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Laurie se tristemente stai ascoltando
Sappi una cosa al di sopra di tutte le altre
Tu sei tutto ciò a cui ho veramente pensato
Mentre la TV rimbalzava le urla
I fiocchi di neve cinerei
Le sirene urlanti
Tutto ciò che desideravo eri tu da stringere
Corpi congelati nel tempo che spicca un salto
Uccelli in fuoco
Una cosa sto pensando
Laurie se tristemente stai ascoltando
Ti amo
Laurie se tristemente stai ascoltando
Ti amo
(Laurie, Sadly Listening)
Laurie se tristemente stai ascoltando
Sappi una cosa al di sopra di tutte le altre
Tu sei tutto ciò a cui ho veramente pensato
Mentre la TV rimbalzava le urla
I fiocchi di neve cinerei
Le sirene urlanti
Tutto ciò che desideravo eri tu da stringere
Corpi congelati nel tempo che spicca un salto
Uccelli in fuoco
Una cosa sto pensando
Laurie se tristemente stai ascoltando
Ti amo
Laurie se tristemente stai ascoltando
Ti amo
(Laurie, Sadly Listening)
Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines
ResponderEliminarthe faulty map
that brought Columbus to New York.
Betwixt between the East and West
he calls on her wearing a leather vest
the earth squeals and shudders to a halt.
A diamond crucifix in his ear is used to help
ward off the fear
that he has left his soul in someone's rented car.
Inside his pants he hides a mop
to clean the mess that he has dropped
into the life of lithesome Juliette Bel.l
And Romeo wanted Juliette
and Juliette wanted Romeo.
Romeo Rodriguez squares his shoulders and curses Jesus
runs a comb through his black pony tail
He's thinking of his lonely room
The sink that by his bed gives off a stink
then smells her perfume in his eyes
and her voice was like a bell
Outside the streets were steaming
the crack dealers were dreaming
of an Uzi someone had just scored
I betcha I could hit that light
with my one good arm behind my back
says little Joey Diaz
Brother, give me another tote
those downtown hoods are no damn good
Those Italians need a lesson to be taught
This cop who died in Harlem you think they’d
get the warnin’
I was dancing when his brains ran out on the street
and Romeo had Juliette
and Juliette had her Romeo
I'll take Manhattan in a garbage bag
with Latin writ on it that says
"It's hard to give a shit these days"*
Manhattan's sinking like a rock, into the filthy Hudson
what a shock
They wrote a book about it, they said it was
like Ancient Rome
The perfume burned his eyes, holding tightly to her thighs
and something flickered for a minute
and then it vanished and was gone.
Romeo had Juliette (Lou Reed. New York).
Amores neoyorquinos en las lineas de Lou Reed. El que citas, Ines, para Laurie Anderson, escrito entre rizos de humo negro y desesperacion, contemplando el fuego en el aire y La Escultura aun erguida:
Laurie if you're sadly listening
The birds are on fire The sky glistening
While I atop my roof stand watching
Staring into the spider's clypeus
Incinerated flesh repelling
While I am on the rooftop yearning
Thinking of you
Laurie if you're sadly listening
Selfishly I miss your missing
The boundaties of our world now changing
The air is filled with someone's sick reasons
And I had thought a beautiful season was
Upon us
Laurie if you're sadly listening
The phones don't work
The bird's afire
The smoke curls black
I'm on the rooftop
Liberty to my right still standing
Laurie evil's gaunt desire is
Upon we
Laurie if you're sadly listening
Know one thing above all others
You were all I really thought of
As the TV blared the screaming
The deathlike snowflakes
Sirens screaming
All I wished was you to be holding
Bodies frozen in time jumping
Bird's afire
One thing me thinking
Laurie if you're sadly listening
Love you
Laurie if you're sadly listening
Love you.
Laurie Sadly Listening (Lou Reed. New York, Octubre 2001).
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