In the mood for Hayes

...y unas horas después vuelvo a casa con una tajadilla interesante, contento tras pasar una velada muy agradable con amigas viejas y recientes con una sensación muy bonita, de que pasan cosas y de que más van a pasar.

Y de fondo Hayes Carll, que me representa, que logra el tono exacto que expresa cómo estoy, quién soy.

Hide me

I'm gonna leave these blues behind
For some other fool to find
He don't care and I don't mind
Hide me, babe, hide me, babe

Hayes Carll

Ternura y mala leche

Me he dado cuenta de que muchos de los cantantes (compositores, en realidad) que más me gustan combinan ternura y sentido del humor. Pueden ser muy distintos en otras cosas pero si tienen eso, en las dosis precisas, es muy probable que me gusten.

Se trata de una forma particular de ternura: es simpatía y comprensión por las limitaciones y las miserias de los seres humanos, que, para evitar que pueda resultar empalagosa, hay que mezclar con la proporción adecuada de mala leche :)

Me pasa con Brassens o Bénabar. También con Kevin Johansen. Y me pasa últimamente con Hayes Carll, con el que me imagino perfectamente tomándome unas cañas y echándome unas risas. El tío es capaz de escribir cosas como Another Like You o She Left Me for Jesus, pero también otras como Long Way Home o esta que repito hoy aquí (Spotify):

Hayes Carll – Willing To Love Again

Y, para más inri, tiene una versión de una de las más grandes canciones de todos los tiempos, lo que hace que me caiga aún mejor.

Y en otro tono completamente distinto, otra canción de ¿amor?...



¡Buenísima!

:-P


You were smoking on a cigarette
Talking about the deficit
Putting all them wild boys down
A-like a drunken Mona Lisa or the Leanin' Tower of Pisa
You were hanging off the edge of town
I overheard Afghanistan is safer than a minivan
Left me wonderin' what I should do
Ah, you're like a four leaf clover
I just had to come on over
I've never seen a woman like you

You was falling like the Alamo
Drinking fast and talking slow
Looking like it's time to go home
Were you hitting on the stripper cause you can't afford to tip her
Or just afraid of being alone
You was openly frustrated
You said Dylan's over rated
For singing Tangled Up In Blue
I don't know what I was thinking I could feel my heart a-sinking
I have never seen a fellow like you

Ain't that the way we do it's true we fall for the first one
How come it always ends up the worst one?

Well you're probably a Democrat,
What the hell is wrong with that?
Nothing if you're Taliban
I see, well, I bet you slept with half the south
Don't you ever shut your mouth?
How much did you pay for that tan?
More than you paid for them boots
Oh, shouldn't you be purging?
You're probably still a virgin
I can't believe you're not on The View
Have to have another round, it's looking like we're trouble bound
I have never seen another like you

Ain't that the way we do it's true you take the breath from me
It seems like you are bound to be the death of me

Oh, well, a couple hours later, we were in the elevator
A-making out like Bonnie and Clyde
We were dizzy from the love we found
Throwin' up and goin' down
Lord it's been a hell of a ride
I'm having trouble breathing
Well I probably should be leaving
You know I'm up in room 402
Well I gotta hand it to you
There's a chance I'm gonna screw you
I have never seen another like you
I don't know if it's forever
But I'm glad that we're together
I have never seen another like you.

Hayes Carll

Girl Downtown

[...]

Billy walked inside, ordered up a drink
He started gettin' nervous and a wonderin' what she'd think
She thought he looked nice, rough around the seams
Just the kind of boy who could listen to her dreams

[...]


Hayes Carll

Me encanta el tono de esta canción, su ternura. Suponía que era una historia inventada, pero acabo de enterarme, al encontrar este vídeo, que Carll la escribió para "dos de sus personas favoritas".

:)

Long way home

Esta canción de Hayes Carll es de esas que me descubro silbando una y otra vez (a veces, incluso, sin al principio qué es lo que estoy silbando, o de quién).

El sonido no es muy bueno, pero no he encontrado nada mejor en Youtube (aquí está en Spotify):



Ramblin' boy you been around
From Dallas to the underground
High above and down below
Places I was scared to go

You sang it loud in case they heard
Hangin' on to every word
Gentle as a lullaby
Firecrackers in your eyes

And I would give anything
For one more night to run
For one last song to sing

You weren't askin' much at all
Just catch you when you fall
On your own, the long way home


What's that sadness in your smile
You've been cryin' all the while
Could you lean upon my shoulder
I guess you'd die to just get older

So what are we supposed to do
Just walk around forever blue
And all this hurry up and wait
Was it chance or was it fate?

And I would give anything
For one more night to run
For one last song to sing

You weren't askin' much at all
Just catch you when you fall
On your own, the long way home

Hayes Carll

Por cierto, gracias a Youtube caigo en que es el mismo título que el de una canción de Tom Waits (aquí en Spotify) que canta Norah Jones:

...I'm hard to tell
and soft to touch
and easy at saying goodbye...

Hayes Carll, Willing To Love Again (Spotify)

It's a shame

The time has come, there is no second chance
We’ve been drifting on an empty aching sea
You were the girl I never knew I wanted
I was the boy you hoped you’d never see

Chorus:
And it’s a shame
That we ain’t lovers
We could’ve been something, so big and grand
Just kissin’ for hours
Underneath that sweet magnolia
Beggin’ for answers, tryin’ to make a stand

Been burnin’ up the hours, talkin’ to the midnight
Just dreaming of ways I could hold you next to me
But maybe it just wasn’t meant, all things have a reason
Maybe our hearts were just too careless and free

Repeat chorus

There was a time, when you would have had me
There was a time, I could have had you
But it’s too late, another path has come and gone again
I’m at the back door with a broken window view thinkin’

Repeat chorus

I’m so tired of writin’, but I can’t put down my pen
It’s too late now to talk or turn back
So just hold on, ‘cause baby here we go again
Headin’ the wrong way down that one way track

Repeat chorus

Hayes Carll

Willing to love again

I drink too much and I smoke too much
I laugh at all my own jokes too much
I'm hard to tell and soft to touch
And easy at sayin' goodbye

I broke your heart a thousand times
With wasted nights and ramblin' rhymes
I thought I'd leave your thought behind
But time just wouldn't let go

Chorus:

I walk the streets, I kick the cans
Tore down walls with my two hands
And still, across my floor you stand
Willing to love again

Solo

Out of all the dreams in this whole world
How’d you get so unlucky girl
To find a shell that had no pearl
And a man who couldn't find home

I feel too much, I protect too much
And most times I probably expect too much
I spend my life on this broken crutch
And you believe I can fly

Repeat chorus

And still, across my floor you stand
Willing to love again

Hayes Carll