“Won’t you sign up your name”: prestando atenção na letra da clássica música “lógica” do Supertramp

Ouvi “The Logical Song” (Supertramp) esses dias e notando a letra vi como tem tudo a ver com aquele assunto da identidade falsa, que o Migas (Gixx) levantou. Olha a letra:

When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees, well they’d be singing so happily, joyfully, playfully watching me.
But then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical.
And they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.
There are times when all the world’s asleep,
the questions run too deep
for such a simple man.
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
but please tell me who I am.
Now watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal.
Won’t you sign up your name, we’d like to feel you’re acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable!
At night, when all the world’s asleep,
the questions run so deep
for such a simple man.
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
but please tell me who I am.

 

Segue o video ao vivo da música “The Logical Song“, com Roger Hodgson e Orquestra:

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  1. says: Dauro

    Rapaz, essa música embalou muitos de meus sonhos e dilemas de adolescente! Foi a trilha de meu quase-embarque numa aventura mochileira de veleiro que iria passar pelo Caribe e desaguar na França. Mas terminou me levando numa viagem de caminhão rumo ao Sul até chegar à minha paixão inesperada por Floripa, com todas as maravilhosas conseqüências que isso teve – bem, é uma loonga história. Fico contente de reencontrá-la aqui.

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