Oct 27 2008

Shangri-la / The Kinks - Ray Davies. — 1969-2007

Category: cuentos chinos, cuentos de escoceses e irlandeses, esencias inglesas, flora y fauna, música, ínsulas — mina. @ 10:13 pm

A un xerpa autoacomiadat

Shangri-la / Ray Davies; with the Crouch End Festival Chorus. — Roundhouse (London): BBC Electric Proms, 2007, October 28

Now that youve found your paradise
This is your kingdom to command
You can go outside and polish your car
Or sit by the fire in your shangri-la
Here is your reward for working so hard
Gone are the lavatories in the back yard
Gone are the days when you dreamed of that car
You just want to sit in your shangri-la

Put on your slippers and sit by the fire
Youve reached your top and you just cant get any higher
Youre in your place and you know where you are
In your shangri-la
Sit back in your old rocking chair
You need not worry, you need not care
You cant go anywhere
Shangri-la, shangri-la, shangri-la

The little man who gets the train
Got a mortgage hanging over his head
But hes too scared to complain
cos hes conditioned that way
Time goes by and he pays off his debts
Got a tv set and a radio
For seven shillings a week
Shangri-la, shangri-la, shangri-la, shangri-la, shangri-la, shangri-la

And all the houses in the street have got a name
cos all the houses in the street they look the same
Same chimney pots, same little cars, same window panes
The neighbors call to tell you things that you should know
They say their lines, they drink their tea, and then they go
They tell your business in another shangri-la
The gas bills and the water rates, and payments on the car
Too scared to think about how insecure you are
Life aint so happy in your little shangri-la
Shangri-la, shangri-la la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

Put on your slippers and sit by the fire
Youve reached your top and you just cant get any higher
Youre in your place and you know where you are
In your shangri-la
Sit back in your old rocking chair
You need not worry, you need not care
You cant go anywhere
Shangri-la, shangri-la, shangri-la, shangri-la, shangri-la, shangri-la

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4 Responses to “Shangri-la / The Kinks - Ray Davies. — 1969-2007”

  1. morenita says:
    October 27th, 2008 at 10:27 pm

    “window frames”, nena. El resto correcto.

  2. mina says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 12:56 am

    Ja no una punyetera excursioneta, ni una sessió de gravar música, ni un cine, ni una partida de warhammer…, és que ni una de barquitus. Collonut.

    Me falla un botó de s’abric
    i pòsters en quadricromia anuncien
    uns discos que vaig deixar aquí.
    Davall ses escales i mir ses meves sabates.
    Carrers que davallen i plugen
    amb poca esperança de llunes,
    que els moixos no surtin encara,
    que dormin davall es teu cotxe.

    Un dia de vespre i de son
    que mires i aplegues sa roba,
    que mai no sé on tenc sa porta,
    que no proliferen ses hores,
    que no puc cordar-me s’ abric,
    a un món ple de combinacions,
    combina es meu cel sempre gris
    amb tots es teus portaavions,
    badies de petroliers,
    excuses de mal bevedors.

    Li falta una capa de mel,
    li falta una banda sonora
    a aquesta mirada d’oliva i de gel.
    Un dia de sucre i de son,
    vols ser qui per mi ja no plora,
    vols ser qui me xerri amb sa planta,
    que no puc omplir aquestes hores,
    que no sé planxar es meu abric,
    a un món ple de combinacions
    combina el meu cel sempre gris
    amb tots es teus portaavions,
    badies de petroliers,
    excuses de mal bevedors.

    Tipa de tenir paciència amb creguts convençuts de ser el centre del (meu) món.

  3. morenita says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 1:51 am

    Lo muy curioso es que en su día te recomendara música que parece que no haya escuchado apenas. O procesado, vaya. Iría de guays? Y para qué?
    Qué bueno el disco entero de Arthur. La cara B del single de “Shangri-la” también es muy chula: “This man he weeps tonight”. God save The Kinks, y si quiere tomarse contigo algún cortadito en el futuro, que te demuestre él que tiene más tornillos que una cometa, que tu tiempo también es precioso.

  4. mina says:
    October 28th, 2008 at 11:11 pm

    Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
    Auden. The dyer’s hand

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