Scorpions - Born to Touch Your Feelings

Depois de mais uma parada, por motivos pessoais, estou de volta com um vídeo que traz uma das mais belas canções que tive o prazer de ouvir, diga-se de passagem de uma banda cujos hinos sempre respeitei e venerei, mas imperdoavelmente não conhecia esta obra de arte.
Born to Touch Your Feelings desperta uma mistura de setimentos, que variam com o decorrer de sua melodia, alternando tristeza e renascimento, melancolia e explosão. Ela me lembra bastante a famosíssima Nothing Else Mathers, do Metallica (inclusive eu acho que o Metallica a tomou como base), porém eu arrisco dizer que ela encanta bem mais, até porque poucos sabem encaixar sua doce voz, em meio aos solos e riffs estoneantes de Ulrich Roth e Rudolf Schenker, respectivamente, como Klaus Meine.
A canção se encontra no quinto disco do Scorpions, o Taken by Force, de 1977.

I was born from the sound of the strings
For someone to give everything
To be a song just for your feeling

Close your eyes and I'll try to get in
To waken your heart like the sping
'Cause I was born to touch your feelings

Steal the time, take a song and be glad
Be free as the birds, don't be sad
Your time will come, I'll make you feel it
You're still young like the sun after rain
Follow the light it's not in vain
And you will see I'll touch your feelings

You've got your songs
They are everyday for awhile
Just the only way to feel all right
You've got your songs
They are everyday for awhile
Just the only way to feel all right

You were born just to lose or to win
To be someone's chime in the wind
To live between your mind and feelings
Find your way, check it out
Learn each day
Follow the light, it's not in vain
And you will see I'll touch your feelings

You've got your songs
They are everyday for awhile
Just the only way to feel all right
You've got your songs
They are everyday for awhile
Just the only way to feel all right

I was born from the sound of the strings
For someone to give everything
To be a song just for your feeling
I was born from the sound of the strings
For someone to give everything
To be a song just for your feeling

The Shins - New Slang

Depois de um bom tempo parado, quase que deixando o blog entregue às traças, resolvi voltar a postar, pois estou entrando no período de férias.
Hoje prestei atenção nessa canção dos Shins, essa maravilhosa banda americana e não pude acreditar que nunca tinha postado-a por aqui. É lindíssima, triste e me lembra algumas coisas muito antigas, referentes ao Velho Oeste, só não sei explicar exatamente o que seja.
Ela está no primeiro álbum de carreira da banda, o Oh, Inverted World, de 2001.

Gold teeth and a curse for this tow were all in my mouth
Only, I don't know how they got out, dear
Turn me back into the pet that I was when we met
I was happier then with no mind-set

And if you took to me
Like a gull takes to the wind,
Well, I'd've jumped from my tree
And I'd've danced like the king of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would've fared well

New slang when you notice the stripes,
The dirt in your fries
Hope it's right when you die, old and bony
Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall
Never should have called
But my head's to the wall and I'm lonely

And if you took to me
Like a gull takes to the wind,
Well, I'd've jumped from my tree
And I'd've danced like the king of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would've fared well

God speed all the bakers at dawn
May they all cut their thumbs
And bleed into their buns 'till they melt away

I'm looking in on the good life
I might be doomed never to find.
Without a trust or flaming fields,
Am I too dumb to refine?

And if you took to me like -
Well, I'd've a danced like the queen of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would've fared well