No es precisamente la mejor canción de cuna que cantarle a un niño pequeño, a pesar de su tremenda belleza... Una de las más míticas canciones de la era más brillante de la MTv con un videoclip muy artístico y con la presencia de uno de los tíos mas raros; Robet Smith, líder de The Cure.Esta banda inglesa formada a mediados de los años 70 y que se fueron moviendo entre el post-punk, la new wave y el rock gótico. Su punto álgido fue a finales de los 80 con un par de álbumes que pegaron bastante en las listas.
En 1989 editaron la que es sin duda su canción mas famosa; "Lullaby". La letra, que relata como un chico es devorado por un hombre-araña, es de los mas tétrico y la interpretación de Smith, cantando, hablando y susurrando es sencillamente genial, pero lo más es la parte instrumental que es sublime. El estribillo por así llamarlo es una parte instrumental con una bellísima sección de cuerdas (a través de teclados) y todo eso llevado por un ritmo totalmente hipnótico que te sumerge. La década de los 80 fue espectacular.
Feliz escucha, feliz semana...
On candystripe legs the spiderman comes
softly through the shadow of the evening sun
stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
looking for the victim shivering in bed
searching out fear in the gathering gloom and
suddenly!
a movement in the corner of the room!
and there is nothing i can do
when i realise with fright
that the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight!
Quietly he laughs and shaking his head
creeps closer now
closer to the foot of the bed
and softer than shadow and quicker than flies
his arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes
"be still be calm be quiet now my precious boy
don't struggle like that or i will only love you more
for it's much too late to get away or turn on the light
the spiderman is having you for dinner tonight"
And i feel like i'm being eaten
by a thousand million shivering furry holes
and i know that in the morning i will wake up
in the shivering cold
And the spiderman is always hungry...
softly through the shadow of the evening sun
stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
looking for the victim shivering in bed
searching out fear in the gathering gloom and
suddenly!
a movement in the corner of the room!
and there is nothing i can do
when i realise with fright
that the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight!
Quietly he laughs and shaking his head
creeps closer now
closer to the foot of the bed
and softer than shadow and quicker than flies
his arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes
"be still be calm be quiet now my precious boy
don't struggle like that or i will only love you more
for it's much too late to get away or turn on the light
the spiderman is having you for dinner tonight"
And i feel like i'm being eaten
by a thousand million shivering furry holes
and i know that in the morning i will wake up
in the shivering cold
And the spiderman is always hungry...
1 comentario:
Gran tema, sin duda.
No es frecuente escuchar canciones como ésta, ni por la letra ni por la música. Quizá eso haga que las valoremos más. Al menos, yo lo hago :P
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