"Say hello and wave goodbye"

Amo a este tio, ok, no literlamnte, pero es un puto genio.

Lo se, tan solo es un cantautor, sin embargo, es el cantautor que cambió mi universo. Si miramos mi listado de grupos favoritos, o de canciones favoritas, es dificil encontrarlo, sin embrago, en esta vida todo tiene su comienzo y su final, pero sobretodo un momento de ruptura, ese crack que se produce cuando, sin saberlo, algo ha cambiado.

Para mí, ese crack no fue The Cure, no fueron Coldplay, ni siquiera U2. Mi crack se produjo una tarde mientras aún dibuijaba planos en mi primer trabajo, y en lugar de Mp3, tenia una vieja radio donde Don Rafael Escalada, me hacia pasar una gran tarde con sus "conservas escalada". Esa tarde, puso una cación, quizas ya la hubiera escuchado otro día, quizás no estuviera demasiado atento. Pero algo sucedio, un click empezo a anteceder a otro click, que dejaba paso a otro, para finalmete dejar escapar la bomba que me hizo cambiar mi universo musical.

La canción fue "Babylon", y aun recuerdo ese comentario comparando a David Gray con Sabina, Aute o "the boss".

Tras escucharlo, lo descarte, no conseguia sentir nada, no lograba entenderlo. Pero tiempo después, volví a escucharlo, preste atención, me sente y deje todo para saborearlo, descargue las letras, traducía, inetentaba comprender, y entonces... crack.


Depués de un tiempo saborenado el disco "White Ladder" me quede con varias canciones, pero rebuscando, encontre esto:

David Gray - Say hello, wave goodbye

[via FoxyTunes / David Gray]

Os recomiendo que leais la letra...



Standing at the door of the pink flamingo
Crying in the rain
It was a kind of so so love,
And Im gonna make sure it doesnt happen again.

You and I had to be the standing joke of the year.
You were a run around,
A lost and found.
And not for me I feel.

Take your hands off me, please
I dont belong to you, you see.

Take a look in my face, for the last time.
I never knew you., you never knew me.
Say hello, goodbye.

Say hello and wave goodbye.

We tried to make it work, you in a cocktail skirt.
And me in a suit, and it just wasnt me.
Youre used to wearing less, and now your lifes a mess.
So insecure you seem.

I put up with all the scenes,
This is one scene,
Thats goin to be played my way

Take your hands off me, please
I dont belong to you, you see.

Take a look in my face, for the last time.
I never knew you., you never knew me.
Say hello, goodbye.

Say hello and wave goodbye.
Say hello and wave goodbye.

Under the deep red light,
I can see the make up slidding down.
Well hey little girl, you will will always make up
So take off that unbecoming frown.

As for me well, Ill find some one
Whos not going cheap in the sales.
A nice little house wife, wholl give me a steady life.
And not keep going off the rails.

Take your hands off me, please
I dont belong to you, you see.

Take a look in my face, for the last time.
I never knew you., you never knew me.
Say hello, goodbye.

Say hello and wave goodbye.
Say hello and wave goodbye.
Say hello and wave goodbye.
Wave goodbye.
Say hello and wave goodbye.
Say hello, wave goodbye.
Goodbye.
Say goodbye.
Say goodbye.

We were born before the wind.
Who were we to understand.
We were born before the wind
Say goodbye.

Through the rain, hail, sleet and snow,
Say good bye.
And Im trying, trying, trying
To say goodbye.
Say goodbye.
Say goodbye.
Say goodbye.

In the wind and the rain my darling.

Say goodbye.

In the wind and the rain my darling...






Es curioso que la canción que siempre recuerdo de él, no es suya...

Segun creo es de "Soft cell"






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