Down to Earth, Peter Gabriel

No tengo nada que ofrecer. Para quienes preguntan y los que no, hay mucha piedra, poco verde, vejación en las esquinas que llevan meses sin orden y no hay nada más que decir o leer. Hablemos de otros temas: ¡qué bien que hay música! Geova hace décadas me regaló lo primero de Peter Gabriel y ayudó mi pasión por el cine (hasta hoy). Nunca logró que yo comprara las cintas propias para reproducirlas porque siempre me daba copias de todo. Un poco de cine ya visto: Wall E, un poco de sentimientos vertidos en el callejón de Hanzel y Grettel, quizá con alguna esperanza que no sean comidos. Dos extractos en castellano, la letra completa en inglés y el vídeo.

"¿Pensaste que tus pies habían sido llevados a un límite por la gravedad del piso que te haló? ¿Sentiste que fuiste engañado por el futuro que escogiste?... Bueno, vamos hacia abajo(...) ¿Pensaste que escaparía de la rutina sólo por cambiar de guión y escena? A pesar de todo lo que has hecho por esto." 

"Did you think that your feet had been bound
By what gravity brings to the ground?

Did you feel you were tricked

By the future you picked?

Well, come on down

All those rules don’t apply

When you’re high in the sky

So, come on down

Come on down

We’re coming down to the ground

There’s no better place to go

We’ve got snow up on the mountains

We’ve got rivers down below

We’re coming down to the ground

We hear the birds sing in the trees

And the land will be looked after

We send the seeds out in the breeze

Did you think you’d escaped from routine

By changing the script and the scene?

Despite all you made of it

You’re always afraid

Of the change

You’ve got a lot on your chest

Well, you can come as my guest

So come on down

Come on down

We’re coming down to the ground

There’s no better place to go

We’ve got snow up on the mountains

We’ve got rivers down below

We’re coming down to the ground

We hear the birds sing in the trees

And the land will be looked after

We send the seeds out in the breeze

Like the fish in the ocean

We felt at home in the sea

We learned to live off the good land

Learned to climb up a tree

Then we got up on two legs

But we wanted to fly

When we messed up our homeland

We set sail for the sky

We’re coming down to the ground

There’s no better place to go

We’ve got snow up on the mountains

We’ve got rivers down below

We’re coming down to the ground

We hear the birds sing in the trees

And the land will be looked after

We send the seeds out in the breeze

We’re coming down

Coming down to Earth

Like babies at birth

Coming down to Earth

We’re gonna find new priorities

These are extraordinary qualities

We’re coming down to the ground

There’s no better place to go

We’ve got snow up on the mountains

We’ve got rivers down below

We’re coming down to the ground

We hear the birds sing in the trees

And the land will be looked after

We send the seeds out in the breeze

We’re coming down to the ground

There’s no better place to go

We’ve got snow up on the mountains

We’ve got rivers down below

We’re coming down to the ground

We hear the birds sing in the trees

And the land will be looked after

We send the seeds out in the breeze

We’re gonna find new priorities

These are extraordinary qualities