Às vezes queríamos dizer muita coisa que não conseguimos dizer, queríamos impulsionar a roda do exorcismo verbal para concretizar num sistema coerente toda a parafernália desorganizada do que nos corre nas sinapses neuroemocionais. Às tantas, descobrimos que afinal já houve quem sistematizasse as nossas ansiedades e inquietações, ainda por cima atribuindo frequências sonoras e diferenças tonais a cada uma das sílabas. Citamo-los então, com as devidas ressalvas e com a consciência que as intenções originais podem ser bastante dissonantes da interpretação que delas fazemos...
"
If you walk away I'll walk awayfirst tell me which road you will take
I don't want to risk our paths crossing some day
so you walk that way, I'll walk this way
and the future hangs over our headsand it moves with each current eventuntil it falls all around like a cold steady rain
just stay in when it's lookin' this way
and the moon's laying low in the sky
forcing everything metal to shine
and the sidewalk holds diamonds like a jewelry store case
they argue "walk this way," "no, walk this way"
and Laura's asleep in my bed
as I'm leaving she wakes up and says
"I dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave
baby don't go away, come here"
and there's kids playing guns in the street
and one's pointing his tree branch at me
So I put my hands up I say:
"Enough is enough,
If you walk away I walk away."
(and he shot me dead)
I found a liquid curefor my landlocked bluesit will pass awaylike a slow paradeit's leaving but I don't know how soonand the world's got me dizzy againyou'd think after 22 years I'd be used to the spinand it only feels worse when I stay in one placeso I'm always pacing around or walking awayI keep drinking the ink from my pen
and I'm balancing history books up on my head
but it all boils down to one quotable phrase
"If you love something give it away"
A good woman will pick you apart
a box full of suggestions for your possible heart
But you may be offended, and you may be afraidbut don't walk away, don't walk awayWe made love on the living room floor
with the noise in the background from a televised war
And in the deafening pleasure I thought I heard someone say
"If we walk away, they’ll walk away"
But greed is a bottomless pit
And our freedom's a joke, we're just taking a piss
And the whole world must watch the sad comic display
If you're still free start runnin' away
'cause we're comin' for ya!
I've grown tired of holding this pose
I feel more like a stranger each time I come home
So I'm making a deal with the devils of fame
Sayin' let me walk away, please
You'll be free child once you have diedfrom the shackles of language and measurable timeAnd then we can trade places, play musical gravestill then walk away walk away walk away walk away
So I'm up at dawn, putting on my shoes
I just want to make a clean escape
I'm leaving but I don't know where to
I know I'm leaving but I don't know where to"