HELPLESSNESS BLUES

Fleet Foxes son otro de esos grupos de Seattle que tuvo al principio mas éxito en Europa que en USA, éxito que salió como el de tantas bandas indies de MySpace. Su curioso nombre –que podíamos traducir como “La patrulla de los zorros”-, hace referencia a esa costumbre que tienen los ingleses de ir tras uno de esos animales antes de tomar el té.

“Hipies hasta las trancas”, estos cinco barbudos se muestran tan apasionados por la música coral barroca como por la psicodelia, el folk clásico o el pop californiano. Su éxito internacional tuvo lugar en 2008 con unas canciones que hablaban de cosas tan pocas molonas como los amigos, la familia, o la naturaleza. Entre todas sus canciones destaca 'White Winter Hymnal' ('Himno del invierno blanco') cuya letra elíptica evoca un batallón militar de la Guerra de Independencia Americana, y que ya subí en una ocasión a esta mi sección musical. Espero que os gusten, y si no os gustan, pues a mamarla a Parla... Bezos.

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues:

"I was raised up believing
I was somehow unique
Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes
Unique in each way you can see

And now after some thinking
I'd say I'd rather be
A functioning cog in some great machinery
Serving something beyond me

But I don't, I don't know what that will be
I'll get back to you someday soon you will see

What's my name, what's my station
Oh just tell me what I should do
I don't need to be kind to the armies of night
That would do such injustice to you

Or bow down and be grateful
And say "Sure take all that you see"
To the men who move only in dimly-lit halls
And determine my future for me

And I don't, I don't know who to believe
I'll get back to you someday soon you will see

If I know only one thing
It's that every thing that I see
Of the world outside is so inconceivable
Often I barely can speak

Yeah I'm tongue tied and dizzy
And I can't keep it to myself
What good is it to sing helplessness blues?
Why should I wait for anyone else?

And I know, I know you will keep me on the shelf
I'll come back to you someday soon myself

If I had an orchard
I'd work till I'm raw
If i had an orchard
I'd work till I'm sore

And you would wait tables
And soon run the store

Gold hair in the sunlight
My light in the dawn
If I had an orchard
I'd work till I'm sore

If I had an orchard
I'd work till I'm sore

Someday I'll be
Like the man on the screen".




EN LA RED: www.myspace.com/fleetfoxes