Boas festas

"E então, não resisti mais e chorei. Sim, chorei, durante um momento extraordinário, o tal momento impossível de fixar e de descrever, em que me senti sozinho no mundo desabitado, único ser vivo num acaso de bicho a respirar, cheio de cólera de solidão - e alheio, cortado, separado de tudo o que mais existia no universo."

José Gomes Ferreira
"O Mundo Desabitado"

"[...] i'm stuck here waiting for a passing feeling
still i send all the time
my request for relief
down a dead power line
though i'm beyond belief
and the help i require
just to exist at all
took a long time to stand
took an hour to fall."

Elliott Smith
"A passing feeling"

"Era uma vez o dia em que acabaram todas as coisas que começaram e em que começaram todas as coisas às quais não foi dado tempo de acabar. E assim foi..."

Autor desconhecido

"Joy was her name
[...]
Pitiful Joy
She looked away
Into a hollow sky
Came face to face
With her own innocence surrounding her until it never was a question
Innocence so suffocating, now she cannot move, no question
No hope for Joy
No hope or faith
She wanted to go blind
Wanted hope to stay
'I've been believing in nothing since I was born, it never was a question.'"

PJ Harvey
Joy

10000 miles

"Fare thee well
My own true love
Farewell for a while
I'm going away
But I'll be back
Though I go 10,000 miles

10,000 miles
My own true love
10,000 miles or more
The rocks may melt
And the seas may burn
If I should not return

Oh don't you see
That lonesome dove
Sitting on an ivy tree
She's weeping for
Her own true love
As I shall weep for mine

Oh come ye back
My own true love
And stay a while with me
If I had a friend
All on this earth
You've been a friend to me"

Mary Chapin Carpenter
10000 Miles

"Eu vejo-me e estou sem mim,
Conheço-me e não sou eu."

Fernando Pessoa

"Os heróis são personagens velozes, fortes, imbatíveis, grandes, melhores, corajosos, espectaculares, que vestem roupas estranhas para se esconderem (só assim se sabe sempre que são eles).
Quando falamos com um herói, sabemos sempre que ele é um herói, porque não há ninguém que se compare a ele, que não seja um herói também, não querendo, com isto, dizer que todos os heróis são iguais. Não, mas são heróis, disso não há dúvida.
Costuma-se dizer, digo-o eu, agora, que os heróis nos fazem sentir nós próprios. Muitas vezes podemos não gostar dessa sensação, mas um herói faz com que seja uma excepção.
As palavras dos heróis são como palavras, iguais a palavras, devo dizer, são velozes, fortes, imbatíveis, grandes, melhores, corajosas e, para que não sejam heróis também, não fossem elas palavras, são."

Ensaio sobre os heróis

"Imagine what my body would sound like
Slamming against those rocks
When it lands
Will my eyes
Be closed or open?"

Bjork
Hyperballad

Deus e as Tartarugas

"«Concedo-vos um só desejo» disse por sua vez
«Que eu escolha mais que vós» retorquiu de volta
«Sois então imortais, e todos os outros demais»
«Estais enganado...»
«Sei-o bem... Tornava por engano vos dar...
Mas agora olhos vejo
e olhos de tartaruga são...» disse de seu turno
«Pois bem... assim o repito.
Decisão de conjunta deliberação
Longa mas harmónica
Sensatez concedemo-nos primeiro
como qualquer animal de são instinto
Que concebido com juízo tenha sido...»
«Mostrai bem em vossas virtudes
a vontade do desejo e, embora de justiça desconheça, verdade sei-a agora.
Cedo-vos de surpresa
Pois criando em Terra tais seres,
Nenhum outro detém por sabedoria
a distância a seu leito
e assim por seus prazeres,
da morte, decerto, fugiria, mesmo em carapaça fria...»
«Carapaça é-nos memória,
Mais nenhuma outra história...
Não é de jeito um pedido este... Pois direito deu-nos
a nós, o Mundo, primeiro... Se a vida sofre de sozinha,
benvinda foi sua alegria, que nos aguarda em sono nosso,
fazendo do fim nosso espaço,
como se dum princípio se tratasse...»
«Graças vós, animais. Felicidade incrédula que trazeis,
E nenhuma outra criatura respeitarei
Mais que a que seu fardo suporta
Diante todos sóis e luas
Que o tempo assim transporta.»"

Marta Cutileiro
Deus e as Tartarugas

"You're the reason I feel pain
Feels so good to feel again..."

Nirvana
"Verse Chorus Verse"

Silence

"All those places
Where I recall the memories
That gripped me
And pinned me down

I go to these places
Intending to think
To think of nothing
No anticipate

And somehow expect
You'll find me there
That by some miracle
You'd be aware

I'd risen this morning
Determined to break
The spell of my longing
And not to think

I freed myself from my family
I freed myself from work
I freed myself
I freed myself
And remained alone

And in my thinking
Steal you away
Though you never wanted me
Anyway...

PJ Harvey
"Silence"

"There will never be a better time
Oh there will never be a greater time

Oh if I could change,
Change everything
If I could change my name, learn to forgive
There's never been a better time
Oh I know there will never be a greater time

Now I look for god and lose my way
How I look for you and lose my place
Kissing anything that comes my way
Burning anything that will burn

Oh, I wanna change,
Change everything
Learn to change my name, learn to forgive
Love,
Love passes me by in the all the wrong places
Love passes me by I lose my way
Oh I wanna catch them all and there
There will never be a better time
No lie, no lie
There will never be a better time

There will never be a better time"

Desert Sessions
"There Will Never Be a Better Time"

"There is no yesterday,
There is no tomorrow...
Hello, did you miss me...
Another word, as far as you know
Over and over
Clear and forgotten...
Over and over
There is no tomorrow..."

Queens of The Stone Age
18 AD

Trouble

"Trouble, oh trouble set me free
I have seen your face
And it's too much, too much for me...
Trouble, oh trouble can't you see
You're eating my heart away
And there's nothing much left of me...
I've drank your wine,
You have made your world mine
So won't you be fair,
So won't you be fair...
[...]
I've seen your eyes
I can see death's disguise
Hangin' on me,
Hangin' on me..."

Cat Stevens "Trouble"

"I am all the days that you choose to ignore
You're all I need..."

"All I need"
Radiohead

"To hope is admittance, feed before beginning...
Double-sided cynics
Reflected images
Don't be so selfish
Leaving me this
Follow it far, to find where you are
You haven't grown, go on alone...

Never finished his sentence,
Remained in seclusion
For the next few days
Family is circuling
He having moved up
All the styles of heresy
Finally he appeared unexpectedly
Looking for company..."

Nirvana
"Misery Loves Company"

"Sometimes the same is different, but mostly, it's the same."

Queens Of The Stone Age
"I Wanna Make It Wit Chu"

"Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me,
No hope, but no harm
Just another false alarm...
Last night I felt real arms around me,
No hope, no harm
Just another false alarm...
So tell me, how long before the last one?
And tell me, how long before the right one?
This story is old, I know... but it goes on..."

The Smiths
"Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me"

"That’s why I always go 
alone into tomorrow..."

Queens of the Stone Age
"Into The Hollow"

The River

"Two silent birds circled by
Like a pain in the river
And the pain in the river
And the white sun scattered
Washed away this slow..."

PJ Harvey
"The River"

"In my heart I begged "Take me with you... I don't care where you're going..."
[...]But me and my true love,
will never meet again."

The Smiths
"Paint a vulgar picture"

"Do you miss me, Miss Misery, like you say you do?"

Elliott Smith
"Miss Misery"

"That's the study of dying
How to do it right"

Queens Of The Stone Age
"Song for the Death"

"Music is your only friend, until the end."

The Doors
"When the music's over"

"Misery loves company"

Nirvana

"If I touch a burning candle I can feel no pain
If you cut me with a knife it's still the same
And I know her heart is beating
And I know that I am dead
Yet the pain here that I feel
Try and tell me it's not real
For it seems that I still have a tear to shed..."

"Tears to shed"
Danny Elfman

"Here if you want me, listening so close from far away.
I memorized what you told me, like a foreigner on holiday.
I know to smile at confusion, not forget the soul that smiles on me.
Dancing on the highway, the broken line that led from you to me.
Well, I’ll be at my station all night, so come on by if you feel like.

Still here if you want me. Look at what I can do with empty time.
A lost love that likes to haunt me—it’s waiting around to meet me when I die.
Death surrounds, protects the living—this is what you said and I agreed.
Not to be unforgiving just because your soul’s done time and free.
Cause I’m here if you want me, my love, dancing on the highway.

But your sun still burns my eye.
Oh, why?
Oh, why?"


Elliott Smith
"Dancing on the Highway"

"Some die just to live..."

Pearl Jam
"Immortality"

"Protect me from what I want..."

Placebo

"'Cause my feelings never changed a bit, I always feel like shit...
I don't know why, I guess I just do..."

Elliott Smith
"I didn't understand"