Lonely day

Such a lonely day
And its mine
The most loneliest day of my life
Such a lonely day
Should be banned
This day that I can't stand

The most loneliest day of my life
The most loneliest day of my life

Such a lonely day
Shouldn't exist
A day that Ill never miss
Such a lonely day
And its mine
The most loneliest day of my life

And if you go, I wanna go with you
And if you die, I wanna die with you
Take your hand and walk away

The most loneliest day of my life
The most loneliest day of my life
The most loneliest day of my life

Such a lonely day
And its mine
A day that I'm glad I survived

System of a Down, “Hipnotise”, 2005

Se há uma banda que me move, é sem dúvida os System of a Down. Tudo o que fazem é único e genial. Esta música não foge à regra.

The Blowers Daughter

And so it is
Just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
Most of the time
And so it is
The shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky

I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes...

And so it is
Just like you said it should be
We'll both forget the breeze
Most of the time
And so it is
The colder water
The blower's daughter
The pupil in denial

I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes...

Did I say that I loathe you?
Did I say that I want to
Leave it all behind?

I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind...
My mind...my mind...
'Til I find somebody new

Damien Rice, “O”, 2003

Drive

Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear
And I cant help but ask myself how much I'll let the fear take the wheel and steer
It's driven me before, it seems to have a vague
Haunting mass appeal
Lately I'm beginning to find that I should be the one behind the wheel

Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there
With open arms and open eyes yeah
Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there, I'll be there

So if I decide to waiver my chance to be one of the hive
Will I choose water over wine and hold my own and drive, oh oh
It's driven me before, it seems to be the way
That everyone else get around
Lately, I'm beginning to find that when I drive myself, my light is found

Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there
With open arms and open eyes yeah
Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there, I'll be there

Would you choose water over wine
Hold the wheel and drive
Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there
With open arms and open eyes yeah
Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there, I'll be there

INCUBUS, “Make Yourself”, 1999

Breaking the Girl

I am a man
Cut from the know
Rarely do friends
Come and then go
She was a girl
Soft but estranged
We were the two
Our lives rearranged
Feeling so good that day
A feeling of love that day

Twisting and turning
Your feelings are burning
You're breaking the girl
She meant you no harm
Think you're so clever
But now you must sever
You're breaking the girl
He loves no one else

Raised by my dad
Girl of the day
He was my man
That was the way
She was the girl
Left alone
Feeling the need
To make me her home
I don't know what when or why
The twilight of love had arrived.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers, “Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik”, 1990

Que saudades do Anthony Kiedis quando ainda tinha os seus longos cabelos ao vento… Grande banda, que conseguiu unir os seus fãs e manter o sucesso até hoje.
È sempre um prazer ouvi-los, em especial os temas mais antigos… como este.

Loser

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
butane in my veins and I'm out to cut the junkie
with the plastic eyeballs, spray-paint the vegetables
dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose
kill the headlights and put it in neutral
stock car flamin' with a loser and the cruise control
baby's in Reno with the vitamin D
got a couple of couches, sleep on the love-seat
someone came in sayin' I'm insane to complain
about a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt
don't believe everything that you breathe
you get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve
so shave your face with some mace in the dark
savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park

(yo. Cut it.)

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

Forces of evil on a bozo nightmare
ban all the music with a phony gas chamber
'cuz one's got a weasel and the other's got a flag
one's on the pole, shove the other in a bag
with the rerun shows and the cocaine nose-job
the daytime crap of the folksinger slob
he hung himself with a guitar string
a slab of turkey-neck and it's hangin' from a pigeon wing
you can't write if you can't relate
trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate
and my time is a piece of wax fallin' on a termite
that's chokin' on the splinters

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(get crazy with the cheeze whiz)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(drive-by body-pierce)
(yo bring it on down)
(I'm a driver, I'm the winner; things are gonna change I can feel it)

Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(I can't believe you)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Sprechen sie Deutches, baby)
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Know what I'm sayin'?)

BECK, “Mellow Gold”, 1994

O mais alternativo dos músicos alternativos… simplesmente brilhante!

Karma Police

Karma police
arrest this man,
he talks in maths,
he buzzes like a fridge,
he's like a detuned radio.

Karma police
arrest this girl,
her Hitler hairdo
is making me feel ill
and we have crashed her party.

This is what you get,
this is what you get,
this is what you get,
when you mess with us.

Karma police
I've given all I can,
it's not enough,
I've given all I can
but we're still on the payroll.

This is what you get,
this is what you get,
this is what you get,
when you mess with us.

For a minute there
I lost myself, I lost myself.
Phew, for a minute there,
I lost myself, I lost myself.

Radiohead, “OK Computer”, 1997

Sempre surpreendentes, sempre geniais… Uma das melhores bandas alternativas de sempre. Este “Karma Police” representa para mim, o auge da sua genialidade.

Chemistry

I remember when I found out about chemistry
It was a long, long way from here
I was old enough to want it but younger than I wanted to be
Suddenly my mission was clear

So for awhile I conducted experiments
And I was amazed by the things I learned
From a fine fine girl with nothing but good intentions and a
Bad tendency to get burned

All about chemistry
Won't you show me everything you know
Ah wonder what you do to me
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh

Some time later I met a young graduate
When I had nobody to call my own
I told her I was looking for somebody to appreciate
And I just couldn't do it alone

So for awhile we conducted experiments
In an apartment by the River Road
And we found out that the two things we put together
had aBad tendency to explode

All about chemistry
Won't you show me everything you've learned
I'll memorize everything you do to me so I can
Teach it when it comes my turn

Fine spring day, California waves
Sweet Pacific scenes through theWindows of airplanes and hotel rooms

So when I find myself alone and unworthy
I think about all of the things I learned
from theFine fine women with nothing but good intentions
and aBad tendency to get burned

All about chemistry
Won't you show me everything you know
Ah wonder what you do to me
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh

All about chemistry
Won't you show me everything you've learned
I'll memorize everything you do to me
so I can teach it when it comes my turn

Semisonic, “All about Chemistry”, 2001

Miseryhead

Christ, your head, what's it become?
while the whole world's out having fun

I'm in a cloud, it's pulling me down,
breaking me down

I'm in a cloud, it feels like a crowd of a hundred,
it's five degrees here nobody sees, somebody please, save me

This is the sound of my miseryhead
choke on the taste of my miseryhead
dance to the words of my miseryhead
this is the sound of my miseryhead

I'm in a cloud, it's pulling me down,
breaking me down

Turn around what's that sound?
I'm in your head
I thought i heard him say,
he'd rather be dead, than live life apart...
we're apart...
we're apart

Tthis is the sound of my miseryhead
choke on the taste of my miseryhead
dance to the words of my miseryhead
this is the sound of my miseryhead

Ours, “Distorted Lullabies”, 2001



“Distorted Lullabies” veio-me parar ás mãos por acaso. Assim que olhei para o CD percebi que tinha algo de diferente. Quando o ouvi, fiquei imediatamente fã dos Ours. Esta é a minha música favorita do álbum.

You're a God

I've got to be honest,I think you know,
We're covered in lies and that’s okay,
But there's somewhere beyond this,I know,
but I hope I can find the words to say,
Never again,
No never again.

'Cause you're a god,
And I am not,
And I just thought that you would know,
You're a god,
And I am not,
And I just thought I'd let you go.

Though I've been unable,
To put you down,
I'm still learnin' things I ought to know by now.
It's under the table, so...I need somethin' more to show,
somehow.
Never again,No never again.

I've got to be honest,
I think you know,
We're covered in lies and thats okay,
But there's somewhere beyond this,
I know, but I hope I can find the words to say...

Vertical Horizon, “Everything you want”, 2000

Gostava que os Vertical Horizon viessem tocar a Portugal… há musicas que nunca se esquecem e esta é uma delas.
Faz-me sempre sorrir quando a ouço…

Jack Soul Brasileiro

Jack Soul Brasileiro
E que o som do pandeiro
É certeiro e tem direcção
Já que subi nesse ringue
E o país do Swing
É o país da contradição

Eu canto p’ro rei da levada
Na lei da embolada
Na língua da percussão

A dança mulango dengo
A ginga do mango lengo
É o charme dessa nação

Quem foi que fez o samba embolar?
E quem foi que fez o coco sambar?
Quem foi que fez a ema gemer na boa?
E quem foi que fez do coco um cocar?
E quem foi que deixou o oco no lugar?
E que foi que fez o sapo cantor de lagoa?

Diz aí Tião ?
Vai Tião! (oi)
Foste? (fui)
Compraste? (comprei)
Pagaste? (paguei)
Me diz quanto foi? (foi 500 réis)
Me diz quanto foi? (foi 500 réis)

Jack Soul Brasileiro do tempero
Do batuque, do truque, do picadeiro e do pandeiro
E do repique, do pique do funk rock
Do toque da platinela
Do samba na passarela
Dessa alma brasileira
Despencando na ladeira
Na zoeira da banguela

Eu só ponho o Ibope no meu samba
Quando o tio Sam pegar no tamborim
Quando ele pegar no pandeiro e no zabumba
Quando ele entender que o samba não é rumba
Aí eu vou misturar, Miami com Copacabana
Chiclete eu misturo com banana
E o meu samba, e o meu samba vai ficar assim

Ah ema gemeu......
Aaaaah ema gemeu!


Lenine, “Na Pressão”, 2000

O ritmo desta música é alucinante…. Faz-me sempre dançar! Adoro o Lenine!

Starlight

Far away
The ship is taking me far away
Far away from the memories
Of the people who care if I live or die

Starlight
I will be chasing a starlight
Until the end of my life
I don't know if it's worth it anymore

And hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold
You in my arms

My life
You electrify my life
Let's conspire to re-ignite
All the souls that would die just to feel alive

But I'll never let you go
If you promise not to fade away
Never fade away

Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations
Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations

Hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold
You in my arms

Far away
The ship is taking me far away
Far away from the memories
Of the people who care if I live or die

And I'll never let you go
If you promise not to fade away
Never fade away

Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations
Yeah
Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations

Hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold
You in my arms

I just wanted to hold

Muse, “Black Holes and Revelations”, 2006

Abysmo

Men with both roots and wings
they tie us down and ask us to leave
they are teachings unheard,
they are bodies on smoke

Men with both roots and wings
at a singular voice we moan
our teachings mislead,
our teachings like smoke

we sleep between the storm that was
and the storm which has to come

We've learnt to learn everywhere
and the very own nature has taught us to wait
difference does sound like sin ,equality reliefs
and that fame ryhmes with hate y
et everything is fair
on the intervals of your death

misguided demons or forthcoming heroes
each one with an important name
nothing else than an important name.

Men with both roots and wings
at a certain time we are one
our litlle tricks, our innocence stubborn

Men with just little wings, men with just little minds
Men with just little eyes, men with just little deeds

sleeping between the storm that was
and the wind which fails to come
[(and finally)]blow us away.


Moonspell, “Sin/Pecado”, 1998

É a melhor banda portuguesa de metal….. diria mesmo da Europa…. Quiçá do mundo inteiro! Tenho um imenso respeito e admiração por todo o trabalho que desenvolvem!
Esta é uma verdadeira obra prima, incluída num dos meus álbuns favoritos dos Moonspell: Sin/Pecado.