26 de julio de 2009

There is a war between Cohen and Sabina

There is a war



There is a war between the rich and poor,
a war between the man and the woman.
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war
and the ones who say there isn't.
Why don't you come on back to the war, that's right, get in it,
why don't you come on back to the war, it's just beginning.

Well I live here with a woman and a child,
the situation makes me kind of nervous.
Yes, I rise up from her arms, she says "I guess you call this love";
I call it service.

Why don't you come on back to the war, don't be a tourist,
why don't you come on back to the war, before it hurts us,
why don't you come on back to the war, let's all get nervous.

You cannot stand what I've become,
you much prefer the gentleman I was before.
I was so easy to defeat, I was so easy to control,
I didn't even know there was a war.

Why don't you come on back to the war, don't be embarrassed,
why don't you come on back to the war, you can still get married.

There is a war between the rich and poor,
a war between the man and the woman.
There is a war between the left and right,
a war between the black and white,
a war between the odd and the even.

Why don't you come on back to the war, pick up your tiny burden,
why don't you come on back to the war, let's all get even,
why don't you come on back to the war, can't you hear me speaking?

Leonard Cohen


Y la totalmente sabiniana versión de Sabina:

En pie de guerra



Están en guerra el hombre y la mujer,
el tonto, el listo, el gordo y el flaco,
el negro, el blanco, el debe y el haber,
Mesalina y el tío del saco.

Están en guerra el mambo y el hip-hop,
el ying, el yang, el pibe y el viejo,
Jeckyll y Hide, monsieur de Sade, Masoc,
Pilatos, la razón y el pellejo.

Ven a la guerra, túmbate de una vez
en mitad de la vía.
Mientras la tierra gire y nade un pez
hay vida todavía.

En guerra están la baba y el carmín,
el duermevela y la pesadilla,
el chevalier y el puercoespín,
la extremaunción y las espinillas.

Están en guerra el cojo y el ciempiés,
los ascensores y el purgatorio,
mañana es víspera del día después
pasado flores en el velorio.

Desde la Conchinchina hasta el Magreb
en Rolls Royce o en camello.
En cada esquina
te hacen páginas web
o te sellan un sello.

Están en guerra el fresco y la calor,
la calma chicha y la marejada
el ten con ten, la dicha, el resquemor
el almacén del todo y la nada.

En pie e guerra el mártir y el desertor,
el tibio y el kamikaze,
puestos a desangrarnos tú contra yo,
¿por qué no hacemos las paces?

Están en guerra la sota y el as,
el espejo y el disimulo,
el hospiciano, el niño de papá,
el Einstein y el tonto del culo.

Yahvé, Mefisto, Buda, Cristo, Alá,
las solteronas y los maridos,
Bin Laden, Ché Guevara, Supermán,
lo que iba a ser, la mierda que ha sido.

Ven a la guerra, túmbate de una vez
en mitad de la via.
Mientras la tierra gire y nade un pez
hay vida todavía.

Desde la Conchinchina hasta el Magreb
en Rolls Royce o en camello.
En cada esquina
te hacen páginas web
o te sellan un sello.

En pie de guerra el mártir y el desertor,
el tibio y el kamikaze,
puestos a desangrarnos tú contra yo,
¿por qué no hacemos las paces?

Joaquín Sabina

2 comentarios:

Anónimo dijo...

Little sister don't you worry about a thing today
Take the heat from the sun
Little sister
I know that everything is not ok
But you're like honey on my tongue

True love never can be rent
But only true love can keep beauty innocent

I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
No I could never take a chance
‘Cos I could never understand
The mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman


You can run from love
And if it's really love it will find you
Catch you by the heel
But you can't be numb for love
The only pain is to feel nothing at all
How can I hurt when I'm holding you?

I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman

And you're the one, there's no-one else
You make me want to lose myself
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman

Brown eyed girl across the street
On rue Saint Divine
I thought this is the one for me
But she was already mine
You were already mine...

Little sister
I've been sleeping in the street again
Like a stray dog
Little sister
I've been trying to feel complete again
But you're gone and so is God

The soul needs beauty for a soul mate
When the soul wants... the soul waits ...

No I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman

For love and faith and sex and fear
And all the things that keep us here
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman

How can I hurt when I'm holding you?

U2, Man and a Woman
...

grankabeza dijo...

Qué quieres que te diga...

Es que no puedo con Bono y su tropa, no puedo con ellos!