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Johnny Cash – Man in Black

Johnny Cash – Man in Black


“Man In Black”

Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,
Why you never see bright colors on my back,
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.
Well, there’s a reason for the things that I have on.I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he’s a victim of the times.I wear the black for those who never read,
Or listened to the words that Jesus said,
About the road to happiness through love and charity,
Why, you’d think He’s talking straight to you and me.

Well, we’re doin’ mighty fine, I do suppose,
In our streak of lightnin’ cars and fancy clothes,
But just so we’re reminded of the ones who are held back,
Up front there ought ‘a be a Man In Black.

I wear it for the sick and lonely old,
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold,
I wear the black in mournin’ for the lives that could have been,
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.

And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,
Believen’ that the Lord was on their side,
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,
Believen’ that we all were on their side.

Well, there’s things that never will be right I know,
And things need changin’ everywhere you go,
But ’til we start to make a move to make a few things right,
You’ll never see me wear a suit of white.

Ah, I’d love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything’s OK,
But I’ll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
‘Till things are brighter, I’m the Man In Black.

Top 10 albums 2012

1 – Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas (2012)

2 – Neil Young & Crazy “Psychedelic Pill” (2012)

3 – Bob Dylan – Tempest (2012)

4 -Godspeed You! Black Emperor(2012)

5 – Angus Stone – Broken Brights – (2012)

6 – Donald Fagen – Sunken Condos (2012)

7 – Bobby Womack The Bravest Man in the Universe (2012)

8- Himuro Yoshiteru’s Our Turn, Anytime(2012)

9 -The Flower Kings : Banks of Eden(2012)

Luis Alberto Spinetta – Madres de Plaza de Mayo

 

“Matsuo Bash?poeta japonés nacido en el año 1644, quizás el más grande poeta de Japón, era además de un estilista, de un creador de formas, un humanista, y un piadoso. Recuérdese en tal sentido la anécdota con Kikaku, que es un discípulo, y su poema sobre el pimiento. Este alumno escribío el siguiente haiku: ‘Libelulas rojas, quitadle las alas, son pimientos’. Bash? respondió que un haiku debe suponer además un deseo distinto, y para probarlo lo escribió de esta manera: ‘Estos pimientos agregadle alas, son libelulas’. Elegí esta poesía tan antigua porque esas dos visiones provenientes de dos poetas, de alguna manera a mi forma de ver, componen dos visiones del mundo. Una, la visión de la destrucción de aquellos que asesinan para imponer sus ideas, y el otro, como lo representa en este caso Bash? que corrige a su discípulo , por luchar para crear una vida mejor, por crear vida. Por eso mientras el alumno dice ‘Libelulas rojas, quitadle las alas, son pimientos’, su maestro le dice ‘Estos pimientos agregadle alas, son libelulas’. No se si se alcanza a entender este sentido, pero son dos visiones de la naturaleza, que hablan del alma humana de una manera espectacular”