Llevaba yo en este mundo un poco mas de un año el dia que salio el disco Remain in Light de los Talking Heads. 18 años después la primera vez que escuche este disco y específicamente esta canción tengo que admitir que mis gustos musicales, que ya andaban en época de expansión, se expandieron aun mas.
Ya mis odios habían experimentado con el rock y con la electrónica, pero admito que al oír esta canción la cabeza me voló en cantos al escuchar como los Talking Heads lograban jugar con su sonido rockero y jugar con tanta textura electrónica y crear ese “loop” interminable pegajoso, bailable e impresionante. Ni hablar de los juegos de palabra y significado y la magistral manera de crear todo un pasaje sonoro para enmarcar la letra de la canción.
Después de escuchar esta canción mi percepción de la "música de los 80" como una desechable y vaciá cambio, me di la oportunidad de escuchar a los que siguieron bajo la influencia de Talking Heads y luego investigando sobre las influencias de Byrne y compañía descubrí a los esenciales Os Mutantes de Brasil. Por ese ultimo descubrimiento le debo mucho a las cabezas parlantes.
Aquí les dejo la letra de la canción junto con dos videos de la misma (uno de ellos extraido de la pelicula Stop Making Sense que filmara Jonathan Demme.)And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful
wife
And you may ask yourself-Well...How did I get here?
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Water dissolving...and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Carry the water at the bottom of the ocean
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
And you may ask yourself
What is that beautiful house?
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right?...Am I wrong?
And you may tell yourself
MY GOD!...WHAT HAVE I DONE?
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/in the silent water
Under the rocks and stones/there is water underground.
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
