Hoy puse el disco "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars", y arranca "Five Years" con su ritmo y piano, donde Ziggy/Bowie pareciera decirnos "a propósito, te decía...", como una conversación que venía empezada de algún lado. Me suena a final del comienzo. Me hace pensar en que fue la canción elegida para empezar, y que fue así porque hablaba del final de todo.
"Five years" cuenta de un planeta Tierra condenado a desaparecer; de cinco años de agonía, de llanto. "...El conductor del noticiero gimió y nos dijo / que la tierra realmente estaba muriendo, / lloró a mares, su cara húmeda, / entonces supe que no era mentira...".
Pero hay un luz en cuanto habla de esa persona. "...te veías tan bien / No creo que supieras que estabas en esta canción...", excelente, como la separa de todo lo catastrófico y decadente de la letra. "...quiero caminar a tu lado...".
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Lo que nos hace bien; miremos hacia ahí. Y así esta bueno seguir, terminar, o empezar lo que sea. Por suerte tenemos más que cinco años. ¿No?.
Pushing through the market square
So many mothers sighing
News had just come over
We had five years left to cry in
News guy wept when he told us
Earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet
Then I knew he was not lying
I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys, electric irons, and TVs
My brain hurt like a warehouse
It had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things
To store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people
And all the tall-short people
All the nobody people and all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people
A girl my age went off her head
Hit some tiny children
If the black hadn't pulled her off
I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm
Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
And a queer threw up at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor
Drinking milkshakes, cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
Don't think you knew you were in this song
And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk
We got five years, stuck on my eyes
We got five years, what a surprise
We got five years, my brain hurts a lot
We got five years, that's all we've got
"Five Years" - David Bowie