Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots

here we go to another candle I know

all the girls there playin' on a jelly roll

time to take a ride - time to take it in a midnite eye

and if you wanna go - get on below

pinking out the day - dreaming out the crazy way

finger on the love - it's all above

everywhere it's six-sex-six by luck

a satellite wish will make it just enough

you'll be making out with a witch in a coffee truck

time to rock the road - and tell the story of the jelly rollin'

dirty boots are on - hi di ho

pinking out the black - dreaming in a crack

Satan got her tongue - now it's undone

I got some dirty boots - yeah dirty boots

I got some dirty boots - baby

dirty boots

hey

Amigo Aprendiz

Quero ser o teu amigo. Nem demais e nem de menos.
Nem tão longe e nem tão perto.
Na medida mais precisa que eu puder.
Mas amar-te sem medida e ficar na tua vida,
Da maneira mais discreta que eu souber.
Sem tirar-te a liberdade, sem jamais te sufocar.
Sem forçar tua vontade.
Sem falar, quando for hora de calar.
E sem calar, quando for hora de falar.
Nem ausente, nem presente por demais.
Simplesmente, calmamente, ser-te paz.
É bonito ser amigo, mas confesso é tão difícil aprender!
E por isso eu te suplico paciência.
Vou encher este teu rosto de lembranças,
Dá-me tempo, de acertar nossas distâncias...

Fernando Pessoa

Sonic Youth - Mary Christ

Talking to a punker priest
Just dogging the breeze
About beein in a tree / he says it's free now!
Along comes Mary Christ
Skating light on ice
And says, 'let's go on high' / later, priestoid!
You gotta go - God I got a date now
Yeh I know - shall not be late now

Possessed by x-ray eyes
Her spirit spy's
Into my lies / let's burn 'em out now!
Wraps my head in skin
Says now I'm in
Dig the candy skin / yeh spit it out now!
Everytime - she sings that low song
Everytime - I know I'm right, wrong

Angel in a devil skirt
Buys me a shirt
Says I hope you like / uh, like what now!?
Hope I hope you like
Like you like yr hope
With the tightest rope / I see, I know now!
Here we go - I've been waitin so long
Yeh I know - for Mary to come along
Aaaooooiii

Os Olhos

"Os olhos são os intérpretes do coração, mas só os interessados entendem essa linguagem."

 Pascal , Blaise

Sonic Youth - Tunic (Song for Karen)

Dreaming, dreaming of a girl like me

Hey what are you waiting for - feeding, feeding me

I feel like I'm disappearing - getting smaller every day

But I look in the mirror - I'm bigger in every way

She said:

You aren't never going anywhere

You aren't never going anywhere

I ain't never going anywhere

I ain't never going anywhere

I'm in heaven now - I can see you Richard

Goodbye Hollywood, goodbye downey - hello Janis

Hello Dennis, Elvis - and all my brand new friends

I'm so glad you're all here with me, until the very end

Dreaming, dreaming of how it's supposed to be

But now this tunic's spinning - around my arms and knees

I feel like I'm disappearing - getting smaller every day

But when I open my mouth to sing - I'm bigger in every way

She said:

You aren't never going anywhere

You aren't never going anywhere

I ain't never going anywhere

I ain't never going anywhere

Hey mom! look I'm up here - I finally made it

I'm playing the drums again too

Don't be sad - the band doesn't sound half bad

And I remember mom, what you said

You said honey - you look so under-fed

Another green salad, another ice tea

There's a tunic in the closet waiting just for me

I feel like I'm disappearing - getting smaller every day

But I look in your eyes - and I'm bigger in every way

She said:

You aren't never going anywhere

You aren't never going anywhere

I ain't never going anywhere

I ain't never going anywhere

Goodbye Richard - gotta go now

I'm finally on my own - but Dan's got a gig

Keep the love lights glowing - little girl's got the blues

I can still hear momma say: "honey don't let it go to your head"

DICE MÍA

Mi pobre alma pálida

era una crisálida.

Luego, mariposa

de color de rosa.

Un céfiro inquieto

dijo mi secreto...

—¿Has sabido tu secreto un día?

¡Oh Mía!

Tu secreto es una

melodía de un rayo de luna...

—¿Una melodía?

Rubén Darío

Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt

Met a stranger on a train
He bumped right into me
I swear I didn't mean it
I swear it wasn't meant to be
Must a been a dream
From a thousand years ago
I swear I didn't mean it
I swear it wasn't meant to be
From the bottom of my heart
He was looking all over me
Together everafter
He said
"You take me & I'll be you"
"You kill him & I'll kill her"
Kiss me
I swear it wasn't meant to be
I swear I didn't mean it
Kiss me
Kiss me in the shadow of
Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
Kiss me
Kiss me in the shadow
Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
It's just a dream
It's just a dream i had
Nononoooooh
Swear it's just a dream
Just a dream
Dream I've had
No
No
No
No
Take me to it
Take me to her
Maybe
Maybe it's just a dream
It's a dream
It's just a
Just a
No

Met a stranger on a train
Bumped right into me
Swear I didn't mean it
Swear it wasn't meant to be
Must've been a dream
From a thousand years ago
Kiss me
Kiss me in the shadow of a doubt
Kiss me

Companhia

"É estupidez entristecermo-nos pela perda de uma companhia: podíamos nunca ter encontrado essa pessoa, portanto, podemos dispensá-la."

Cesare Pavese

Sonic Youth - Kool Thing

kool thing you're sitting with a kitty
now you know you sure look pretty
like a lover not a dancer
super boy take a little chance here

I don't wanna
I don't think so
I don't wanna
I don't think so

kool thing let me play with your radio
move me turn me on baby oh
I'll be your slave
give you a shave

I don't wanna
I don't think so
I don't wanna
I don't think so

(yeah)
(tell'em 'bout)
(hear the way we hear this)
hey kool thing
come here
sit down beside me
there's something i gotta ask you
I just wanna know
what're you gonna do for me
I mean
are you gonna liberate us girls from male white corporate oppression?
(tell it like it is)
huh?
(yeah)
don't be shy
(word up)
fear of a female planet
(fear of a female planet)
(fear baby)
I just want you to know
that we can still be friends
(let everybody know)
((koolkoolkoolkoolkool))

kool (kool)
thing
kool (kool)
thing
when you're a star
I know that you'll fix everything (everything (everything))

kool thing sitting with a kitty
now you know you sure look pretty
rock me just a little faster
now I know you are the master

I don't wanna
I don't think so
I don't wanna
I don't think so

kool thing walking like a panther
come on and give me an answer
kool thing walking like a panther

what'd he say?

I don't wanna
I don't think so
I don't wanna
I don't think so

Grey Sparrow Addresses the Mind's Ear

"In the Japanese tongue of the mind's eye one two syllable word tells of the fringe of rain clinging to the eaves and of the grey-green fronds of wild parsley."

Yo no tengo soledad

Es la noche desamparo

de las sierras hasta el mar.

Pero yo, la que te mece,

¡yo no tengo soledad!

Es el cielo desamparo

si la Luna cae al mar.

Pero yo, la que te estrecha,

¡yo no tengo soledad!

Es el mundo desamparo

y la carne triste va.

Pero yo, la que te oprime,

¡yo no tengo soledad!

Sonic Youth - Stones

Lights on the stones on backed-up drain

What lovers list on languid stain

We've come together to gather star

Shooting up stones a pallored heart

Dead or alive

There's danger

The dead are alright

With me

We're not gonna run away

We're not gonna leave you stranger

We turn the light on your lonely home

Camera on the haunted stones

Blood-shadow gentle painted scorn

Now it's dancin' ink across your skin

Hieroglyphic-lover nature-friend

The dead are alive

There's danger

The dead are alright

With me

We're not gonna run away

We're not gonna leave you stranger

We turn the light on your lonely home

O Mundo Antigo - Egipto (Parte XI e X) - Fim

Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster

I want you to levitate me
Don't you love me yet?
Press up against the amp
Turn up the treble, don't forget

Getting dizzy, sitting around
Sacred trickster in another tight sound

I wish I could be music on a tree
Noise Nomads and me
Levitating on the ground

What's it like to be a girl in a band?
I don't quite understand

That's so quaint to hear
I feel so faint my dear

Doing nothing, sitting around
Sacred trickster in another tight sound

I wish I could be music on a tree
Noise Nomads and me
Levitating, spinning around

The Cult - Rain

Hot sticky scenes you know what I mean
Hot sticky scenes, you know what I mean
Like a desert sun that burns my skin
Like a desert sun that burns my skin
I’ve been waiting for her so long
I’ve been waiting for her for so long
Open the sky (and let her come down)
Open the sky and let her come down
Here comes the rain I love the rain

Here she comes again
Here comes the rain
Rain
Here comes the rain
Rain
Here she comes again
Rain
Here comes the rain

Hot sticky scenes, you know what I mean
Like a desert sun that burns my skin
I’ve been waiting for her for so long
Open the sky and let her come down

Here comes the rain
Here comes the rain
Here she comes again
Here comes the rain
I love the rain
I love the rain
Here she comes again
Here comes the rain

Oh, rain
Rain
Rain
Oh, here comes the rain

I love the rain
Well, I love the rain
Here she comes again
I love the rain

Rain
Rain

Não Quero Mais que o Dado

Do que quero renego, se o querê-lo

Me pesa na vontade. Nada que haja

Vale que lhe concedamos

Uma atenção que doa.

Meu balde exponho à chuva, por ter água.

Minha vontade, assim, ao mundo exponho,

Recebo o que me é dado,

E o que falta não quero.

O que me é dado quero

Depois de dado, grato.

Nem quero mais que o dado

Ou que o tido desejo.

Ricardo Reis, in "Odes"

Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire

Como se Pensa

"É preciso viver como se pensa, caso contrário acabar-se-á por pensar como se tem vivido."

P. Bourget

The Doors - Break on Through

You know the day destroys the night

Night divides the day

Tried to run

Tried to hide

Break on through to the other side

Break on through to the other side

Break on through to the other side, yeah

We chased our pleasures here

Dug our treasures there

But can you still recall

The time we cried

Break on through to the other side

Break on through to the other side

Yeah!

C'mon, yeah

Everybody loves my baby

Everybody loves my baby

She get(s high)

She get(s high)

She get(s high)

She get(s high)

I found an island in your arms

Country in your eyes

Arms that chain

Eyes that lie

Break on through to the other side

Break on through to the other side

Break on through, oww!

Oh, yeah!

Made the scene

Week to week

Day to day

Hour to hour

The gate is straight

Deep and wide

Break on through to the other side

Break on through to the other side

Break on through

Break on through

Break on through

Break on through

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I Believe

"I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”

Jim Morrison

Héroes del Silencio - Babel

Alguien jodió las calles
con prohibiciones de higiene mental
quién separó los colores
fabricó las casillas que has de ocupar.

Babel dividió el planeta,
encerró en sus mazmorras
el nervio del sur.
aquel que cerró las puertas
levantando muros que no saltes tú.

Alguien tomó en sus manos
las manos de todos,
confirmó su ley
¿quién enseñó la doctrina,
sabiduría que no nos quita la sed?

Babel plantó banderas,
cantó los himnos en distintas lenguas
aquel que nos da el tabaco
y vino agrio que nos entretenga.

Babel olvidó que el hombre es el lobo
del hombre que le va a devorar
y ya no espero otra cosa,
que te vayas con otra para no regresar.

BABEL

Dulce hogar sin estilo, fabricado

de un solo golpe y de una sola pieza

de cera tornasol. Y en el hogar

ella daña y arregla; a veces dice:

"El hospicio es bonito; aquí no más!"

¡Y otras veces se pone a llorar!

César Vallejo

Kings Of Leon - Closer

Aos que a Felicidade é Sol, Virá a Noite

Quero ignorado, e calmo

Por ignorado, e próprio

Por calmo, encher meus dias

De não querer mais deles.

Aos que a riqueza toca

O ouro irrita a pele.

Aos que a fama bafeja

Embacia-se a vida.

Aos que a felicidade

É sol, virá a noite.

Mas ao que nada 'spera

Tudo que vem é grato.

Ricardo Reis in "Odes"

Heroes del silencio - Malas Intenciones

Cuando me paro a contemplar

Cuando me paro a contemplar mi estado

y a ver los pasos por dó me ha traído,

hallo, según por do anduve perdido,

que a mayor mal pudiera haber llegado;

mas cuando del camino estoy olvidado,

a tanto mal no sé por dó he venido:

sé que me acabo, y mas he yo sentido

ver acabar conmigo mi cuidado.

Yo acabaré, que me entregué sin arte

a quien sabrá perderme y acabarme,

si quisiere, y aun sabrá querello:

que pues mi voluntad puede matarme,

la suya, que no es tanto de mi parte,

pudiendo, ¿qué hará sino hacello?

Garcilaso de la Vega

O Mundo Antigo - Egipto (Parte VI Ie VIII)

Art of Noise - Camilla

A Strange Flower

a strange flower

for birds and butterflies

the autumn sky

Matsuo Basho

Não digas nada!

Não digas nada!
Nem mesmo a verdade
Há tanta suavidade em nada se dizer
E tudo se entender —
Tudo metade
De sentir e de ver...
Não digas nada
Deixa esquecer

Talvez que amanhã
Em outra paisagem
Digas que foi vã
Toda essa viagem
Até onde quis
Ser quem me agrada...
Mas ali fui feliz
Não digas nada.

Fernando Pessoa in "Cancioneiro"

Gears of War 3 - "Ashes to Ashes"

Viver Ontem

"É já tarde começar a viver hoje: o sábio começou ontem."

Marcial [Roma Antiga (40-104)]

The Doors - Riders on the Storm

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out alone
Riders on the storm

There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin' like a toad
Take a long holiday
Let your children play
If ya give this man a ride
Sweet memory will die
Killer on the road, yeah

Girl ya gotta love your man
Girl ya gotta love your man
Take him by the hand
Make him understand
The world on you depends
Our life will never end
Gotta love your man, yeah

Wow!

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out alone
Riders on the storm

Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm

The World

"The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game.

Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game."

Jim Morrison

Depeche Mode - Master and Servant

It's a lot
It's a lot
Like life
There's a new game
We like to play you see
A game with added reality
You treat me like a dog
Get me down on my knees
We call it master and servant
We call it master and servant
It's a lot like life
This play between the sheets
With you on top and me underneath
Forget all about equality
Let's play master and servant
Let's play master and servant
It's a lot like life
And thats what's appealing
If you despise that throwaway feeling
From disposable fun
Then this is the one
Domination's the name of the game
In bed or in life
They're both just the same
Except in one you're fulfilled
At the end of the day
Let's play master and servant
Let's play master and servant
Let's play master and servant
Come on master and servant.

Cruzo el mundo sin pensar

Saeta que voladora

cruza, arrojada al azar,

y que no se sabe dónde

temblando se clavará;

hoja que del árbol seca

arrebata el vendaval,

sin que nadie acierte el surco

donde al polvo volverá;

gigante ola que el viento

riza y empuja en el mar,

y rueda y pasa, y se ignora

qué playa buscando va;

luz que en cercos temblorosos

brilla, próxima a expirar,

y que no se sabe de ellos

cuál el último será;

eso soy yo, que al acaso

cruzo el mundo sin pensar

de dónde vengo ni a dónde

mis pasos me llevarán.

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

For Chaos !!!

Espírito

"Descobrem-se maneiras de curar a loucura, mas não se encontra nenhuma para endireitar um espírito louco."

La Rochefoucauld , François  

O Mundo Antigo - Egipto (Parte V e VI)

R.I.O. - Shine One

Open up ya eyes and watch the sunrise
One part of me I've been made clear
Love that goes spread all the world
My love ya comes out of devotion
To rull ya spread to the world
In strange town I'm on my mission
Where we praise the day straight our way
All the nation

Let me be the love that comes form the sun
Let me be your rainbow rising on
Every single rase out of space
Will Shine on, shine on!

Let me be the love that comes form the sun
I wanna be your love light from above
Shine on, shine on, shine on!

My love ya comes out of devotion
To rull ya spread to the world
In strange town I'm on my mission
Where we praise the day straight our way
All the nation

Let me be the love that comes form the sun
Let me be your rainbow rising on
Every single rase out of space
Will Shine on, shine on!

Let me be the love that comes form the sun
I wanna be your love light from above
Shine on, shine on, shïne on!

Nada Nos Falta, porque Nada Somos

Ao longe os montes têm neve ao sol,
Mas é suave já o frio calmo
Que alisa e agudece
Os dardos do sol alto.

Hoje, Neera, não nos escondamos,
Nada nos falta, porque nada somos.
Não esperamos nada
E temos frio ao sol.

Mas tal como é, gozemos o momento,
Solenes na alegria levemente,
E aguardando a morte
Como quem a conhece.

Ricardo Reis in "Odes"

The Doors - Touch Me

Yeah! Come on, come on, come on, come on
Now touch me, baby
Can't you see that I am not afraid?
What was that promise that you made?
Why won't you tell me what she said?
What was that promise that you made?

Now, I'm gonna love you
Till the heavens stop the rain
I'm gonna love you
Till the stars fall from the sky for you and I

Come on, come on, come on, come on
Now touch me, baby
Can't you see that I am not afraid?
What was that promise that you made?
Why won't you tell me what she said?
What was that promise that you made?

I'm gonna love you
Till the heavens stop the rain
I'm gonna love you
Till the stars fall from the sky for you and I
I'm gonna love you
Till the heavens stop the rain
I'm gonna love you
Till the stars fall from the sky for you and I

Stronger than dirt

Senses

“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”

Jim Morrison

Chico Buarque - Valsinha

A Minha Hora

Que horas são? O meu relógio está parado,
Há quanto tempo!...
Que pena o meu relógio estar parado
E eu não poder marcar esta hora extraordinária!
Hora em que o sonho ascende, lento, muito lento,
Hora som de violino a expirar... Hora vária,
Hora sombra alongada de convento...
Hora feita de nostalgia

Dos degredados...
Hora dos abandonados
E dos que o tédio abate sem cessar...
Hora dos que nunca tiveram alegria,
Hora dos que cismam noite e dia,
Hora dos que morrem sem amar...

Hora em que os doentes de corpo e alma,
Pedem ao Senhor para os sarar...
Hora de febre e de calma,
Hora em que morre o sol e nasce o luar...
Hora em que os pinheiros pela encosta acima,
São monges a rezar...

Hora irmã da caridade
Que dá remédio aos que o não têm...
Hora saudade...
Hora dos Pedro Sem...
Hora dos que choram por não ter vivido,
Hora dos que vivem a chorar alguém...

Hora dos que têm um sonho águia mas... ai!
Águia sem asas para voar...
Hora dos que não têm mãe nem pai
E dos que não têm um berço p'ra embalar...
Hora dos que passam por este mundo,
De olhos fechados, a sonhar...

Hora de sonhos... A minha hora
- 'Stertor's de sol, vagidos de luar -
Mas... ai! a lua lá vem agora...
- Senhora lua, minha senhora,
Mais um minuto para a minha hora,
Mais um minuto para sonhar...


Saúl Dia in "Dispersos (Primeiros Poemas)"

Manowar - Die With Honor

If I Should Return
With My Body On My Shield
Tell My Son I Chose To Die Than Yield
Though My Life May Soon Be Gone
I Hope You'll Carry On
Remember Me As One Who Would Not Kneel

Fight With Blood
Fight With Steel
Die With Honor
Never Yield
Fearless Hearts
Filled With Pride
Into Glory We Shall Ride
Into Glory We Shall Ride

I am Driven On In The Face Of All Despair
Trust In Steel You Will Find Me There
A Sinner's Fate Awaits Me
But My Vision Guides Me On
I Will Not Stray
From The Path I'm Set Upon

I'll Fight With Blood
Fight With Steel
Die With Honor
Never Yield
Fearless Hearts
Filled With Pride
Into Glory We Shall Ride
Into Glory We Shall Ride

If I Do Not Return
Bring My Body On My Shield
Tell My Son I Chose To Die
I Chose To Die Than Yield

Fight With Blood
Fight With Steel
Die With Honor
Never Yield
Fearless Hearts
Filled With Pride
Into Glory We Shall Ride

Fight With Blood
Fight With Steel
Die With Honor
Never Yield
Fearless Hearts
Filled With Pride
Into Glory We Shall Ride

Fight With Blood
Fight With Steel
Die With Honor
Never Yield
Fearless Hearts
Filled With Pride
Into Glory We Shall Ride
I'll Die Fighting With My Brothers Side By Side

Ode

We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.

We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (1844 - 1881)

Os Resentidos - Galiza Canibal

En el Orden que prefiera

A veces empiezan bien mis sueños, y entonces

pueden llegar a ser playas de África

o improbable pasajes de avión hacia el deseo.

A veces empiezan bien mis sueños, a veces me recuerdan

lugares que no he visto y en los que fuimos tan felices,

lugares anónimos, antiguas cartas, aventuradas huidas

y si hay suerte pueden llegar a ser incluso

unas cuerdas vocales que afinan su voz

entre unas piernas.

Porque a veces empiezan bien mis sueños.

Pero otras se despistan, por lo común se cansan y así

suelen acabar teniendo el mismo rostro

que la casa Batlló, pues ociosos y torpes se recuestan

en demasiados bares, en demasiadas tardes,

estúpidamente llenos de Rambla Cataluña y Paseo de Gracia,

hasta batiendo palmas los benditos

mientras ni pueden evitar que de las gabardinas

del fracaso y del alcohol les crezcan

abatidos pájaros

que vagamente me recuerdan

a la hirsuta soledad

de la que no he conseguido salir nunca.

Quizá en esta tierra el hombre sólo puede amarse y detestarse,

amarse y detestarse, sucesivamente, en el orden que prefiera.

Pero esta materia da apenas para un cuento,

y además creo que ya Borges —un fastidio—

escribió mejor de todo esto.

Santiago Montobbio

Il Divo - Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

T'was Grace that taught my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear
The hour I first believed.

Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come;
'Tis Grace that brought me safe thus far
and Grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promised good to me.
His word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be,
As long as life endures.

Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.

When we've been here ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun.
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we've first begun.

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

John Newton (1725-1807)

The Four Angels

As Adam lay a-dreaming beneath the Apple Tree

The Angel of the Earth came down, and offered Earth in fee;

But Adam did not need it,

Nor the plough he would not speed it,

Singing: --"Earth and Water, Air and Fire,

What more can mortal man desire?"

(The Apple Tree's in bud)

As Adam lay a-dreaming beneath the Apple Tree

The Angel of the Waters offered all the Seas in fee;

But Adam would not take 'em,

Nor the ships he wouldn't make 'em,

Singing:--"Water, Earth and Air and Fire,

What more can mortal man desire? "

(The Apple Tree's in leaf.)

As Adam lay a-dreaming beneath the Apple Tree

The Angel of the Air he offered all the Air in fee;

But Adam did not crave it,

Nor the flight he wouldn't brave it,

Singing: --"Air and Water, Earth and Fire,

What more can mortal man desire:"

(The Apple Tree's in bloom.)

As Adam lay a-dreaming beneath the Apple Tree

The Angel of the Fire rose up and not a word said he;

But he wished a flame and made it,

And in Adam's heart he laid it,

Singing: --"Fire, Fire, burning Fire!

Stand up, and reach your heart's desire!"

(The Apple Blossom's set.)

As Adam was a-working outside of Eden-Wall,

He used the Earth, he used the Seas, he used the Air and all;

Till out of black disaster

He arose to be a master

Of Earth and Water, Air and Fire,

But never reached his heart's desire!

(The Apple Tree's cut down!)

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

O Mundo Antigo - Egipto (Parte III e IV)

Rammstein - Asche zu Asche

Now we are free

Poderosa Liberdade
Poderosa libertadora da alma
Seja livre,
Caminhe comigo
Através dos Campos Dourados
Tão fascinantes
Graciosos.

Nós lamentamos os nossos pecados, mas...
Nós tecemos o nosso próprio destino e
Sob minha face eu permaneço, fraco.
Sob minha face, eu sorrio,

Mesmo sozinho e amedrontado.
Sob minha face eu estarei a espera.

Fuja comigo agora soldado de Roma
Fuja e brinque no campo com os póneis
Fuja comigo agora soldado de Roma
Fuja e brinque no campo com os póneis
Fuja comigo agora soldado de Roma
Fuja e brinque no campo com os póneis
Fuja comigo agora soldado de Roma
Fuja e brinque no campo com os póneis

Poderosa Liberdade
Poderosa libertadora da alma
Seja livre
Seja livre
E imagine-se
Livre e com paz finalmente.
É lindo.
É fascinante, esta terra.
Ninguém pode acreditar ou entender
O caminho que percorri pela minha amada família.
Eu devia ter estado lá
com eles quando o mundo desabou.
Mas agora eles descansam comigo.

Eu nunca esquecerei
Como eu senti esse momento:
Tornei-me livre.

Censura Amiga

A amizade penetra nos menores detalhes da nossa vida, o que torna frequentes as ocasiões de ofensas e melindres: o sábio deve evitá-las, destruí-las ou suportá-las quando necessário for. A única ocasião em que não devemos deixar de ofender um amigo, é quando se trata de lhe dizer a verdade e de lhe provar assim a nossa fidelidade. Porque não devemos deixar de sobreavisar os nossos amigos, ainda quando se trate de os repreender. E nós mesmos devemos levar isto em boa vontade, quando tais repreensões são ditadas pelo bem querer.
Todavia, sou forçado a confessá-lo, como disse o nosso Terêncio no seu Adriana: "A benevolência gera a amizade; a verdade, o ódio". Sem dúvida a verdade é molesta se produz o ódio, este veneno da amizade. Mas a magnanimidade é-o ainda mais, porque para a indulgência culpável, pelas faltas de um amigo, ela deixa-o precipitar-se nas suas ruínas. Mas a falta mais grave é a que despreza a verdade e se deixa conduzir ao mal pela adulação. Este ponto reclama toda a nossa vigilância e atenção. Afastemos o ácido das nossas advertências, a injúria dos nossos reproches; que a nossa complacência (sirvo-me voluntário da expressão de Terêncio) seja farta de urbanidade; mas longe da nossa baixa adulação, este auxiliar indigno de um amigo e mesmo de um homem livre. Lembremo-nos que se vive com um amigo diferentemente de como se vive com um tirano.
Quanto àquele cujos ouvidos se fecharam à verdade ao ponto de não entender mesmo a boca do amigo, é preciso desesperar da sua salvação. Conhece-se a frase de Catão que, entre outras, ficou proverbial: "A amargura dos nossos inimigos, serve-nos bem mais que a doçura dos nossos amigos: aqueles dizem-nos quase sempre a verdade; estes, jamais". O que lia de desarrazoado é que os amigos que se advertem não se encolerizem do que deve causar-lhes pena, e o façam ao contrário do que deve não lhes causar henhuma. Em lugar de se encolerizar de haver mal agido, eles o são de ser repreendidos. Enquanto que, ao contrário, eles deveriam afligir-se da falta e alegrar-se da censura.

Marcus Cícero in "Diálogo sobre a Amizade"