love you better now

Don't hold me down

I think the braces are breaking

And it's more than I can take

And it's dark in a cold December

But I've got you to keep me warm

If you're broken I will mend ya

And I keep you sheltered from the storm that's raging on, now

I'm out of touch, I'm out of love

I'll pick you up when you're getting down

And out of all these things I've done

I think I love you better now

I'm out of sight, I'm out of mind

I'll do it all for you in time

And out of all these things I've done

I think I love you better now

I'm out of touch, I'm out of love

I'll pick you up when you're getting down

And out of all these things I've done

I think I love you better now

I'm out of sight, I'm out of mind

I'll do it all for you in time

And out of all these things I've done

I think I love you better now

I’m out of touch, I’m out of love

I’ll pick you up when you’re getting down

And out of all these things I’ve done

I will love you better now

Esperanças e Medos...

Fim de dia atípico, relativamente a um passado recente. Dei por mim a evitar os telefonemas habituais da minha viagem de regresso a casa. As minhas habituais "companhias" que me acompanham no "passeio" pela Marginal, sempre com o mar ali ao lado, o meu outro companheiro de viagem, este sempre o mesmo, umas vezes calmo, outras revolto. Umas vezes brilhante, outras baço. Estranho e (desta vez) sozinho, penso como em tantas outras viagens, nisto, naquilo. Vida, amor, amizade, trabalho e até, pasmem-se, no estudo. Penso que não há razão para estar assim, até porque, pouco tempo antes, soube algo que em condições normais serviria para afastar estes pensamentos. Mas não, hoje era daqueles dias em que só algo muito forte me permitiria regressar do "dark side of the force", ainda que não estivesse na fossa, não estava bem. Os revezes da vida que nos fazem dar dois passos atrás quando queremos avançar, um que seja, reavivam faltas de confiança que nem os amuletos afastam.

Não há razão para estar assim, repito...

A ponte é uma passagem para a outra margem e estou de volta. Penso... Penso que é hoje que arrumo a casa, começo aqui, acabo ali. Mas não, dou por mim a ler "velhos" mails que me enviaram outrora e até, pedaços de um blogue de medos e esperanças no qual, por momentos, fui personagem principal, especial. Especial nos mails, especial nos posts... ainda que não tenha sido convidado para esse "filme", acabamos por ficar envolvidos...

Quando queremos (e até quando não queremos), somos especiais, somos confiantes, somos e demonstramos o que queremos ser. Assim, como em tudo na vida, o que nos define não é a forma como caímos, mas a maneira como nos levantamos. Regressamos ao lado bom da "força", à rebelião desta luta que se chama vida e, apesar de acordarmos novamente com o "dark side" a chamar por nós, ergo o Jedi que há em mim, puxo do sabre de luz e enfrento este novo dia. Afinal, esta luz serve para isso. Para nos iluminar e encaminhar ao nosso Eu... aquele por quem vale a pena lutar.

Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head (Live 2003)

Provavelmente uma das melhores músicas dos Coldplay e das menos comerciais. É uma das razões pela qual gosto tanto, a outra será com toda a certeza a letra - Essa é soberba...
Adoro isto... e faz-me regressar ao Pavilhão Atlântico Algures em 2005...

Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head

He said I'm going to buy this place and burn it down

I'm going to put it six feet underground

He said I'm going to buy this place and watch it fall

Stand here beside me baby in the crumbling walls

Oh I'm going to buy this place and start a fire

Stand here until I fill all your heart's desires

Because I'm going to buy this place and see it burn

Do back the things it did to you in return

Ah, ah, ah

He said Oh I'm going to buy a gun and start a war

If you can tell me something worth fighting for

Oh and I'm going to buy this place, that's what I said

Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head

(And) honey

All the movements you're starting to make

See me crumble and fall on my face

And I know the mistakes that I made

See it all disappear without a trace

And they call as they beckon you on

They said start as you mean to go on

Start as you mean to go on

He said I'm going to buy this place and see it go

Stand here beside my baby watch the orange glow

Some'll laugh and some just sit and cry

But you just sit down there and you wonder why

So I'm going to buy a gun and start a war

If you can tell me something worth fighting for

And I'm going to buy this place, that's what I said

Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head

And honey

All the movements you're starting to make

See me crumble and fall on my face

And I know the mistakes that I made

See it all disappear without a trace

And they call as they beckon you on

They said start as you mean to go on

As you mean to go on, as you mean to go on

So meet me by the bridge, meet me by the lane

When am I going to see that pretty face again

Meet me on the road, meet me where I said

Blame it all upon

A rush of blood to the head