Clogs - Last Song (featuring Matt Berninger from The National)

Clogs - Last Song

If this was our last song
what would we do then?
(If) this was our last song
what would we say then?
If this was our last time
what would we do
what would we say then?

Acreditar, mesmo quando ninguém mais acredite.

Talvez o tempo, por si só, explique a cada um de nós o que é necessário para a felicidade. Talvez a felicidade seja sempre outra coisa que em cada idade se revela para que nos esforcemos de novo, continuamente. Há um amor guardado para cada fim. No limite, já não podemos adiá-lo. Temos de amar sem olhar a quem até que, olhando, o perfeito desconhecido nos seja familiar. Até que se invente uma família, tão pura e fundamental quanto outra qualquer. A felicidade, afinal, é possível, embora se esconda atrás de um mundo de tristezas. Mas nenhuma tristeza nos deve vencer. O destino de cada um é só este: acreditar, mesmo quando ninguém mais acredite.

Valter Hugo Mãe in "O Filho de Mil Homens"

Editors - Nothing (Live @ Amsterdam)

Esta música ganha tanto ao vivo...
Bom fim de semana!

Editors - Nothing
The sun says nothing
By my demise
I fall to the floor

Sparked from your stare
Cascade into light
The start of a war

Monday morning
Hungover and eyes
Hide it all the way

We walk through a crowd of strangers
Two minutes from your door
You’ve lived there all your life

Every conversation within you
Starts a celebration in me
Till i’ve got nothing left
I’ve got nothing left

Out of it you handle it for everyone
Took a poison dart through my heart and then i’m gone
Out of it you handle it for everyone
Took a poison dart through my heart and then i’m gone

Every conversation within you
Starts a celebration in me
Till i’ve got nothing left
I’ve got nothing left

These floorboards are creaking
My body is old
The sun casts a shadow
A gust that cuts through your bones
Your body and soul

These floorboards are creaking
My body is old
The sun casts a shadow
A gust that cuts through your bones
Your body and soul

Every conversation within you
It starts a celebration in me
Till i’ve got nothing left
I’ve got nothing left

I’ve got nothing left
I’ve got nothing left
No, i’ve got nothing left
I’ve got nothing left

Preso...

Perguntaram-me: onde vais?
E não sei onde vou, só sei que tu me prendes.
Geraldo Bessa Victor (poeta angolano)
in As raízes do nosso amor

Porque és e serás sempre o meu Herói...

Porque estás sempre presente, ainda que não te veja...
Porque te sinto sempre, ainda que não te toque...
Porque falo sempre contigo, embora não me respondas...
Porque és e serás sempre o meu Herói... o maior de todos.
O meu Pai.
Porque hoje já te provei nas minhas lágrimas...
Amo-te...

Foo Fighters - My Hero
Too alarming now to talk about
Take your pictures down and shake it out
Truth or consequence, say it aloud
Use that evidence, race it around

There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He's ordinary

Don't the best of them bleed it out?
While the rest of them peter out
Truth or consequence, say it aloud
Use that evidence, race it around

There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He's ordinary

Kudos my hero, leaving all the best
You know my hero, the one that's on

There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He's ordinary

There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He's ordinary

O sofrimento é opcional...

“A cada dia que vivo mais me convenço de que o desperdício da vida está no amor que não damos, nas forças que não usamos, na prudência egoísta que nada arrisca, e que, esquivando-se do sofrimento, perdemos também a felicidade.

A dor é inevitável. O sofrimento é opcional.”

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

INXS - Never Tear Us Apart (Live)

Michael Hutchence... Partiu mesmo cedo de mais.

INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
Don't ask me
What you know is true
Don't have to tell you
I love your precious heart

I, I was standing
You were there
Two worlds collided
And they could never tear us apart

We could live
For a thousand years
But if I hurt you
I'd make wine from your tears

I told you
That we could fly
'Cause we all have wings
But some of us don't know why

I, I was standing
You were there
Two worlds collided
And they could never ever tear us apart

Nada como uma Segunda-Feira...

Para ter uma discussão com a chefia, apresentar argumentos jurídicos, conseguir rebater tudo o que é invocado, demonstrar que temos razão por a+b e por fim, dar-lhe razão numa única coisa para deixar de a ouvir, dizendo que já lhe apresento a proposta com a alteração desse pormenor, só para ver se ela me desampara a loja... Irra, que não há pachorra para isto!

Live - Run To The Water (Live)

Live - Run To The Water
Oh desert speak to my heart
oh woman of the earth
maker of children who weep for love
maker of this birth 'til your deepest secrets are known to me
I will not be moved
I will not be moved

"don't try to find the answer
when there ain't no question here
brother let your heart be wounded
and give no mercy to your fear"

adam and eve live down the street from me
babylon is every town
it's as crazy as it's ever been
love's a stranger all around

in a moment we lost our minds here
and lay our spirit down
today we lived a thousand years
all we have is now

run to the water
and find me there
burnt to the core but not broken
we'll cut through the madness
of these streets below the moon
these streets below the moon

and I will never leave you
'til we can say, "this world was just a dream
we were sleepin' now we are awake"
'til we can say

in a moment we lost our minds here
and dreamt the world was round
a million mile fall from grace
thank god we missed the ground

run to the water
and find me there
burnt to the core but not broken
we'll cut through the madness
of these streets below the moon
with a nuclear fire of love in our hearts

yeah, I can see it now lord
out beyond all the breakin' of waves
and the tribulation
it's a place and the home of ascended souls
who swam out there in love!

run to the water
and find me there
burnt to the core but not broken
we'll cut through the madness
of these streets below the moon
with a nuclear fire of love in our hearts
rest easy baby, rest easy
and recognize it all as light and rainbows
smashed to smithereens and be happy
run to the water (and find me there)
run to the water

O que te falta para seres feliz?

- O que te falta para seres feliz?
- A pessoa. A que tudo muda. A que tudo eleva. A que faz lábios felizes serem um sorriso.
- E braços apertados serem um abraço.
- Também o sentes? Também precisas?
- Desesperadamente. Como se a fome se fizesse de pele.

"In Sexus Veritas", de Pedro Chagas Freitas

Suede - It Starts And Ends With You / Filmstar (Live@Coliseu Lisboa)

Há memórias que ficam... (mais que isso...).

Suede - It Starts And Ends With You

Like a cause without a martyr

Like an effigy of balsam

Like a hairline crack in a radiator

Leaking life

I shout out but it just spins faster

I crawl up but my knees are water

I cling on by my nails to the sweet disaster

And then I fall to the floor

Like my strings are cut

Pinch myself but I don't wake up

Spit in the wind cause too much is not enough

It starts and ends with you

It starts and ends with you

And I've worn so many faces

Shot my love at fifteen places

My inheritance is all the thoughts

I can't sweep away

I shout out but it just spins faster

I crawl up but my knees are water

I cling on by my nails to the sweet disaster

And then I fall to the floor

Like my strings are cut

Pinch myself but I don't wake up

Spit in the wind cause too much is not enough

It starts and ends with you

It starts and ends with you

Shout out but it just spins faster

Crawl up but my knees are water

Cling on by my nails to the sweet disaster

And then I fall to the floor

Like my strings are cut

Spit in the wind but I don't wake up

Pinch myself cause too much is not enough

It starts and ends with you

It starts and ends with you

It starts and ends with you

It starts and ends with you

I shout out but it just spins faster

I crawl up but my knees are water

I shout out but it just spins faster

I crawl up but my knees are water

I shout out but it just spins faster

I crawl up but my knees are water

I shout out but it just spins faster

I crawl up but my knees are water

Vá lá, ainda há quem me dê alegrias...

Pois é, o grande Sport Lisboa e Benfica ainda me vai dando umas alegrias. Ontem, magnífica vitória contra o Tottenham Hotspurs de Inglaterra, com uma vitória em White Hart Lane por 1-3, com um golo do Rodrigo e dois do enorme capitão Luisão. Só por manifesta infelicidade e azelhice, é que o Benfica não seguirá em frente para os quartos de final da Europa League. Quem sabe não estamos a ter uma reedição da época passada, desta vez com um desfecho diferente. A ver vamos e estou a torcer por isso, como sempre! O Jorge Jesus é que não esteve muito bem, porque ao mostrar três dedos ao treinador Tim Sherwood, como que lhe a dizer "já estás a levar três", revela falta de humildade e uma vez mais, demonstra que não sabe ganhar, ainda que, acredito que possa ter sido provocado. De resto, esteve perfeito. Agora é ganhar ao Nacional da Madeira e esperar que os nossos rivais encostem...

Temos equipa e temos jogadores... a equipa está equilibrada, ainda que estejam a faltar bastantes jogos em quatro competições.

CARREGA BENFICA!

James - P.S. / Five-O - Live at the Astoria 1993

Duas das minhas músicas e letras preferidas... Fabulosas.
James numa fase brilhante, que felizmente acompanhei ao vivo... 

James - P.S.
You're a weapon of devotion
Keep the faithful entertained
You're a lover of attention
Found a way to pawn the soul
Disposition may be fetching
But the world moves on and leaves you far behind

I hear you, I hear you, whispering such gorgeous stories
I see you, I see you, trying to break free
You liar, you liar, you can't live the dreams you're spinning
You liar, love to be deceived

You're falling, you're falling, falling from your god-like distance
You're fashion, just fashion, fashion doesn't keep
You're sour, so sour, all is hope and trust is misplaced
You're sour, now you are alone

Walking on fire, feel the way the world's inclining
Walking on fire, hate to deceive
Walking on fire, now the world will keep its distance
Walking on fire, you rather than me

My son says, dear father, what did you do when the world turned over
Keep spinning, keep spinning, send us off to sleep
You liar, you liar, all your words are just dust in moonshine
You liar, love to be deceived

Walking on fire, found a place away from humans
Walking on fire, hate to deceive
Walking on fire, now the world will keep its distance
Walking on fire, you rather than me

James - Five-O
Are you open for trade
Your salvation, for something, for some thrills
Is a body of work for your inspection
You can trace, trace my concern
My concern

I've been looking for truth
At the cost of living
I've been afraid
Of what's before mine eyes
Every answer found
Begs another question
The further you go, the less you know
The less I know

I can feel your face
Gonna make it mine
I can be the man
I see in your eyes
Can you take my weight
Are we both too small
Know each other well
We've met before

Will we grow together
Will it be a lie
If it lasts forever, hope I'm the first to die
Will you marry me, Can we meet the cost
Is the power of love worth the pain of loss
Can you pay the bill, will you keep the change
Are you here for the party, or are you here for the pain

I can feel your face
Gonna make it mine
I can be the man
I see in your eyes
Will we grow together
Will it be a lie
If it lasts forever, hope I'm the first to die
Hope I'm the first to die

Horizonte...

Por que razão tenho eu um horizonte?
Da vida, eu esperei o infinito.
Thomas Mann
Prémio Nobel da Literatura em 1929.

Snow Patrol - Perfect Little Secret

Snow Patrol - Perfect Little Secret
In the blinding darkness
Of the night it seems simple
All I know is that
I love you here right now

It's not as if I wanted
To fall so hard for you
Or even understand
This won't conful them

I love you my own way
I love you better
I love you inside all this
I love you forever

All these words are useless
When I look into your eyes
It's the simple truth of perfect,
Little secret

With the only thing I'm sure of
And it makes it all so hard
All the other things are
Broken out of focus