Hugo Torres July 21st, 2008
O concerto dos Riders On The Storm (a.k.a. The 21st Century Doors), em Vila Nova de Gaia, teve uma particularidade: um pequeno comentário político pró-Obama de Ray Manzarek, que, contente pelo fim próximo do actual mandato presidencial norte-americano, assegurava que os grandes problemas de W. Bush e de Dick Cheney são, respectivamente, nunca ter fumado erva e nunca ter tomado LSD. E dedicou-lhes Five to one (Waiting For The Sun, 1968). A Wikipedia dá-nos uma ajuda para explicar o escrito de Morrison: «Five to one is rumored to be the approximate ratio of whites to blacks, young to old, or non-pot smokers to pot smokers in the US in 1967, depending on whom you ask. A further urban legend has it as the ratio of Viet Cong to American troops in Vietnam. Jim Morrison said the lyrics were not political, which means it’s maybe about russian rullet, a game.» O negrito é nosso: é essa a hipótese comummente aceite.
Yeah, c’mon.
Love my girl.
She lookin’ good.
C’mon.
One more.
Five to one, baby, one in five,
No one here gets out alive now.
You’ll get yours, baby, I’ll get mine,
Gonna make it, baby, if we try.
The old get old and the young get stronger,
May take a week and it may take longer,
They got the guns but we got the numbers,
Gonna win, yeah, we’re takin’ over, come on!
Wow!
Your ballroom days are over, baby.
Night is drawing near,
Shadows of the evening
Crawl across the years.
You walk across the floor with a flower in your hand,
Trying to tell me no one understands,
Trade in your hours for a handful dimes.
Gonna make it, baby, in our prime.
Got together one more time,
Get together one more time,
Get together one more time,
Get together, (one more time).
Get together one more time!
Get together one more time!
Get together one more time!
Get together one more time!
Get together, gotta get together
Gotta get together, gotta…
Na na, na na na na na…
A-a-aargh, whoah!
Hey, come on, honey,
You’ve goin’ along home and wait for me, baby.
I’ll be there in just a little while,
You see, I gotta go out in this car with these people
And get fucked up.
Get together one more time!
Get together one more time!
Get together, gotta…
Get together, gotta…
Get together, gotta…
Take me up in the mountains and…
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
Love my girl,
She’s lookin’ good,
Lookin’ real beautiful.
Love ya, c’mon!
Feel!
Hey!
Come on!
Wow!
DOORS, The (1968), Waiting For The Sun. Nova Iorque: Elektra Records.
Tags: Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Elektra, George W. Bush, Riders On The Storm, The Doors