dónde está el ritual?
dime dónde está el gusto?
dónde está el sacrificio?
y dónde está la fe?
algún día
habrá una cura para el dolor.
dónde está la cueva?
dónde se fueron las mujeres sabias?
y dime dónde
se fue el dinero que gasté
propongo un brindis
por mi autocontrol
pero lo veo arrastrarse por el piso
algún día
habrá una cura para el dolor.
ese día,
voy a arrojar lejos mis drogas.
(si encuentran una cura para el dolor.)
“I thought about doing an Ellington thing I recently heard on one of those fantastic records. But I’ve learned something about the process of art - and this is why Donald Byrd is so full of shit, and the others who take Stevie Wonder’s songs and readapt them. You know, if you love someone, you learn things about that person, but you don’t become them.”
-Cecil Taylor
hemos viajado pero no en el camino terminado.
hemos reído pero yo estaba dormido.
hemos llorado pero él sigue enterrado.
You see me in a foreign face
In ships that sink without trace
In your father's doubt
Will he praise or shout?
Behind the burning cross
Begrudged imagined loss
When you run to me, run to me, run to me
You try to fly, but you cannot fly
You try to hide, but I'm by your side
You run from me, run from me, run from me
I am the adversary
Cars are stars remotely far. My only world is sound.
Passersby are worlds that fly. Far from the dance of time.
Time whirls round from pole to pole and swirls within the sound of oscillations, oscillations.
And I plan to live 60 or 70 more
I've been all around I've done a few things
And I spent a few nights on the floor oh
Did everything wrong but I never got caught
So of course I would do it all over again
I surprised many people who'd written me off
Years ago now they're way underground
Nobody asked me but here's my advice
To a young man or woman who's living this life
In a world gone to hell where nobody's safe
Do not go quietly unto your grave
Learned a few tricks and I'll learn a few more
And I got enough bullets to fight a small war
Nobody asked me so here's my advice
To a young man or woman who's living this life
In a world gone to hell where nobody's safe
Do not go quietly unto your grave
The drawbridge is up. Cat's out of the bag and looking for a sofa to scratch.
Looking for a sofa to scratch.
This the way that you like it.
This what you had in mind when you called above to the angels for the six hundred and sixty sixth time.
Hey, what about this? What about this. What about this. Shake it.
So many ways to get a lift. So many ways to get your head unzipped.
So many ways to get a lift. So many ways to get your head unzipped.
So many ways to get a lift. So many ways to get your head unzipped.