11. Escribe una cita o frase famosa: Don't Give Up

Rest your head / you worry too much / it's going to be alright / when times get rough / you can fall back on us / don't give up / please don't give up / 'cause you have friends / don't give up / you're not the only one / don't give up / no reason to be ashamed / don't give up / you still have us / don't give up now / we're proud of who you are / don't give up / you know it's never been easy / don't give up / 'cause I believe there's the a place / there's a place where we belong

12. Ahora despídete: Solsbury hill

I did not believe the information / Just had to trust imagination / My heart was going boom boom, boom / Son, he said, grab your things, Ive come to take you home / Today I don't need a replacement / I'll tell them what the smile on my face meant / My heart was going boom boom boom / Hey, I said, you can keep my things, they've come to take me home

For you are my fate, my sweet

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

ee cummings

Can I get your attention, please?

Sí. Hay distintas maneras de decirlo.
Espero ser tan exitosa como Elaine.
:)

Because the night / 10,000 maniacs

Descubrí esta rola cuando escuché el MTV Unplugged de los 10,000 maniacos. Como todas las rolas que me han marcado -que me definen-, Because the night fue un himno, lo es: una bandera, el manifiesto de un momento de mi historia personal, la pieza perdida del rompecabezas, las coordenadas para encontrar el tesoro: la memoria.

Mucho después supe que era un cover de de la poeta y rockera, Patti Smith, quien la coescribió con el Jefe, Bruce Springsteen. Así que, después de la sorpresa (más por El jefe, que por la Smith), colgué la rola no sólo en el altarcito para la Merchant, sino también en el de la Smith.

Personalmente, la versión de la señora Merchant me parece un homenaje cabroncísimo. (¡Cómo redimensiona cada frase; cómo suena el pianito, el violín... el trémulo de la Natalia creciendo!). Suena y sueña, indiscutiblemente, una de las rolas del soundtrack de mi vida. Un pretexto para hacer de este lugar un escenario íntimo. Y cantar. Cantar hasta el silencio.


FLASHBACK: La descortesía de la Señorita beeper demesuclave al escuchar mi mensaje: Love is a Ring, a telephone (y las clases gratuitas de spelling y el enfado y el dígamelo en español, que finalmente transformó mi declaración de amor y devoción, mi triviaphone, en un "déjelo así, ninguno, gracias").

FLASHBACK: No sé cómo, pero tu hermana está al teléfono. Trato de hablar con naturalidad pero soy torpe. No puedo recordar si fue noche de vodka y ron. Quisiera. Me apenaría menos el "cuñada". ¿Qué más nos dijimos? No lo sé. Río. Luego tu voz diciéndole a Madre "estoy hablando con mi novia". Y la serenata: Because the night. Par de adolescentes. Infatuados.

En tardes como ésta (cuando no hay nada que desee más que extender mi mano y tocarte), el canto de la Merchant -el mío-, llena esta habitación de certeza: La certeza de la idea del amor: "Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe".

...

Because The Night
(Patti Smith/Bruce Springsteen Lyrics)

Take me now baby here as I am / Hold me close, try and understand / Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe / Love is a banquet on which we feed / Come on now try and understand / The way I feel under your command / Take my hand come undercover / They can't hurt you now / Can't hurt you now / can't hurt you now / Because the night belongs to lovers / Because the night belongs to lust / Because the night belongs to lovers / Because the night belongs to us / Have I doubt baby when I'm alone / Love is a ring, a telephone / Love is an angel disguised as lust / Here in our bed until the morning comes / Come on now try and understand / The way I feel under your command / Take my hand as the sun descends / They can't hurt you now, / Can't hurt you now / can't hurt you now / Because the night belongs to lovers ... / With love we sleep / With doubt the vicious circle / Turn and burns / Without you I cannot live / Forgive the yearning burning / I believe it's time / too real to feel / So take me now / take me now / take me now / Because the night belongs to lovers ...

Because the night / Bruce Springsteen

Because the night / Patti Smith