We might as well be strangers

I don't know your face no more

Or feel the touch that I adore

I don't know your face no more

It's just a place I'm looking for

We might as well be strangers in another town

We might as well be living in a different world

We might as well, we might as well, we might as well

I don't know your thoughts these days

We're strangers in an empty space

I don't understand your heart

It's easier to be apart

We might as well be strangers in another town
We might as well be living in a another time

We might as well, we might as well,

We might as well be strangers, be strangers

For all I know of you now

For all I know of you now

For all I know of you now

For all I know

© Keane

Forbidden colours

The wounds on your hands never seem to heal

I thought all I needed was to believe

Here am I, a lifetime away from you

The blood of Christ, or the beat of my heart

My love wears forbidden colours

My life believes

Senseless years thunder by

Millions are willing to give their lives for you

Does nothing live on?

Learning to cope with feelings aroused in me

My hands in the soil, buried inside of myself

My love wears forbidden colours

My life believes in you once again

I'll go walking in circles

While doubting the very ground beneath me

Trying to show unquestioning faith in everything

Here am I, a lifetime away from you

The blood of Christ, or a change of heart

My love wears forbidden colours

My life believes

My love wears forbidden colours

My life believes in you once again

© Ryuichi Sakamoto

Performed by David Sylvian

Shape of the land

There is nothing you can do to change the shape of things but there is nothing that can stop you from trying.

© William Ackerman

Darling Pretty

It's time to come away, my Darling Pretty

It's time to come away on the changing tide

Time to come away, Darling Pretty

And I need you darling by my side

Heal me with a smile, Darling Pretty

Heal me with a smile and a heart of gold

Carry me awhile, my Darling Pretty

Heal my aching heart and soul

Just like a castaway

Lost upon an endless sea

I saw you far away

Come to rescue me

Cast away the chains, Darling Pretty

Cast away the chains away behind

Take away my pain, my Darling Pretty

And the chains that once were yours and mine

There will come a day, Darling Pretty

There will come a day when hearts can fly

Love will find a way, my Darling Pretty

Find a heaven for you and I

Love will find a way, my Darling Pretty

Find a heaven for you and I

© Mark Knopfler

Sossego

"Recuerde el alma dormida

avive el seso e despierte

contemplando

cómo se passa la vida

cómo se viene la muerte

tan callando (...)"

© Jorge Manrique

Música © Rodrigo Leao

Gallarda

Gallarda se yergue la gaviota al paso del, a sus ojos, peripatético observador .

Música © Juan Cabanilles

Interpretado por Hesperion XX

Somewhere they can't find me

I can hear the soft breathing of the girl that I love,

As she lies here beside me asleep with the night.

Her hair in a fine mist floats on my pillow,

Reflecting the glow of the winter moonlight.

But I've got to creep down the alley way,

Fly down the highway,

Before they come to catch me I'll be gone.

Somewhere they can't find me.

Oh baby, you don't know what I've done,

I've committed a crime, I've broken the law.

While you were here sleeping and just dreaming of me,

I held up and robbed a liquor store.

But I've got to creep down the alley way,

Fly down the highway,

Before they come to catch me I'll be gone.

Somewhere they can't find me.

Oh my life seems unreal, my crime an illusion,

A scene badly written in which I must play.

And thought it puts me up tight to leave you,

I know it's not right to leave you,

When morning is just a few hours away.

But I've got to creep down the alley way,

Fly down the highway,

Before they come to catch me I'll be gone.

Somewhere they can't find me.

© Simon & Garfunkel

Te dejo, Madrid

Sí, ya es hora de esconder
Del mundo el dolor
Bajo la piel
Más sé que estaré bien
Los gatos como yo caen de pie

No quiero
Jugar mi suerte por ti
No puedo
Con "v" pequeña vivir
Pronto estaré de aquí
Muy, muy lejos

Ay, me voy otra vez,
Ahí te dejo Madrid
Tus rutinas de piel
Y tus ganas de huir
Yo no quiero cobardes
Que me hagan sufrir
Mejor le digo adiós
A tu boca de anís

Sí, ya es hora de limpiar
Las manchas de miel
Sobre el mantel
Yo nunca supe actuar
Y mis labios se ven
Muertos de sed

No quiero dejarlo todo al azar
Entiendo
Que he comenzado a estorbar
Pronto estaré de ti
Muy, muy lejos

Ay, me voy otra vez,

Ahí te dejo Madrid

Tus rutinas de piel

Y tus ganas de huir

Yo no quiero cobardes

Que me hagan sufrir

Mejor le digo adiós

A tu boca de anís

© Shakira

She's leaving home

Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more

She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief
Quietly turning the backdoor key
Stepping outside she is free.

She (We gave her most of our lives)
is leaving (Sacrificed most of our lives)
home (We gave her everything money could buy)
She's leaving home after living alone for so many years.

Bye, bye

Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's lying there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband
Daddy our baby's gone.
Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?
How could she do this to me?

She (We never thought of ourselves)
is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
home (We struggled hard all our lives to get by)
She's leaving home after living alone for so many years.

Bye, bye

Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
Meeting a man from the motor trade.

She (What did we do that was wrong)
is having (We didn't know it was wrong)
fun (Fun is the one thing that money can't buy)
Something inside that was always denied for so many years.

Bye, bye

She's leaving home.
Bye, bye

© The Beatles

Noche de Reyes

La quise como nadie tal vez haya querido
y la adoraba tanto que hasta celos sentí.
Por ella me hice bueno, honrado y buen marido
y en hombre de trabajo, mi vida convertí.

Al cabo de algún tiempo de unir nuestro destino
nacía un varoncito, orgullo de mi hogar;
y era mi dicha tanta al ver claro mi camino,
ser padre de familia, honrado y trabajar.

Pero una noche de Reyes,
cuando a mi hogar regresaba,
comprobé que me engañaba
con el amigo más fiel.

Y ofendido en mi amor propio
quise vengar el ultraje,
lleno de ira y coraje
sin compasión los maté!

¡Qué cuadro compañeros, no quiero recordarlo!
Me llena de vergüenza, de odio y de rencor.
De que vale ser bueno! Si aparte de vengarme
clavaron en mi pecho la flecha del dolor.

Por eso compañero, como hoy es día de Reyes,
los zapatitos el bebe afuera los dejó.
Espera un regalito y no sabe que a la madre
por falsa y por canalla, su padre la mató!

Pero una noche de Reyes,
cuando a mi hogar regresaba,
comprobé que me engañaba
con el amigo más fiel.

Y ofendido en mi amor propio
quise vengar el ultraje,
lleno de ira y coraje
sin compasión los maté!

© Carlos Gardel

Illusion & Dream

Look in my eyes I'll make you see
We're drifting aimlessly
Blind in a world of make believe

Hear them sing their songs off key
n' nod like they agree
Buying the needs to be discreet

I've got no hand in matters worldly
I hardly care at all
What's going on fails to concern me
'Cause I'm locked behind my wall
But you know what drives me out
Out of my mind oh

It's whatever makes you see
Makes you believe
And forget about the premonition you need to conceive
The images they sell are
Illusion and Dream
In other words dishonesty

If I speak ill please, humour me
Won't rant on endlessly
Just thought I'd try to make you see

It doesn't solve a thing to dress it, in a pretty gown
A stone will not need you to guess if, you're still going to drown
So you know what drives me out
Out of my mind, oh

It's whatever makes you see, makes you believe
And forget about the premonition you need to conceive
The images they sell are
Illusion & Dream
In other words dishonesty

So can you name your demon?
Understand it's scheming
I raise my glass and say "Here's to you"

Can you chase your demon?
Or will it take your freedom?
I raise my class and say "Here's to you"

I've got no hand in matters worldly
I hardly care at all
What's going on fails to concern me
'Cause I'm locked behind my wall
But you know what drives me out
Out of my mind oh

It's whatever makes you see, makes you believe
And forget about the premonition you need to conceive
The images they sell are
Illusion & Dream
In other words dishonesty

So whatever makes you see, makes you believe
And forget about the premonition you need to conceive
The images they sell are
Illusion and Dream
In other words dishonesty

With silence comes peace
With peace comes freedom
With freedom comes silence

© Poets of the fall

The Sea-Maiden

"(...) She took her harp to the sea-shore, and sat and played; and the sea-maiden came up to listen, for sea-maidens are fonder of music than all other creatures. But when the wife saw the sea-maiden she stopped. The sea-maiden said, "Play on!" but the princess said, "No, not till I see my man again. (...)"

© Popular Scottish fairy tale
Música © The Chieftains

Goodbye blue sky

"Look mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky"

Did-did-did-did-you see the frightened ones?

Did-did-did-did-you hear the falling bombs?

Did-did-did-did-you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter with the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?

Did-did-did-did-you see the frightened ones?

Did-did-did-did-you hear the falling bombs?

The flames are all long gone, but the pain lingers on.

Goodbye, blue sky

Goodbye, blue sky.

Goodbye, goodbye.

"The 11:15 from Newcastle is now approaching"

"The 11:18 arrival...."

© Pink Floyd